Well just a quick update. I moved last weekend. Now I’m in Capistrano Beach, sharing a house with the same two guys I was before, Jeff and Matt. Previously me and Matt were living in Jeff’s house, renting a room from him. Not Jeff sold his place, and Matt rented a new house, and Jeff and I are renting rooms from Matt. So, in a lot of ways, not much has changed. Except all my stuff is in boxes, and for now at least, I have my own room.
My plan is to rent from Matt until July, and then move back in with my parents for a year while I try to save up as much money as possible, and pay off my loans… or something. (There may be something else I could spend 10 grand on a year from now, but there’s still a lot of undefined varibles there.) The reason I’m not moving straight into my parents house is that it’s sort of crowded right now, and my little brother is getting married in June, which means that probably even more people will be staying there. At the very least my girlfriend usually stays with my parents on weekends, and will be there for two weeks between the time she’s done with UCI for the year and the time she flies back to Japan, and we like to keep things on the up and up.
Oh yes, for those of you who don’t know, I’ve been dating my younger brother’s fiance’s younger sister, Tomo for the last five months. She’s from Japan, Jon (my brother) and I met both her and Maki (his fiance) on a mission trip to work with the church her father pastors. I’ve known Tomo and her family for almost five years, but it wasn’t till she came to the states as a foriegn exchange student that I finally got the nerve to ask her out. I’m not quite as bold as Jon, who started dating Maki while he was in Japan, and then three weeks later came back to the US to continue a three year long distance relationship while he raised support to move to over there. I give him props for that.
My support raising goals for this month:
1. Contact 10 people to schedule a appointments to meet in person and share about Japan, how God’s calling me there and ask them to join my team as a financial supporter.
2. Contact three churches about supporting me and/or allowing me to come speak at one of their services, sunday schools, or Bible Studies to enlist their memebers as supporters.
3. Get monthly support up to 22%
That’s it for now, hopefully I’ll be unpacked by next week, and I’ll have some more to report.