IT'S AN ENGAGEMENT!
One of my missionary friends got engaged on thanksgiving! It's a real encouragement since it takes a brave woman to commit herself to a land like Japan for years. And it's something I've had to think about recently. More on that in the next entry. God throughly returned her commitment by providing for her a spark and a sizzle when she went away a year and a bit ago to a conference in Thailand where she then met her now fiance, a missionary in China.
Really, she couldn't stop herself from sharing the good news with everyone! We were all jumping around in absolute glee!
And the proposal itself was just classic! He flew in from China for Thanksgiving with the team and got his mate to film the proposal. The plan was to ensure a particularly sentimental bench in a certain park was free set up the camera and wait in the bush. This eventually meant him trying to kick off a japanese couple, presumably in deep heart-to-heart with little Japanese skills for language. Luckily, they figured out what he wanted after he got down on his knees to mock the proposal about to happen. After getting her to pick up 11 clues over eleven floors down her apartment block (she lives on the __ floor?) - fair 'work' for the 11 stones on the ring - and ending up on the bench with an envelope in hand, there is the running joke of "The Two Questions".
"Do you know that I love you?"
"Will you marry me?"
She squeals his name with glee, jumping on the poor man at his knees, completely forgetting the most important 2 things of any engagement; saying "yes" and putting on the ring!
Meanwhile, the mate is waiting patiently behind the bushes, probably much to the chagrin of the Japanese neighbours wondering what a gaijin is doing behing a bush, (in ambush to pounch an unsuspecting old obasan (granny) perhaps??). He's ready. He checks the camera. The camera is focussed on the bench. Yep, the green light "recording" is on. He waits. Then he hears a squeall! He looks at the camera. He can't see nothing. It's all black, there's nothing there! Then the second squeal; this time, its sounds like a "YESSS!". It's on the OTHER side of the building! He got the wrong bench!
And this kids, is your dad and mine's engagement video.... *the black nothingness of a video screen except for a blinking green dot on the right... then two squeals.* That, kids, is how we got engaged....
Audio: Over Me by Crystal Lewis.
Biblio: The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun.
Cerebrio: Waiting for one of the ministers at a church in Kobe to come around. We're offering some of our stuff to one of their congregation members who came out with absolute zero in a divorce suit. The poor gaijin, he's completely cleaned out by his Japanese ex-wife.
Really, she couldn't stop herself from sharing the good news with everyone! We were all jumping around in absolute glee!
And the proposal itself was just classic! He flew in from China for Thanksgiving with the team and got his mate to film the proposal. The plan was to ensure a particularly sentimental bench in a certain park was free set up the camera and wait in the bush. This eventually meant him trying to kick off a japanese couple, presumably in deep heart-to-heart with little Japanese skills for language. Luckily, they figured out what he wanted after he got down on his knees to mock the proposal about to happen. After getting her to pick up 11 clues over eleven floors down her apartment block (she lives on the __ floor?) - fair 'work' for the 11 stones on the ring - and ending up on the bench with an envelope in hand, there is the running joke of "The Two Questions".
"Do you know that I love you?"
"Will you marry me?"
She squeals his name with glee, jumping on the poor man at his knees, completely forgetting the most important 2 things of any engagement; saying "yes" and putting on the ring!
Meanwhile, the mate is waiting patiently behind the bushes, probably much to the chagrin of the Japanese neighbours wondering what a gaijin is doing behing a bush, (in ambush to pounch an unsuspecting old obasan (granny) perhaps??). He's ready. He checks the camera. The camera is focussed on the bench. Yep, the green light "recording" is on. He waits. Then he hears a squeall! He looks at the camera. He can't see nothing. It's all black, there's nothing there! Then the second squeal; this time, its sounds like a "YESSS!". It's on the OTHER side of the building! He got the wrong bench!
And this kids, is your dad and mine's engagement video.... *the black nothingness of a video screen except for a blinking green dot on the right... then two squeals.* That, kids, is how we got engaged....
Audio: Over Me by Crystal Lewis.
Biblio: The Heavenly Man by Brother Yun.
Cerebrio: Waiting for one of the ministers at a church in Kobe to come around. We're offering some of our stuff to one of their congregation members who came out with absolute zero in a divorce suit. The poor gaijin, he's completely cleaned out by his Japanese ex-wife.
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