God's Faithfulness!

Rachel and I flew out the same day... although I flew out first. I headed up to Chang Mai for a conference that I was watching children for. It was quite the trip... I ended up getting really sick the seconded night and I didn't know why... now I think I ate some shrimp, but didn't know it. My body does't do well with shrimp, but here in Thailand they put it in Everything! Other then that and the oldest child (4) in our class colored on the hotel walls... Praise the Lord that mayo takes crayons off of walls and that for snack they had brought us these mayo covered ham sandwiches. :) I mean God is the Only one who would have that planed out!

                                      This is some of the food that we had at the conference. :)

             We had a great time with the little kids... coloring, playing, singing, Bible lessons, ect.. :)

 My family and I have friends who live in outside of Chang Mai and while I was there I was able to connect with them and go hangout at the Kings park. It was great to see them again and to hear all God is doing through them!
                                                            Having fun at the park... :)

 I Love these trees!!! 

 It's so Beautiful! 

After Chang Mai I was home for a couple days and then flew to a country for a visa run. I thought I had planed it all out well and that it was going to be a quick trip... little did I know. God had vary different plans for my visa run. I got in on Thurs night and planed to get up Fri and take my application in. First I slept in, walked to the wrong building and had 30 mins to get to the other building, which was a 10 min walk from the other one... when I got there I found out that I needed to get an appointment online before I could turn in my application, even tho I had all my documents. I walked away feeling quite frustrated, as I had tried to get info about appointments ect... from online, but hadn't be able to find info about it. So all that to say, I walked back to my room where I was staying and made an appointment for Tues, because Mon was full... I was supposed to fly out on Tues... so I also had to change my flight home. I was quite the ordeal, but God was faithful and knew that I needed this time to process somethings... Sat was a long hard day. I felt like I was in the middle of a big Spiritual Battle, I was. So I ended up spending the day with God. Sunday I had plans to meet up with a friend of a friend. He took me to church and it was just what I needed. Him and his wife live there and are involved with a small church there. If I would have wanted to go to a church in this country about 6 years ago... it would have been a vary hush thing. But recently it has become more open to Christians. Going to church where they use to be vary careful about getting together and even saying that they were believers was Amazing. They Really get the Gospel and worship with glad and Thankful hearts! I have never heard so many believers sing out to God like that. Between that and the sermon... God really spoke to me, He knew what I needed. After church I spent most my time in the pool talking to a lady, as the power was out and it got quite warm in my room. :) 

The rest of my time there was spent getting my visa (which I got), reading the Bible, spending time with God, relaxing in/by the pool, and eating at a wonderful bakery down the street. :) 

God showed me His Faithfulness and His Love on that visa run and I am so glad that He is in Control!  

A beautiful sunrise! 

 I have know idea what this building is... but I thought it was cool. :) 

Coconut cake anyone?!?! it was So Good! 

 Thier food is alot like Thai food. ;) 

The sun-setting as I'm heading to the airport! Oh, another thing God did... I had just the right amount of cash to get me to the airport and then at the Thai airport I had just the right amount of change to get a train ticket home! (I also got on the last train!) God is So faithful! 

These are the only thing I brought back from the country... :) It's not easy to find Bagels here. ;) 

Adventures With Rachel Part 4: Vacation!

What a Wonderful, Beautiful, and relaxing time Rachel and I got to have at the beach! Although we had quite the time getting there... :) After taking the last bus from Bangkok to a small town (Four hours away), we got off and I figured there would be at least motorcycle taxis around... but nope... so we stood there trying to figure out what to do... oh, and did I mention that it was 8pm and dark... :) Thankfully God sent a lady to help us... she spoke a little English and got her friend to come and take us. (it sounds a little sketchy.. but it wasn't really.) :) We waited 20 min at the bus stop for the lady to come get us... she pulls up and walks right up to us and says,"I'm your ride." :) It was easy for her to spot us... were the only white people around. The good news is that we made it to our place safe and sound. :)
Time at the beach was just what we both needed. It's good to have those times of rest and that's what this was. We were two out of the Three guests there that week. :) It was great! We spent most our time at the pool. :)

A beautiful view from our room!

We had fun walking the beach, exploring it and seeing what shells we could find... we brought quite a few back. :)

Pool Time was wonderful! :) We enjoyed the slide... we found out that you can go 

Really fast down it while sitting on a kick-board. :) 

What a wonderful way to end Rachel's time here in Thailand! :) It was So great having her here for three weeks. I'm glad she made the effort to come visit me.