My class last night. I took one more shot at teaching them truth. I split them into teams and asked questions. I asked team 1. "How many ways are there to get to heaven?" They all lifted two fingers and shouted, "Two!" Hmmm! One girl on team 2 said there's only one way. So then I say, "How do we know?" They answer, "You can read it in the Bible." I ask, "Where?" The answer is John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." They can quote it and I'm sure God will use the little seed to work in their lives when He's ready.

Lydia with their little dog Lucy. I published Lucy before when she was itsy bitsy. She's not a lot bigger now and she's a sweety. Lydia will be 15 in a couple of days.

Lydia, Raht and Don

I went over to Don's church for one last service and took this picture. From left to right is Don, Em, Chian, Coke, Lek, Yoke, Thok, Lydia, Fawng. These kids have been coming a long time and I'm glad to see they are all still coming. They gave me some nice good-bye cards. I gave Raht a whole stack of cards left from what Jessi gave me when she left and two of the cards I got from them were out of those, but the funny part is that two of them were cards for weddings. I was like Woo hoo! They didn't know they had chosen wedding cards though.

Tonight Jahnet and I went to dinner at a place by the park with some of the teachers from the highschool; Noke, Mayuru, and Laaied. We had a nice time and great food! Laaied remembered that I like a certain kind of fish and ordered it special for me. It was a my "Going away dinner" and they gave me gifts too. It was sweet of them and I appreciate it.

It's a grape.

I went up to the high school today to give my farewell speech and then the students, teachers and director gave me gifts. These roses were among the gifts I received. I wasn't expecting them to do this, but it was so nice.

I sold my truck! Some people will buy anything. LOL!!! Just kidding. It didn't look like this.

The other day when I came home the neighborhood cows were outside my walls and when I opened the gate to take the car in a couple of them decided to come in and enjoy my grass. I wouldn't mind if they promised not to leave behind what they usually leave behind. I decided to help them leave and picked up the lead rope on the brown cow and pulled. It didn't budge, so I had to get the broom and encourage them to leave that way. They left. But then that night when I came home again they were crowded in the road blocking my way to the gate. They just stood there and stared at me. It's like they were saying, "See how you like being kept out of the yard." Moo-ha-ha!

Here's the other little girl.

These two little girls are fairly new to the church, but have been coming for a while. Their hair is cut so short because they had gotten lice and had to have the hair cut off.

I have a teaching method that I like to use with the kids. I'll ask one child if God loves them and they usually answer yes. Then say to the next child, "He/She says God loves him/her. How do we know?" They will answer, "You can read it in the Bible." So I ask the next child where you can read it in the Bible and they are supposed to answer John 3:16. Then we can quote it together. This method works well especially since I've found out the Thai are great memorizers.

Sunday night I was asking these kinds of questions while they were coloring a coloring page, only I had changed it to asking them. "If you plant a banana plant will you get apples?" They answered no of course. It was fine until I came down to these two girls. I asked them, "If you plant a rose bush will it produce fish?" They answered, "Yes." I asked them how they know. They answered right off, "You can read it in the Bible." I asked them several times and got the same answer each time. I think they understand the method even if they don't understand the truth. It was cute and they are learning. Of course if you could read it in the Bible it would be true whether it made sense or not, but I think we'd better review the story of creation. The other pictire won't up load. I'll have to try later.