Another week for the books!! I'm just living it up here in udorn it's pretty great! It's hot as always (even though it's winter here) and I'm so sweaty all the time but I'm having the best time.
I met a baby named iPhone the other day! He was so cute
I woke up one night praying, like I dreamed it was the morning and I fully woke up saying a prayer (sitting up in my bed and all) lol. Realized it was the middle of the night and then gladly went back to sleep. I guess you could say I'm in full blown missionary mode at this point.
here they fully eat crabs, like shells and everything so I had a fun experience with that, and also eating intestines of some mystery animal and I had to try hard not to puke lol. No bugs yet though! I'm a little dissapointed! Other than that the food is super super good.
An older man thought I was 30years old the other day lol
In a lesson we were in the middle of praying and a bunch of crabs escaped this bucket, it was a disaster. Plus the elders were scared to pick them up but everyone was going crazy trying to get them back.
Thai culture:
Thai people in the Esan love to drink/eat blood. So every soup place you go to there will be a giant bowl of who knows what kind of blood to put in soups and stuff. They will also just eat it straight up too!! Like slurp it out of a spoon.... So weird.
Random tidbits:
We did a service project at a woman's house in the wilderness helping her clean up her yard. There was probably 10 years worth of garbage there so it was a big project but now it looks so much better and she feels a lot better :))
At church on Sunday the French guy was back and wanted to bear his testimony so I had to go up to the front and translate from French into Thai in front of everyone!!! Gift of tongues is real people because I could actually do it. At this point all my fear is gone, I know I won't understand people 80% of the time and I speak in broken Thai but I cherish that 20% I do understand! And the only way to improve is to keep trying!! Thai people think it's cute when I speak anyway so what have I got to lose?!
I get a lot of food for cheaper here because I'm so "beautiful" ha ! I'm glad the sweaty, helmet hair look works for them! It's always funny when people talk about me and then I respond to them in Thai, because they really don't expect it lol. I feel like I'm going to get super prideful while I'm here because I get told I'm beautiful between 10-20 times a day (only because I have white skin lol)
2 of the dancers came to fhe and sports night so that was so so awesome!!
I got 10 pièces of dragon fruit for 10 baht (like 35 cents lol). It was hype
Our apartment has only officially 2 working lights now, the bathroom and one other, we really need to get them fixed lol.
Spiritual thought:
I've thought a lot about gratitude this week (not because of American Thanksgiving) . We really do live such a blessed life in Canada. We have so so much and don't even realize it. People live with so little here, and yet are still so happy. God has given us so much, especially as members of our church. We have so much peace and happiness in our lives with the knowledge we have, and we need to share that!!
Love,
Sister Clement
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