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Disclaimer: I have a confession and the confession is that I am not a technological wiz kid. I realize I may have had you fooled with the new graphics and pictures, but alas, I cannot figure out how to make the text below stay within the margins of the page. This may surprise (a couple of) you, but I have some perfectionist tendancies, so this has likely bothered me much more than it has bothered you. But I have finally decided that it is not a good use of my time to keep playing with it and am going to do something more productive now (laundry). If the margin thing is driving you crazy or by chance you know how to fix it, please send me an email :)

This week's update...

So I was just reading my friend Tommie Anne's blog and was inspired to write more.  
Man, she writes quite well, and very consistently.  

Makes me look bad!  In the spirit of trying to be a better blogger, here
are a few things that happened to me this week:

I started language class.  Two things about that-  1.  I am not getting anywhere near perfect in language.  My character reading and writing is not good.  My speaking and listening is ok.  2.  I am tired to death of taking language class.  Please pray that I'll have a good attitude about it.

I went to a dinner for students who attended the student conference for our region last week.  Amazing.  That's all I can say about how this impacted those kids.  Thanks for praying for them.  They were saying things like:  

"This was the best experience of my Christian life."

"I wasn't sure how I could be a part of a spiritual movement on my campus but now I feel like I have a better idea."

They also shared some about their New Years' break... two students saw family members come to Christ over the break.  The one I heard more details about said...

ZF (excitedly):  My mama excepted Christ over the break!
Another student:  Did you share with your mama when you went home?
ZF:  Really, it was a lot of people who shared with her.  
I know a local pastor also shared with her last summer.  I had been praying for her for years.  I was talking to her about something and she asked if what I was talking about 
was related to Christianity... because she believed in that too.   
I told her that I have so much joy now that she believes!

Yesterday, I had a great day at campus.  I played Ultimate Frisbee with our national staff guys and some students.   I also randomly met a freshmen guy, "DL"--I'm not kidding, those are his initials, who just walked up to me and started talking on the basketball court.  He saw that I was drinking a Diet Pepsi and told me (in English) that he prefers Coke Light (Diet Coke) and that he doesn't eat sugar because its bad for his health.  I think we will be friends.  (I also strongly prefer Coke Light, but the student store did not have any cold ones and it was pretty warm outside).  He also said, "Let's be friends" and gave me his cell number.  Pray that I get to see him again and have a chance to share with him.

Last night, my friend Danielle cooked dinner (Ranch chicken, etc.  Mmmmm) and we listened to Nickel Creek and played Settlers.  I won for the first time since I learned to play that game about five years ago.  

Right now, I am about to get ready to go to international fellowship and need to stop writing this so I won't be late.  Hope you enjoyed this little
 snapshot of my week.  More to come.

Brian

Brian + Joo + Kids

Me with my friend Joo who came from America to hang out with us in Thailand and some kids from an orphanage that we had the opportunity to visit.  The visit really was probably more of a blessing to us than to the kids.  It was amazing to go somewhere like that and see the kids thriving and learning who they are in Christ.