Start of a Busy Summer

So my busy season has begun. My schedule is crazy and I have to be flexible, but I know it's actually going to get crazier as the weeks go by. My first volunteer team has come into town and it's been fun and busy. But it is hard! The team is great, I love them, but when the day is over and I'm heading home, I am completely exhausted. This work is hard.

To give an overview: we have been visiting 2 university campuses, Gakugei University and Keizai Daigaku University; prayer walking around the campuses; meeting people, making friendships and sharing Jesus; doing 5 Minute English, we do this in front of a train station with signs and we converse in English with those people who walk up to us and share Jesus if we can; and Friday night we had a really fun friendship party, where we invite people we've met to dinner and just have fun getting to know each other and also sharing the Gospel if we can once again. It was very fun, but on my way home I was purely exhausted.

Please pray for me, the volunteer teams that come, and the Japanese we meet. We need prayer that we would be bold to share our hope in Jesus, have energy, joy, confidence, and encouragement, and that we will be able to find Japanese whom the Holy Spirit is already at work in and share with them God's love. Let me tell you, it can be so discouraging. You go through many people to find someone who is interested in hearing about the Gospel. And I am just so tired.