The Last Night In Thailand

Its been a great trip it really has. I met a lot of new friends and saw a part of the world that seems so foreign yet so beautiful. I think the running theme of this whole trip must be "the harvest is plenty, but the workers are few." Thailand has so many missionaries already here, they're called "farangs" meaning the meat of guava (the white part, so it basically means white people but is used to refer to foreigners)

Even though there are so many missionaries, they're are relatively few Christians. I think I mentioned earlier that there are more buddist temples then there are christians in thailand.

The english camp we as a church started 9 years ago was passed on last year to another organization and they've reached out to other local christian groups. The future is bright for our engineering english camp. Elder Aleck met with the president of the university the other day and the president has heard of the english camps work and he likes it a lot and he wishes every faculty (meaning school in the university not just engineering school) should have a summer english camp. All the teachers laughed at this when we heard, because we were so tired from teaching just one week. And there are 25 total faculties. As one teacher put it, "we do serve a big God."

This was my teaching assistant, Acts. Theyre a new component this year to the english camp. theyre here to offer teacher assistance and also to create lasting bonds with the students so that once the teachers leave the camp, the students will be able to build lasting relationships with christians already present on their campus. Acts was really helpful especially walking me through Thai customs and social norms. You wouldn't believe what is insulting, so when in doubt...copy everyone around you.

This is a picture of one of the wild dogs that roam thailand, but this one is nice and he only eats cake. I offered him non-cake food. He refused my offering and was slightly offended.

Eugene has his birthday every year in Thailand for the past 9 years that i know of. Everyone wish him a happy birthday when we get back okay?

Some teachers, well this was the US team minus me and Beverly. I took a picture of all the green foods we had in Thailand

And last but not least, I would like to introduce you to my class! we took our classes out to eat lunch on the last day. Look how happy they are! starting from the left its Min, Natt, Mew, Ohm, Acts, Me and on the right closest to us its Nam, Yee, Moo, and Pound.

The other classes are in the back. roughly around 50 people and our total bill came out to be under 3000 bath( pronounced Baht). I think the converstion rate is 32 bath to a dollar. so 50 people ate for under 100 dollar. WOW

I Loved Thailand. I could live here someday perhaps. Thank you for all your prayers, and I am grateful that God blessed me with unemployment so that i could come to this trip and be blessed again in thailand.

My prayer request is that if you could pray for our teaching assistants that they may maintain relationships with the students and show them Jesus. And 36 students out of around 100 expressed that they wanted to know more about God from our questionnaire. Please pray for those students and for the rest that a seed has been planted and that God will grow his spirit within them.

Goodnight and God Bless,

Patrick

p.s. I will still be updating because there are many days i missed including some funny things i must share but i'm too tired now. So please keep checking back!