Down under

This past week I have been in Darwin, Australia seeing what God is doing here and seeing what the people are like. We ran across many things of which I will post at a later date, but just so you all know we have had a blessed time here. Thanks for all the prayers!

 

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Cape Haedo

Now I can say I've been tip to tip on this island.

We were blessed with the oportunity to go to Cape Haedo which is the Northern-most tip of Okinawa, it was my first up here, man was it beautiful. God's creation, Amazing.

Kid's art....

While everyone was going through the Peace Meusem tour I was able to experience my first art exhibit of the war dipicted by kids asking their grandparents what they went through. I only took a couple pictures (I wasn't supposed to take any), but if you look at the ones I have posted you can see and understand what the grandparents went through.

caving

this was the only picture that I was allowed to take....none in the cave....

This was my first time to actually spend over an hour in a dark cave with hard hat and flashlight. It was incredible. We were able to see what it was like for the Japanese people living in the caves during WWII. Incredible.

SoS

Here is the team at Peace Memorial Park, they were able to see some WWII history 

Here everyone got dressed up in their yukattas (girls) and jimbes (guys) for a matsuri (city festival)....there were sweet shows, expensive food and incredible fireworks!

The SoS kids getting ready to take off to Tokyo for the second half of SoS

Everyone at the famous Pineapple park!

SoS was a great time, and the kids were good. God gave me the opportunity to lead all of them this summer and even allowed me to go through the book of 2nd Timothy with them. God did a good thing with them and us (the leaders).

The parentals

ahahah, we were able to take purikura together with the Diaz, t'was a fun day!

Mom scored a sweet bingata from one of my english students (these things can get very expensive....this was an expensive one)

Okinawa welcomed my dad the best way it knows how.....a crash with some coral on their first full day on island.....

Well, mom and dad finally made to my side of the world and from what I saw and heard they had an incredible time with not only me, but also a great time in missions 101.

been absent for a while....sorry.

here is a tranquil picture of the East China Sea to ease you anxiety 

Man has it been an incredibly busy and blessed summer. many things happened. stay tuned for more posts