China here I come!
This weekend my team and I leave
for China and I am so beyond excited! I’m afraid I’m not supposed to go into
much detail about our trip, but if you want to know more you are welcome to
email me! I will try and post some safe photos when I get home.
As for the past week, it’s been
great. We had a really good speaker named Scotty come and talk to my school
about God’s calling on our lives. When I was first told about the topic I was
like “Oh, great. A charismatic speaker is going to come and tell us to ask God
about our destinies.” But it was actually not like that at all. Scotty simply
told us stories about his walk with God, and how the most important part of
fulfilling God’s will for our lives is being obedient to Him. I found this
really encouraging being a young adult who is still pretty unsure about what
God wants to do with my life. One moment I feel called to international
missions while the next I’m heartbroken for the broken within my own country.
It’s all very up in the air for me but God spoke to me through Scotty and said
that I simply need to just wait, and in the meantime obey Him in everything I
do, even daily activities. Because it’s all of those small daily choices that
greatly affect tomorrow hence the future as a whole.
Now for the present. Yesterday a
Thai guy named Judah in my school invited all of us to go to his village to
celebrate the rice festival. About ten of us rented a song thaew and took a
two-hour drive up the mountains into his isolated rice-farming village. It was
the most beautiful drive I have ever taken. The mountains were so incredibly
tall and there was so much lush vegetation. I could not help but be in awe of
my Creator as I looked upon rice-covered valleys and cliff-faced mountains.
When we arrived in his village we
saw that everyone (about 150 people) were gathered having their harvest
celebration service. We quickly discovered that Judah’s entire village is
Christian, which is extremely rare in Thailand. After singing some worship
songs and playing with the kids, the village treated us to lunch and we ate
delicious white rice with meatballs out of banana leaves and pumpkin soup.
After we thanked and prayed for Judah’s family, we hopped back into our food
filled song thaew. The village was so generous to us even though they have so
little. It was a classic bamboo-grass roof village on the side of a mountain.
It was absolutely beautiful.
This next week a missionary named
Stan Hankins will be talking to us about the ministry of the Holy Spirit. I am
excited to see how God speaks through him and how He continues to move us as He
prepares us for China.
Thanks again so much for all of
your support and prayers. Please continue to pray for my team and I in the next
couple of weeks as we venture into another country!
Blessings,
Hanna
Here are some photos from our visit to Judah's village:
Just a glimpse of our beautiful ride. Wish my camera
was better at capturing the beauty!
A couple of boys we played with at Judah's village.
My classmate Sarah and I
Yummy Lisu Food!
All of us with Judah's Family
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