Heading South

(James wrote the last blog...He got the burn on his leg not A.J. :>..so pray for James more than A.J.) Ok, Here we go. We went to a little church up in the mountains for a christmas celebration! They had a christmas / king of Thailand celebration! The King is like a really big deal here and his birthday was on the 5th and I guess this church didn't really celebrate it so they celebrated it together with the christmas party. The funny thing is they put "Happy Birthday to the King, Dec. 5th" on the wall of the church for all the pictures...but the real date was like the 20th! Pretty funny stuff. We showed up with some balloons for the kids and of course they went over very well. We played with a bunch of the kids and took pictures! There was the cutest little boy with his pants falling off the whole time. These kids were all amazing! Its awesome to see how happy a kid in this little village gets over a balloon! American kids are hella spoiled. The celebration went really well for the most part. We ate traditional Karen food and the pork still had the hair from the pig on it...ya, not so hungry now. We met a few american girls who are working with some foundation there and have been living there for like 6 months. pretty rowdy! Hopefully we can combine forces to help out in Thailand. We drove the motorbikes home in the dark and josh and james got lost for awhile. everyone rides a motorbike so sometimes it is hard to follow people and pastor Manot doesn't really drive all that slow either. More Thai food for dinner and another night on the floor! Lovin it! We head to Chiang Mai to help Blue with his Visa to the U.S. He wants to come and take English and go to Bible school. Pray for that situation. It will be like 7 hours travel to Chiang Mai, probably truck, van, bike. Mom I love you very much! You too pops! God. Love. Live
-A.J. Jackson