Wednesday the 30th

Today the five of us from JBF were the entire team and went back to the grand piano house.  There were two rooms in the back of the house that were still essentially untouched since the tsunami.   It took us all day to clean up the two rooms.  The back room had five armoires or dressers which had been toppled either by the earthquake or the tsunami.  I had to crawl under a tipped dresser/armoire that someone was holding in order to even get into the room.  By the end of the day all the furniture was out as well as the 12-14 soggy, muddy, very heavy tatami mats.  The grandma was hoping to save some of the furniture that was basically destroyed, so things took a little longer than they might.  Toward the end of the day another group joined us and we were able to get all the mud that covers everything up off the floor.
Toward the end of the afternoon the family received some dango from a neighbor and we had a little break.  We were able to hear Mrs. Aizawa’s story of how she had to run with her dad to higher ground.  It is actually a pretty fair distance to higher ground from this house.  Her son was over in Sendai and was “chased by the tsunami”.  After her heaviness yesterday when the piano was being removed it was good to see her start to smile today.  She found a small album of intact pictures and showed us all the pictures of her family.  Her father has been to a church off and on over the years and we found a muddy Bible in the back room.  Please pray for this family.
After the day was done the Shiogama Four (Kevin had to go home this afternoon) was able to locate a bath house and got to get cleaned up Japanese style.  That was a wonderful way to end our day.