It is truly incredible how fast a week can fly by. It seems almost impossible that we landed a week ago. It simply feels like yesterday that we arrived.
This week has been filled with many laughs and some beautiful start to friendships.
This week, we stayed with a Christian Thai couple who run the only Christian book store here in Chiang Mai. Ajaan Yongyut and P'Porn (pronounced P' Pawn) are an amazing couple! They know so many people and everywhere they go, they share the light of Christ with others. One of my favorite times that we spent together was in the afternoons at the bookstore. We would come back from our Thai lesson and sit with them and talk. We would share with them all we were learning in Thai class and we shared many laughs! We laughed mainly over how bad we pronounced something or if we didn't use the right tones and said something we didn't mean to say! They really loved on us and helped us out by teaching us some Thai and correcting us when we say something wrong. One of our last nights at the bookstore, P'Porn took us to the Night Bazaar which is a huge night market. (you can literally buy anything there!) She took us to see one of her friends who has a booth there and introduced us as her daughters. It almost brought me to tears at how much she really cares about us. She has become my Thai mother and I am so blessed to know her and to be continually blessed by her.
As I briefly mentioned before, we have been studying language this week. We study 5 days a week for 2 hours each day. Our Kru (or teacher) has been teaching Thai for 38 years! She really knows what she is doing and expects nothing but the best from her students. At first I was a little intimidated by her but after getting to know her better, she is such a sweet lady. I enjoy our talks during breaks about where we come from and past experiences we have had. Although she has taught many missionaries including some of the ones on our team, she is not a Christian. Please pray for her that her heart will be opened and Christ will reign in her life. Please pray that the missionaries that she is teaching currently will be able to share with her and for the stronghold of Buddhism in her life to be broken.
After language, we usually go on a language route. A language route is several Thai people that we go practice our Thai with. They are people from all across the board from a lady who works at a coffee shop to business owners to market vendors. We have become friends with a lady who works at a coffee shop and after we finish language we usually head there to grab some coffee and begin our language route. P'A (the lady who works there) has really been a joy to talk with. She listens as we tell her the little bit of Thai that we can speak. Our Thai basically consists of telling her what color something is, how many their are, our names, and a few other very basic things. She asks us questions based on what we know or have said and usually we can answer. My first language mistake was I asked her how many boys she was! I totally meant to ask her how many siblings she has!!! We had a really good laugh about that!!!!
Anyway, I gotta go get ready for Church but I wanted to give you all an update of what is happening here!!! I will try to post some pictures soon!!!
All my love,
Ang
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