Uncle Sam Wants YOU!!!

Ok...first off, I just want to thank everyone for your prayers and concern for me. I'm FINALLY SLEEPING!!!!! My time in Lop Buri has been one of much refreshing and rest. Spending time with Beth has been awesome, and she lets me sleep and we even attempted to take a nap yesterday afternoon (but instead we ended up talking, which was really nice). So, I'm doing well and loving being here and seeing how my life could be if God opened up the doors for me to be here.

Yesterday we went to a local Thai church, which was really neat to be a part of. It was their 8th year anniversary, and they said that they had had about 100 people in that time come to know the Lord. Anyway, as we were sitting there listening to the sermon, I looked up and saw this giant grasshopper-esque bug looking down at me from the top of the window. As soon I as I made eye contact with it, it seemingly placed a target on me and dived bombed my chest. It flew all the way across the room!!! I wasn't quite sure whether it had flown down my shirt, so I glanced to see, and there is was, staring back up at me with it's beadie little eyes!!! I immediately began flailing my arms in the air in an attempt to separate this alien bug from my body!!! Somehow, unbenownst to me, I refrained from screaming. I was told later by the row behind me, that it was a bug from the Lord because they were all falling asleep until they saw my frantic movements. I can't say that this was the most graceful I've ever been, but it certainly was funny!!!

Anyway, being in Lop Buri has been somewhat of an eye opener for me. There are loads of missionaries here who have devoted their lives to the country of Thailand and are here learning the language. The only thing is, the majority of them are single women. And I'm not talking 40 year old single women with serious defects, but mid 20 year old, beautiful, funny, talented single women. So my question is where are all the men? Seriously, I went to someone's house last night to play games and there were 8 women, and 7 of them were single. This was mind boggling to me! Now, if there are guys out there who are wanting a quality girl to marry and just aren't finding them, I would seriously advise them to go the mission field. I understand that this is a lame reason to go, but at least we would be getting men out here! Haha. I had considered creating profiles for each of the women in an attempt to find them a life partner (you know, my own personal hook up service), but thought that the responses might not be quite what we are looking for.

"I like eating fried bugs and taking 4 showers a day. I love polluted air, squatty potties, remote places, and not being understood or understanding anybody. If interested please call...."