Easter songs

We have Christmas songs, but no Easter songs. On Easter, I always want to sing this song. 

クリスマスの歌があるけど、イースターのがない。でも、毎年のイースターにこの歌を歌いたい。

このビデオに日本語と英語と中国語がある。

It seems perfect for Easter. 

ちょうどいいらしいと思う。

If there were going to be Easter songs what other songs would you sing? 

イースターの歌があったら、何の歌がいい？

Easter!

Today was the Easter service at church. The whole week, I got more and more excited about it coming.

今日は教会のイースター礼拝だった。今週ずっと私は楽しみだった。

On Saturday, K, M and I prepared for the potluck. We had a lot of fun making lots of different food.

土曜日にKとMと私は今日の食べ物の準備した。いっぱい食べ物作った。

We dyed eggs. The recipe was super simple: food color, vinegar and water.

卵をさまざまな色に染めた。このようしたことないから、とても簡単の事がびっくりした。酢と着色料と水だけ。

Besides the purple eggs, they turned out really well! (Middle right)

むらさき以外とてもいい色になった。（むらさきは右の真ん中）

After that we made a layered thing. We ended up with marshmallow all over our hands!

その後プリン見たい物を作った。

We also made Cadbury Cream egg type candy. Though we decided to make half of them in mint flavor.

アメリカでとても有名なあめ見たい物を作った。半分はミントの味。

I miss counted the number of school lunch milks we would need for the layer dessert, and we had 8 extras.

数えた事が間違ったから、プリンの物作ってから、８個給食の牛乳が残った。

We decided to try making cheese!

だから、チーズを作って見た。

Making food was super fun.

とても楽しかった！

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Today was Easter.

今日はイースター

I brought friends from town and we drove to church together.

町の友達と会って、教会まで一緒に運転した。

I’ve been reading a Lent devotional having to do with Easter and between that and today being my last Easter at this Church for now, I was super excited.

最近キリストの生活の話を読んでいた。それと今日は多分私のこの教会で最後イースターのパティへ行けるからとても楽しみだった。

When we repeated “He is Risen” 3 times at the beginning of the service, I felt my heart getting lighter and lighter. If Christ can conquer death, he really can do anything!

３回「主はよみがえられました。」と言いた。毎回に心でとても嬉しくなる。是非キリストの方が死ぬの事より強かったら、キリストは何でもできる！

After the service there was a baptism. My friend who translates had to leave before then, so I didn’t understand much of her story of becoming a Christian, but it’s wonderful to see the Lord working.

礼拝の後に洗礼式があった。通訳できる友達は帰ったから、キリストが信じるの話があまり分からなかったけど、とても嬉しかった。

After that, it was time for the party. We prepped the food and then had lunch together. Everyone made really delicious food.

その後にパティの時！食べ物の準備して、昼食を食べた。とても美味い食べ物があった。

Aren’t these chicks cute?

可愛い！

Every Christmas and Easter this family makes really delicious yakisoba.

毎年はこの家族は美味しい意焼きそばを作る。

When we finished eating, my friends M, K and T played 2 songs. They’ve formed a band called “King’s Garden.” It was fun to listen to them.

食べるの後にMとKとTは２曲を歌った。King's Gardenと言うのバンド。すごい楽しかった！

The audience!

聞く人！

The woman in the middle got baptized today. A few people from church talked about getting to know her.

間中の女の人は洗礼式した。３人ぐらいこの人について言いた。

My pastor is always playing with the small kids.

牧師はいつも子供たちと遊んでいる。可愛い！

Today was M’s last day at church. We don’t know when or if she’ll be back.

今日はMの最後の日にいる。まだ帰るかどうかわからない。

M and I.

Mと私。

After church, we did a bit of shopping.

教会の後にちょっと買い物した。

We drove most of the way home and stopped at a restaurant for dinner. Dinner was delicious, but huge! I couldn’t eat it all after the church potluck.

帰る前に夕食を食べた。美味しくて大きかった。教会の昼食の後に食べ切れなかった。

Here’s the group of us.

町から来た人。

It was a really good Easter!

とてもいいイースター！

Photo Challenge Day 31

March 31: Sky (Last day of this photo challenge)

The sky was gorgeous today, so there are two pictures: morning and evening.

Shot on my way to church this morning. I love these mountains. Every time I drive this route, I want to stop and photograph them.

Shot on my way home from church this afternoon. I feel similarly about the mountains on this route (they are likely the same mountains, just from a slightly different angle).

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On top of Easter Sunday today, we had a baptism. What’s really amazing about M’s story is that she met Jesus while she was in Africa for a short time. Somehow God provided a translator and someone to mentor her when she came back to Japan.

Here she is getting baptized. Along the bottom are all the other people taking pictures.

Because it was Easter, Sisters Gospel Choir (my church’s Gospel Choir) sang a couple of songs for us. It’s always fun to hear praise songs in English!

Then we started prep for Easter Lunch. It was potluck, so everyone brought something.

Here are a few of the teens and a couple of the little ones at church.

The sanctuary transformed from place to listen to the teaching to party room.

These girls are getting their contributions ready.

She’s making yakisoba – a church tradition for the Easter and Christmas potlucks.

A few more of the teens at church. The one in the green is one who I talk to almost every week. The other two I haven’t talked to very much.

Part of the line up of food. Doesn’t it look good? Also, my friend Maki makes things other than rice in her rice cooker too! There was soup in the rice cooker at the bottom of the picture.

A couple of the super sweet ladies at church. The one on the right lived in the UK for a while and she sometimes translates for me.

Cake!

Maki, the other person who takes lots of photos at church gatherings (actually, she probably takes more).

A fun conversation.

These ladies are trying to decide how to display this cake.

The yakisoba prep.

Two of my favorite kids. They are constantly sitting on me, pulling me along to play or doing my hair.

He is risen!

Photo Challenge Day 29

March 29: Pastel

I don’t own anything that is pastel colors except the small collection of pastel colors in my 24-count colored pencil box.

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Not so many pictures today. I helped K-sensei get ready to move today. We cleaned lots of things that needed done before all the teachers can descend on her house and pack it into a truck. It was fun to have one last chance to chat with her before she leaves.

Besides that, I switched from my winter coat today to my windbreaker. On the walk to K-sensei’s house, it was perfect weather for such a thing. On the way home it snowed!

Tomorrow’s Easter!