Another long ride in a truck, another tile floor to call bed. We stayed in this tiny farming village with this little pastor. We walked around the village and saw some of the houses and people - it's pretty poor, but according to Molitov or Maslov or whoever made up the hierarchy of needs (i think the other guy invented cocktail bombs) they got the top of the pyramid covered. We had a pretty long talk in the middle of the a rice pad/farm thing with the four of us about how Forgotten can affect these kids. We're still trying to figure it out because every village and every family is unique. Please pray for guidance for us.
We got to go on a hunt at night with one of the local guys...for rat. He sure did smoke one with this 8 foot musket thing, it was huge. Did I mention that i ate rat? different story. I also got to drive a rice tractor. another story. The pastor took us swimming in this little pond thing and laughed like crazy when we tried to climb trees to jump out of, just to have them bend till we were touching the water. I wanted to be able to speak Thai so badly so i could talk to him. I still only know a few words and I probably say them all wrong. tonal languages are tuff. I say Su-ay ok after only 4 days of practice - "beautiful." kop khun kop -"thank you", sawatdee kop - "Hello", and khun chue arai - "what is your name?" are our mainstays. Everyone laughs when we say them, but Blue always says we sound "bawy gud".
We got the blessing of watching an old villager and his wife listen to a Proclaimer (an mp3 playing box that has the new testament. we brought them in Thai, Lao, and Burmese languages). His wife's eyes welled up with tears and the old guy seemed pretty touched. Through translation we got "he is very happy. Thank you".
-James
We got to go on a hunt at night with one of the local guys...for rat. He sure did smoke one with this 8 foot musket thing, it was huge. Did I mention that i ate rat? different story. I also got to drive a rice tractor. another story. The pastor took us swimming in this little pond thing and laughed like crazy when we tried to climb trees to jump out of, just to have them bend till we were touching the water. I wanted to be able to speak Thai so badly so i could talk to him. I still only know a few words and I probably say them all wrong. tonal languages are tuff. I say Su-ay ok after only 4 days of practice - "beautiful." kop khun kop -"thank you", sawatdee kop - "Hello", and khun chue arai - "what is your name?" are our mainstays. Everyone laughs when we say them, but Blue always says we sound "bawy gud".
We got the blessing of watching an old villager and his wife listen to a Proclaimer (an mp3 playing box that has the new testament. we brought them in Thai, Lao, and Burmese languages). His wife's eyes welled up with tears and the old guy seemed pretty touched. Through translation we got "he is very happy. Thank you".
-James
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James, you're a fantastic storyteller. I'm enjoying reading all of your blogs. Good ole' Maslow and his hierarchy, check it out:
http://two.not2.org/psychosynthesis/articles/maslow.gif
Stay safe!
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