Missing you

So I feel kind of bad for not updating my blog sooner but I have been busy and tired this week. This past Sunday was Easter as everybody probably knows. Easter in Japan is a lot different than Easter in North America. It's not even acknowledged by a holiday by companies and there are no stores selling giant chocolate bunnies or easter candies. I didn't miss the commercialism one bit. The church we are helping at had an Easter service that day. We had a nice Easter message and our team performed a drime for the church. We ate lunch with the church, which we do almost every Sunday. That was followed by a piano concert by one of the English teachers, Sean and a telling of the Easter story for the kids. We had an Easter egg hunt in the park after for the kids and a pinata. When we got back to the house we found Easter baskets for each of us that a couple of the girls I am here with put together. They also had a surprise chocolate hunt for us. That was pretty cool and made each of us feel a bit better about not being at home for Easter. For Easter dinner we made sushi (california rolls to be exact). We didn't end up eating until 8 o clock though because the first time we were making the rice our rice cooker shut off half way through and the rice didn't turn out. It was pretty funny though and now we have a bowl of hardened rice on our counter. Apparently it serves the very useful purpose of a paper weight and holding meat down in water when we are trying to defrost it. Other than that my week has been rather uneventful. We have been handing out fliers for our English classes in April. Please pray that God would draw people to those classes and that God would draw more people to the other teacher's classes as well. This is a major ministry for the church we are helping at in Toyota. Pray for us that as we start to teach we would be able to teach effectively and for the other English teachers as well. Pray that God would guide us and give us wisdom as we teach so that our students will be able to get something out of the classes. For many of us this is our first time teaching. Pray that we would not be nervous but that we would be able to trust in God. Continue to pray for the people of Japan that their hearts would be opened to the message of God and that they would see God's love in big ways. Pray also for me ,because I am starting to feel a bit homesick now, that I would be able to keep my heart focused on God and the work that I need to do here in Japan. A big shout out to all my friends in Kelowna and everywhere else. I miss you all and you guys are awesome. Until next time, Sayonara.