I had the privelidge of spending the day with Mai today. We went up on the hill at the edge of town and basked in the sun and listened to the Japanese nightingales warming up for summer. It's so sweet. They are really bad at singing their song in the early spring. They just can't get it right, and try a zillion different versions. Finally they get frustrated and start to go off on just two notes for five, ten minutes at a time.

I told her about the millenium, and how we will be living on this earth for a thousand years before we go to heaven. Suddenly the whole thing became real to her, and she got all excited. First she wanted to bury a bottle with some pictures etc. to dig up after the tribulation. Then she started to realize that it really didn't matter at all whether things were just right in this life, if we have a thousand years to make a success of things later. She said, "if that's the way it is, we need to be telling people about Christ, and practically dragging them into the kingdom! That should be our number one focus!" I think she got the message. I'm blessed to be a missionary.

Pray for Mai. She has been moved to a new class for the second year of high school. She is the only person from her old class, and it's like starting school all over again. She doesn't even know she is in a hard situation as the only Christian in her class.