F4, Mountain, Church meeting, Payap uniforms!

Hello cyber space!
          Hil and I have been busy bees the past few days. On Friday night we had an F4 meeting, which stands for, Fun Family Fellowship Fridays! (I think :) )We had a great time fellowshipping with our sister church, Cheung Doi. We had great food and a wonderful time of worship. We also had the opportunity to share our testimony with someone we did not know well. It was a fun and interesting way to meet someone. You can learn a lot about a person, by listening to their testimonies. (you should try it one day!)

          Saturday we climbed Doi Suthep. Doi in Thai means Mountain! We went with our friends P Ying, Steve and one of the other interns, James. Climbing the mountain was NOT easy. It was hard work. We made it pretty far, but then Hil started feeling sick and we started down the mountain. I was glad, not that she was feeling sick, but that we were heading down, because I knew I could not go on, but I had no excuse besides my "out of shapeness." We made it to the main road and caught a rot daeng (red truck) to an awesome restaurant and drank smoothies until our friends made it down and met us for lunch. 

            Today, Sunday, Hil and I were able to be part of the church planning meeting. These are meetings that the church has quarterly to discuss and plan what is going on in the Church body. Hil and I shared with the group what we are learning, contributing and taking from our internship. Besides our part, the rest of the meeting was in Thai, but we were pleasantly surprised about the amount that we were able to understand. We could not understand details, but we got the main ideas of the meeting. It was great to see how each member of the church had a voice in the meeting and they talked about everything you could think of!

           Our Thai is coming along, but we are ready to hit it running tomorrow! We start our intensive Thai class in the morning. We will be studying 15 hours a week, three hours a day, five days a week. We hope to learn a lot and are excited to be students at Payap University. Hil and I went out with P Ying and Dao and bought our uniforms today. We actually are not required to wear uniforms to our class, but we want to fit in and they are just so cute!

       
Love you all! -Amanda