If you're here, you maybe have been reading my blog--so you're aware of how much I love being here. How thankful I am that God chose to send me, that God chose to send me for this period in my life. There's nowhere I'd rather be at the moment than where I am.
But I've been aching for home this week. Home home. Where I grew up and where my family is. There are people in Indy that I consider family, but here I mean the ones who gave me and the ones who share my DNA. I miss the hills and I miss the visuals. I miss the people. I miss the history. I just miss it. I'm incredibly excited to go home again and share with them everything that's going on here in Japan and here in me. I'm excited to hear what's going on with them.
Today was a fantastic day. The kids from the States' team stopped by the Center today and came upstairs to say hi which was a wonnnnnderful way to start my morning. I wish I could've been able to get to know them more because, from what little time we did spend together, they seem great. I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon in the office with Janet. I love working with her. She's been so kind in her quiet, supportive way. We spent some time looking at the calendar and what's ahead--SEND Conference starts next Monday and after that, July flies by. And then there's August. And then my time here ends. Our time is short. It's sad, but it gets me excited to come back. To bring reinforcements. Watch out, I might try to recruit you when I get home!
This evening I got to spend with Hannah, my friend from the CRC mission. After she finished teaching her English class, she met me at Higashi Tokorozawa eki and we went down to Laketown. I wrote about Laketown once before, it's the big big mall just a few stops down the Musashino sen. We had a great great evening, just walking around the mall and laughing and searching for all types of Arashi merchandise. We had so much fun. And then when I got home, I found emails from both my brother and my sister! I couldn't ever ask for more!
God has certainly blessed me with some amazing, amazing people in my life. Even people that I don't know who are praying and supporting me. Who am I to be so blessed? I am so grateful. It excites me to think about all of you. All of you. Even you who are difficult sometimes. ;)
Just kidding, of course :) But it's all of you who make every place I go feel like home. In PA, in Indy, here in Japan. I'm home because you're there.
Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron,
so one person sharpens another.
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