Hey Guys we made it to malasia after a 9 hour train ride. The train ride was crazy, every minute the train felt like it was going to flip over. It was the scariest mode of transportation I have taken on the race yet. This month we have been teahcing English at the Center. The Center is kind of like a school. Mr. and Mrs. K. are the most wonderful loveing, caring people that I have met and they are the owners of the Center. Here in the small community that we live in there are so many different cultures. There are Chinese, Malays, Indians and probably more than I am missing. Malaysia is pretty much the melting pot of Asia. Here they struggle with just loving eachother and not judging by the color of their skin or religion. God has been teaching me a lot the last week about the word love and what it means to love someone. These people look at one another and are disgusted when all they really have to do is love eachother. I think sometimes its hard for us as a team to love eachother just because we are around eachother 247. We live with eachother, eat and sleep together. Sometimes it is a bit difficult but we have to chose to love eachother even when we don't want to.
So on Saturday our contact wanted to take us on a tour of the community. He pulls up in a van and if any of you watch lost the van looked like the dharma vans. So we got in and hoped this van would make it to wherever we were going. We went up to these cool looking caves, went to a river and had lunch. On the way home it was a bit difficult for this van to make it over a speed bump. On the way home we had to make it up a hill, for us this was a small hill but for our poor litte van it was gigantic. So Mr. K. starts driving up the hill and the van begins to slow down. We soon noticed that the van was slowly going backwards and then completely stopped. Mr. K. told us to walk to the top of the hill and he would meetus there. As we were walking he waved us back, saying that the van wouldn't start. He asked us to push the van up the hill and that didn't work out so great so we just pushed it to the side of the road until Kim came and saved the day.
Its crazy how we have been here for a week and we will soon be on the way to china for eighth month debrief and two weeks of ministry. Last night my team had a meeting and the AIM office sent an email asking we if we are going home with AIM or not its a bit crazy how we are starting to talk about the plans of going home. We are on month 7 and have 4 months left but we still need your prays !! thanks again for your support
