Quest and a Waterfall?

Alrighty, so yesterday was Sunday, and we had a very good church service in the morning and then some pretty awesome lunch and I finally got to meet missionaries Mark and Janie Durene who just returned to Thailand on Thursday from about 5 months furlow in the U.S. I was able to tell them that Bill and Ky Prevette and Dr. and Mrs. Houlihan said "hi" and they said to return the greeting, so in the event that any of you read this, Mark and Janie say "Hi back." Then after church and lunch we had Quest. This weekend we were supposed to have Quest camp, but do to some scheduling issues with Chiang Mai University events we were not able to do the camp but we did have a pretty fun event out at the reservoir where students were able to come and talk about family and how that connects with Christianity. Unfortunately our turn out was small because of all of the events going on this weekend at Chiang Mai University. The University is at the bottom of a mountain and every year the incoming freshmen walk up the mountain to the temple at the top to be blessed in all their studies. It's supposed to be quite the sight, but I wasn't able to get up early enough on Saturday to go watch them. But it did effect our turn out at Quest, however, there was at least one student who expressed a very strong interest in learning more about Christianity. Please pray for this young man who has been very open with the Evangel student that is teaching him about his interest in Christianity and please pray that his teacher has the opportunity and the words to speak in this student's life.

The reservoir.

The group was broken into three groups that moved between three stations we had set up. We had a couple of games that involved teams and working together and a couple of the Thai leaders shared their testimonies at two of the stations. And then in the third station (the one I was overseeing, so I sadly don't have any photos of the games) they had to create a little skit off of a given theme relating to "family." It was so much fun to watch the teams work together and put together some very entertaining and very serious sketches in such a short time. Then each group had to preform their skit in front of everyone at the end. It was a lot of fun. I even got to be in one of them, because one of the teams had all guys and their drama was about what it means to be brothers and sisters. The funny part is that they asked me to be the "mom" in the skit rather than a sister or anything. :)


The all guys group planning their drama about what it means to be brothers and sisters.


The "N group" planning their drama about what family means.

After Quest Nokkie and Nun (two students at the English Center and church members) took us to the Walking Street Sunday night market to do a little shopping. It was so much fun! There was a little bit of rain so it wasn't as crowded as the last time the group went (this was the first time I went). But it was so much fun. I spent less than $30 U.S. and got 3 dresses a new pair of sandals (since mine broke last weekend) a t-shirt and a bag of bugs to eat. Yes, my friends. I finally got to eat a grasshopper, but I prefer the silk worms, to be honest.


Silk worm, we got Calvin to eat one too.


My bag of bugs to snack on while walking around the market.
Yeah, I only ate two of them...

After all of that fun, today we had a free day so Prin offered to take us to a waterfall about 40 minutes away to have a picnic lunch and to climb the limestone waterfalls. It was amazingly beautiful out in the jungle and there was no one there at all when we arrived and when we left there was still only a small number of people. It was up in the mountains so the air was thinner and clearer than in Chiang Mai and it was absolutely perfect. And in about half an hour a couple of us will be going to the mall to get some dinner and do a little more gift shopping, since we're leaving Thailand in 12 days! Still can't believe it has gone by so fast!! Philippines, here I come, eh?

I'll have pictures of the actual falls and the climb posted on Facebook soon, but at the moment I am trying to get caught up on photo posting since Facebook was giving me grief the last week and a half with my photos. But in the mean time, here's a couple:


Soaking wet after climbing back up the waterfall. I'm leaning over randomly because there was big spiderweb right above my head.


Yeah, I always climb waterfalls in a dress. What about it? Hahah

Be blessed,
-Kristen