My birthday photos!

Eating at Greyhound Cafe with my friends :)

Cheers using cake :) Fun idea! One piece of cake for 8 people. you have to be creative.

Making no-baked cookies at Canaan on Sunday. me, pook, nice, and Piaw- (nat in the background)

Making fried chicken using my grandma's recipe :) (pook, may, som, tom, daw)

My Birthday :)

Wow- why do the years pass by so quickly??? I have spent several birthdays in several different countries. This is my 2nd b-day in Thailand :) I feel very blessed to be here and know that I am right where God wants me to be for such a time as this.

The birthday celebrations started on Sunday Aug. 22nd. I invited many students from Sripatum University, the Baptist Student Center, and people from church. I helped to cook no-baked cookies, rice, and fried chicken (using my grandma's recipe) for the party. It is Thai tradition that the person who has the birthday buys the dinner--not a tradition that I like but I am willing to take part in it. Some of my Thai friends helped to cook the cookies and chicken at church. My friend Jill cooked 2 cakes and brought ice cream also. The food was delicious. There were about 50 or more people.

The 2nd day of celebrations were on Monday Aug. 23rd. I worked at SPU during the day like normal but in the evening I went with 8 friends for a special dinner at "Greyhound Cafe". It is a nice restaurant that serves a variety of different kinds of food. We then ate some cookies and all 8 of us shared a piece of cake that they bought me for my b-day.

Today on my actual birthday I worked all day at SPU and then I went to dinner with my friend Ning. We ate Thai food at a new restaurant that we just found. It was delicous and cheap! Ning also bought cake so we had some cake after eating dinner.

I've definitely had enough cake to last me for a while! Now I need to exercise! I feel very blessed and thank God for a wonderful 35 years!

Picture updates on life in BKK!

Orchid Festival at Siam Paragon Mall with P'Pom and Ning

Dusit Zoo in Bangkok

Hanging out at the arcade in the mall.

Some of my favorite SPU students (fon, me, ham, nice, and ann)

Gift, May, Me, Kan, Puy (SPU students at Canaan)

Me and Kwang. She accepted Christ this summer:)

Som, Me, Holly, Anny, Kwang, Linsey (Som and Anny are seekers)

Ann and Ann :) She is a believer from SPU.

Beer, Me, and Beau (students at SPU who went to camp this summer and heard the Word of God for the first time. )

Where to Begin?

August is here and I am not sure where the time went. 19 American students rolled in here in June and rolled out at the end of July and everything seems like a big blur. It was an amazing 2 months as our contacts at SPU (Sripatum University) and the BSC (Baptist Student Center) grew in large amounts. We saw 1 professor and 1 student at Sripatum come to Christ this summer and we have many many seekers! Praise the Lord!

Thailand is on a different season pattern so it is not summer here. It is actually the rainy season but since it is hot year round it feels like summer all of the time. The SPU students just took their mid term exams this week so they are half way through the semester. I will begin helping to teach 3 classes at SPU. I will help on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. I will go into 3 different classes and help students work on conversation and do activities with them for 30 minutes to 1 hour. The rest of the time I spend on campus tutoring students in English, discipling new believers, and studying the Bible with seekers. There are lots of great things happening here.

I will try to be better at updating my blog so keep reading :) Pictures to come!