Ever since stepping into Asia, my one hope was to live in the jungle.
Talking to past racers I was told that once you hit Asia there is a high possibility
that you will get to go to live in the midst of a jungle.
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Well we get to Thailand and head to our ministry site and nothing. Just a city.
Off to Cambodia, my thoughts are I’m sure there will be some sort of jungle.
Wrong again, just a small town with a few jungle-like attributes.
Next stop… Vietnam. Oh yeah we have to live in some kind of jungle, especially with looking back in history class of pictures of the war and such. Well we get there and not only is there no jungle we are smack dab in the middle of Ho Chi Minh City. Which is modern to the fullest. Fail.
Well we have one more stop in Asia and there is still hope. Malaysia please don’t fail me now. As we are descending into Malaysia from our flight all I see are palm trees. For miles, that is all you see and I knew this is it, we are going to get to live amidst the jungle.
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We got to stay in Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days before we head out to our ministry site.
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The greatest thing about this month is what we like to call “Manistry” month. That is when the guys and girls split, and the guys are together for the whole month. Here we are 16 guys, finally not outnumbered by women and we get to do manly things. You know manual labor, make new adventures, hunt and kill things.
We took a midnight train to Georgia …no just kidding but we took one to Gua Musang. It’s a small town about 5 hours north of Kuala Lumpur.
Get off the train and the guys split because 16 guys is too many people for one place to host.
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We meet our contacts for the first two weeks Uncle Chua and Auntie Kim. One of the most welcoming and friendliest people I have ever come in contact with. They take us to their property and lo and behold it is smack dab in the middle of the jungle!
We work on the property and a few things we accomplished were building gates for the entrances, re-building a wall for the storage room, cleaned out a big pond full of lily pads and filled potholes with gravel.
About a ½ mile west on their property there is a mountain and they call it prayer mountain. People from all over the world come and pray on this mountain. The guys and I helped fixed it up by laying a cement platform, made stairs and a wheelchair ramp.
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We also met a missionary from Mexico. Eli is her name and she’s 25 and has been in Gua Musang for 2 years on and off. We got to talk with her and hang out with her for a bit. We also helped paint her house since it was bland and boring. We livened it up for her.
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Before we transitioned to our other contact, we decided to go take a trip down south and visited Singapore. It was great to visit again since I was there 2 years ago. Showed the guys around a little bit.
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2 hours north of Gua Musang is Kuala Krai and we are with Pastor Yesudason for the remainder of the 2 weeks. He is building a new church center here and we have helped him but up the brick walls around what will be the new site of the church.
He is a man with a plan, and has so much vision for his hometown. It’s great to be working along side of someone with so much determination.
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This has been a great month and there have been many great adventures.
Here’s to Malaysia our last Asian country.
Up next: Africa! Kenya to be exact.
(Our descent into Malaysia.)
(The midnight train to Gua Musang)
(The train.)
(The jungle in the morning.)
(This is the platform we built on prayer mountain.)
(Yes.. the Ice Cream man does come to the jungle)
(This was a snake we killed, little did we know that it was pregnant and it gave birth to 12 snakes. We killed them all.)
