Jumping for Christ
Ohio Gozaimas,
Today the heat came back...It was so bad, we had to turn on the air conditioner in the auditorium for the second time of the project. Our readers appreciated it. This is the beginning of the end...at least for this trip. We all had some of our last meetings with some readers, but many of them are trying to schedule reading sessions everyday this week just to keep going. Many of mine are interested in the online classes, and in the Let's keep talking program. It is encouraging to see them continuing their study of English and the Bible.
We have had countless examples of things that didn't translate well, or were misinterpreted, but here is one from today that was pretty good: One of Jake's readers was on the lesson from Luke about people hoping for the Christ to come, and some thinking that maybe John was the Christ...
Jake's reader said "I understand that they thought John might be the Christ, but why were they all jumping (hopping). Jake said he could hardly contain himself as he was trying to explain the difference. The same reader was also trying to distinguish between heaven and hell, and drew a picture. When Jake asked about it, he said "It is a picture of my grandson... when awake...Hell, When asleep...Heaven. :) Thought you all would enjoy just a taste of the average conversation...It has been great to be laughing so much while we work.
Tonight, Mike and Tomoko Mclain and family invited us out to go to Karaoke with them. They wanted to treat their children since today is the first day of summer vacation for them. We had a wonderful time (I got some good pictures Maggie :) and they paid our way as a gift for all of our service for their congregation. It was very nice of them...They are wonderful people.
After Karaoke, Kristina had not eaten dinner because she had worked straight through, so we decided to ride our bikes to McDonald's for a late night meal. It was great. (we had Yaki Soba for lunch made from Cabbage that had been given to us...It has cabbage, noodles, ginger, soy sauce, etc... It was great too, and Judith got to eat with us.)
We are trying to arrange our train and bus trip to the end meeting that is coming up on Sunday and Monday in Tokyo. We are also trying to find times to meet with Sugao to discuss our project before we go.
We have been giving our gifts to our readers on their last visit, and they seem to really enjoy them (we are giving them a Texas post card, a texas quarter, tabasco sauce, and American candy bars). We have also been recieving a number of gifts as well. For instance, I was given a beautiful wind bell today that is supposedly unique from a specific part of Japan.
I hope your Tuesday goes as well as mine did,
Oyasumi Nasai,
Tsuyoshi
Today the heat came back...It was so bad, we had to turn on the air conditioner in the auditorium for the second time of the project. Our readers appreciated it. This is the beginning of the end...at least for this trip. We all had some of our last meetings with some readers, but many of them are trying to schedule reading sessions everyday this week just to keep going. Many of mine are interested in the online classes, and in the Let's keep talking program. It is encouraging to see them continuing their study of English and the Bible.
We have had countless examples of things that didn't translate well, or were misinterpreted, but here is one from today that was pretty good: One of Jake's readers was on the lesson from Luke about people hoping for the Christ to come, and some thinking that maybe John was the Christ...
Jake's reader said "I understand that they thought John might be the Christ, but why were they all jumping (hopping). Jake said he could hardly contain himself as he was trying to explain the difference. The same reader was also trying to distinguish between heaven and hell, and drew a picture. When Jake asked about it, he said "It is a picture of my grandson... when awake...Hell, When asleep...Heaven. :) Thought you all would enjoy just a taste of the average conversation...It has been great to be laughing so much while we work.
Tonight, Mike and Tomoko Mclain and family invited us out to go to Karaoke with them. They wanted to treat their children since today is the first day of summer vacation for them. We had a wonderful time (I got some good pictures Maggie :) and they paid our way as a gift for all of our service for their congregation. It was very nice of them...They are wonderful people.
After Karaoke, Kristina had not eaten dinner because she had worked straight through, so we decided to ride our bikes to McDonald's for a late night meal. It was great. (we had Yaki Soba for lunch made from Cabbage that had been given to us...It has cabbage, noodles, ginger, soy sauce, etc... It was great too, and Judith got to eat with us.)
We are trying to arrange our train and bus trip to the end meeting that is coming up on Sunday and Monday in Tokyo. We are also trying to find times to meet with Sugao to discuss our project before we go.
We have been giving our gifts to our readers on their last visit, and they seem to really enjoy them (we are giving them a Texas post card, a texas quarter, tabasco sauce, and American candy bars). We have also been recieving a number of gifts as well. For instance, I was given a beautiful wind bell today that is supposedly unique from a specific part of Japan.
I hope your Tuesday goes as well as mine did,
Oyasumi Nasai,
Tsuyoshi
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