On the mission field there can be many unexpected twist and turns. Whether it is a mistake in language or an accident in dressing for church. 

While my family and I were in Japan, we studied Japanese almost every day. Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn in the world, so you’re bound to have some translation errors. My father was preaching one Sunday at our church in Japan and he meant to tell the congregation to turn in their bibles to Colossians. My dad, being fairly new to preaching in Japanese, instead told the congregation to turn to their neighbor and kill them. Thankfully that mistake never happened again but it gave the congregation quite a laugh! 

Another time my brother, who was also just learning the language, only knew one phrase, which meant “I understand very little Japanese”.  My brother was only 7 and he did his best to say his pet phrase to any Japanese person that talked to him. One day while I was out with him, an older lady tried talking to my brother and he tried to say “I understand little Japanese” but instead said “the delicious Japanese”! 

Noah Wyatt, MK from Japan