Life Lately #28

Hi Friends!

I’m so glad I can finally update you all with what is going on with us! The internet in Myanmar is slower than dial up so blogging has been minimal.

Dave and I are in Thailand this weekend for a quick visa run. It is an incredibly short visit but we have been so blessed to reconnect with our friends and brothers and sisters in Christ here. We also use Thailand to update all our devices and do quick Skype sessions with as many people as we can. 

It’s weird to not be blogging as much but the break has been nice too. I’ve tried to blog but 1 picture took 40 minutes to upload and I just can’t bring myself to sit at an internet café for that many hours. I’ll have to share more of how blogging in Myanmar works sometime but lets just say I’ll be really excited when I can just open my own lap top from home, compose, and hit publish! It’s the little things, people!

The weather! It’s cooling off here and raining just about every day. When I say cooling off I mean it is in the mid 90’s instead of 120’s. And 90’s feels pretty darn amazing! That hot season was the most hot I’ve ever been in my life.

I have to share this story because it’s just too crazy not to… the first week of school I was sitting in a chair reading to the kids. The power to the AC was out which meant our class had no AC and no fan for 2 hours. I knew we were all extremely hot but then my eyes started closing (and not because I was tired) but I was about to pass out! I fought it and then decided that being that hot made me want to cry really hard but I fought that too because I have 16 four year olds in there looking at me. The poor kids were sweating buckets but the power came back on and we all were fine. Later I was told the temperature was 124! 124 you guys! Super hot + we have no windows to open in our room.

We are in week 3 of school! Time is definitely going by faster with school in session. It’s also put us into a routine which I think has been good for us.

Speaking of school Dave and I have the pushup rule implemented (started by Alisha and I in Korea) where if we sing a kid song at home we have to do 10 pushups. I’m going to be buff you guys! I don’t mind kid songs but they get majorly stuck in your head and you sing them over and over and over and over.

Dave and I are hosting our small group from church for the rest of June and July. We meet every other week and I’m excited to open our doors to fellow Christians. Our group has people from Japan, Australia, Bolivia, USA, Vietnam, Singapore and sometimes more countries are represented too. I love that the body of Christ is global!

I’ve been doing a Bible study on fruits of The Spirit by She Reads Truth and it’s been really good! I’ve been going at my own pace with it because I’m trying to study each fruit in detail. I’ll look up that fruit (ex: kindness) in the concordance of my Bible and then read a bunch of verses on kindness. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that the fruits of The Spirit aren’t ever going to come from me. They come from abiding in Christ. I know that is a super obvious truth since the fruits are called ‘fruits of The Spirit’ but often I forget that and try and do things on my own.  

I also have been able to update IG pretty easily so if you want to stop by and see some Myanmar pictures please do! I’d love to share life here with you all!

AND now I want to hear how life is going for you lately?

How is summer going? Are you loving it? What’s been your favorite activity so far? 

Eat a s’mores for me! <--- I'm sure I just misspelled that! and a hamburger. And cheese. And a donut. And every other delicious American food!