Japan has been GREAT so far!! Something that I've noticed, especially in the area we're staying in, is that it is very green. Seeing all of this reminds me of home, which is probably why it still hasn't hit me that I am halfway across the world. I have to look at a map, and even then I can't quite comprehend it. In the house that I've been working in, I've mostly been taking out dry wall or pulling out nails from boards. By the time we're done here, I should be an expert nail-puller! Yesterday (Friday) another group from California came to help for for a day, and one the girls in the group helped me pull out nails. It was nice to have help because pulling out nails can be a lot of work sometimes!
On Thurday, a few people from our team, including me, went to a house dedication. At the house dedication, we sang a few songs, in Japanese, heard a short message from someone, then listened to people share some stories they had from working in that house. Before it was finished, a few people who have been working there presented the home owners with a large board with a cross on it that some people signed with a verse, and a Bible. It was really cool to see the house after it had been torn up, cleaned out, and rebuilt, and also to see how the home owners were just so happy and how the work by the volunteers has really moved them and that they can someday live in their own house again.
On another note, Robby, one of the Avoacados on our team, continually insists that I have an accent, and keeps telling me to say something so he can tease me for it! So I'm having fun, even when I'm not pulling out nails.
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