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Naomi June 30, 2006
HEY everyone!
It's so hard to believe that it's only
about a week until we move out of our home-stay. Life is "sah-bye"
(relaxed, good, happy, well, healthy) in the village. We have just
been hanging out more. Talking to more people, which is really
exciting, but also frustrating because it's so hard to communicate
anything deeper than "i like fruit." "are you tired" and other surface
things. BUT exciting news, we have actually breeched the spiritual
topic (barely) several times. While we were talking to the anomai
girls on the way to the market, kong was reading us phrases from a
Thai-English dictionary, and she adapted one to fit us and said, "Muan
does not believe in Buddha, because she is a C." Jenn and I tried to
explain that we believe he was a man, but we don't yarp to him. It
was really hard with limited English and very limited Thai, and as
soon as we started talking about it a policeman came up to give us a
ticket and the conversation ended abruptly. This isn't a huge deal,
but it was exciting to know that we had at least made it clear that we
are Cs.
The second occasion of spiritual
conversation involves a little story, so stay with me. Maa has been
sick lately, with female problems, I'm not sure what is going on
because it's hard to communicate things that that, but she's been
going to the doctor a lot. The other day she was at the doctor and was
gone for a real long time. I was thinking about her, and realized two
things, 1) I was really worried, and I realized how much I actually do
care about her already and 2) I felt like Dad wanted me to yarp over
her for healing. Now I thought about it a lot, but when she got home
she said she was ok, so I didn't yarp (out loud with her). Well the
next morning I was outside reading my Bible and I couldn't shake the
feeling that I needed to yarp for her. So after a while I finally got
the guts to go in and ask if I could yarp for her, she asked Pa and
they agreed, so I prayed that Dad would heal her and stop the
bleeding. Well, honestly she is still bleeding, but I have total peace
that Dad worked the situation the way He wanted to. Even if it was
just to show her that I actually did care.
So those are the 2 times we've been able
to talk about spiritual things. Not much, but as my wonderful roommate
reminded me, we are called to GO and that's our part. Dad is much more
capable of doing the changing than I am.
ALSO exciting, we have decided on one of
the things we will be doing after the home-stay. Jenn and I are going
to make and lead an AEROBICS CLASS. Haha. I think it's gonna be great.
Apparently every village is supposed to have an exercise program of
some kind, but they don't have anyone to lead it. So we are going
to. All the people are really excited about it. We got some C Thai
music from the Bowles, and we are going to start as soon as we can
make a routine. This could be a great opportunity, even just the fact
that they will be hearing TRUTH in the music, and music sticks with
you. I'm really excited!!
That's about all the big news I think.
Thanks for your yarps and emails!!
Oh, and I think I finally figured out the
picture thing, sorry they were so HUGE. Haha. I made a photo album on
my facebook, and I'll just give you the link and you can look whenever
you want. You can also just right-click on the pic to save it if you
want.
muan
"when the sovereign Lord speaks who can
keep from proclaiming His message?" -Amos 3:8b
"My message is like a fire and like a
hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces." -Jer. 23:29
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