I am writing this from an oral surgeon’s office while waiting on our daughters to get their wisdom teeth removed. It’s been a crazy month and a half, sometimes I can’t remember where I’m at. LOL Made it home from Asia on Sunday night, unpacked yesterday, wisdom teeth today, repack tomorrow and head to Mongolia with another team on Thursday. Here is what the Lord has done since our last update.

Thailand…

We made it to Thailand and got to work at a school in Baan Nam Khem. We were working with a youth group and got to put on a sports type camp and a kid’s club. One day we delivered food to people in the community. We loved on the kids, built tables, and enjoyed the fellowship with the missionaries. From there we flew to western Thailand to work at a school and orphanage with the same team. We got to teach the kids, host a youth night, participate in with the soccer team, a field day, and deliver food to the community. Amazing team and equally amazing projects.

Vietnam…

We celebrated the first half of July 4^th in Bangkok with other American missionaries, then the second half of the day was spent in Hanoi. I cannot say I have split the 4^th between two countries before. While in Vietnam we worked with a missionary that is planting churches there and Saigon and tried to love on their family. We visited a building that some generous donors recently helped acquire to expand the English training we do with them and start a new church plant. We spent time with the young adults and got to speak at a church in a new location. 

Japan…

We hopped to Tokyo and picked up a team from west Texas to help fix up a youth camp. The Japanese kids started camp this week and our team went and prepared the camp for all the kids. It was a great team. They built a treehouse/fort, with a climbing net and a zip line. We might have tested out the zip line, just to make sure it was safe for the campers. 🙂 Another part of the group cleaned out the basement at the camp that had collected items for over 20 years. It was a monumental feat, but in the end, they did the impossible and got it cleaned, organized, and setup for ping pong and pool for the campers. 

I appreciate your prayers and support for our family. Please be praying for my trip to Mongolia this week and changing time zones 6 times over the course of 2 weeks is going to be interesting.