A crane trying to make a dent in the rubble...
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Just for kicks I'm throwing this one in...it's a crazy looking dog that is well known as the "demon dog" because he is as bad and mean as he looks!
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Men from the government who are on body duty...not all the workers are so safely dressed unfortunately...this is in Phuket by the way...
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This is what's going on inside the house church...
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People are lined all the way out the door to hear what is being said in this house church - Clinton Garsee is seen here...the only white face in the pictures...oh wait...there is is his son Colton to the left...
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A home church that has been opened...
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Todd and John helping re build a mans home...
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A neighborhood in Baan Nam Khem - destroyed...
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A woman who insisted on washing Josiah's feet because he was fussing at the moment because they were dirty...
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Josiah and a cutie pie!
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A Pastor who was on the team with John and Todd who helped deliever free rice to the victims of the tsunami...
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A man working to rebuild his home...
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A young girl reading the Thai bible...
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A group of children that gathered while John and Todd ministered. The little girl to the left of Josiah is the one we're praying about adopting...
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A boat that is stranded about a mile inland - if you look to the left you can't see the shore at all...that little bit of water in back of the boat is simply a little pond...left from the tsunami.
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Josiah playing with Whelee's son...They're hearts are so kind that before we left they tried to give Josiah one of the few toys that his son had...
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Inside of Whelee's home at the refugee shelter - I mentioned before that he is a new brother in Christ due to the efforts in Baan Nam Khem!
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Picture of the refugee shelter that is setup in Baan Nam Khem...
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John, Josiah and 2 of the Pruitt girls - Savannah and Shiloh during their last trip to Baan Nam Khem.
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Disaster in paradise...
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These are all coffins for people who died in the tsunami..
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Josiah hard at play with a bag on his head....don't worry - we don't let him play with bags over his head normally. We know the danger...it was just too cute and it was totally supervised. hehehe...
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That little sign says "Yes that is a KFC bag in my hands - our splurge for Valentine's Day lunch. It doesn't taste like real KFC - I can't explain it. And I just woke up, so I do have a bad case of bed hair and face...lol...does that exist? Bed face? I don't know....my face looks different in the morning...does yours?
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Josiah's new table and chair...He absolutely loves it! I think it makes him feel more grown up...It has the Thai alphabet and the English alphabet on it.
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Yes, I know his clothes are terribly mismatched...all the clothes were dirty due to no water....poor kid...
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The red thing on his face is from a mosquito bite that he refused to leave alone. It looks much better now and we're treating it with a antibiotic cream.
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600+ Mosquitos - No Water - New Job - Baan Nam Khem

Hello hello!

I just finished up our newletter that will be coming out this week! Whew...I never thought it would be hard to write a newsletter but I had a hard time with it! You have to keep it short enough for people to want to finish it (which I don't think I did successfully) and it needs to adequately describe how things have been going and how they are...and that's kinda hard when you've described everything to everyone with internet access already... LOL...

Ah well...I put my best effort into it! Well, ok...so we're going on about 5 days with no water downstairs! Which means - no laundry done....no dishes done....Which makes for quite a mess. We do have a bit of a drizzle coming out of the sink...so I managed to get the dishes done yesterday. Now...the laundry on the other hand proves to be quiet a pain. I put clothes in...add soap...then put a bucket underneath this one faucet that for some reason has more water coming out of it than any other faucet and then I let the bucket fill up and dump it into the washing machine. I do this for about ehh....10 minutes and voila - the wash cycle begins...and then it's on to the rinse cycle. Some would simply say "Forget the rinse cycle!" but it's just not possible when you hang your clothes to dry unless you like wearing haysacks (I think that's what they're called).

It's really kinda funny now that I think about it but it's not funny at the moment of happening...but everytime I go down to take the laundry off the line and I pull the first piece off - there are at least 20+ mosquitos that swarm into the air. Today was especially bad (I think because it's getting hotter) but this time it was unbelieveable....John and I both started to take laundry down and we were swarmed by at least 600+ mosquitos....I'm not exhagurating I promise. I think they're drawn to the moisture in the clothes. Amazing thing is that neither of us got bit.

So the first thing I do (out of habit now) is go get the bug zapper (John goes for the bug spray and the mosquito repellant burners - which we spray 3 times a week and we still have this problem). The bug zapper is this neat thing I found at a shop that looks just like a tennis racket but the part where the ball would hit is all electric coils. You can't hurt yourself by touching it because its guarded by a mesh thingy. Anyway, it's electric and you turn it on and press this button and start swinging!!! It's great...the sounds of shocking fill the air as mosquitos drop to the floor. The floor is a mess by the time we're done.

It was a great distress at first but now it's kinda fun...part of doing the laundry - the first 10 minutes is a mosquito slaughter...and then you take down the clothes. Ahhhhh....life in Thailand...hehehe...no really don't get me wrong - I love it!

I got a job!!! I will begin work at Pholwityia Bilingual School on April 1st! I'm so excited about - it's one of the biggest schools in Hat Yai and all the missionaries here say that it is the hand of God that I got on there because it is such an influencial school and there will be many opportunities for ministry just because I work at this school. I might be working part-time until then but I'm not for sure if that will work out yet.

John, Josiah and I are going to be heading off for Baan Nam Khem this Friday for about a week. We're going to talk to that little girl and her grandmother and to serve wherever possible. John went today to the hospital with Pastor Simon (the chinese pastor I've mentioned) and prayed for a man who was hit over the head with a piece of wood. He had to have part of his brain removed. When they walked into the room he was in a vegetative state and didn't respond to anything. John began to lay hands on him and pray and he woke up and started responding and looking around...it was incredible. When he took his hands off of him he would become non responsive again. John continued to pray and told the man somethings John wanted him to tell him. We will be keeping up with the condition of this man.

John is also blessed in that this Wednesday night he has been asked to speak at a local church here and God has already spoken to John about what he's supposed to speak on. I'm very excited for him - I will not be there....AGAIN. I will be going to a different fellowship that I'm committed to on that night.

We finally paid the landlord! He finally showed up! So that's all done with and I feel much better. We don't have anything in Josiah's room so - the other night we just gulped and stepped out in faith and bought him little things for his room. We got him a little fold out table with a chair and a bin to put his toys in but the thing I'm most excited about is that we were able to buy him his first little bike. He absolutely loves it and it was only 399 baht (which is about $10 dollars). It surely would have cost at least $30 in the states. Anyway, I've taken some pictures of him on it and I'm going to upload them....John also took a picture of me hand washing some clothes...and I'll put that up too - mostly for my mom...cuz I think she'll get a kick out of it.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day! I miss everyone so much - but I know I say that everytime I write...I really miss my brother and mom.....oh...please pray with us. My brother and his wife are pregnant and they are having some complications. There is a small rip in the placenta (either that or the uterine lining) and she has been put on bedrest for 10 days and things were going fine but now she's bleeding a little bit more. Please pray! This is my little unborn nephew - Braden that we're fighting for.

I'm going to close with that and go pray...I'll write again soon! Love you all!
Steph

WARNING! Long Post Below - and Pictures below that!

Hello everyone!

I just posted a huge post and I wanted to let you know that there are pictures below that humungous post - so scroll down and see the pics if you don't have time to read my long ramblings. :) OH - we'll be having a newletter going out soon so if you haven't signed up for our mailing list please do so soon! Here is the link to our website so you can sign up for our mailing list: www.dead2sin.com

After you click on the link just look at the bar at the top and click on mailing list. Fill in your information and press submit and that's it!

Hope you enjoy the pictures :)

I did it again! - New ministry opportunities - Missing Everyone

OK…so…I’m almost completely embarrassed to write this down…although it makes me laugh really hard…but…ok…here it goes…. I fell AGAIN! LOL…yes, that’s right I fell for the third time in a month! I was at the night market with a friend – walking along…and we came to some steps…some ancient steps I might add. She was talking about how much she would love to have a Thai bird cage and I was like “ME TOO!” and down I went….plopp. hehehe…actually plop is too graceful of a word to describe what happened to me…it was more like “BAM! POP! SCRAAATCH!”

I sat up on the stairs and prayed with my friend (Tanah) as the pain pounded and all the sudden there came a Thai guy and he started rubbing my ankle and saying something in Thai. I was like “ouch ouch ouch…uhh…Tanah what’s he doing?!?!” She then informed me that he does massage at the local JB hotel and that he was saying that you need to massage it like this to massage the pain out. He seemed innocent enough although I quickly pulled my ankle away… He then went on to ask questions about us in broken English and Thai. Tanah carried on a bit of a conversation with him about “prot yesu” which is The Jesus God and he then proceeded to tell us that he was going to open up his own massage parlor someday and he wanted us to come and visit him and get a massage. Tanah politely declined for us and went on about “prot yesu” to the best of my knowledge.

We told him what church we went to and he ended the conversation soon there after and he proudly left with a quick “God bless you” – very few Thai people know this phrase. He was not interested in knowing more although maybe Tanah was able to plant a seed through my little fall. LOL…I don’t know…

So here I am – with my left knee all bummed up again! I have a wound on my foot this time too and my right ankle is swollen and I can’t walk on it. I put a whole in my only pair of pants during this fall too(Side note: I’ve learned the Thai style of wearing pants…you just fold them up to above your knee and then fold them down a bit and voila – you have Capri pants!!! It’s great!) ARGG!!! I fell on Sunday and it is now Tuesday night. On Monday John went to the hospital and borrowed some crutches for me. You know…I’m really not clumsy…really….LOL…I promise…

So for the past two days I’ve done nothing but be weighted on hand and foot! Poor John….:) I have such a wonderful husband. Josiah hasn’t wanted to go out of the house because I couldn’t go with him. He’s so sweet. John would ask him if he wanted to go to the park and Josiah would be like “Mommy go?” And I’d show him my swollen ankle and explain that I couldn’t go and he’s say to John “No go Daddy…Iwann Mommy”. So he laid in bed with me all Monday! Tuesday when John asked I had to ask him to go to the park and pick me some flowers and then he went. He’s such a good boy!!!

He’s talking so much more now! He comes up with all sorts of cute stuff all the time. The cutest thing recently is John taught him how to do the theme to Jaws…you know…dadum……….dadum…..dadum…dadum.dadum.dadum…faster and faster. Now he will do that and start out far away from you and then as he says it faster he runs up and “gets” you…and that’s your cue to scream like crazy.

He is learning sooo much from his leapster it’s really amazing…he now knows that blue and red make purple!!!?! Isn’t that crazy…he can also do mazes…they’re pretty simple but still take some thought but he does them wonderfully on his leapster. Right now him and John are on the bed coloring together.

Oh…Tanah – the girl I mentioned before – she’s an incredible missionary that I’ve met here who is steadily becoming a very very good friend. She’s so alive and her testimony is incredible! She loves Keith Green too! Anyway, she leads worship at the Bible school that just started (which now has 14 students!!!! Praise God!) and also on Wednesday nights at a home fellowship that meets at the Garsee’s house. She leads mostly in Thai. So, anyway, I’m going to start working with her and learning Thai worship songs. We’re going to be leading worship at a church here in about 2-3 weeks.

The Thai people are so systematic they have a hard time really worshiping God because they’re used to structure – they think that you need to sing a song…say a prayer…sing a song…say a prayer…and so on…until you’ve completed about 4 songs and that’s it. So there isn’t much freedom of the spirit – but Tanah is helping some of the local churches here with that. I’m going to start learning these songs and help her whenever I can. I mean…how incredible is it to be able to minister while you minister to the Lord in worship!

Another thing about Tanah – is that she saved up enough money to buy a motor bike and 2 days after she bought it it was stolen!!!!!!!! It’s not like in America where you might have a chance of getting your bike back – the police here told her that they couldn’t help because they were too busy and that if she saw anyone riding her bike to follow them and then call them. So – she’s back to no bike again!!! It breaks my heart. God has already started to provide for her to get another bike though – although it might be a while!

We will hopefully be making a trip to Baan Nam Khem in about a week to help there before I start working. I think I’ve found the school that I might be working in. I still have to go in for the interview…but today I called the guy that is second in command and told him that I couldn’t bring my application in (3 people and crutches on a motor bike in Thailand is not a good idea) so he said – well, I’ll come by and get it. So he did and he pretty much gave me a mini interview. The wonderful thing about this school is that it’s bilingual so that I can also teach science and math as well as English!!! And the students will have a decent understanding of English which opens up the doors wide open! J

Tomorrow the Fire House is having a Valentines ministry party – which will attract tons of Thai people. It’s going to be great!!!! The Fire House is an incredible ministry to children and I didn’t know it until the other day. When I showed up I came in to see Pii Thak and Tanah sitting there with about 8-9 children and Pii Thak was telling them about “prot yesu” and they were listening so intently. 8 of them has accepted Christ and one still needs prayer. I’m hopefully going to be getting more involved at the Fire House also. I feel like a new woman since I’m done with school. I’m able to do so much more! I just pray that when I get a job that that time will still be there. I know I won’t have as much time but I pray that I’ll be able to continue ministry beyond my job and one night a week at home fellowship. I truly desire to help out at the Fire House and Baan Nam Khem…and all the other ministry opportunities that are here.

Very soon me and a few of the missionaries here are going to start working on dramas to reach the Thai people. I’m sooo incredibly excited about that. I’ve been working on the dramas – it’s amazing because the dramas the Lord has given me are perfect for Thai teenagers specifically because they love the kind of music that most of my dramas are set to. I can’t wait to be able to do outreaches with these dramas mixed with all the other gifts and talents that God has distributed to this team.

Man, reality hit me this week when I found out that one of my very very very good friends is pregnant!! It hurt me that I’m not going to be there for the morning sickness, growing belly and seeing his/her beautiful for the first time!! OUCH! God is giving me peace though…I’m still in shock though…I just think to myself…at different times in the day…I’ll just be sitting there and it’s like “I can’t believe she’s pregnant” It doesn’t seem real because I’m not there.


I really miss everyone – I know I say that all the time but I really do! I miss all the people from LLC and their smiling faces and warm hugs. I miss my mom! AND MICHEAL!!!!!! Lisa – Misty – Guy – Crystal – LORI!! Pastor STAN! CAROLYN—how’s the gift I gave you by the way??? And my students err…ex-students (Betty, Susan, Miranda, Sharon….i could go on all night listing the people I miss….)

It’s been really great getting e-mail from everyone! It’s very refreshing after waiting 10 MINUTES to open up my inbox to find e-mails!!! Thanks Teresa – Epiphany – Chancy – Misty and more!

Ok…well, I’ve probably types soo much that no one in they’re right mind would take the time to read it all – so, I’m going to stop now. I’ll write again later on in the week.

Love you all,
Steph

Look at the name of this school? Can you imagine trying to say the name of this school???
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Josiah behind the counter at a donut shop...they let him do whatever he wants...
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This is what we're thinking about doing for us...adding a cart to a motorbike...
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Another cutie pie that I saw on the Song-tao one morning...
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A butterfly I found in the back yard! Isn't it beautiful...?
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Josiah on top of the mountain!
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Another pictures of vendors on the side of the road...
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The side of our house...
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A picture of one of the vendors on the way to school...
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John and Josiah at the top of the mountain by our house..
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Josiah playing in the side of the house.
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This is the lady that cooks at the end of our street - we eat there almost everyday! She's an incredible cook! Kao-Pot Mai Pet Please..!
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Example of a TukTuk - I don't know if you can tell how small this truck is...but it's really really small...
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This is part of the market area that is on the road during parts of the day...
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This is an example of how many motorbikes there are in Thailand - this is infront of the Hat Yai District Hall...
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Our house is the half on the right. A sweet older woman lives next door.
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This is our road - I walk up this road to get to the song-tao.
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Faces from my ride on the Song-tao...
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This is our house - only the right part is our house.
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House Flood - Foot Massage - 1 week left

Hello Everyone!

I only have 1 week left of TEFL school and I'm so excited! I am going to miss my students though! I want to apologize to any of you who have e-mailed in the past week...our connection seems to have gotten slower?? Or my patience has gotten shorter at home...lol. I keep getting could not find server errors everytime I try to send an e-mail. Everyonce in a while one will go through...anyway, I'm going to be writting back soon! I also want to say thank you soo much to those people who have sent in support! You have been an answer to prayer! We're doing ok at the moment but soon the landlord will come and as of yet we do not have the money to give him and your support has definately reassured me (but mostly relaxed my nerves) that God is taking care of us. John is sooo wonderful about trusting God for things like finances whereas I am still learning to stop trying to take care of everything myself. He knows our needs and will met them in His time.

Yeah - in the title I put house flood and that's because Josiah flooded our house! It's ok...it wasn't a big deal because we don't have anything in the two rooms that were flooded (except for a dining table). John was working on the side of our house and Josiah was playing with the water hose. John was checking on him every once in a while...and talking to him periodically to make sure he was playing nicely (our house has a gate at the front so it's pretty toddler proof)...and when John checked visibly...Josiah had stuck the water hose in a little slot in the door and the water had been running for a while!!!! John shut off the water and gave Josiah a lesson on where the water hose belongs and went into the house to find it flooded all the way to the kitchen (at least a couple inches of water).

John tried to get the water out with a broom - but had to go to the store and buy a squeegie to get the water out!!! Josiah is grounded from the water hose for a week! lol...The floors are really clean now though! This week has been rather uneventful besides that because John watches Josiah all day long and runs little errands while I am at school. I'm unable to go anywhere during the week due to homework and such...and John is limited on what he can do becuase he is watching Josiah continuously (ministry wise).

Things will be much better after I'm finished with school. We're going to start language classes after this week! I'm sooo excited about that! OH...foot massage...yesterday was a friends birthday (twana) and the girls decided to take her to get a foot massage and I was invited a long! It was absolutly wonderful and afterward you are served ginger tea. And all for less than $4 dollars....!!!! It's actually a lot of money here...and I really hated spending that much but I didn't want to not go and celebrate Twana's birthday party. Afterward Twana gave me some lessons on the bike and road around the neighborhood with me (on her bike) to help me feel more comfortable with the bike. I can't believe this is sooo hard for me!!! I didn't fall...so that was good!

Turns are the problem for me - but I have to say after the 45 minutes of practice I got yesterday I feel much more confident although not road ready yet. Some people have been asking what kind of things we miss and what we would like sent if someone wanted to send us something. So, John and I have made a list and I sent it out to people who had asked. If you would like a copy just e-mail me and I'll send you a copy of the list. I really miss everyone and John is just now starting to miss everyone. EHH...that sounds bad....it's just that now it's all starting to kick in for him (a month later) and he's missing his friends and family.

I found out my brother and his wife are having a boy!!!!!! It's so hard not being there to share in their joy...I've always anticipated the day when my brother would become a father! He's really great with kids and I know his wife Annie will be a wonderful mother. He's got a good digital camera though and God will give me the grace to not be broken up about it.

Oh...a funny story...I've told you about TukTuk's I think?!? They're these really small trucks (REALLY SMALL) that carry people in the truck bed on benches...and I just found out the other day that if you say "Tuk Tuk" with the same tones that it means "gays" instead of "a small truck that gives rides"...!!! So I've been walking around saying "I need a gays please"....ehhh....I couldn't believe it. The proper way to say it aparently is "Tuk Tuk" with the second Tuk being higher than the first. I know say Tuk Tuk the correct way - needless to say...

Josiah is growing up so much! He is spending too much time on his leapster though. I'm about to start some kindergarten curriculum with him and limit his leapster time. It is a learning unit but he doesn't need to spend as much time on it as he does. He won't play in his room so we're moving it to this area that's right next to our room. He won't play in his room because it's rather akward - there's nothing in it but the toys we brought and nothing on the walls so it echos really really badly...and it's stuffy so he'll play for a minute and then come running into our room. We're just going to make his room an office/prayer room. We would feel better with him being in the area next to our room anyway.

I've taken some pictures and will be uploading them very soon! I took some pictures of what I see everyday, a songtao, a tuk tuk, our house, the market and more. So stay tuned folks! hehehe...I miss you all and I'll talk to you soon!

Steph

Oh...John's going to be writting soon...! He's been wanting to but hasn't had the time either.

It has been a long time!!! I have really missed writing but I've been so busy. John and Josiah are back and they have been since last Friday and I'm soo glad! I missed them terribly. Things are going very well with school - after Friday I'll only have 1 week left. I had an interesting experience teaching 3 students...last week. I went in for my lesson for the day and only 3 students showed up. I had a huge lesson prepared and it included spliting up into groups of 4-5 and I only had 3 students! It was very interesting and very rough but it turned out ok and I gained a lot of experience with "winging it".

We (our TEFL class) took a field trip to Songkhla Technical School to teach a 20-30 minute lesson each to different classes. We had to play a game that reinforced something from their previous lessons (time, greetings, past tenses ect...). It's extremely unnerving going to Songkhla (pronounced: Song-k-lah) because there are over 5,000 students there and they are mostly teenage boys. When you go into the front gates of the school it's like entering a city...there are lots of buildings and courtyards and little vendors where the students hang out...and as you walk through the "school" all eyes are on you...er....on me and the other 2 women in my class. When I walked into the first class I was monitoring I heard "Wow!" "Ooooooo" "Bootyful" They are completely amazed at our white skin and blonde highlighted hair!

That class was completely teenage boys and Mandy (brave soul that she is) volunteered to take that class and did very well! I've come to find out that the Thai people are incredibly competitive...so when you say the word game and team...they're ready to go - no matter how many "farang" are in the room. So, the game began and it went wonderfully - she played "Chinese Whispers" to have the class practice their speaking and vocabulary. It was very entertaining for us and them...and I have to say that Mandy handled herself wonderfully considering the room was wildly almost out of control for part of the game.

I went on to teach a much more mixed class. I played a game similar to pictionary. I split the class up into three teams and had them come up one at a time and draw what was on the card (a vocabulary word that they've learned in their term) for their team and the first team to guess it got the most points. It was sooooo much fun! I had an incredible time! The Thai's are incredibly competitive so you see a class of quiet, smiling, shy girls and sometimes the boys turn into pushing and shoving, shouting and screaming young teenagers that fight for every point. It's all in good fun though....

It's amazing - now when I ride on the Song-tao and I look around on my 30-50 minute ride to school...I don't look around amazed at everything I see. It's not that I'm not amazed anymore...it's just that I'm starting to feel more at home. I'm starting to hear things in the language and understand more...when I watch the Thai people they are now normal instead of a sea of foreign faces. I'm adapting and it feels good. I can now say that all Thai people DO NOT look a like. Whereas when I first arrived I really couldn't see much of a difference...(also partially my lack of attention to detail at times). Anyway, I feel at home with the smells and the noise...and the smiles....ahh....my cheek bones are definately stronger! lol....I can smile continuously almost all day now without a whimper. LOL...

Now...I'm having a problem with the food. I've come to realize that there IS actually a limit to how much kao-pot someone can eat...I've had kao-pot mai pet (fried rice not hot) way too much and I'm soo eager to branch out and try something new but...as crazy as it sounds I don't want to have to order something...hate it...order something else...hate it...and end up paying for it all and possibly not find anything I like. Where are the buffets!!!! :) Almost everything here is made to order...I'll figure more dishes out that I like very soon I'm sure...it's just been this week. I'm starving for anything other than kao-pot and I've branched out like 4 times and found my tastebuds disapproving each time...leaving me to order more kao-pot mai pet....

I went to one of the vendors I go to sometimes after school for dinner and I was going to try to order something else (which is really hard to do when the menu is in Thai) and by the time I had decided to attempt to order soemthing different she handed me a plastic bad with my kao-pot jsut like I like it....mai pet. LOL. So I went home and ate my kao-pot and decided to try again tomorrow. I need to take a picture of these vendors...They're nothing but a wagon that has a make-shift tent over it...and they've got their wok over an open flame and tons of spices and meats laid out everywhere.

Thailand amazes me in that there is soooo much life being lived. I don't know if that makes sense or even if that's a good way to describe it but when I'm riding home I see so much life....people talking...eating..napping..playing...working...cooking...cleaning....walking....reading....everythign you can think of. Everyone is out and about. Most people come out and eat for dinner to these street vendors and there are just whole roads that are filled with them on either side of the road. In America everyone is inside....it jsut seems like all we ever do in America is work and go home...work and go home. At least that would be the looks of it if you road a song-tao in America. Here everyone is living life....well, that doesn't sound right - not that Americans don't "live" life...well, I hope you get what I'm saying.

At the same time that there is so much life being lived there is an absence of the life that only God can bring. As I sit across from faces on the Song-tao I see so many hurting people...and empty people. I watch as people buy their little buddah temples to go in their yards...they're so busy with life I think that they don't have time to think about the meaning of life. Wow...that is an over generalization...but I think it's partially true. There is so much going on...they don't seem to contemplate why we're all here. But the truth is that all humans do that. I know of a lot of people in America who are simply living life and not even thinking of why they are even living the lives they live...what is beyond this life....

I found it amazing that so many people aren't bothered by not asking themselves this question. I met many of these people when going to Grayson before I left (a college in Sherman). People wake up, go to work, come home, go to sleep and start all over again in the morning and never ask themselves...why am I here? This thought plagued me before I knew God...Why are we here...what is my purpose...what is going to happen when the last breath comes from my body???? Where will I go??? These are important questions that have an incredible answer and they all lie in our God. The people of Thailand need a wake up call sooo desperately. I can't wait to be able to speak their language.

I am so eager to be able to speak to them as they are eager to speak to me. I feel like I am in field ripe for the harvest but I lack the tools needed to harvest the grain. So for now I will show them the love of God and study Thai hard!


EHH!! I"ve got to go this place is shutting down (internet place). Talk to you soon. I have more to write. Don't have time to check this sorry if spelling and stuff is wriong.... :)