February 17

This morning we went to a university here, to hang out invitations to a church service this Sunday, and just talk to people.  The university that we went to has about 700,000 students (that’s about 5-6 times as big as Abbotsford).  It’s insanely huge.  It was really cool, because most of the students there at least spoke a bit of English so it wasn’t too hard to talk to them.  It was weird though, because I’m so used to being in Mexico City, where you go up to someone, and just start talking to them about God, and they’ll talk to you.  But here, we can’t do that – people are super closed to hearing about God, and a lot of people don’t even know who God is.

Then in the afternoon we went to one of the International School’s in town.  It’s a kindergarten to grade 12 school, that's a lot of the missionary/diplomat kids, as well as a lot of the kids from rich Thai families. We just hung outside of the school for a while, playing drums, and being with the kids.  There are some people that go there every week, and use drumming as a way to draw kids in, and then to be able to talk to them about God.  So we just went there, and drummed with them.  It was really weird to hear kids speaking English again.  I don’t even remember the last time that I’ve actually been able to have a conversation with a kid without having to pull out the little bit of Spanish I sort of know, or sign language or anything.