Getting Ready to GOOO ~

An update is very much in need :) Sorry to keep you guys wondering ~

So here I am, with only 3 full days left before I depart to Nihon! I am so excited!! But I am also bogged down with the worries and stresses of packing as much and as completely as I can for the next 2 years. I want to bring as many things that are important to me as I can. 

I had a week and a half to spend between training and departing for Japan, but I wonder where all that time went? I got to spend time with my Irvine family, sharing stories from FPO (training) and things I learned. I wish I could spend more time with them to share MORE, but it's ok, although it seems like it's not enough time, God will use the little time there was for His glory. Now I am in NorCal and I am trying to do as much as I can, except I'm so unorganized that I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing ;)...packing, more sharing with more people, spending time with family, and saying goodbyes. I'll be leaving right before my sister's birthday :( it's so sad. 

As I've been out and about taking care of last minute things, it's been interesting to see random strangers' reactions to my going to Japan as a missionary. Cause that's what I'm doing, if you didn't know yet :) I don't wear a sign that I'm going to Japan for two years as a missionary, but they end up asking me questions, which lead me to explain my next two years in Japan. It's actually been very encouraging. For example, at Chase the other day (I'm so sad it's no longer WaMu) I asked about using my account overseas, etc. and he asked me where I'm going, which led to for how long, which led to why? And I told him why although I didn't use the M word because it seems to have a bad stereotype attached to it for some people. Well he got it! He asked who is sending me because some church or other must be commissioning me to go, and it turns out he himself is going to somewhere in the Middle East for short term missions! Awesome. I love to see bits and pieces of what's going on with God's Kingdom work.

Well, sometimes two years seem really short and sometimes it seems reallllly looooong. So I go through these weird mood swings, where one moment I'm chill, and the next I am stressed out! I do have moments when I'm like, "What am I doing?!? Why am I going to a foreign land where I don't know anyone and I don't know anything??" hehe but my reassurance comes from knowing that God is with me, and God has been with me up till now, and He will be with me in Japan. I am so glad that God has already been at work in Japan and that there have been many before me. I hear about all the exciting news of Japanese coming to faith in greater numbers and I am super duper excited to see what God will be doing when I am there!

Let's pray that I will not miss opportunities to share my faith that someone might be brought closer to Christ :) Thanks.