That is my cultural lesson for this week!! Japanese toilets areextremely complicated. There are tons of different buttons to push,none of which I understand. On Sunday I thought I was pushing thebutton that flushed the toilet, and instead pushed one that sprayswater up. So I was experiencing a "I Love Lucy" moment at a very nicehotel with water spraying everywhere. I couldn:t figure out whatbutton to push. After about 30 seconds it finally stopped, buteverything was soaked. Lesson of the day: Never push buttons you can:tread!
On a more serious note....classes have been going very well. We havegained a few students in some classes and lost a few in others. A lotof our students are VERY excited about the Christmas Party on Saturdaynight, so expectations are pretty high.
If you have any ideas of simple, no-bake desserts that we could makewith the Preschoolers mothers on Thursday mornings send them our way!Today they did a neat craft with Melissa and had a good conversationabout their life goals.
Melissa had her first experience with the reality of spiritualenslavement. At one of the home:s she teaches in theya re notChristians, and spend an elaborate amount of money on food for thealtar. They are constantly trying to do good things that will bettertheir position in eternity. Very sad. They need to know the only Way,Truth and Life. Pray for that family. Pastor & Mrs. Ito and the twoof us will be having lunch with the wife and son in a few weeks.
Pray this week for creativity as we plan and clarity as we teach.
Pray for Pastor Ito and his wife as they faithfully serve the saintshere and reach out to their community in the name of Christ.
Pray for the presentation of the Gospel at the Christmas Party onSaturday, that seeds would be planted. Pray also that relationshipswould be built between church members and students from our classes.
Thank you so much for your prayers!
Anna