Naomi

October 23, 2006

HEY EVERYONE!

I can’t believe it’s been another two weeks already! It’s such a happy/sad feeling that there are only six weeks left. There has been a lot going on….so I’ll try to think of all of it. (I can just hear most of you laughing at my amazing organization…)

I guess the first big thing is that I got accepted as a semester m in Copper Mountain, CO. So, at the first of the year I will head down there. I’m really really super excited about it. Nervous too though. :)

We worked on our big paper a lot. (yay! Aren’t you proud Dr. Frost!!) and I have found that over the last month especially, as I’ve been working on a strategy for reaching the Kui, that I think about it basically all the time. I’m learning more and more about the strongholds in these peoples’ lives, and it is breaking my heart. I am seeing more and more the desperate need for pr to break the darkness. I could talk forever about why and how and all the details I’m learning (hopefully about 20 pages worth…haha) but I’m seeing that there is a dire need for the HS to move in the hearts of these people.

We had a team come from the states to help this past week. It was cool. We P-walked a lot of villages and passed out a bunch of literature. That was a cool experience for me because they used me as a translator and that put me way out of my comfort zone. I mean, I’m fine with trying to talk to people, but when people want me to say stuff and want to know exactly what is being said, it’s a little scary. But it was really fun to meet Kui in other villages. I said the few phrases I know in Kui and they got soooo excited. Haha. It was a lot of fun. Talking to the team about the Kui also reminded me of how passionate I really am about them.

One of Mike and Amy’s Thai friends’ daughter came to stay with them for a while. Her name is Ah, and even though she’s only 12 she is very mature and also a C. It was cool because she was able to share with our little girls. She is real sweet.
An MK from Chang Mai is also staying in the village with the Bowles for a couple weeks. His name is Garrett. He’s real cool. His sister is Jil Day (now Jil Reed) at SBU if any of you know her. Totally a small world experience. Anyway, he’s cool.
While the team was here we went to Sam Rong Tap to teach an English camp. Sam Rong Tap is where a couple worked for 40 years and started the first Kui Ch. So that was cool. Plus the kids at the camp were amazing!!! I still just really don’t like teaching English, but playing with the kids makes up for it. There were a couple 12 and 13 year old boys that I just fell in love with. “Pet” (it means spicy) was my favorite and he was totally rockinl. He is 12, plays bass for the ch, and is just stinkin hilarious. I ate my meals with those guys instead of the “furongs” and laughed the whole time. They then proceeded to mock my laugh mercilessly, which made me laugh more, and made them mock more. It was just a vicious cycle really. But a fun one. Haha.

Yesterday we went to Ban Bing for ch. It is pretty much the only active living and functioning Kui ch. They normally do the service in all Kui, but they did it in Thai for us today. I sat by this old lady, I mean real old…dang. Ok, I just wish you could have a mental picture of her right now...no front teeth. All wrinkly. Huge ears. Anyway, we sang this Thai song that has fun actions that involve a partner and dancing around. Well the 400 year old lady grabs my hand and off we went dancin’ and singing with the best of the “youngins.” It was so great. After ch, (through which she talked to me the whole time), she grabs me again and says she wants me to go to her house. So I went. Haha. She showed me where she makes silk. And she said I could live with her and she would teach me Kui. Haha. I guess you could say we became real good friends. Haha.

We also got to buy Kui silk from the ladies at the ch. That was fun.
Our friend Debby (an M to Thailand for several years) in Sisaket has started a cooking class with some Thai women, and I’m going to help her. We’ve had one class so far and it was amazingly fun. I’m real excited about it.

AND Debby has been talking to Raem and that is super super exciting!! They are going to help each other with language. They both speak Thai, but Debby wants to learn Khmer and Raem wants to learn English. Keep this in your Prs!

We have a re-occurring roach problem in our bathroom.
Pa has a rat in a cage at his house because he wants to eat it tomorrow.
I got a couple of packages that made my life about 576% better. :) THANK YOU LYNDSAY AND AUNT MELODY!!
I read a great book that has made me think, and I love that.
I really like Ezekiel 16. and grace. Yeah, they’re both good.
When I get back there are about a million and one pictures that I want to print really big.

Well, it has become quite obvious that it’s about time I stop rambling! Thank you so much for continuing to Pr!

Peace from the far east…
Naomi

PICTURES!!!: http://sbuniv.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2007244&id=177501000&l=35332


PS: If the phone number I gave you doesn’t work, I heard you can take out the “08” and it works. :) haha.