Dear Brothers and Sisters - It's 11:15PM Thursday night - the end of our first day in Sendai. A lot has happened and most of the team has gone to bed. There are a few of us still up - planning for tomorrow with Nakada-sensei (pastor of the Sendai church) and writing blogs. It is hard to keep my eyes open and to concentrate on this blog, so I will write as long as as I can. We left LAX at 1:20AM and arrived at Haneda Airport at 4:15AM. After retrieving our luggage we exchanged our dollars for yen - and had most of our luggage sent to the Sendai church by takkyubin, so we didn't have to lug it around as we traveled by train to the Sendai church. We rode a few trains before boarding the "Bullet Train" and getting to the Sendai church. Most of the team members were able to take a nap while Nakada-sensei presented an English class to eight students. Danny, Tsuguru and I spent time with the students with conversational English when their lesson was finished. After dinner and cleaning up, we went to the onsen for soaking our bodies in the warm tubs. I've tried not to mention the onsen year after year but this year we experienced something new. Besides the five tubs of water at various temperatures there was also one that gave electric shocks. Electric shocks and water do not sound like things that should go together.
These last two sentences have taken about 5 minutes to write. I am going to stop for tonight and get myself some rest. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us with your prayers. I'll get back to you soon. God bless you all. Don
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