It has been a long week! :) God has really blessed us this week in coming to the realization of how much we love each other. Sometimes in life, YES - even missionary life, we take the ones we love the most for granted. It is an incredible thing when your eyes are opened and you truly cherish each other for everything that you are. Please make sure that your not taking anyone for granted in your life...I don't mean to be cheesy but take the time today to tell the people you love...something you love about them and watch their face shine...or possibly frown because they think you want something because it's been so long since you've done that... :) Hopefully the former and not the latter....

Josiah was sick this last week for about a day and a half. He ran really high fevers and had a runny nose. He's such a trooper - he just kept praying for himself and asking us to pray for him and we did! A doctor friend of ours said that she thought it was a virus and would be gone in about a week but he was perfectly fine in a day or so! Praise God! It's a horrible thing when your child is sick.

The team arrived back in Hat Yai late last night and we are so glad they are home. This week we have many things planned. Tomorrow we are holding a meeting with many churches from the area to pray and talk about revival in Thailand. Wednesday we will be bringing the gospel to a mostly Muslium village. We will be setting up the projector and showing the Jesus film along with preaching, passing out tracks and music. Please be in prayer for us during this time because the location is directly across from a Mosque (a Muslium house of prayer - like a church).

John Cava has come from FIRE school in the US to spend time with this team and Thursday we will be doing just that. Thai lessons are going wonderful - John and I can both write about 10 words in Thai and we've memorized 20 of the Thai characters...So we are steadily learning to read and write Thai. The whole world seems to be coming alive in town because I am able to start making out words in the signs and know what sounds the letters make.

John and I can both communicate pretty efficiently with everyday things but we have a long way to go and reading and writing Thai is going to help us go that distance a lot faster.

Here is an example of Thai writing:
กาปจตครีสโอแจต

Please forgive me if you have written and not heard back from me recently. We were without internet service for a while this week. We were also out of water and electricity for a while too!!! It wasn't so great going without water since the water went right in the middle of my shower....but it was a nice feeling having nothing but candles lit and all the electricity is off and there is nothing you can do about it(for a relatively short period of time-hehehe). I know some would disagree but I really enjoyed our time without electricity - you could hear the whole neighborhood going about it's business - the Thai women chattering and people rummaging around for flashlights and candles. You should try it in your house...go without electricity for about 3-4 hours and just sit with your family...it's great.

Ok - well, I'll write again soon and let you know how this week goes. Please feel free to write if you can :) Steph