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Hello everyone! It is saturday night, and this week has been another great one. We have been teaching english to about 40 students and we held an english camp friday and saturday for a total of about 40 people between our church and the Payap University ministry. The camp was a total hit, everyone had a great time and was able to relax as we worked on speaking english and developing relationships with each other. I have been taking many pictures, and will get them up in due time, but it takes a while to get them up and I have to go through the 500+ pictures from this weekend alone. I think the most fun we had and the best opportunity to bond was a slip and slide that Jeff and I put together that was 16 meters long, covered in dish soap that we used to play “sli-der” as they call it here. I promise you we played for hours, just running, sliding, jumping, falling, laughing, and having a blast. On Sunday’s there is a group of us that gets together to play soccer or futsol in a gym, so I am learning more Thai and able to get out into their world more and more. The more I am here, the less I want to leave… the more I see truth in things that are said about the US, the more I wish I could show people truth. – which is interesting to me, in that, I am here to do just that. I am here to show the Thai’s here the truth of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. an amazing task, and one that I am in favor of 100%. I just wish that people could see things I see, and maybe even understand things that I think or learn without them having to do it or see it for themselves. I have decided that the most beautiful people in the world are the Thai people… honestly I do not know that I have seen an ugly one yet, and their personalities and desire to help and please is absolutely inspiring. I am told that I can imitate anything that the Thai’s say – including this tongue twisters (check that out 
) and my biggest problem is trying to learn so much at a time that I don’t remember anything in particular definitively. I am currently debating about whether or not to go to Bali at the end of the summer, or to stay here in Chiang Mai for that week in order to spend that extra week here with the Thais. Please be praying for the Lord’s guidance in my life to that effect. I am also prayerfully considering going to Cambodia in July for a soccer/sports camp on a military base there, hopefully giving the Cambodians a glimpse of what Christian’s are; I am told that the Lord is doing amazing things in the Cambodian military, my only qualm is whether or not it will be worth it to go when I could be here with my students and new friends, or if I will need a change of scenery. Once again I ask for your prayers and guidance. The Lord is doing many things in my mind, spiritually emotionally and as far as my perception of Life and reality in general… I wish I could talk to my parents, just a good hour or two of conversation would be amazing right about now. I want to say thank you to everyone that is supporting me both financially and through prayer this summer! I cannot thank you enough, and while I am having a very hard time tracking down your e-mail addresses for personal messages; please know that I am greatly in debt to you, you have provided me an enormous opportunity in which to grow in Christ and to grow in understanding, not to mention the things you have done for the people on my team here, or the Thais that are being affected by us. I pray that the Lord would return your gifts to you ten fold, for the things you have done for me alone are priceless.
