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It all starts in a few weeks on March the tenth. Well...actually, maybe it started before that.
It all started a few months ago when Michael was on a stint for his B.N. in a little know town called Trekie.....Hmmm.... You know what, I think it started sooner.
It all started about a year ago in a green burrito while the two of us sat devouring little pieces of heaven in tortillas and turning a plan of vacation into something that could help to benifet others rather than just appease ourselves. Well to be perfectly honest, this all may have started a long time before that.
I think the idea of a trip to Japan has been floating around in my head for years, for eons. Perhaps the real question is what inspired my fascination. I couldn't tell you. One time I think I figured it out, but I guess the reality of it was not so spectacular because, afterall, I forgot. But I can tell you that my desire to visit the shores of Japan has been tugging and me since I was no older that seventeen or eighteen. I suppose it was only a matter of time before I could no longer keep it bottled up within me. I think it was something that fascinated me and when I began hanging out with my friend Michael after seventh grade I realized I had found a kindred spirit; someone else who shared my eagerness to visit Japan and explore.
I guess we talked about it for years speculatively, but always as more of a dream than a reality. That is until that one faitfull night in a local Green Burrito where we (two avid procrastinators) finally decided we had talked enough and if we were ever going to do it, now was the time. But the more we talked the more that we realized that we were both in a similar location; we wanted to serve our God and this was a trip of frivolity. And then it struck like 1.21 giggawats of nuclear fusion. Why not make this a trip that would better the world rather than a trip that would serve only to better ourselves. I don't know how we reached into ourselves and pulled out the unbridalled altruism, but somehow, probably only through the grace of God, we found a small measure.
So it was planned, a trip that we resolved to take and even wrote on napkins and signed as a sign, more to ourselves than to anyone else, that we would spend at least three months in service to God. It was written and there was nothing left to do but plan. For months we did nothing. I found a website for the Japan Union Conference through my mother who was the church secretary that was our only lead. That is where we reached one of many standstills. And we stalled out right there for quite some time, probably several months. It was then that Michael went on his nursing preceptorship to a little know and scarcely populated town in the middle of nowhere called Trekkie. It was there, and perhaps out of extreme boredom that Michael began to nonchallantly email contacts from the Conference website and eventually came in contact with someone who recognized our dream as a opportunity for potential growth in their community as well as in us. This woman, whom we came to know as Calene along with Rebecca and a pastor Nixon were insturmental in helping us plan nearly every aspect of our trip in Japan. From there we procrastinated a bit more until Michael's dad finally broke down, probably from anxhiety from watching us dance towards our trip haphazzardly, and offered to make the purchase of our plane tickets for us. We now have a mission and a means. After saving my money for several years I was that much closer to Japan and purpose.
Now all I'm waiting for is the tenth. Well actually, I'm stressing in preperations for the tenth, but the former sounds more esthetically appealing so pretend I hadn't added all this filler.
March 10th (17 days and counting)
Where I stayed:
Still at Home
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bueno (reply)
Mar 19, 2008 20:52 EST by ncube83
hey there my boys!!! thanks so much for keeping in touch. i appreciate the emails a lot more than you could ever imagine. i shall reply soon. loved the video and pics so far. does that sushi really taste as great as it seems? it sure has me drooling! the devotional was inspiring. keep it up! much love
-gracie grace
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gracie grace (reply)
Mar 17, 2008 02:27 EST by ncube83
well, here goes comment #1...
i'm really proud of you guys and praying for you all the time. you guys being there is im[proving my prayer life a lot as i worry and stress over your blogs. i feel like a stalker or something. BLESSINGS! -gracie grace
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