driving

Donna and I are learning how to drive stick on the other side of the road, please pray for us :)

p.s. if you have prayer requests can you please e-mail me? I'm praying for Crossway but whenever you guys have prayer requests, e-mail me via facebook or leeyumi87@gmail.com

:)

Update, please pray for schools

Friday service went great! Last week we had 3 children come, and the number doubled to 6, praise God! We played bingo but the genius I am forgot to make the bingo cards different so everyone won... :) its ok Mie pen rai Ka (means its ok, let it go) we ended up playing duck duck goose which they LOVE. Plus, I made different bingo cards for english class on sunday for the older kids and it went a lot better. Oh and we went to the Buddhist temple for orientation on sunday and we will be teaching english for an hour from 3 30 to 4 30 every sunday, in a literal temple! God is amazing!

Some of the kids that go to our sunday service also go to the temple ( we saw some of our kids there that afternoon), so that gives you an idea lack of strength Christianity has here. Basically the kids come on sunday because we teach english, but hopefully they will one day believe and accept the truth of the gospel.

Im learning more about the thai culture and their buddhist beliefs. Their Buddhist culture has changed drastically! Thailand was once known as one of the most pure forms of Buddhist religion, however now they are changing to more of a Korean type of buddhism where they also believe and fear ghosts. So, Thai Buddhists choose to believe in anything that would benefit them, so some Thai's will go to church and the temple, a win win situation for them. So, please pray for a true change in the children we teach on sundays.

Plus, DONNA IS HERE!!!! yay, Im so happy :) We visited three schools yesterday and received permission to teach in two of them. WE are still praying for the Ban Sankampieng school, which would be a strategic location to teach at for when we bring our team in a month or so. Please pray for that, we will be meeting with the new principle next week. Oh and Donna and I will be officially teaching at a public school on thursday and friday of next week! Please pray for us!

We miss you guys so much!!!!!!! I love you i love you :)

Bye!

Park

Praise God for a great sunday service! We sang mercy is falling in thai and english and played the numbers game. After service we went to the Buddhist temple and received the ok to teach there every sunday! Its really amazing because they know we're Christians but want us to teach because we can speak english. Praise God! We are still praying that God will open doors for the two other schools.

Yesterday (monday) I went to the once a year CTS outing at the queen's garden. It isnt really the queen's garden but its a non-profit park funded by the queen. It was so beautiful, and we played human Foosball, it was lots of fun.

OH and Pi Mam is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) IM so happy :)

I love everyone bye!!

prayer requests

1) please pray for tomorrows sunday service (Thailand is a day ahead). It would be the first service and it will be held in my new home.

2) I got accepted to teach at one small public school of about 100 children, please pray that I may be able to teach english and create connections to spread the gospel. (I have no idea how to teach kids without a translator, please pray that God will give me courage and ideas on games and teaching methods)

3) There are two more public schools we want to teach at with around 2 thousand students. Theses schools are well known so it would be great if Donna and I can teach there.

4) Tomorrow Pastor Daniel and I will go to the Buddhist temple to discuss the teaching situation. If everything goes well I will be able to teach the students on sundays after our home service, and hopefully God can change the heart of the Buddhists.

5) please pray for Up and Mem. Please pray for their marriage and that my living here would be more of a blessing than a burden.

6) Tonight we met our neighbor who is a women from Burma. Her English is really difficult to understand but from what I can tell she told us he got a severe skin irritation from chemicals due to cleaning. We prayer for her and asked her to come to church tomorrow. We told her that Jesus can heal more than her wound.

7) My Thai... what can I say.. I need divine intervention. ( they tell me that Thai kids won't listen if they don't understand)

what i learned today:

-I realized that everything the people around me do here is to further God's kingdom and to bring glory to Him. It is truly inspiring.

-its good to be flexible, half of the time I have no idea whats next.

I MISS EVERYONE muah muah

First week in Thailand

SawadeeKA! I just wanted a place where I can update my life here in Thailand so you guys can pray for me :)

So the first two days I was basically adjusting to the weather and the time, yes it is very hot. But, when it rains the weather does cool down but you're still sticky :$. But I love Thailand, actually I live in the country by rice patties, its extremely beautiful but it comes with the price of lizards and insects.

A two days ago, I met Dr. Henry, a man from the states who has been a missionary in Thailand for 45 years. THe thai couple i stay with ( Up and Mem) said that if you don't know who Dr. Henry is in Thailand, you arn't a christian, so im happy to have met him :) He is 77 and plans to visit the state for four months and return to thailand to die here, I mean he literally sacrificed his whole life for the gospel and never married. He is fluent in Thai and actually offered me a christian book in Korean, little does he know it would take me 6 months to get through the first page.

The couple I live with is Pi Up and Pi Mem (Pi is used for anyone old enough to be an aunt/uncle or sister/brother). They have been married for a year and are both 27 years old. They are the sweetest and kindest people and I am so blessed to be living with them. Up is still a student at CTS ( the seminary school Pastor Daniel is in charge of) and Mem is a secretary there.

This year is a year of firsts for Up, Mem, and me. This is the first church plant in Sankhampaeng, the first time Up and Mem ever hosted a foreigner, the first time i'll teach without interpreters, the first cell group meetings in this area, and the first time Buddhist monks asked the christians here to teach english! exciting!

Yesterday was our first cell group meeting, and we gathered at Add's house ( a local grandmother) with a few of the people from the area. Add had been feeling as though she was slipping away from her faith and had asked Pastor Daniel to lead weekly meetings. Add's husband is not Christian, so as we walked in the house there was a spirit house outside and pictures and idols around the house. Honestly, the night went so great as we sang songs and heard the word of God. Then, we separated the children and the adults and I was in charge of teaching english to the children. I guess if i could look back i would want to remember the children dancing and singing to the whole song, "nobody," by the korean sensation Wonder Girls with the exact motions (will post up the video when i learn how). The second would be when a girl asked me if Jesus died, and I said yes and told them he then rose from the dead. The children were mortified, and honestly looked terrified! I felt so bad! Its because thai people really have a fear about ghosts, Mem had to fix the situation by saying that it was ok because Jesus is God.

ok ill post more later i have to go