well, yeah

Since my last update, a ton of nothing has happened.

Well, that's not entirely true, but you'll see what I mean in a second.

The Wednesday after I updated, PiiThumb and I went out to the prison together. The two guys from his church bailed on us, and I hadn't been able to get together a solid lesson the afternoon before, so we were a little nervous going out there. But, once again we couldn't get to our classroom so we sat outside and they talked about God. We've hit the point where they have a good amount of information, but they are asking the same questions over and over so something isn't sinking in, it can be a little aggrivating. So pray for us that we would have the words and patience needed, and also for our kids that they would gain understanding. That their ears would be opened to hear and their minds opened to understand and accept.

After that, I basically hung around BK the rest of the afternoon. My student cancelled again.

Thursday we had our prayer time. The rest I the day passed pretty quickly, I don't really remember what we did.

Friday, went to BK to have our language lesson, then got set up for fantastic friday. Beca had a load of games to play and activities for the night. We made ressurection cookies, had two different Easter egg hunts, pin the tail on the bunny, and whatnot. It was awesome. We had a blast and got to talk about it being good Friday and about Easter as well.

Saturday da3, ken, and dew all went out to Borsan to do some shopping and check out the umbrella factory. There were a lot of cool things that you could find cheaper than at the walking street. Then at the umbrella factory they will paint on. Whatever you would like them to paint on, so I took a pair of my jeans and got the legs painted on, and then got the back if one of my shirts painted on. It was really cheap too. So we played around there and then started heading back. A random guy picked us up and gave us a ride to Kad Luang which was nice, except for when he was telling Ken about how Christanity is a Farang religion, and that we believe in the same final destination as Buddha, just taking a different route to get there. Pray for Ken as the enemy is putting up a big fight for him, weird things like this keep happening. Pray for me and beca and Lili as we hang out with him, that we would be lights to his life. But after we got dropped off, we caught a ride out to Dews familys house and had a SongKhran celebration dinner with them. That was a lot of fun.

Sunday we woke up and went to a little waterfall and had an Easter morning celebration. It was all believers that morning so we worshipped and had a great time of fellowship. Then we were going to go to a swimming at 700year stadium, but it was closed so we went to Kim and Quintins little village and swam there. We went back to St, then I went to walking street, back to hang out for out friend Where's birthday, then back to walking street for a massage with Ekk. Then went to bed to prepare for SongKhran.

SongKhran is the Northern Thai new year. Back when the country was called Siam and made of 3 kingdoms, the northern kingdom, or Lanna Kingdom, celebrated the new year around April 14th. For the tradition back then, they would perfume water, pour it on Buddha statues to cleanse them, and then pour on each other, kids on parents then back around, to give and recieve blessings. Also the water represented the cleaning off of all the bad stuff of the past year and starting over clean for the new year. Well, over the centuries it has evolved a little.

Now for anywhere from 7 to 10 days around the 14th, cities all over Thailand celebrate SongKhran by having citywide waterfights. The number one city to play SongKhran in is Chiang Mai. So people come from all over to this city for the festival. This year the 13-15th the whole city shut down (except for like malls and resturaunts and whatnot) and everyone came to the middle of the city to the old moat, and threw water at each other.

It's impossible to really explain the scope of this, even pictures don't do it much justice, though I wouldn't really know since my camera busted. But that's what we did for three days. Well, two for most of us but different two days each time.

Thursday we finally got to go to 700 year stadium and go swimming. Well, basically just jumping off the Olympic sized diving platforms. It was awesome.

Went to a used bookstore on Friday morning, had language then went to Kim and Quintins for a party. Grilled out and hung out with most of the BK team. Came back and then went to the North Gate with our new friend Kathy and Lili (oh yeah, I can also drive with three on the scooter now. I'm a little proud of that). Slept in late on Saturday and read most of the day, then went and watched Race to Witch Mountain with Ekk, Maew and Kathy. Then slept in this mornig and headed to worship at four thirty.

The main reason I updated today is for this.

This coming saturday, the entire BK team as well as our Thai friends are going out to Mae Wang. We will be sharing with the majority of the village the story of the bible from creation through Christ through a movie called the Hope Video. The movie is in Thai with Thai actors. It's going to be a minor event. It's also going to be under major attack by Satan. Things have already been going rough with getting this all going, we are expecting a major, major spiritual battle this weekend. So please make this one of your major prayer concerns for this week. For Gods protection and blessing and the strength and ability to carry out His will. This is a huge opportunity. We need everyone we can get praying for us. Especially during the time of the event. If you happen to be awake from like 4-8 am CST, next Saturday the 25th, keep us in your prayers. Thanks to all of you. Love you.

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