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!

My first Thai Christian wedding. Picture with SPU students (Nice, Ann, Ham, and me)

Aajaan Lek (professor at SPU) received Christ last 2 Sundays ago. Ning, Aajaan Lek, and me

Fon (spu student), me, and Fon's cousin at a Friday night event at Canaan Baptist Church.

New contacts (Freshman students at SPU) went on the trip to Ayutthaya. (O, Me, Pie, and Bo)

My Crazy Life!!

Almost one month later and I am finally going to make a new blog post. I need to do it more often because I almost forgot my password--yikes! Things are great here in the "Land of Smiles" but extremely busy. I am working 7 days a week but most of it is lots of fun. The new term started at Sripatum University on June 14th. I am on the campus every day Monday- Friday along with 14 American students that we have joining our work for the summer months. We also have 5 American students working at the BSC (Baptist Student Center). That makes 19 American students total!!

One thing I realized when the American students arrived is that I am a little bit Thai now :) I am not used to people speaking really loud and asking questions every 2 minutes such as: (Where are we going, How much is it, What are we doing now, Is there a reason why we are standing here, etc, etc, etc,) I am exhausted at the end of the day after attempting to translate either Thai into English or English into Thai. In the past I always had a plan for almost everything but since living in Thailand I have realized that PLANS don't work with Thai people. I am learning daily that when you enter another culture you have to adapt to the way life works for them.

I have met so many new students at SPU this past month that I couldn't match up all of the faces with names. We went on a "Field trip" last Saturday to Ayutthaya (the ancient city) and we had about 51 Thai people go on the trip. God is at work and it is exciting. I will include some pictures in the next post.

I will try to be better to update again soon.

Pictures from field trip to Vimanmet Mansion

Ann and I at Vimanmet Mansion

P'Pom, Ann, Nok, me, Ann
Khing, Cat

Most of the group at Vimanmet Mansion

Me and Joanna with the BSC students buying hair bows.

Getting back to normal life and getting busy (in a good way)

I am happy to report that things are fairly back to normal here in Bangkok!! Praise the Lord! I am now able to travel anywhere in the city that I want to go and can take the handy sky train or subway to get there!!

Things are also getting very busy here. This week 17 American Univ. students arrived to work with us in the Thai Univeristy ministry for the next 8 weeks. 2 more students will arrive this week. We have a total of 19 American students working with us for 8 weeks- Praise the Lord that through all the turmoil that has gone on here in Bangkok that these students still felt God calling them to come here. We have more students this year than last year.

The past 3-4 weeks have been very busy here. I am still continuing to disciple Nice and Ann (2 SPU students that are Christians) and now on a different day I disciple Pook (Thai girl who is a Christian that spent some time walking away from God and wants to come back to Him). I cherish these times with the Thai believers and love studying God's Word with them.

I am also keeping very busy with the students at the BSC (Baptist Student Center). I have been teaching there 2 nights a week (4 different classes). I also go to the BSC on Friday nights for Friday Night Live. Just this past Saturday we took a field trip with some students from the BSC to Vimanmek Mansion here in Bangkok. It was a great day just to spend time with the students and to get to know them more. Some of them have even started coming to Canaan on Sunday also!

The next 8 weeks are going to very busy but exciting! I will try to update as often as I can so keep reading :)