Shinjuku Towers

Yesterday I took my volunteer group to the government towers in Shinjuku (a few stops away from where I live). The observation area is 45 floors high and it gives you an amazing view of Tokyo. You can see everything from up that high and it really put into perspective just how massive the city is. 33 million people live there and less than .5% call themselves Christians. It was almost overwhelming to see all the buildings and houses and just the mileage of ground. This city is absolutely gigantic and it seems like there is no way we can reach everyone. I had my team pray over the city for a while and that seems like all we can do really. We don't have the man power to physically speak to everyone in the city. It's hard to keep in the mindset that God is in control and that we, as humans, cannot change people's hearts; only God can do that. We are here to plant seeds and God will do the rest. That's what God has called us to do.
On a different note, yesterday was the first day I was lost in the city. I had never been to the government towers and I had no idea what they looked like, but I figured it would be easy to find them once I was there. One of my teammates was sick and the other had another assignment to do, so it was just me and five high school volunteers. I got them from our train station to Shinjuku just fine, but Shinjuku's station is insanely big! There are no really clear exits and it's so big that you have to choose the right exit or else you'll end up on the completely wrong side of the city. It's not like if you go out the south exit instead of the north you can walk around the building to get to the right area; if you mess up it's like a half hour correction time. Which is what my team found out. :) We walked around the city for a good 45 minutes trying to find the towers; everyone I asked for directions gave me a different answer. I called several other interns to help but without them being there it was hard to navigate. Oh, and another thing, you would think I would just have to look for two tall buildings...yea...Shinjuku is like the city for tall buildings. So we walked into about 4 or 5 buildings before finally a security guard practically walked us to the write buildings. Luckily my team was a good sport about it and didn't mind the extra exercise too much. Hopefully next time I'll be able to navigate the city better.
The volunteer group left today and I don't think I'll get another one for a week or so. We have an intern retreat to the base of Mt. Fuji next Thursday-Saturday so I'm really excited for that! Other than getting lost nothing much new has happened for me here.