Our first snow in downtown Nagano City

With the engineering students in one of the classes I spoke at this week.

Today we had our first snow downtown.  It was a light snow off and on all day with none of it accumulating on the ground.  It is still too warm for snow to accumulate here, but some the lows for the coming week are forecast to be in the 20′s.  The past two days I’ve spoken in classes at the engineering university here in town.  I’m including a of picture in this post from one of the classes.  I enjoy getting to speak to college students.

Entrance to Nagano Train Station with the Holiday lights on

I’ve walked my 10,000 steps each day this past week.  I’ll be attending my last health class next week and retake the strengths test that I took last June.  Hopefully I’ve improved some.  The holiday lights have been turned on at the train station and I’ve included a picture of them.

English Club members enjoying Liz's German Chocolate Cake

Liz made a German chocolate cake for her English club members at her school.  They had never had it before and seemed to really enjoy it.  She will be making a couple more of them for her high school classes.  I got together with Saiki, Koji, and their son, Sho, for coffee this week and had a good time visiting with them.

I finished reading Mealtime Habits of the Messiah this past week.  The 40 different encounters with Jesus stories were thought-provoking.  I enjoyed reading the book.  I then picked up another book to read I had brought back with me this summer titled The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller.  It is an easy read and I finished it this week.  It talks about Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son, or as he describes it, the Two Prodigal Sons.  I thought the book was outstanding and plan to reread it after Liz finishes reading it.  I would highly recommend it.  I’ve now started reading a book by Donald Miller titled A Million Miles In A Thousand Years.  I’m just getting started, but I already think it is going to be a very good read.  I’m also still reading in Matthew.

Liz wearing one of her Christmas sweaters. You can see our little Christmas tree behind her.

Liz has been putting out Christmas decorations around our apartment.  We even have a little (very little) Christmas tree.  The other day I heard a man say, “There is nothing you could ever do that could make Jesus stop loving you or to cause Him to love you any less”.  I hope you are comforted to know that Jesus loves you.  His love changes you life.  Well that’s about all I know for now from here in Nagano City on a cold December evening.

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