Another week in the neighborhood

Well this is awkward.  I just typed this email and then accidentally deleted it.  Here's the watered down version...again. Technology- love it and hate it all at the same time!

Things I love hearing from street contacts:  "What day can I get baptized?"  "What time?"  "What do I have to do?"  "I'm pregnant...can I still do it?" Of course you can! 

Awesome miracle of the week:  Even though we were out of our area for about 3 days this week, we were still amazingly blessed by the Lord.  Yesterday we had 5 investigators at church - 3 of which want to get baptized really soon.  As in this month.  YEAH!  We had a goal for 6, we already had one.  Only 5 more to go, and we still have another week of great finding opportunities.  

One girl that came - Boat - is just awesome crazy prepared.  She has some doubts about what her family will think, but it will all work out.  I actually contacted into her when I first came to Bangkhae.  She is adorable - 22 and finishing school this next month.  Yesterday she was just telling me that she has had some experienes in her life where she just knew God was real.  She told God that when she had the opportunity, she would do anything to take advantage of it.  She started studying about religions, and then she met us.  GOLDEN.

I love this.  I love people wanting it.  I love talking to EVERYONE.  Literally everyone, and inviting them to change their lives and be cleansed from sin.  What greater joy is there than the rejection and then the soon following success?

Other fun story - I reached my "hump day"!  I am officially "over the hill" in mission age.  Weird.  I only have 9 months left.  Then sometimes it is more like "I still have to do 9 more months of this?" (That usually is only a 6:30 am deal...).  But yep.  I am officially half-way done.  So weird.  And I think the longer time goes by, the more Thai I am starting to look.  Everyone is like "You're from America!  You don't look like it!"  Yep, that's right.  I'm a real Asian now.  ;)

 

9 months complete and 8 more to go!

I had a moment this week where I thought I was in America.  We were in Asoke and we found a really hi-so place to go eat.  It was Au Bon Pain - a place I used to see all the time I was in the Dallas Airport.  Weird.  Then you look at the menu - everything has hot dogs in it.  All the drinks are bright green from all the green tea.  And they sell passion fruit mango and aloe vera shakes.  Welcome to Thailand my friends.  But on the bright side - they had REAL BAGELS.  What???  Heaven.

Yeah...sorry not much time left, but next week it will be better!

Love,

Sister Norrell