This past week was our last week in Khun Wang. Our last week of sleeping in hammocks. Our last week of being with the kids at the school. Our last week of outreach.  Tuesday was our last day at school and we shared the Gospel with all of our classes and wrote ‘thank you’ cards to the teachers.  Grade 6 made us farewell cards and we had a party of sorts. I really wanted to take a kid home in my suitcase. Eak and Well (the Shan couple) got to share the Jesus film in Shan to 4 families and their kids.  They got to answer lots of questions about Jesus and expel the families’ fear of “the world ending in 2012”.  We prayed over the Taylors and left on Wednesday for Chiang Mai.

In Chiang Mai, we stayed at the Mountain View Guesthouse in “Farang Town.” (We saw more white people than we did Thais and it was creepy. We did get to walk around and play “tourist” though. Tuk-tuk drivers followed us around like the paparazzi asking “where are you going?” The highlight was finding a bakery that sold chocolate croissants, coffee, and REAL yogurt on fruit salad).  On Thursday we debriefed with each person on our team, totaling a 12 hour meeting.  David and I both felt sick for the next 2 days so we rested in our room and slept a lot.

On Saturday, we headed back to the base in Mae Taeng.  We never thought we would consider our little room “home”, but it felt super good to get back to it! Our own comfy bed and walls that connect to the ceiling and fans! It was really good seeing the other outreach teams (since we only got to talk to the other people once or twice on the mountain).  Some highlights from the other two teams: the team in Wheinhang got to see lots of signs and wonders.  (According to Katheryn Cummings blog) They prayed for a person whose hands continually shook from a stroke and they were healed from shaking.  One night, a family of Christians heard “an explosion” outside and they all ran outside to see what it was and when they looked at the full moon there was a “cross inside the moon made of lightning.”  They took a picture with their cell phone and the next day they showed the team–it was that clear.  They were able to give a lot of encouragement to the Christians in that town.  The WonGen Kafe team got to meet a lot of CM university students, form relationships with them and work with other YWAM teams that came to help at WonGen.  They learned the art of making Sexy-berry smoothies and also went to the red light district of CM to minister to the bar-girls and prostitutes.

It’s hard to think that this is our last week of being in Thailand, but we graduate on Friday as official YWAMers! We fly out on Sunday and will be in the States on MONDAY. Love you guys.