My week

This week went by fast! Our topic was World Issues so we heard from 3 different speakers on 3 subjects (refugees, orphans, and women). The orphans topic took a unique turn; the lady spoke of the importance of keeping kids with their families and saying no to orphanages. The reason for this is that most kids in orphanages here are single orphans (at least one living parent or relative) and their family member gave them up because of poverty. Poverty shouldn't be the reason for a family to be torn apart. On Tuesday we got to spend the lecture time researching our outreach locations and today we had presentations on world issue topics. I was in the refugee presentation group.

Everyone who had been feeling ill at the beginning of the week are all good and no else got sick! Tuesday night was a fun time of hanging out with the kiddos at Lights in the Community. Wednesday was German theme for Community night. We had spaghetti. Apparently spaghetti is a go-to meal for lots of nationalities. It had beef in the sauce!!!! I was so happy about having beef that I ate 4 plates of it. Kinda embarrassing. Last night was small groups; my group had a small campfire and had s'mores! It was fantastic :) LJ and Rene shared a bunch of gross, crazy, slightly scary outreach stories with us (they shared good stuff with us too). I am scared but excited about outreach! Today was Valentines Day and Thailand (and Ark) make a big deal
of the holiday. Our day didn't start until after 8 and the staff made us breakfast: pancakes, eggs, and bacon!! We even had brownies today!!! It was a good day :)

So for my struggle of the week:
At the beginning of the week it was announced that the Music DTS was going to practice in the afternoons so they needed people on the maintenance work duty (all music DTS was on this work duty). They announced who was moving over and that was the end of it...or so I thought. I was informed later on that I had been moved. I had a breakdown. I absolutely loved being on the Hospitality work duty (they plan bdays, make cards etc) and the last thing I wanted was to be moved to Maintenance!  But then God did a heart check on me. I realized that I needed to suck it up and do the job that God had laid before me with a grateful heart. I may not like the job but the question is:am I faithful to the work that God has for me? So I have come to realize that being on Maintenance will be a good character development time for me. With that I will give you my story from today:
Andi and I had to clean out the rubbish bins. The ones that all the inside trash goes into. These bins were, well...disgusting!! The whole time we were cleaning them Andi and I talked about things we are thankful for to keep us in good moods. Andi was cleaning out her bin when she realized what she thought was a clump of rice was moving...it was a pile of larva. Ugh! But I can say that those bins looking wonderfully clean now :)

God continues to work in me and I am so thankful for it!