Last Two Days

Monday:

We served some excellent Thai food to an elderly community for a Christmas celebration. Oliver worked as backwait staff, and I got to bust out my server skills. It was a lot of fun. I felt like I was back at my high school job at Fox Run Retirement Community. We joined a YWAM team for the outreach and it looks like we are going to be working with them a bunch in the next couple days.

Tuesday:

While talking on monday with one of the YWAM team members they suggested we visit a temple in order to get a better feel for the nation's spiritual atmosphere. So we jumped on a bus and rode it all the way downtown (1.5 hours).

We spent also of time in silence praying, observing, and journaling while in the grounds of Wat Pho. After walking out of the forty-six meters long and fifteen meter high Reclining Buddha, I was a little shaken up from the intensity of the atmosphere, but Oliver had one thing to say. He said, "Is that the biggest one they got!?" I was glad we went and experienced the temple, it pushes me on much stronger to make known the Good News. Speaking of Good News, while walking in the temple ground we heard some Thais celebrating the birth of Christ:

Then we sat in this for three hours to make it back to the YWAM base for a Christmas Party Outreach.
We have been listening to and singing tons of Christmas carols, and I admit, despite every Christmas tradition I have done my whole life is near impossible here in Bangkok, it is beginning to feel like Christmas.

-Josh