My Daughters are Coming!

My beautiful daughters during their visit with us at Thanksgiving 2010

Next week my daughters will be flying into Tokyo with their boyfriends to be with us for Christmas.  We are very excited about seeing them all soon.

This past week I finished my health class.  We retook our strengths test to see if there was any improvement from last June.  I had improved in all areas except for sit-ups. I don’t guess walking more helps with sit-ups.  I enjoyed the class and I think I’ll keep wearing the pedometer to help me keep up with my walking.  I was able to walk 10,000 steps 6 out of 7 days this week.

While I was out walking this week, a farmer I stopped to talk to gave me a Chinese cabbage that he had raised.

The weather turned colder yesterday and the forecast is for snow tonight and a chance of snow for the next 6 days.

I’ve been trying to write a post each week, but I haven’t been consistent on the day of the week I write on, so for those who would like to just know when I’ve written a new post, I put the way to subscribe to my blog on the right panel of this web page.  Just put in your email and you will know when I’ve written a new post.

Nagano Gospel Workshop Choir

Last weekend we went to hear the Nagano Gospel Workshop Choir sing at Nagano Gospel Church.  We knew several of the choir members and really enjoyed listening to the songs.  Most of them were sung in English.  The choir did a great job.

Liz had a Christmas party at the Nagano Peer Support Center where she teaches at a couple of times a month.  She made an Italian Cream Cake for her students and then they had a white elephant gift exchange.

Liz at the Christmas party for the Peer Support Center

I got together for coffee with Koji and his son, Sho, this week.  I also got together with Shinichi this week.  He was asking me about one of the book quotes I had written on this blog a few weeks ago and wanted to know the difference between authoritative and authoritarian.  We had a good discussion about that and how that relates to following Jesus.

I got together with the men at Denny’s this week.  One of the guys has been able to start a friendship with a man he recently met.  He told us about how his view of Jesus working in people’s lives around him has changed and how he now expects to find people who are being drawn to the love of Jesus.  It was very encouraging listening to him.

Me and Shinichi with Santa

I finished reading Donald Miller’s book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, How I learned to live a better story”.  That book was great!  I really enjoyed reading it and heartily recommend it to you.  I’ll leave it at that and hope that we all can learn to live a better story.  I finished reading Matthew and am now reading in Mark.  I also started another book, The War of the Lamb” by John Howard Yoder.  This is a bit of a scholarly read and sometimes I get bogged down in that kind of book, but I’m going to keep pressing through it because it presents a topic that I really want to get a better handle on.  I’m taking a break now from my Japanese lessons and will start back in January.  It is cold today, but the sun has come out and you can see the snow on the mountains out our window.  It is really a beautiful sight.  Well, that’s about all I know for now from here in Nagano.

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