farang farang!

I decided to go ahead and write another post, so maybe they won't run quite as long if I do them more often :)

Sunday was a blessing, as usual...We had about 20 people there (at Thai church), so it was pretty much a full house. After singing Thai praise songs (which is always a blast ;), I enjoyed getting to teach Elliot about Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus.

Yesterday teaching went well...we just did a basic introduction of ourselves and allowed the students to introduce each other. It was tough to get them to speak at first because they were all really shy, even though they could all speak fairly good English. Since Sarah Beth, Stu. and I had the afternoon free we decided to check out the park a couple kilometers down from our apartment. So of course along the way, we heard several shouts of "Farang, farang!", which means foreigner, or white person...you gotta love standing out as the white person in the crowd, haha. The park was beautiful, and it was fun getting to play some badminton and frisbee :)

Today with teaching went even better because we played some great games that the students really seemed to enjoy. A couple of us taught the Hotel Management majors while the other four were in the English department. I can't wait to let ya know how the rest of the week goes!
The Paynes left for Bangkok today to pick up some of their family and will be back in a few days, so be in prayer that they'll have a safe trip...oh and also please be in prayer for our team member Lydia because yesterday she had the flu with a high fever. Today she helped teach some, but she's still trying to regain strength--and I hope that none of us get the flu either...

Sawadee ka!