One day we met a sweet couple from Germany who have been living in Thailand for 35 years and they took us two hours away, through the mountains to a hill tribe that they’d been working with for years. They have been busy learning the language and are currently developing a written form using Thai characters so that others can learn to speak that dialect. But most of all, so that they can put the Bible into the people’s heart language. Its amazing what they are doing. Its pioneering at its truest form. It was inspiring to see how they have dedicated their life to this specific people group.
This same couple invited us to their house for dinner a few nights later. They made us a home cooked meal of spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad. There was even lemonade and ice! We felt so spoiled and blessed. It was wonderful and I can’t even explain to you how homey it all felt. We were laughing about the fact that Americans and a Canadian were in Thailand eating Italian prepared by Germans. It was quite the international meal.
For dessert they brought out cookies and it was met by all six of us saying “oooooh!!!” But that wasn’t all. They brought out real coffee. REAL coffee. Not instant. We were still soaking this all in when they brought out dishes of ice cream for each of us with three different flavours. We couldn’t believe it and were beyond speechless, or so we thought… they weren’t through yet.
They didn’t want to leave the rest of us out either so we each got to unwrap a present and inside was a small, beautiful handheld fan. We had been talking about how we had wanted to get some the other day because its so hot out here. They picked up on the smallest things that we had said and blessed us with it!
