....catching up

Okay, so let me fill you in on the past few days.

We went to a village to teach English for 2 days. We stayed in the pastors house. Sleeping on the floor wasn't bad, but unfortunately we didn't have mosquito nets so we got eaten quite a bit.
The kids were wonderful though. We taught from 9-3. Everything from sports to prepositions to occupations, fruit to directions to colors and shapes and more. It was very basic but the students ate it up. And of course we played some games and sung some songs. The kids were anywhere from fourth to seventh grade. It was neat to be able to do this through the church because it is a wonderful outreach to the community. Most of the students are Buddhist and hopefully they will continue to come back to the church for services and stuff. Eventhough we were only there for 2 days we got pretty close to the kids. It was sad to leave. They all got our autographs and asked for our numbers and birthdays.

The next day the missionaries in Udon were baptizing the new believers in the prison. We stayed an extra day so that we could babysit their kids. It was fun but a lot of work! We had 5 kids under 5. We fed them breakfast and lunch and put them down for naps and changed diapers and watched a movie and played hide-and-seek and all kinds of things. It was great to get to spend some time with them and play.

After babysitting we hopped on a bus to come to Kohn Kaen. This was quite an adventure! They crammed a ton of us onto this bus... we were standing practically on top of each other in the aisles for 2 hours.

Now we are in Kohn Kaen at a bible school. We are painted some of the missionaries houses. It is quite a task! We paint from 8-4 pretty much every day. I am the only one who has ever painted before so I'm kind've "in charge" I guess you could say. Do pray that we would continue to love each other and work as a team. Being cooped up in a house all day together working hard has a tendency to cause tension. Hopefully tomorrow we will get done with the painting and move on to some other things.

Well... that's pretty much it, the short condensed version at least. I wish I had time to write more but there's lots to do.

Love you all!!

~Liz