The pictures are of us painting the apartments next door, the devo Saturday night, Walking Street Sunday night, equipping time at Shawn's this morning and then lunch with the youth group.The last week has been another wonderful low key week. We pretty much keep a pretty routine schedule. Saturdays are called "friend days" where we get to hang out with the Thais all day and then Mondays are our day off where we retreat away. This past Saturday we slept in and then helped paint walls at this apartment place next door to the Zone that Robert has been renovating. It was so much fun just painting and laughing with all our Thai friends. They really are just so much fun. Everything they do, they have fun with it! That night we had this great devotional. We all sat in a circle and just prayed, read scripture, sang, pretty much whatever we felt moved to do. The devo lasted over two hours and I hardly noticed. It was so great to have this intimate, passionate fellowship with the Thais here at the Zone. They tease me a lot here because they say "you speak so fast!!". So after I would read scripture a few of them would snicker and tell me to slow down. They tease me and the other interns quite a bit, but I love it because I know that without a close friendship they wouldn't tease. Sunday we had a typical church service and then Katie and I taught a couple of the girls in the youth group that had come to the zone that day. We had no clue they were coming so we completely had to "wing it". We ended up talking about the spiritual discipline of prayer and how God wants that close intimate relationship with us. I think it turned out pretty good. Sunday night we went to Walking Street, which I've probably mentioned before, but its this huge street full of goods, foods and souvenir type things... it is incredible. A huge group of our Thai friends went with us and we had such a wonderful night walking around, talking, shopping and just fellowshiping as one big group of friends. I was able to have more personal conversations with many of the Thais that I really hadn't talked to much before. That night was great because I felt like I was truly part of their community and group of friends, not just an intern there for the summer, which is such a wonderful break through. Monday was our day off so we went to a pool and I caught up on some Nicholas Sparks reading :) Yesterday was a typical Tuesday, my English student actually showed up which was quite exciting. In Thailand they are much more laid back about time and scheduling. So everything starts 30minutes to an hour late and a lot of times people just don't show up. It can be very frustrating with our faced paced, schedule crazy American mindsets. It does teach me just to relax a little bit more and not be so caught up in set times and planning everything down to the second! That night we had several people show up for movie night at the Zone, where we watched Click.
This morning we went over to Shawn Todd's house for another amazing breakfast (his french toast is incredible) and for equipping time with Shawn and David. After a wonderful lesson we hung out with and had lunch with the small youth group here in Chiang Mai. Tonight we went to see ANOTHER movie, Hancock, which was also pretty good. If it isn't obvious, Thais REALLY like to watch movies. I think I've been to the movie theater almost every week since I got here. My favorite part of every movie is that right before the movie starts the King's song is played. There is a wonderful video honoring the King and the beautiful song is played in the back ground. The loyalty and honor the Thai people have for their King is so astonishing. Something that we as Americans could never understand. Standing up and hearing that beautiful song just sends chills through me. I'm will miss hearing that song very much when I go home! What is so powerful is that the Thai people understand God as King so much better than we do. They connect when the Bible talks about a kingdom on earth and that we should only have one King. I wish that somehow I could grasp their insight because they understand an aspect of our Lord and King that we will never fully understand.
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Terri! I am so excited to find your blog! It sounds like you are having a great time and the diversity of our internships is astonishing! I know that God is blessing your time there and my time here. I am think about and praying for you and your coworkers!
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