Not Covered in Ash

We were planning on posting a blog entry here from Willem's journal, but we figure you may want us to set your minds at ease about the volcanoes that have been erupting here in Japan.

Yes, apparently Mt. Asama, which is about 90 miles from here did erupt this morning and did rain ash upon some parts of Tokyo. Oddly enough, we were in downtown Tokyo this morning and didn't notice anything. In fact, we didn't realize anything was up until we were watching the news this evening. Unfortunately, the news was in Japanese, so we had to check the internet for English news about the eruption, and most of the English stories seem pretty scary. There was a second eruption in the southern part of Japan.

Looking back on the day, something did seem a little out of place this morning. While we were on the train, Terence looked out and commented that there were some pretty dirty cars out there this morning. As a rule, people keep their cars pretty clean here. I can't say for sure the cars were covered in ash, but it is a possibility.

Apparently the eruption could continue for a while, but they don't seem to be expecting anything that could harm us.

Also we have a praise from Sunday. When we arrived here there were no children coming to Sunday school. To encourage more interest we decided to do a mini musical with the children. Our first practice was Sunday morning. We had two families come to the practice and one family even stayed for Church and fellowship time after.

We will post Willem's journal tomorrow.