Sa wat dee kah

Sa wat dee kah! (Greetings!!). This past week has been another awesome week. One night we set up candles up on the third floor and mats and we just had a time of worship. We all prayed together, sang songs in English and Thai, and had a time of reading scripture. It is encouraging to take time out of your busy day to spend time worshipping God. During church on Sunday the speaker was Thai. Usually we have an English speaker and somebody translates for the Thais, but this time the English people had to go to the back and have the lesson translated for us. It was very interesting but neat at the same time. Cell group last night was also very good. Our lesson was on diligence and we should always persevere and not give up. I also got 3 new Thai students that I am going to be teaching last night. They stopped by because they saw our sign "Christian zone" and new we taught English. It is 2 girls and 1 boy, all 3 are 19 years old. One of the girls is a Christian, so I am hopefully that God can work through me to get the others interested as well. Today is the 4th of July! Happy 4th of July everyone! I wish I could be in America on this day and celebrate with everyone. Yesterday the American Embassy here held a big gathering, so all of us interns went to that. We walked in and everything was covered in red white and blue. They sold hot dogs and hamburgers. It made us feel at home. I entered a watermelon eating contest as well as an egg cracking contest. We had a good time. Tonight we are going to the mountains to teach another English camp for our students. We have gotten lots of compliments saying we are doing a great job with building relationships with the Thais and that they enjoy being with us very much. My time here is already half way over and that makes me very sad. Sunday we are going to an orphanage to help out as well. One thing I've noticed while being here is that Thai's love to watch movies. Whether it is going to the theater or renting a movie, they just love watching movies. I think it has to do more with being together socially. Thai's are very social people, they love having fun. We try to incorporate things they like to do with with talking about God, or else the non-Christians probably wouldn't initially be interested in doing anything with us. For example, so many of the Thais here love to play guitar, so one night we started singing worship songs and they joined in playing along with us on the guitar. I am teaching our Sunday bible class this Sunday, so I am very excited about doing that. It will be my first time teaching a class. I will be sure and let you know how it goes. Thank you so much for keeping up to date with me. Our schedules here have gotten so much more busier with activities to plan, trips we go on, etc, so I am trying to update this as much as possible. Thank you for your prayers =)