2 Months In...Returned to Southern Thailand

It is a wonderful gift to know you are in the very place you should be, and feel happy to be there, too. Coming back to Thailand has been a blessing.
Poppy is in the dorm and she loves it, and her new school.
We have met the new believers and more have believed since we arrived back and it has been wonderful to get to know them all. To date we have 17 teens who have believed.
Kennedy is teaching art and I am teaching English in the evenings Monday through Thursday. Kennedy spends an hour with Jasper in the morning to get some quality dad time in every day. Fridays and Saturdays are family days.
Kennedy almost got bit by a juvenile cobra the first week we returned. This past week he found an adult and killed it with a lawnmower, in our yard.
We are seranaded every night by drunk men in the karoake bar across the street from us. A few nights ago Kennedy was dreaming he was going to get into a fist fight with them because he couldn't get any sleep. So we are kind of sleepy during the day.
Our main priority is discipling these new believers and visiting their moms & dads.
We are eating a lot of delicious cheap Thai food.

Comments

PegS said…
I'm so glad to find a new post from you and to learn that you are settling in again. May God continue to grant you wisdom and love for these new believers.
23/9/10 2:09 AM
Oceanicthai said…
Thank you so much, Peg, you are an encouragement to us!
2/10/10 1:55 PM
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