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| A Thai Band playing the Marines’ Hymn. |
We have been doing so much during our stay here in Thailand. It almost seems like we’ve been here longer but yet it has gone by so quickly.
Last Friday there was a band at one of the schools. We watched them for a little while but then went to another area of the school to visit with some other people. When suddenly the band started marching around the field playing an American song. It was the Marines’ hymn,”From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.”
I was so impressed by this band that I walked out and took pictures and videos of the band playing. I made it around to where the band director was and told him that he had very good students. He told me that it was their first year. I asked him if when they made it back around from their march if I could get a picture of him with his band.
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| A Buddhist temple decorated in colorful mirrors. |
He didn’t quite know what I meant by band and I’m not sure if he understood much of any of what I said, but I could tell he knew I liked their playing. After I showed him my camera and asked again if I could take a picture of him with his students, he understood and when they arrived back he had them all turn and face the camera. Not only did they pose for a great camera shot and video they also started playing the song for me again. I don’t think they would have stopped playing it either. Scott finally made it over to where I was and told me that it was time to go. I thanked the teacher and then waved good-bye to the band. They were probably relieved that I left so they could take a break from playing.
Saturday we went to the Karen village again. Scott and I taught the 4 and 5 year olds for about 45 minutes. Then we sat in Bro. Rusty and Sis. Susan’s class of teenagers.
This Karen village is a Christian village, so we were able to actually talk about God and Jesus. Pawn gave a Bible lesson and after the lesson she asked Scott to give his testimony which Pawn translated.
After we got back from the village we drove to another village where there was a Buddhist temple.
The artwork was amazing. It had to take a lot of work to put each piece of colored mirror all over the statues and the building itself. It was beautiful but sad at the same time. It’s sad to see what a lot of people are basing their hopes on.
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| Scott giving his testimony in a Karen village. |
Saturday, Scott and I were able to visit with the youth group of the local church in Chiang Mai. We had a fun time. They started the time off with each of the youth asking me and Scott any question they wanted. Everyone had to ask us a question and they couldn’t reask a question that was already asked. The first question we were asked by one teenager was, “What time is it?” Scott answered, “In which time zone?” But then he told them what time it was in both Thailand and America.
Then we played a charade game. We had to teams. Each team formed a line. The person on the end couldn’t look back until it was his turn to guess what the action is. At the end the first person did their action and the last person did the action that they thought it was. I was laughing so hard. They were taking videos and pictures but I hadn’t got a copy of it yet. They said the one of Scott washing clothes was hilarious. It was suppose to be something about cooking but somehow by the time Scott got the actions it turned into washing clothes.
My team was funny as well. The first person was trying to do actions to show something about a bicycle. I was the last person in my group and by the time it got to me, it looked like, “Driving a car I saw 3 key rings.” The point of the game was that we should not just believe something that we interpret ourselves but that we should find it out from the Source. It’s very easy to misinterpret what others say or do, but if we read our Bibles we have a direct connection to the Answers to all of life’s problems.
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| Making Rotties…Yummy and easy to make. |
After the game we divided up into two classes and Scott led a Bible study with the younger group where he talked about Galatians 5:9 “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.” He talked about how allowing even a little sin into our lives can ruin your life. But allowing good things into our lives can cause us to grow. He talked about friends and how that we should only have friends that we influence for good but stay away from friends if they influence us to do evil.
After the Bible study, we were taught how to make Rotties. They were delicious and easy to make.
Tomorrow will be our last full day in Thailand. We will be flying out on Thursday. I’ll try to post a few more pictures about our the rest of our time here tomorrow night before I go to bed. We’ll be needing to get some good packing done before then. Thanks for the continued prayers.
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