Our first adventure

Today was our first adventure on the streets of Tokyo. We started off having “Church” in Shibuya. Which basically consisted of meeting in an apartment, singing worship songs, our team singing 2 songs, and then breaking into small groups for prayer and discussion. This all ended with pizza.

Then we traveled to Shinjuku which was a pretty amazing area. Very New York. Tons of shops, but even more people. We prayer walked for a while but I must admit it was pretty difficult because there were so many people and so many interesting sites. Everything from fruit on a stick to explicit t-shirts. After prayer walking for about 30 minutes, we began our “5 Minute English Lessons”.. It was quite an experience. Basically we held up signs and yelled for people to come talk to us. This was a bit discouraging. Most people didn’t seem interested and the others didn't understand what I was talking about when I professed my belief in Jesus Christ. It was a good experience though.

I had fun laughing with some High School Japanese girls. It’s so cute, when the Japanese get nervous they giggle. One of the 17 year old girls I was talking to was telling me about her hobbies and she said she likes to “study”. And I was like “wow, ok” and she goes “study, haha I joke!”.. and I was like “you are crazy!” It was fun.

I am still shocked that most Japanese people really haven't heard of Christ. It's very unlike the states. In the states everyone knows who Jesus is, some just don't accept Him. While here in Japan, most people literally don't know what you are talking about.

Anyway, after that my team had Sushi, except me. Raw fish on a plate makes me scared. I tried to be quiet about it though and then after getting on our train and coming back home we stopped at a McDonalds where I got chicken nuggets and a flurry.


Overall it was a good day. I just think I am overly tired and emotional right now. Hopefully tonight I will get a good nights sleep. Maybe take a bath in our huge bathtub.

Good night America!