This is one of my favorite trees in Thailand. It's not a pretty tree for most of the year, but in April it blooms out with the most beautiful yellow flowers. They come out quickly and hang there as though fairies went out in the night and carefully placed each of them like Christmas tree ornaments. They make me smile and feel light-hearted. I'll try to get a better picture soon. They just burst out in the last two days it seems.

I went over to tutor Lydia today. I haven't been there in a while because activities on both ends kept getting in our way. She's really growing. At least her hair is really growing. She's filling out into beautiful womanhood. She'll be 15 on July 2nd. She was 6 1/2 when I first met her. That seems like forever ago. She seems to have a good attitude these days too, but I'm not around enough to tell for sure and that's OK too. I don't need to know.

We've been memorizing Proverbs 31:10-31 in Thai for our Friday ladies Bible meetings. Neung (pictured here in the orange shirt) is the first to get it all word perfect. She did it fast too. I'm still struggling back on verses 23-26, but I'll get it eventually. It's kind of fun to be memorizing it in Thai and the Thai helps me remember it in English too. Neung got up in front of the church on Sunday evening and quoted it. Goong got up with her and quoted part and read part with her.

Look at this picture my friend Jessi's husband took. It's beautiful and it's pink!

Interpreting for Pastor Gary Hubble in our Friday night ladies Bible Study.

I've been at this for a long time now and I'm tired, so I'll do some more another time.

Bop is our preacher boy. Bop and Op are friends and Sunday night Op got baptized.

These are six of the kids from the junior department that got saved last Sunday night. The twins Nit and Noi in the forefront and the boy Thay in the back in the yellow shirt have been coming a long time now. I was so happy that night. We had dinner together Wednesday. We had Spaghetti and eggrolls. Isn't that a likely combination of foods? Worked for us. With some of the little kids at church. Danny and Mr. Doug did a good job preaching and interpreting. I called it a "preaching duet". Mr. Doug sang the song he sang for his daughter's wedding. It was a sweet song, so he acted goofy, so we wouldn't all be in tears. He also sang Beulah land for me one more time. He has a beautiful voice. When he sings it's like music. After dinner Wednesday night Danny and Rodney and even Doug played guitar for us and we sang. I was in heaven listening to them play. It was so fun. From left to right are Danny for whom I work, Pastor Gary who is Tim's and Rodney's pastor from Maryland, then Mr. Doug who is a former missionary to Romania and is now the director of missions at Westwood Missionary Baptist church in Florida. Then next is Tim and then Rodney. I appreciate these men of God.

When I got to the Sim's house today Tim was having devotions with the girls before he left to go to Chiang Mai for the week. I guess they wanted one more time with him. He usually has them with them before they go to sleep each night. In those times he's also helped them memorize scriptures including all of the Proverbs 31 woman. I saw they had given him their scarf, so I took the picture to be ornery. It's always sweet to watch how this awesome man loves and cares for each of the needs of his family. You'd never know he used to be a dead head drug addict who came from a broken home where his mother deserted his father, brother and him. You'd never know he didn't have a warm caring father. The work God has done in his life is incredible. Before he left for five days he made sure there was gas in the car, food in the house already prepared for them, and that the bills were paid or at least wouldn't need to be paid and left an envelope of money for them to meet their needs. He must have hugged them all a dozen times. Jahnet is an equally wonderful woman, but I'll go on about her another time. As you can tell I'm impressed with these people. Knowing their backgrounds also makes me impressed with what God can do with a life yielded to Him. Wow! I think this is the most I've ever written on my blog at once.