Last Update From Tokyo, Japan

Hello Friends and Family! 

I am only going to post a very short post.
This will also be my LAST post.

I am leaving Japan. (August 27th)

hopefully only for now.

The SWAT school (School of Worship and Transformation) has ended and I got all the money that I needed for it! Praise God!

(photo at the top was the last swat photo taken at final feast night)

The Past Four Months 

For the past months I have been continuing my work with YWAM Tokyo, but beginning to step out of responsibilities. 

I was working with "Base Life and Events" for a while, making sure that people were celebrated and that events with everyone were taken care of as well as keeping the base decorated. 

I also continued to help with babysitting families children when they needed help. 

I have also been saying many goodbyes over these months. There have been many of my fellow staff mates leaving for their next steps in life as well. I have said my final goodbyes to many friends already. 

(photo from the mountains in Miyagi, Japan. Visiting with my best friend this month)

Next Steps

Please keep me in your prayers. I am thinking a lot about the future and feeling concerned about many things. 

I don't fully know why God has asked me to return. But I know its him calling me, so I am obeying. 

I hope to get a job while there. Also praying if God wants me to look into any kind of study. 

This season has been extremely hard for very many reasons. Saying goodbye to many close friends or saying goodbye to the country I have called home, I can't say it's been easy at all. 

I continue to struggle in many different areas of my life. God never promised "easy" or "smooth". He is there. He fights for me. 

Prayers and Final Words 

Thank you SO much!

Thank you to those who have financially given and supported me for these FIVE years of living in Japan. I have learned so much and will never forget it. I only wish I knew how to express my gratitude more. May God bless you tenfold!

Prayer Requests: 

- My future (things to be a clear)

- YWAM Tokyo (blessings and for the building they are trying to buy)

- Japan (salvation)

I first came to Japan when I was 18 years old (2013). 

I was always in love with this country even before I came. But I fell even harder the minute I opened my eyes the morning after arriving.
I could have never thought of a better way to be welcomed into this country than through YWAM Tokyo. It was a community and family that I never knew could exist outside of blood. 

I was loved and cherished right away. 

God encountered me there in a living room in Tokyo with people from all over the world. 

Then, He continued to encounter me for 6 years after that in beautiful ways. 

He let me live in the land of my dreams. And I am convinced that it had nothing to do with my skills or my abilities. It wasn't even the fact that this country needs the Gospel desperately. I truly believe It was simply because He loved me. He knew that this country was so deeply in my heart. He knew that I couldn't give back to it in any way. He knew that I wouldn't even be brave enough to become fluent in the language. He just knew that It would overwhelm me with confusion on HIS character. It would make me ask Him over and over how HE can be this good. That even though I don't measure up in any way, He can just say "It's because of MY love". 

6 years later and I am moving back to the states with NO idea what will happen next. 

But maybe, seeing that God loved me so much that He simply gave. Maybe there is hope.