March: Spring Break Continues

We got to take a ferry ride up river.

Here is most of our group. The girl in front is Maasa, our team translator. To the right of her is our team leader, Daniel. The man in the back is our faculty member - Dr. Compton. As you can see, Josh always enjoys adding spark to the group. Josh helped with leading worship. To the very left, Greg - helped with finances as a business major as well as with communication between the President of LeTourneau, Dr. Lundsford, and our group - since he was the student body president. To the right of him is Josh Lubbers, he took charge of the team's money as well as worship. Dr. Compton met with ;eaders from two universities while we got tours of the campuses. Behind Dan and Josh, John - he journalled about the events leading up to the trip and during our time in Japan. John also got to share his testimony with the high school youth group which was very powerful. Another team member, Chuck is missing from the picture. Both him and I were "fill in" people that helped with whatever was needed. I (Emily) ended up helping with worship, cooking, hosting our group for a meal before we took off for Japan....We all got to share devotionals during our weekly meetings as well as each day on the trip. It was neat hearing about the Lord's work in each team member's life as well as seeing the events unfolding through a different perspective.

Check out the crazy train routes! With help, over time we began to figure it out. A little difficult with most of it in Japanese....I could get used to public transportation though.

Guess whose tongue that is! My husband's! All of the guys decided to eat an octopus leg - doesn't it just look yummy. Josh was pretty brave and tried all of the odd Japanese food and interesting seafood. I opted to just hear and watch, not taste.

We gave my husband, Josh Lyon, and the other Josh on the team, Josh Lubbers, a bad time since both had last names that started with "L" and both were from Texas...so at times, it was difficult for people to distinguish who they were talking to. They enjoyed leading worship together though.