Back in September of 2009, I received an email from a guy who we knew from our church back in Australia enquiring if we could use his services on the mission field. He had received a 21st birthday present of a two week mission trip to Asia. Well, we are always happy to have some visitors from overseas to come and share in the work here with church and the English teaching, so we said we'd be more than happy to have him stay for a while.
It turned out that the best time for him to come was going to be right bang in the middle of winter here and thus on the 13th of January 2010 David Blair (Dave) arrived in Japan. The day he arrived he helped us out with the classes at Bambio and the very next day he was helping me teach at Megumi Kindergarten. Dave is such a likeable fellow that he was an instant big hit with the students both young and old as well as with our little congregation up here.
Actually in terms of marketing our English teaching Dave's visit is one of the best things that had ever happened up here. Even though he only stayed with us for a short time (which actually ended up to be about 4 weeks in Japan) we got a number of new enrolments of people who met Dave.
So thank you Dave for the blessing of your visit, which still continues due to the increased student numbers this year, plus all the memories of the things we did together here (more BLOG entries on that to come).