Wow! Things are really starting to move along. Yesterday we went to church in one of the villager’s house whose son had been injured in a motorbike accident and they had about 30 people show up. We got to lay hands on 5 individuals and pray for numerous things from illness to gunshot wounds, really a moving experience. My past experience from being here wasn’t them praying and this congregation really does trust in the Lord. I am really blown away, and then there was one of the ladies asked us to name her new baby girl. So Mike and I think that Jason should have the honor since we already have named our own children. This is really cool. We got Michael Phillips to take down to Phaeyao to visit Jundee a Hmong girl that he sponsors in college and what an adventure His mountain truck blew the radiator on the way back to his house to pick up his other vehicle after it cooled down enough to get water in it we got it restarted and we had only 3 kilometers to go, we had to stop and add water once to get home then when we got to his house his other car was dead so we swapped batteries and still couldn’t get it running so we pushed out and his neighbor came and jumped it and it started then we drove for an hour stopped and got gas and then it wouldn’t start again and a jump wouldn’t work, but a God sent us this very help Thai guy to help us get the car running after an hour of messing around and many phone calls to his little brother who is a mechanic in Chaing Mai he figured out how to get it started then he proceeded to lead us to the university that we couldn’t find (we were 20 kilometers off) an unbelievable blessing. To make a long story short Mike had a great visit and we got back about 11:30.
Today the excavator finally showed up to finish his job and we got the building pad that we can start setting forms God willing we will start mixing crete and start moving towards getting a structure up. If all goes as planned On the 8th we will have service in the new church and have communion with them. We are having the time of our life meeting all these new people who are in the mission field. Today we met a guy named Kevin who is from New Zealand and he has been here for 7 years and his calling is photography and he is making a documentary video up here in the village and getting to share with all these guys has just been awesome. I will bring back some great stories and some pictures. Take care and will talk to you all soon
Al