Eff's story

Well, I thought tonight would be a good night to tell you about Arm's sister, Eff. She has been interested in God even before Arm and I met. She would pray to God (as many Thai people do before the accept Christ) and she has seen Him answer her prayers many times. Two weeks ago, she went on a trip to help around a temple for 7 days and she paid respect to a spirit house every day. During 5 of those 7 days, she had bad dreams. She only shared 3 of her dreams with us, but they had her pretty frightened. In her first dream, she went inside a spirit house and saw the spirits doing traditional Thai dancing and Eff joined them. Then, the spirit turned and looked at her and said "Don't come and make merit or ask me for anything because I won't forgive you". The second dream was about a tiger chasing her, which in Thailand it means someone will come and harm her. She also had one more dream similar to the tiger dream. Something was chasing her and Thais believe if they have that dream, someone will harm them.



She called Arm last Sunday night and while I was listening to the phone call, it sounded out of the ordinary. Arm just listened to her for awhile, and then said something that perked up my ears. He said, "Eff, you have to choose God or Buddhism". He then proceeded to read a few passages of Scripture to her and told her if she trusted God, God would protect her and she wouldn't have any bad dreams anymore. He continued to share about God's work in his own life and she finally decided to accept Christ.



The next day, Arm called a Christian lady, who is a friend of his and goes to our sister church, in Khon Kaen (the city his sister goes to school in) and asked her to call his sister and find a mentor for her.

Arm talked to his sister this past Sunday. She has been reading her Bible, she hasn't paid respect or looked at spirit houses, and Arm's friend called her once, but she doesn't have a mentor yet and she didn't go to church this past Sunday because she says she doesn't know where it is. She also said all of her bad dreams are gone. Praise God!



Please pray that she will continue reading the Bible, find a way to church, tell her parents, and that God will provide her with a mentor and Christian friends in her school. Also, please pray for Arm and Eff's parents that they will accept Christ. Thank you for all of your prayers and support. God is working through them. May God bless you and keep you.

Church camp and vacation

Arm and I went on a church camp with 22 other churches (including ours) from Thailand. The theme of the camp was "Let's Go Forward" and encouraged everyone to continue walking ahead in their walks with God as well as moving the church forward in Thailand and reaching out to those around them in their communities, etc. There were about 300 Christians there and the nicest thing were there were families, older people, young children, as well as high school and college students.



This is Arm with Kat and Dang, who are two students in Arm's group at church. They're great guys who are really growing in Christ and wanting to serve Him.



During the morning session, we split up into adults, youth, and children. Arm and I split up our time between the youth and adult sessions, since he's working with the students, but still wanted to hear some of the adult session. This is a picture of the youth session.



This picture had a representative holding a sign with the name of the church they were from. . . 22 in all.



This is Arm and I while we were eating with the students.



These are 3 of the girls who came to the camp with us. Ple is on the right and Oom is in the middle. They're both students in Arm's group at church and Oom is taking a class with me this term after waiting for a year and a half. She finally got a chance and I'm so excited. I love her!


LAKE HEAVEN: OUR VACATION


This was our bungaloo on the lake. It was actually a huge resivor for a hydroelectric dam. It was so fun to stay in a bungalo on the lake. However, Arm hated the jetskis because they kept making the bungalo bob up and down.



This was a trampoline over the water. This was the first trampoline Arm had ever jumped on. It was fun, but really slippery!



The second day we were there, we rented a motorcycle and drove around a bit. We found a sunflower field and I was SO excited! I always wanted to see and take pictures in a sunflower field.



We also went to see a waterfall. This was the most beautiful one we had ever seen! There was 7 different levels, but we only got up to number 4 because we were running out of time. This picture above was level 2.



The picture above and below is level 3. We got in the water and it was SO COLD!!!!! It kind of shocked my body a bit, but it was fun :D.





We went swimming on level 4 as well. Some other foreigners who were there turned those huge rocks into their own personal water slides. I thought he was going to break his neck the frist time, but he enjoyed it.



A beautiful sunset!



This is another picture of all the bungalos. You can't see ours. It's the Maldif of Thailand. A great affordable vacation!

I hope you enjoy looking at our pictures, etc. Thank you so much for all your support and encouragement. It means a lot to us!