Off to the villages!

so, today we're traveling again to the villages were I'll be for mostly the rest of the time. I'll have a small stop here in Chaing mai again before flying home. so I thought I'd post one last time.

Here in chaing Mai we havn'et really done any work, mostly play :-)

We had a great day playing with some animals like tiger and elephants and monkeys! oh so fun, can't wait to put up pictures.

Hope you all are doing well. Time is going so fast.

Rachel

Thailand!

So... I'm here! well, I mean I have been for the last week, but I've just been to lazy to hit up an internet cafe....

so yeah, just traveled up to Chiang mai today and hit up the night bizzar... the markets are crazy! such fun times! there's so many interesting people to meet from all over the world here.

The last week we've been in a smaller village outside of Bangkok doing some aweseom ministry. like 300+ kids have been saved and like 50 or so adults... we've seen amazing healings like a man's leg growing out 2 inches and a woman who was wheelchair ridden after an accident got up and started to walk!

We were staying at an orphange and had great times playing with the kids -- learning thai and throwing around the rugby ball.

now we have a couple dayz to chill and shop and do some interesting things. There is this foot spa thing that has tons of little fish that come and bit at your feet... I think Im going to try and do that tomorrow! it looks completely awesome!

I just love experiencing the food, culture and ways of life here! It's totaly different at first, like the squat toilets... lol

It's been so fun to meet up with my NZ friends again... it's just like no time has past at all! It just feels like coming home to be with them again.



List of things to do yet
- major shopping excursions!
- more sweet healings
- touch a monk (they are not allowed to touch women and if they do they have to do all these cleansing rituals... it totally ruins there day!)
- and well... lots of other stuff

till next time,
Rachel
Ps. Thanks so much for all the texts! I'm getting them all and am so grateful for all the prayer and love.

Prayer Requests

Forgot to post up prayer requests for my trip

1. Traveling by myself to and from

2. That our teams words and actions will be effective for the kingdom of God (um, yeah, the most important!)

3. For all you prayer warriors out there -- binding the enemy in Jesus name from sickness, contention in the team, and all the other things that Satan uses to throw a wrench in our minsitry!

4. That I would survive without my beloved family and friends! I'll miss you all :-)

Two days till go time!

Ah! I'm getting super nervous about my trip! I have so much to do, and I really, really don't feel like doing anything!

So today -- my alarm didn't go off, which tuned out to be fine. And i've gotten alot of trip stuff done, but not so much studying.

Thats when i ask myself the question -- what's more important to me?

and of course I answer myself -- THAILAND!

So my hoping to pull up my grades in a certain class (Chemistry) on the final is now secondary on my list.

Oh well, I won't care what I got on my exam in 5 years anyway -- but I will still care about Thailand!

Can't wait to see my NZ Friends (talor, Zek, & chris)

love, love and more love

Rachel

Pictures always make things more interesting!

Here's some of the places I'll be going:

Bangkok: I'll be flying in here -- but not staying unless I'm stranded @ the airport

Chiang Mai

First semester is coming to a close!

Time is moving right along and now I'm about to finish my first semester at TCC! and as you might assume... i am supposed to be writing a final paper.

I have now gotten over my inner drama of thinking that my life was temporarily meaningless. It's been an interesting semester but it's ending well. I have a super busy weekend planned and I can't wait.

Schedule includes:

- Visiting my adorable niece and in-potting-training nephew ( he pooped in the toilet for the first time today. My sister-in-law cried. )

- Finishing the paper that I'm currently supposed to be writing but I'm not.

- Packing for Thailand (leaving on Wednesday!)

- Leaving for a mini road trip to Indianapolis

- Pulling an all-nighter of fun and random adventures with our nomad friends

- Having Christmas get together with the "other" side of the family

- and yeah...other stuff

Next tues-wed is finals.

Then it's party -- not in the U.S.A :-)