I'm sorry it's been so long.

Hey guys! These past few days have been insane! Super summer team went home last week. And it was a blast to be able to work with them. Brown family had so much unity and so much love for each other that it made their focus very strong. During the week they were able to talk to many Japanese and make friends that they were able to meet with later. Thank God that the Super Summer team came and worked hard. It was so cool to watch God work in their lives and then use them for his glory.

The day after they left we were all getting ready for Mount Fuji. I was soooo nervous!! Anyways we spent the day buying warm clothes and head lamps and cool stuff like that. Then 4:30 rolled around and we headed to our bus stop. We got on the bus for a 2 hour ride to station 5 of the mountain. It was already raining and wind was blowing but we decided we would go for it. So we started climbing. Made it to level 6 and talked to a man who lived there. He told us that he would worry for our lives if we would have kept on going. He also said that a man had already died earlier that day. So Jeff decided that we would not keep going, thank God. If we would have kept going we literally would have frozen to death. The weather was so bizarre, it's usually alot warmer that far down the mountain. So we were all soaking wet and being blown off the mountain literally. We started back down and finally made it back to station 5. Then we remembered that our bus didn't leave until 11 a.m. the next morning. So we were lucky enough to catch a bus ( the last bus of the night). We all squished on with a million other foreigners. And finally made it down the mountain. Then we saw that the train station didn't open until 5:20 a.m. So we all spent the night in the outdoor train station. And what a night! It was so cold. We all felt like hobos. Jonathan sums it up real well:
"well...I mean, anyone can just say " I climbed mount Fuji" but honestly how many can claim, " I got to station 6 of Mt. Fuji and got turned around because the mountain was too torrential and below freezing and wind gusts almost ...blew a member of the party off the mountain. Then I had to haggle to the point of selling my left kidney to the hood-rat bus driver to get off the mountain, only to survive off of the 7-11 while sleeping on the stone floor of a deserted trainstation on the wrong side of the mountain." Ahhhhh, a long night of raining, trudging, haggling, eating, hobo-ing and desperately trying not to throw up from the sheer volume of junk food we consumed always does a body good =]"
We finally made it home after a 3 hour train ride and a long walk home. And from 9 a.m. in the morning to like 6 p.m we were all sound asleep.
So fuji was a wonderful experience. Not many people can say they have done all of this! What an awesome day full of team bonding!

Tomorrow we have one last church service and then a sayonara party at the missionary's house. Then Monday we have debriefing and cleaning and packing. Then tuesday we will be home! CRAZY!