Howdy there! I haven’t blogged in a while and I am sorry for not making it a priority! But I am back! I am no longer in South Africa I am in Thailand baby!
When we got to Thailand the squad landed in Chiang Mai. We stayed in a hostel for a night then us boys left to come live in a small town 2 hours from the city. I’m not going to lie I was pretty sad we were not going to live with the whole squad but I knew it would be good for all of us guys to get time together.
So the Town we live in in Chiang Dao and we live at a awesome orphanage. It is run by our ministry host, a married couple, P. Arron(38) and P. C. (36) Since we have been here we have worked at a property our host own. We finished putting up a fence around the new orphanage they plan on building. We have been teaching our kids how to speak English! The kids are so awesome even though there is a language barrier it is super fun to communicate with each other. When we first started to live together it was kind of weird just because we all didn’t know each other that well. Now we are open with each other and mess with each other all the time because we love each other! I have an abundance amount of love for these kids. One of my favorite things to do is play soccer with the kids and their friends. In our little town we have a basketball court and soccer field down the street from us. My team can leave to walk down to the street whenever we feel like, unlike Africa where it we were almost locked down in our compound.
God has answered a lot of my prayers since coming to this country. i wanted to be able to leave or house and walk where ever we wanted whenever and God answered. I wanted to be able to play soccer on the race and I didn’t get to play much in Africa or Costa Rica. I can play soccer everyday if I wanted, and God answered! And I am so thankful for that! I had a rough few weeks here right off the bat physically. I had an infection on both of my ankles (i had fat ankles), An infected ear and finger, and my glasses broke playing basketball! On the bright side my ankles, ear, and finger is better! My glasses are still broke but I can wear them if I’m not to sweaty. It’s about 103 on average here everyday. It is pretty warm!
Since I have gotten to Thailand God has shown me that his love for me will never run out! He loves me and there is nothing that I could do to stop that and it is literally mind blowing! It makes me almost cry ( I do cry lol) every time I try to think of how much I God loves me because he loves me more than I could ever know! And lately I have been trying to worship God for that! I am trying to clean out all of the things that don’t speak life into my life. For instance A lot of my rap music doesn’t speak life and I realize that because the more I listen to it, it makes me feel empty-ish. It just doesn’t speak life so that is why I choose to do that. I am super thankful for the guys around me that I have as brothers! And Thailand has been a blast! Definitely will be one of my hardest goodbyes in a few weeks.
Love you all! Thanks for reading!
-Monchito
