thailand in a nutshell...

hey everyone.

okay, here's what has happened lately... we've been here for about two and a half weeks right now, and it was so great!

first we were helping with the Thailand YWAM confrence by looking after their children. this was very nice. i loved the children, and fell in love with a couple of them... only to leave them a few days later. there was a girl, named Ann, who was not very impressed to be there in the beginning. she was not participating, and when i tried to talk to her, she would just glare @ me. but, the next day, we actually hit it off. i would hang out with her a lot, because there were quite a bit of workers for the amount of children, so there was time for one on one interaction. we hit it off. she would draw what i would draw. we did everything together, even though she wanted to be very independant.

it was also a nice break as we were in a nice hotel and i met a lot of amazing contact people for thailand. i am almost certain that i will be coming back to thailand now after my DTS. it seems rather intense as the people that i have contacted to work with in thailand still haven't given me the total okay, but it seems rather promising. i am not worried at all about it, i am actually amazingly at peace about it. but, prayers would always be helpful in knowing the certain direction where God is leading me, and that i would be submissive to his calling.

what else? after the confrence in Chaing Rai we went to a neighboring city called Chaing Mai and stayed with our leaders friends. our leaders, nate and wendy green, had stayed in thailand for 1/2 a year a while back, and stayed near this missionary couple. the 3 days that we stayed there were amazing. it was very relaxing as it was our holiday time. we actually had time to go and ride elephants and go river rafting on a bamboo raft! it was something absolutley unreal. i went on the neck of the elephant and guided it for a while... so cool!

after that we were off to a small town called Mea Sau to work with an organization called "Akha Training Center". there are 430 Akha children here. the Akha people are a displaced people group who have no rights anywhere. they can not go to school, get a job, or go to a hospital. because of this they can get into prostiution, or drugs or something else just to make any money. so this organization takes them out of these troubled spots, and allows them to get a better education and real life. the children were amazing. we taught some english as well as did some practical work. i loved all of it, even though the living conditions were quite different... anyways, i love you all and miss you too.