BANGKOK WORK HAS BEGUN
Tom and Helen and Gary and Joanne Nading have arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. We arrived in the middle of the night on Wednesday, January 18. The LST Welcome sign was a very comforting sight for us after 33 hours since leaving Lisa and Kelsey's home in Dallas, Texas. Thai people welcome special visitors with beautiful wrist bracelet flowers and we were so honored. It was good to get to our place to stay. We are staying in the home of one of the leaders of the congregation here, Toolee and Nui Prawit. It is a beautiful home and each couple has our own bedroom. We are quite comfortable.
On Thursday we held an information meeting at which we signed up about 14 readers apiece. There are so many here who are eager to practice their English. We held reading sessions all day on Friday and Saturday. We begin reading at 10:00 AM and read until 9:00 PM. On Friday all four of us had difficulty remaining upright our last hour of reading as our bodies were telling us that we should be asleep. It was better on Saturday. This will soon pass, I hope. I know that we will reamin busy while we are here as there are people on a waiting list to read with us. They are very open to learning about the book of Luke and we have also enjoyed learning things about the Thai culture and people.
Today is Sunday and we attended worship services with the Thai Christians. Their building is very beautiful, open to the outside. They sing most of the same songs that we sing at home and we were provided with song books and numbers so that we could join in the song service, we in English, they in Thai. We were also very pleased that we were provided with earphones and an interpreter for their Sunday morning lesson. This congregation is prepared to minister to both Thai and English speaking people.
We had lunch today with the AIM students from Sunset School in the US. They are working at the Christian Student Center at Ramkhankaen University about an hour from here. They have been in Thailand for about 8 months and it was interesting to hear their discussion of their work and time in Thailand.
We have been eating rice and stir fry at most of our meals. We have to be careful when ordering or we will get the spicy, very hot peppers that the Thai people enjoy. Other than the hot peppers, we really enjoy Thai food. In the evenings we have come back to the house and had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as we have been too tired to cook and that seems to be our 'comfort food' at this point. We have found several very nice small sidewalk cafe's near our work place where we can buy food very cheaply. We will not have a problem staying within our budget for food, I think. Gary has also found a place for his Diet Coke! soo...we are doing fine.
We will try to keep you updated as we continue our time in Thailand.
Miss you all, Tom and Helen Norris and Gary and Joanne Nading.
On Thursday we held an information meeting at which we signed up about 14 readers apiece. There are so many here who are eager to practice their English. We held reading sessions all day on Friday and Saturday. We begin reading at 10:00 AM and read until 9:00 PM. On Friday all four of us had difficulty remaining upright our last hour of reading as our bodies were telling us that we should be asleep. It was better on Saturday. This will soon pass, I hope. I know that we will reamin busy while we are here as there are people on a waiting list to read with us. They are very open to learning about the book of Luke and we have also enjoyed learning things about the Thai culture and people.
Today is Sunday and we attended worship services with the Thai Christians. Their building is very beautiful, open to the outside. They sing most of the same songs that we sing at home and we were provided with song books and numbers so that we could join in the song service, we in English, they in Thai. We were also very pleased that we were provided with earphones and an interpreter for their Sunday morning lesson. This congregation is prepared to minister to both Thai and English speaking people.
We had lunch today with the AIM students from Sunset School in the US. They are working at the Christian Student Center at Ramkhankaen University about an hour from here. They have been in Thailand for about 8 months and it was interesting to hear their discussion of their work and time in Thailand.
We have been eating rice and stir fry at most of our meals. We have to be careful when ordering or we will get the spicy, very hot peppers that the Thai people enjoy. Other than the hot peppers, we really enjoy Thai food. In the evenings we have come back to the house and had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as we have been too tired to cook and that seems to be our 'comfort food' at this point. We have found several very nice small sidewalk cafe's near our work place where we can buy food very cheaply. We will not have a problem staying within our budget for food, I think. Gary has also found a place for his Diet Coke! soo...we are doing fine.
We will try to keep you updated as we continue our time in Thailand.
Miss you all, Tom and Helen Norris and Gary and Joanne Nading.
posted by Tom & Helen Norris | 2:22 PM
1 Comments:
I am glad to hear that you are there and doing well! Tell Toolee that all of us from Oklahoma send our best to him and his family. Sounds like you are staying in the same house that we stayed in last summer.
We are praying for you and your readers.
Jarred and Shambra Pettijohn
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