Monday, July 16, 2007

Mercy from the FUZZ continued...



....continued, It wasn’t a dangerous turn, there was no traffic. To me it made no sense why I couldn’t turn. I quickly called Cc and told her what happened. She also told me that I was at the wrong market!!! Oh no…I asked her to take the Tuk Tuk home. I also asked her to pray for mercy as I speak to these fine young men!

I jumped back into the jeep and drove reluctantly over to the police post on the corner of the intersection. I’d always wondered what happened to people who ‘broke the law’ and walked into one of these little ‘Fuzz huts’. I was about to find out and I was praying, ‘Lord have mercy, show me your mercy’.

There were 9 young policemen standing around the one little hut. ‘My guy’ was right in the middle of the hut. He told me to come in. I pretended not to understand. I stood outside with the boys. Some were laughing and giggling. They listened into my bad Lao and 'my guy's' bad English. He kept showing me the ‘fine book’. He told me he was going to write a fine and send me down to the Police station to pay it. I said, ok. He said ‘ok’? I said, ‘up to you, you’re the police man. I’ve done the wrong thing. I don’t want to but you tell me what to do’. I apologised once again and raised my clasped hands to my big nose.

He looked at his mates and then he gave me back my licence. Another guy said in English, don’t break the policy again. My hands went straight back to my nose. My heart lept with joy to God. The FUZZ showed me ‘grace’!! The policeman showed me mercy!!!

I was so thrilled that God had softened his heart!! God did that. He answered our prayer. He showed me that the ‘can’ and ‘does’ do that!!! He was teaching me a valuable lesson.
I got home really pumped and told Cc everything. She said, ‘great, but the Tuk Tuk man just ripped me off, you should have prayed for mercy all round

Saturday, July 14, 2007

What's your idea of a great picnic?

'tat moon'....we felt it'd be a nice place to have some fun with the ARDA Team...so we went out the week before and took a look...it was great! It had water...

and the Lao people were having fun cooking and sitting and chatting....

but for us there was some picinic things missing....What's your idea of a great picnic?

The great outdoors...what makes for a good picnic in Lao?

You need a good sword fight...well That's what Judah got going!!! Judah, the little fella, took on a much bigger Princess of Theives. He's got such a great smile and he's lots of fun....look at the smile!!!
Of course you need the sport on a picnic and what better sport than the 'universal' game CRICKET>>>And so we played THE GAME....see me in second slip. Seth is backie and ready to stump the Lao guy!!




You need the food...yes and lots of good food. We had lots of different food....not hard to do when you have people from Lao, America, New Zealand, Singapore and England

Orianna and Shanne were peeling the eggs..they got tired of doing it so they just ate them!!

Look at those little beauties!!!!



ARn't they little beauties!!! look at those colours...look at those delicate legs, those big broad wings. As big as they are, they still can't push into the wind, which makes them little fellas that just go with the flow...or the blow.



Tat Moon...small river flowing into the Mekong


Some water always make a pinic just a little bit more fun...
We're told that the water will be rusthing through here in the wet...it's just around the corner

God's little beauties...

I've been stunned by the beauty of butterflies recently...we've been out and about and i've been chasing the little critters around the muddy forest earth...its so hard to take a picture of these fellas!! I need a zoom...my cyber shot just can't get close enough!

How to make friends, CJ's way...





SEth's best buddy....His name is CJ. When Seth came to class on the first day, CJ stood up in class and put his arm around Seth and said, 'come on Seth you can be my friend, i'll show the class and school'. Seth looked at me as if to say, 'is this guy for real?' And he was. He's been Seth's mate since. His dad and mum are the nurse and teacher at Pattana. Recently we took a trip into Thailand together...it was fun and restful. Maybe that's a good way to make friends...the next person that walks into your classroom or work place...put your arm around their shoulder and say, 'i'll be your friend'...and then show them around and be their friend!!! On ya CJ!!!