thankful.

I would be remiss if I didn't give thanks to everyone praying for me and also for God for blessing me like crazy. I can sincerely feel your prayers - please keep it up. Here's where I can feel/see God really working...
1. Learning Thai. I have so much fun learning and I feel like I'm learning it fairly quickly.
2. Thai friendships. I put this in the last newsletter as a prayer request. Since then, my roommate and I have decided to co-teach an ESL (English as second language) at the church. This is a great opportunity b/c it's open to the public and there are a lot of college students involved that aren't Christian.
3. Community. I love living with 3 other Christian women. I was re-reading "Blue Like Jazz" today and Miller was talking about how we're meant to live in community, I agree.
4. Teaching. I'm really enjoying teaching. Especially middle schoolers - I can still baby them a little bit, and yet talk to them like their adults, perfect.
5. Student's Lives. I shared the past 2 times at their youth group and the last time it was at our house, I just love being able to serve them and share what God's done in my life. They're doing community service this week and I'm working with an amazing group in a hill tribe church doing a VBS, very cool. The high schoolers are going to a camp this weekend with all the other Christian Schools from the nearby city, Chiang Mai. They needed more counselors at camp and so Stefanie and I are going to get to serve there too :)
Those are my top 5 that immediately come to mind...God's doing some really rad work here in Chiang Rai, and I thank Him daily for the opportunity to serve Him here.

Jesus is cool quote of the day: Matthew 10:8 - Freely you have recieved, freely give.

Thai Phrase of the day: (for those of you who bought the green shirt) Phut Thai dai nit noy kha. I speak a little bit of Thai.