Day 6 in Thailand: Sunday

Church on Sunday lasted for hours and hours. There was a prayer meeting, then a whole group Sunday School, with a lesson taught by 3 of our teenage boys. Then music (we actually knew the English version of 2 of the songs). They Jen Parks (from Oil City) preached the message. The whole church ate lunch together, then we taught a full hour English lesson, and then there was a lesson that one of our adults did on praise and worship. We taught them an easy English song, and finally ended the "church" part of the day! After church, we piled about 30 people into 2 pick up trucks to drive 45 minutes to a national park (that we also visited on Saturday) to visit a waterfall. The teens figured out on Saturday that they could jump off the top and not land on boulders, so we spent a lot of time doing that (I chose to be the photographer). Our smallest 13 year old jumped 18 times (he could climb the trees back up the cliff the fastest, so he got in the most jumps!). After returning from the waterfall and having dinner, the pastor's wife cooked up the crabs that we caught Saturday morning in the rice field (cooked, there were about the size of a 1/3 of the palm of my hand). They were crunchy, so you could eat them, shell and all. She also added the treat of fried grasshoppers and they were huge! I actually ate one (I still can't believe it!). The initial tast wasn't so bad, but the parts that stayed in my teeth for awhile tasted TERRIBLE!!! We have 2 translators with us, Ton and Raam. Ton joined us in Bangkok and works for YWAM (Youth With A Mission). She is hilarious and has enough grasp on the English language to joke around and have a sense of humor. Raam is from a village about 30km from here, and she is the Pastor's wife's sister. They both sat around with us Sunday night, showing us how to eat the grasshoppers, and teaching us games.