Gal 6:9 reads And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. This verse sums up a lot of things about this mission trip. Going into the mission trip, we were already told Japan was what we called "hard ground". It was difficult to get people to listen to the Gospel, and even harder to share it fully. Our pastor shared that if we were to share the Gospel once, collectively, as a team, he would consider the trip a success. We did more than that. It started slow and seemingly unproductive. Many of the things we prepared were rejected. A lot of plans were scrapped and we pulled out last minute stuff. Our first event was a kids' programme, aiming to reach out to the children in the pre-fab housings. Needless to say, we didn't get to do much. We played with the kids a bit, laughed a lot, but in the end, there was no Gospel. Then stop and reconsider. What exactly is missions? The original mission was given by...