So You Can Pray For Them Too...

We will be starting a series of post about our students from the first school we taught at (21 Blessings.) The public school, later we will start with our other schools and villages.
We wanted to do this so you can know them, our students, even if it is only a little. The posts will be shorter, but will include their habits, some of our favorite memories with them, their name and estimated age. We hope that you will be able to pray better with this knowledge.
Thanks again.

God's Safety

   On Tuesday night my parents were in an accident.
   In Thailand green means go, yellow means speed up, and red means make sure no ones coming before you go. Well a lady didn't follow this completely, oh yes she went through the red light okay, but she didn't make sure no one was coming and hit my parents. "We were probably thrown 25 to 30 feet," my dad said.
   My parents did walk away, we were thankful that my dad was wearing a helmet. (even though it broke when he hit the ground) A police man saw the whole thing, (he almost got hit) we were so thankful because he knew exactly what happened.
   The people wanted to call an ambulance, but my parents didn't want to go to the hospital. Although a couple hours later my mom started doubting her decision when my dad started shaking, "I couldn't even touch his stomach he was in so much pain."
   But it could have been so much worse. My parents are still in pain (We think my dad may have bruised his ribs. And my moms not sure what's messed up inside, but she's not sure what.) Thank you so much for all the prayers for safety, God has answered them; more then once.
   We'll update again, and we plan to update more often for those of you have been checking.

Monday Nights

   Two weeks ago, we started a game night at our coffee shop, every Monday night, with a free supper that my mom makes. We have had so much fun with everyone. We enjoy hanging out with the college kids and playing games and talking. We're hoping that it will open more doors into their lives so that we can share the gospel with them.
   Please pray that God will open their hearts for His word. Pray there wouldn't be a language barrier. Pray that the word would get out and that more students would come and have fun. Pray that this opportunity will not be wasted. And last but certainly not least thank God for giving us this opportunity.
   God is doing amazing things in this land!
   We'll keep you posted...

Day of Teaching

    We were ten minuets early getting to the local school in Mae Joe where we teach English. So we, Sarah and I, headed up the flight of stairs to our class room. It's not a very large class room but big enough to suit our needs. After ten minuets of preparing the class room we heard our students come up the stairs, full of energy. When all 22 of them sat cross legged on the floor we began our day of teaching. Sarah and I were both surprised when the all the kids starting singing an English song. They sang 2 adorable songs that had them doing all kinds of motions with there hands.
    After they were done we Started our regular Song. I've Got The Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart. and then taught them a New Song,. Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes. . Though we had taught this song before it had been last year so most of our old students were gone, although there were still some older students who remembered.
     Next we got in a big circle and did review of verbs and gave them a few other words to practice, they did fairly well. Especially a little boy who's name is Oom Sing that is a bit of a trouble maker but he's a quick learner and a attentive student. He was with us last year and is now in Kindergarten 3 so he will be moving to another class soon. )
    After practicing it over and over again we turned to our worksheet paper where they can practice writing there ABC's. Sarah takes care of creating a fun worksheet where they can learn and have fun.
Our last thing that we do for the day is a small craft. Today we did paper fans that they can decorate. Before they can get the supplies I always ask them what it is (I hold up my sample fan) and they practice pronouncing it. When they get it right there I give them supplies and they run off with their crafts and find a place to color it.
    By the time we leave we had done 1 1/2 hours of teaching. We then sign out and head home on our moter bike.

Info on our class: We teach 3 grades Kindergarten 1, 2, and 3. The majority of our class this year is Kindergarten 1 and 2.

~Kaitlyn

Ex-cite-ment

The definition of excitement:
Very enthusiastic and eager. (adjective)
Example:
I am feeling very excited about teaching tomorrow.

     Tomorrow we finally get to teach at the school again. (21 Blessings.) They have asked us to teach Mondays and Thursdays for this semester and we are super excited about it.
     Tomorrow is the first day of school since they have been on break; and we are anticipating a lot of energy and talking (in Thai) from the kids. Please pray that we can connect with the teachers and that we would be able to shine God's love and light. We are not allowed to mention His names in this school. So please pray that God will open doors for us.
      We'll keep you posted.