November 6

Hey everyone. Are team has arrived safely to Thailand. Our first two days were really nice as we stayed in a hotel. The first day we arrived then went straight to the life centre where we met a lot of the church at the life centre. On Tuesday we arrived in Angsila where me and Caleb will be sleeping for 7 months. Angsila is a small fishing village, about 10 minutes away from Bang sen, which is where the Life Centre is. Angsila is an interesting place. It is deffinetly not Vancouver. But I like it, we get a bigger expierience living here. We shower with buckets, so bucket showers and that is how we flush as well. We quickly learnt that it is very loud. They literally go to bed at 1 am and then wake up at 5 am so ear plugs are going to be my best friend. As well at 6:30 am they have a Budhist chant. There are speakers around this village and a Monk does some chant over this village. It is a very Budhist part of town. We have not encountered any rats yet but I am anticipating them at anytime. I know I make it sound really bad but it is a sweet place.   It is also rite by the orphanage. We met a lot of the orphan kids on Sunday at the life centre. They are so cool. Every morning we take a Sung Tow, which is a pick up truck made into a bus kind of and takes us to the life centre. This picture below is Angila, rite outside of the church we are living at.

So yah, our first 4 days have been great and God has blessed us a lot with putting amazing people in front of us. The people here are amazing, you have to experience it yourself to understand. I know it has only been four days but already you can see the difference in attitudes with Thai people and North American. We deffiently feel welcomed. Already I feel like I have been here longer than I have just because of the relationships that have already developed here. Something that is a difficult thing being in Thailand is language. The Thai language is the 5th hardest language to learn in the world. We have learnt basic frases such as...Saw wadee Krap, which meens hello. Sabai Dee Mai Krap, which meens how are you. Khun Chuu Aroi Krap...Which meens what is your name. We learnt a few more. Also they have a different script then us. We have had 2 Thai classes so if you can be in prayer for language learning that would be good. We realize that we are not going to be able to speak Thai fluently by the end of our 7 months. It took the missionaries here a full year of 8 hour a day classes to start to be able to speak fluent Thai. We are all passionate about wanting to be able to speak as much of the language as possible. I appreciate all your prayers, keep praying as we have entered in this place where nothing is familuar to us. I will give you all a full update in a couple weeks as I get settled in more to this new culture. Love you guys, if you could send me your emails as well that would be great, my email is j_money_90@hotmail.com

Prajao Oai Pohn

God Bless

Josh