Tomorrow, I am meeting Ya-san with a coworker for our first official Bible Study! [Some background information about her: She is past my parents' age, is Korean, has lived in Japan for about 40 years now, and lives in a very expensive area.] I am a little nervous for our meeting actually because Ya-san is very well off (financially) and the first time I met her, I was completely out of my zone, and I believe I made some rather embarrassing mistakes, which I will not share here :) (run on sentence much?). I don't think I was ever this nervous about things like this, but in Japan, your outward appearance is so important, like SO important, and the culture here can be very formal already, that it just makes me nervous...coupled with the fact that I speak to her in my so so Korean, and I don't know how to handle such huge age gap when I am "teaching" her things...So well, she has expressed a strong interest in learning English specifically and the Bible some as well, but her English ability is low and I'm not sure how strong her interest in the Bible is. Please pray for her heart to be open, for there to be good conversations amongst ourselves.
Sorry if I had lots of run on sentences! I need to sleeeep :) Thanks for your prayers!