Happy Sabbath from Thailand!!!

Dear friends & family, I hope my first post from Thailand makes sense. One heavy-eyed writer is trying to put it together.
 
So, here we go!!! :)

We arrived in Bangkok, Thailand on late Wednesday night. Our friends, the Kiers picked us up and took us to their home in Ayutthaya. We got to bed around 2 something on Thursday morning and then slept until 6:30 AM.

On Thursday and Friday, we did some shopping. Friday was the best. We had fun at an open market! Oh, we got to see some of the most appetizing things such as, pig noses, some kind of tongs, all kinds of fish, tons of squid, and well some other really tantalizing things. My camera had so much fun capturing it! There were a lot of genuinely really yummy food there, too! :) I love the fruit, here! Not only the taste but its beauty.

It is Sabbath evening, here! We came back home a while ago. I thought that I'd give you some thoughts about today's experiences so far. We went to a tiny, narrow, three story Seventh-day Adventist church plant in Ayutthaya. We got there during song service. My family and I were given a front row. The sanctuary is a very small, rectangular room that can probably comfortably fit somewhere around 34 people. It got quite crowded during church service. It was fun trying to sing with their Thai songbook. :) Between songs we had praise and sharing time. The lead chorister or another lady would translate for us and the Kiers would tells us and the other English speaking people what the Thais were saying. Greg and Sue Lundquist; some Indians; Carlos, a graduated theology student from Southern Adventist University; and a young, Filipino couple who speak English were there.

Hannah and I decided to go to the Thai youth Sabbath School class instead of the English class. Every once in a while the teacher would tell Hannah and me some question she had asked them and/or their answer. And she would tell us where in the Bible they were reading. It's a very interesting experience going to Sabbath School and you barely know what they're saying. Sometimes, I can pick out what they had just said by watching. We talked about the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son in Luke 15. They've been going through "Christ's Object Lessons" in their class.

An Indian pastor had the sermon in English. It was based on Mark 5, the story of the great storm. The sermon was about why God allows storms in our lives. The people here, as well as in many other places in the world, believe that when something bad happens to you it is in result of you doing something bad.

We then had lunch and a birthday celebration for a couple of brothers.

After that, the Kiers took us to some ancient, temple ruins.

Well, I must quit. The Lundquists are here for evening worship and I'm getting too tired to say more. .