Getting Started...

Hey everyone!! We have been here for almost a week and finally getting started with everything!! The first few days here we didn't do much, but it was good because we had some good team bonding time. Everyone on the team is great!! I love my roomie. She and I feel like we have already known each other forever! We have gotten to have some good talks together, which has been really cool!

Well right now in Bangkok it is almost 5pm. So, most of you are asleep back home! We got back from the university a few hours ago. Today was our first day to go to the University where we will be teaching English. The campus is beautiful. Anyways, basically we just toured the campus and found out our teaching schedule and stuff today. It is kind of crazy because we are actually considered teachers on the campus. So, that is sort of scary and nerve racking at the same time. All of the teachers and stuff seem really nice, so, that is a good thing. The rest of this week we will just be sitting in on our class and introducing ourselves. So, we really start teaching and stuff next week. Hopefully though this week we will be able to get to know some of the students, so, we can start hanging out with them and stuff. I am ready to start hanging out with the students really bad, even though I am really nervous about the initial step of getting to know them.

On another note, yesterday was the first church service we have been to. It definitely was pretty much AMAZING! There were a ton of Thai college and high students there. I am not really sure how many of them are Christians though. However, there were a good many that I talked to there that were Christians, and it was really cool to get to talk to them and get to know them better. My favorite part of the whole service was the worship. It is truly an unbelievable feeling to be in a room full of other believers who are worshipping the same God I worship but in a totally different language. It was really neat to look around during worship to see all the Thais worshipping God wholeheartedly and to think that even though I have no idea what they were saying our God hears and understands every word of praise that comes from their mouths! Even though I could not understand a word of any of the songs I truly could feel the presence of God in that place! It was amazing!! :)

Well that is about all we have done so far. I look forward to seeing what else God has in store for us this summer and to see how he is going to use us this summer. I do have some prayer request though. First, please pray for A (we are just going to call him that) because he is a Christian and has been coming to the church for about 3 years. However, he has had to lie to his parents the whole time because they are Chinese but also very strict Buddhists. So, please keep him in your prayers and pray that God uses him to reach his family as well. Also, please pray for the pastor we are working with named Pi Lek because he has a thyroid problem or something caused by things from his past, and this disease causes him to be very tired a lot of the time. Also, please just pray for our time that we stay as one in the body of Christ, and that we will share Christ BOLDLY to others WITHOUT FEAR! A lot of us are nervous, so, please pray for us!! Thanks again for everyones prayers!! I love you guys and miss you all!!