Our group went to a local bakery for breakfast. The bread and pastries were very yummy, but we were surprised by the unusual offerings such as hot dog with mayonnaise pastry, spaghetti sandwiches, and sweet bean paste donuts.
After breakfast, we drove for about an hour and a half to go visit a friend of Mr. Yeager's. Kishinami-san is a pastor, a used car salesman, and a former kickboxing national champion. He is the person who loaned us our car for our entire visit! We visited his church for their afternoon service. We sang Seek Ye First, Psalm 73, and Before the Throne of God Above for the churchmembers. We couldn't understand the sermon, since it was in Japanese, but the pastor was obviously passionate about the Bible. Everyone read Psalm 102 together, and the sermon was on Ephesians 6:18-20. After church, they rearranged the tables and everyone ate supper together.
Kishinami-san took us all to a mineral lake called Lake Fukanuma. It was a beautiful place, but it was so stinky!
All of the guys went to the hot springs for a relaxing soak, and we girls went to a famous Kokeshi store in Naruko called Sakurai. Kokeshi are limbless wooden dolls that are famous in the Miyagi Prefecture, and this store actually makes them on-site.
After the hot springs, the guys were exhausted and starving, so Kishinami-san took us all to eat sushi - at the same sushi chain where we ate on Saturday evening!
We went back to Kishinami-san's church to sleep. They must host overnight guests often, because they had a large stack of futon mattresses and blankets in the store room and a shower in the bathroom.
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