I can count to 100......

in Thai :) I'm very proud of myself!! As I played Bingo with the children last night, I had one girl help me call out the numbers. She said every number in English and I said every number in Thai, with a little help. Then today as I walked about two miles with 3 girls to the store I practiced counting to 100 and now I can do it all by myself! It's exciting! I'm learning more and more Thai every day. So maybe when I get home I will be able to speak fluently....we'll see :) The girls were so much fun to walk with. The 3 of them walked with their umbrellas in hand and big smiles on their faces. I was the only one without an umbrella because us Americans like to get tan from the sun. Here, they want to be white like us. They put sunblock on their face all the time and they shade their body from the sun. It's funny! When we arrived to the store I bought the whiteboard marker I was needing and I bought the girls fruit. The four of us sat on the wooden bench, ate our fruit, and converstated back and forth. I would point to something ask them how it's said in Thai and then I would tell them how it was said in English. It was fun! As we walked back down the street, two huge trucks passed us. I closed my eyes so the dirt wouldn't fly into them and when I opened them back up I saw that each truck had one ginormous elephant riding in the back. It was hilarious! I was so shocked and it showed on my face and the girls started laughing. Only in Thailand would you be walking down the street and have two large elephants pass you on the back of a truck! I love it!
While at the store I bought yarn so that the children could make bracelets. When we got back, we sat on the ground in the worship hall and began making them. I was showing the children how to braid the yarn to make a bracelet and they taught me how to make bracelets so much better. They are so talented. Three of the girls made me bracelets. I love them!
Tonight we had amazing worship and prayer. I taught the children an English worship song and it brought tears to my eyes as they all sang it:

I love you Lord,

and I lift my voice

To worship you

Oh my soul rejoice.

Take joy my King

in what you hear

Let it be a sweet, sweet sound

in your ear.

It sounded like 130 angels singing. I was reminded, yet again, how to worship my Lord. With all of me. With all that I am I will worship you.

"Let all that I am praise the Lord;

may I never forget the good things

He does for me"

Psalm 103:2