Saturday, December 3, 2011

3 Months Done

So I may have lost track of how many weeks I've been gone, but I know that I've been officially gone from home for 3 months now! And our outreach is coming up fast!
This week we learned about evangelizing. Instead of having just one speaker, a whole group came and took turns teaching us. They taught us ways of telling people about God using things they are used to. There's a saying in Thailand that says, "To be Thai, is to be Buddhist." So everybody here knows a lot about Buddhism. The speakers gave us ways to tie in what people already know about Buddha, and turn it into Christianity. So they pray in similar ways, but to God instead of Buddha. Some of the people in my class really liked the way they did things, but other people found it really controversial. I thought it was a good way of doing things, because then people can relate to what you're saying.
I spent this Saturday with a few of the DTS people at one of the guys from my class' village. He's from a tribe called the Karin tribe. They speak a different language, and they live up in the mountains. It was so beautiful. I felt like I ate all day there. They just kept on feeding us and feeding us and feeding us. The food was all really delicious though. We helped make this "cake" which was basically pounded up sticky rice with sweet things put in it. It was really good too. We got to meet his whole family, and we helped them harvest their bean field.
Afterwards we went to a waterfall. The water from the water fall comes from a hot spring at the top. So the water was really warm, and the rocks were grippy from all of the minerals and stuff, so you could just climb up the waterfall no problem. I'll put some pictures on facebook at some point.
As for the issues from the mini outreach, I think God is telling us that we need to let go of our rights to an apology. A lot of us feel like we deserve an apology, but we need to learn to forgive without getting the apology in the first place.
Some really exciting news is that we found out where we are going for outreach. I'm going to a mountain tribe in a place called Doi Inthanon. We'll be doing a lot of work on a farm up there and stuff like that. I'm really happy with the team I'm on, I think we'll have a really good time.
Anyways, I think that's about it for this week.
I'll talk to you guys later! I hope you're all doing well!

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