Loving Nihon: Easter Party Update

So the low down on how the Easter Party went... Thank you all very much for your prayers :)

Well, so I had broken sleep because I was so nervous, and I was nervous throughout the whole morning because there was still much to do to get things in order. Around noon I calmed down after I remembered that hey, this was supposed to be fun! Got some fresh flowers, bags and bags of marshmallows (so expensive here!), and more eggs, hard-cooked some eggs after studying the proper way of cooking them (yes there is a proper way!), had some pasta salad ready from the night before (my first ever and it was a hit hooray!!), gobbled up some of Amanda's amazing chocolate chip oatmeal cookies (seriously, I wish you could try them!), and arranged the room a bit...

The weather was supposed to be sunny and great (it had been COLD and GLOOMY - where IS spring??) but sadly it started raining. I was almost discouraged thinking that people would cancel...went to the Hachiko statue to meet with most of the friends to show them the way to our apartment and guess what? A lot of people came and nobody canceled and several more were already at our apartment! :)

I didn't share the Gospel as much as I wanted to, but there were a few Christians and I heard that there was a lot of sharing going on! Amazing!! I think some relationships were strengthened; one of my friends Sa-san asked me for a hug!!! A new friend that I met made a point to tell me that she would like to study the Bible with me! That has never happened to me here before. I think God was working, and I ask you to continue to pray for the people who attended our party, that they would remember the party and it would lead to a continual curiosity and openness to knowing more about Jesus. Please pray that relationships would be strengthened, that the people that I invited would become even more of my friends...

Thank you!! Enjoy the pictures!

Easter flowers: Red for the blood Jesus spilled for us, White for the forgiveness of our sins, and Yellow for Heaven!!