Whew!

HI everyone!

This has been -- a long past week and a half! Working with the textbook project (especially last week) we have made some ground. The Lesson 1 draft is done and ready for presentation! I am hoping to get Lesson 2 done by Friday (but that may be pushing it quite a bit.) It is so exciting to see some progress in this.

Please continue to pray for the Friday night prayer group, as 2 Thai women are seeking.

Also, if you remember, a few weeks ago I posted about a women who was being terrified by the demons. She is a cancer patient, and was unable to take treatment (but is now able to). She is from the mountains, so she comes to Chiang Mai for treatment and stays with some relatives or something are neighbors to "Hope". God told Hope to go to her neighbors house a few weeks ago, and that is how she met "June". Hope and some other believers prayed for June, and that night she had nightmares and the demons told her to stay away from those Christian people. Now June is scared of Hope because she is afraid of the demons. Last week, God told Hope to go to her neighbors house again, but she didn't know why or that June was back in the area. She went and when she got to the house and walked in, June turned to her relatives and said "why did you invite her over!" and they said "We didn't tell her you were here!". Hope said, "God told me to come, so I had to come".Please continue to pray for this situation, as God is obviously directing and leading it and wants this women in His eternal kingdom!!! June is still scared. And pray for Hope that the Lord would give her guidance and wisdom in showing Christs love to a women who is sincerely afraid of her.

Also, we have one sweet little girl from our school who will be BAPTIZED on Saturday!!!!!!!!! :D Her name is Naam-fone. 

The school year is coming to a close, we finish on Friday :(
Next week Mackenzie, Emma and I travel to UDON to VISIT OUR RELATIVES (can't wait!) and then head up to Laos (about 2 hours away) in order to renew our Visa's. Please pray a blessing on our family, and a blessing on our travels. I am really excited. Most of the plans are up in the air right now though, which is pretty much Thai style, but I am a little nervous about things going smoothly with the Visa process -- I am praying it will go smoothly so we don't have to cut short our time with family (we need to be back to Chiang Mai to help teach Summer School), so would appreciate your prayers regarding that front. Will tell you more about summer school soon.

Here are some pictures from today! We did class pictures. Mom and Dad, can I say you rock? It's really hard to get a group of kids to smile and pay attention. Kudos to you. These pictures are mostly the silly ones. I think if you click on them they will be bigger.

Ha -- this is one of my favorites. James -- our monkey.

Last weekend we were quite blessed, a few days after my cast was removed (thank you Jesus for healing my leg!), Mackenzie, Emma and I went swimming (great ankle rehab!). THEN Emma wanted to get her hair cut, so we went to the beauty parlor, and Mackenzie got her hair cut too. The lady decided to give us all rides to go and get Thai massages (also, surprisingly, great ankle rehab!). Then THOSE ladies decided to DRIVE US HOME. We probably wouldn't've been able to do all of that without their kindness. And all of this cost us less than $8. It really was quite a blessing. We still are talking about it. Here are some pictures from the swimming:

BeAUTIful EMMA

ALSO I just need to say, we have the *best* neighbors in the entire world. They really are such wonderful people, we are so blessed and glad to know them, they are like family.

They take us to places like THIS

(Kenzie took most of these, BTW)