Winding Down

I only have just over one more week of teaching! It has gone by so fast. We are having a movie night with our students on Saturday the 1st, and hopefully this will be a good way of encouraging friendsips bewteen our students and the Thai christians. The next week of August 2-8 will be our last normal week of classes. After that we have a few day trips planned with some Thai christians during our open week, and then a going away party the day before our flight will be the Aggies' last face-to-face interactions with the students this summer.

So last week we went ice skating with all the Aggies, Anne, some students, and some church members, and I got a ton of funny videos and pictures. When the whole group got back to the church, we were about to get something to eat when I realized my camera wasn't in my pocket. I'm thinking I left it either at the ice skating rink in the mall or in the taxi on the way home. Either way it is gone. The best thing would be if I just put it down somewhere in the church building right before we decided to eat, but if this were the case I think it would have turned up by now. I guess I will just have to be happy with the 15 GB of videos and photos I already have from the trip.

Anyways, thank you again for all of your support. This whole experience has been very humbling for me. I wish everyone could see how this church operates, it is a very encouraging viewpoint on being a family and deciding to have passion for each other and for worship.

I will get back to the States late on August 17th, already two days late for work. I may not get to Irving until perhaps the second weekend of September, but those plans are not set in stone. I hope to see you soon!

Pictures and Video

I am so sorry if you don't use Facebook, but if you do then you can go see my pictures I just posted, and my video of bungie jumping. Also anyone can watch our team video blog where we talk about everything we've done, the link is on the right in my "Links" section.

Our Schedule is Packed

In the Links on the right you will find more video and pictures.

First I would like to say how proud I am of my ties to everyone back in the states. One of the first things we do in any conversation with a Thai christian is find common friends, and I have many Aggies and people from South Mac that my new friends and I have in common, like Kathy Kimmerly, Tim and Ann Lewis, Steve and Dorothy Witt, Ryan Binkley, and more that I'm forgetting right now probably.

The thing fresh on my mind right now, is that I gave the lesson for Sunday evening service in front of the church. I had to talk for about 20 to 30 minutes, I think I took a little too long, but half of my time was taken up by translating. My notes that I basically read from the pulpit are in the picture at the bottom. It was mostly about Romans 8. I think it went ok, I was probably pretty boring, and perhaps confusing sometimes and too simple the rest.

Anyways, as far as my English classes go, two weekends ago we took all of our students to a beach a couple of hours from Bangkok. Justin the trip leader was sick and couldn't come. So I was now in charge of his stuff as well as my own. I led about 5 hours of games, and then about a 2 hours of english lesson between the 4 Aggies. There are a ton of pictures on my Facebook.

The next week we travelled to Phuket and chang Mai, where I bungee jumped and got my Bible painted (: Now we're back to our regular schedule of weekly English classes.


If you want to read my sermon click on the picture to make the text bigger, I had to load it as pictures sorry.

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You can click on a picture to get the full size version. I also posted these on my Facebook.






One of the Thai christians who speaks both languages helping everyone communicate (:






One of my weekly classes.






Another of my weekly classes.




One of my favorite people. She cooks for us every Tuesday night and we have some singing in Thai and a devotional at her house with her family.




Talk amongst yourselves.

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The students with their heads covered are Muslim I believe.

That's my team for the day. The professional lady standing is our Thai christian contact at the school, and she's one of the one's that can speak English very well.

I won the game of course as my team goes wild.

We take turns entertaining Ellie every day.

Ellie and her mom, Delissa.

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It was a crazy day.

We split them into teams and each team made some cheer with dancing and yelling.

We played the game where you have to find a different person to sign their name in a box if they can do a cartwheel, can speak 3 languages, been to cambodia, like sushi, etc.

The team can all jam into a single cab.

This is us with some of the students that come to church once a week to learn English.