English and Japanese Retreats.

hey all srry it took so long to update this again....
we got back late last night from the english retreat and went strait to eating ice cream and haveing a little reflection time as a group and then strait to bed. lets start with what happened on friday. we woke up friday morning and had breakfast and then went strait to work on getting things ready for the reateat that night. we had to get together some sleeping things and then we went to the practiceing or our skits and songs. we sang the songs in both japanese and in english. the japanese was actually pretty good considering its not our native language. and everyone at the retreat loved the skits. we left the house around five and got there around six. we set up our tents and helped others set up theirs. i met this one lady who was very nice and spoke very good english considering and she put me and joe to work on other peoples tents. we then had a BBQ and just hung out with people and got to know people a little better. Mel made friends with a little baby that everyone thought was adorable. we then went to the bath house. the bath house was very interesting. it was basecly the hottest room i have ever been in and we were all nakey. weird huh? then we went back to the camp site and finished the night off with marshmellos and cake around the fire. then about 5 of us stayed up late and just hung out. saterday morning we got up had breakfast with everyone and presented a nother skit. then we had some game time which was fun for all. after game time we had a small worship service inside a building on the camp ground. after the lesson we had another BBQ lunch and just talk with people some more. we then packed up all our things and went home. when we got back to the house we were infomrmed that there was gonna be a service at three oclock and we had about an hour to get our skits ready. we ended up being sort three people because aaron and karl were rock climbing so we had to inprevise. after that we had to get ready for the english retreat. we left for the english retreat and we ended up being in a building and haveing once agian another bbq that night. after we had a small singing time and a time where everyone gave there testemony. this was a great time. then almost everyone started to play cards. joe mandie naomi and i stayed up till three oclock in the morning playing cards and only went to bed because anything we would say was really funny. when we woke up we had break fast and set off bright and early to climb a mountian. some people took the chair lift but others were brave and climbed by foot. the view at the top was amazing and we were able to see the area that we were going to be handing out tracts today and the rest of the week. we climbed down the mountian thinking the whole time that we were going to die because it was so steep nad went to the beach. at the beach we had like the millionth bbq of the weekend. some of us were brave and tried squid and other stuck with the other meets. the water was freezing but it was still fun. we also had fire works that night. and some time to just chill. we came home last ngiht around ten and as i said we had reflection time with ice cream. joe aaron and i played cards till 10:30 when we were told to go to bed and i realized i had nothing to sleep on and the church was locked so i couldnt get my futon. so i ended up sleeping in a sleeping bag again. i woke up had breakfast a most refreshing shower and here i am typing this book about our weekend. ill talk to you all later and God BLESS!!!!