Pillow Talk

Ok so me and Josh have lived in the same room for over 8 months now. Needless to say, we know each other very well and know how to push each others buttons. One of the things that Josh really hates is Pillow Talk. I love it and really know that if I push long enough Josh will get really ticked and utter some of the most hilarious phrases in the history of man. I kid you not. Last night after 20 min of Pillow Talk this dialogue was birthed.

Josh- "Dude I hate this"
Me-"HEHEHEHEHAAAAAHHHaAAA"
Josh-"Dude you were that kid at summer camp"
Me- "Of course dude I was MR. Youth Group"
Josh- " No dude you were that kid. You know the kid that i would plays bows and arrows with just long enough to get him to go on the blob with me."

This may be the best fat joke in the history of our friendship. For those of you who do not know me that well, I am, well lets say a lil plump. Anyway watch this video and enjoy a classic scene from the movie Heavy Weights!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Las6RXJKTLE

New Video Blog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmpBEBGq4D4

Boys Will Be Boys

Ok so it has been quite awhile since my last blog post. Sorry bout that, but I was in the trenches battling a very gnarly collapsed lung. It was so brutal, but i survived... Rambo would have been proud. So last week we were in a small town named Ratchaburi and got to teach English, and minister to some Burmese refugees in a little village outside of the town. That was fun, and the kids that we got to hang out with seemed to be really interested in the Gospel, so it was an amazing chance to spend some quality time with some awesome ninos.
http://www.ywamthai.org/ratchaburi/
This next week, we will be traveling to the North of Thailand, leaving Bangkok behind for the last time. It will be weird knowing that we will not be coming back here, as we have made so many awesome connections and have, in a way, made this city home. In the North, we will spend our remaining 3 weeks(ish) traveling around visiting a village(whose name we do not know), Chang Mai, and finally in Chang Rai, before heading on to Laos. It should be a very interesting and packed time. Missing everyone!
Oliver

Here are some videos that we have finally had the time to edit and post. again like the last video these are not for the squeemish so be ready cause BOYS WILL BE BOYS

spiders taste good!!!


umm i just watched the video for the first time and now realize that youtube decided that the dragonforce audio track wasnt worthy of youtube glory so just put in some headphones and rock out to your fav jam while you watch it!

Now here is what we did in Cambodia with an awesome African named Mordegai!
http://mordegai.multiply.com/

Teeth beware, cause Joshua Bibeau got to try his hand and toof yankin!

Contagious Toothaches

About a week ago Oliver thought he had a collapsed lung, Mordeggi assured him that it was not. Most likely he just sprained a muscle between his ribs. Regardless, it put him in a world of hurt. This world I was welcomed into shortly after Oliver started recovering. Last Wednesday night I thought I had a toothache, Mordeggi assured me that if I had no tooth, it would not ache. Twelve hours later I was one step closer to looking like a professional hockey player. But why not watch it happen:

For those who were concerned during the video, I was very adequately numb, and the hole is closed up. I even chewed some Pad Thai on the left side of my mouth for the first time in around a year. I am keeping the tooth and might put it on a necklace.

We left Cambodia on Friday and stayed in Bangkok near the river closer to the city and the bus station. This was important because Monday we hit the road to go to Rachaburi to work with a YWAM couple there. Rachaburi is famous for the floating market, so hopefully we can view that, with snorkles! We spent Saturday and Sunday in Bangkok hanging with the YWAM crew, going to churches, and on Sunday night we went into some of the "red-light" alleys with a man named Jim that we met at church. Jim organizes The Well and he has one of the most amazing fathering hearts I have ever encountered. We are constantly being amazed and humbled here. Please keep us in your prayers over there! "Do justly, Love mercy, and walk humbly with The Lord your God!" I read that this morning and I love the simplicity of it!

-Josh

From Spinach Lakes to Garbage Mountians

As our week here in Cambodia progressed Oliver and I kept thinking to ourselves: "How cool is it that we ended up coming here!" What we first thought was going to be a glorified border run, has completely turned divine! The missionary couple from Namibia that we have been staying with has given us so much wisdom and laughs. When asked what their country is like they responded: "Have you seen The God's Must Be Crazy?" That movie being a childhood favorite of mine, I emphatically responded a yes. They have shared much about their lives before, and during their time on the mission field. The last week has been full of some of the best fellowship I have had overseas. They also have two sons: Gideon and Anton, they are totally turbo tots. We babysat them last night, Oliver and I totally out-turboed those boys. But the after effects are hitting us; I have a headache and some swole glands, and Oliver has a lot of bodily problems. This is the first time on the trip we have both been a little ill on the same day, but it's all part of the experience. Come to think of it, Sunday afternoons really are the best times to regain your health, especially when you have a big outreach the next morning. Tomorrow morning we will be waking at 5 am (which is possible in Cambodia, remember they have real coffee), and beating to city traffic to a small village in middle-Cambodia. So please pray that we are in health when we wake tomorrow! Oh, just in case you have never been blessed by "The God's Must Be Crazy", here is a quick clip:

We have visited many orphanages as well as some important Cambodian historical sites in this past week. The NGO (Non-Government Organization) that Mordegi (our contact) is working with has connections with most every orphanage in Phnom Penh. We have gotten to work with three orphanages this week, and played with a lot of ninos. Here are some of the favorite pictures and a video montage of the week from orphanages:

And the baby with the Texas doo rag!

We also got to visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and "The Killing Fields." Visiting these two places really broke my heart for the Cambodian people. I understand a myriad more about the current state of this place. Cultural research is invaluable! I am convinced of this more and more every day. I wish I did more before I left the States! To inform yourself f the bloody past of Cambodia watch the below video and be informed:

This is a poem that describes what the Khmer Rouge leaders enacted during their rule. Click the picture to inlarge it.

S-21:

The Killing Fields:We gear up for another week, and much travels. From Phnom Penh to Bangkok to Rachaburi. Keep us in your prayers!
-Josh

Happy News, Year?

So since last we posted, we have become road warriors once again, or maybe we have graduated into Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQC3nkftrk&eurl

Anyways, we traveled down to Pattaya. But on the way we stopped by the Detroit of the East (who knew!) and hung out with some good family friends, the Herrmanns:
We stayed up late after the kids passed out and played speed scrabble and Euchre! It was a lot of fun being around people (and teaching them facebook and talking about apple computers) from home even if it was for like 16 hours.

Then it was down to Pattaya. We showed up at this orphanage and it completely broke our hearts what these children have gone through and where they have come from. Pattaya is a much smaller city then Bangkok but the amount of sex industry workers is unbelievable. So you can imagine the backgrounds of these children and the necessity of the work that is being done at the Mercy House. They sent us to the backyard with a weedwacker, extension chord, hedge clippers, and a bucket. The backyard of the home was in bad need of edging and poisonous snakes had begun to sneak into the yard beneath the concrete fence and were making homes in the edge growth. We killed no snakes, but many weeds.

We headed downtown to beat the party crowd, find a guesthouse, and set up our plan for the water bottle distribution center, but ran into some problems. No inexpensive guesthouses were available (who would have thought on New Years Eve in party central, Thailand). By 4:30 we had wondered all over and exhausted ourselves trying to find a place. We were warned by many people about Pattaya. Many missionaries, Thailand residents (foreign and Thai), and even our travel books told us that it was a dark place. And by 4:30 that day, we really felt it. I sat down to eat some KaPaoGai and Oliver and I started sharing what we were thinking and seeing in this place. Oliver couldn't even eat he was so disgusted (okay may he was a little sick). I think I saw more old foreign males on the street then Thai males, and many had a very young Thai girl on their arm, and this is from 2:00 to 4:30 in the afternoon!

I may butcher these statistics so please look them up for yourself somewhere (Google it or something), Thailand's economy is based mainly around tourism. Anyone can see this, it is a beautiful place and people should vacation there. But of those tourists 62% are unaccompanied males. I don't know how many of those males are involved in sex tourism, but that is a lot of men traveling to a country alone. I hope there is a group somewhere in internetland that is Thailand Tourists Against Sex Trafficking or a group along those lines (again Google it or something). We made the decision that because of the atmosphere, tiredness of our bodies, lack of a room, weirdness of stomach, and a funny feeling in our spirit, that it would be best to get back to Bangkok. We did and both were fast asleep when the clock struck 2009. Now, five days into the new year, I am in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Crazy days it has been. We went taxi, to train, to tuk-tuk, to foot, to bus, to taxi, to tuk-tuk, to moto, to foot, and to new contact! We met lots of great people along the way, and definitely had some American personal space boundaries broken. This is us in a Thai tuk-tuk, with Rob from Oklahoma:

Cambodia is a very different place from Thailand, mainly Cambodia has real coffee; being a French colony at one point coffee and bread are abundant. Cambodia is very behind its economically booming neighbor, but we are taking to this place quite well, even driving around in it at night:
We met some friends at church and our contact convinced us to just take the car and meet them. We got wildly lost, but Oliver felt like he was back behind the wheel of old Mother Mayleye. Gotta love Toyota Camry hatchbacks (Oliver's 1994 & Mordegi's 1985!)

This is Mordegi, he is one of the most hardcore guys I know. We are living in the upper room in his house and it has been a blast. This is basically what goes on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2CnLL8WnE

Yes, and after some muddin' he sets up a medical clinic in a village, and shares the Gospel. Since we don't know how to do medical stuff, we mostly play with kids and help him get organized:

We even tried to organize a game of baseball (with a stick and what looked like petrified cow dung), we failed, but the kids had a blast.

Oliver and I have this ongoing competition over who's home schools have more apparel in Asia. So far Texas Longhorns: 2, Michigan Wolverines: 0... It is just that type of year. No one, even in the 3rd world, wants to rep U of M!
Alright till next time, we love you guys! And please keep praying. And, to our moms...we love you!

-Josh