The Last Sunday at Baifu.

norman ai:

today was the last day at baifu. it was rather hard to leave. the place is so familiar to me. this being my third year returning to baifu, i know alot of the local stores, even am quite friendly with some of the local storeowners. the sunday service today was quite touching. we had testimonies from members of the short term missions trip, our baifu youth coworkers, and the pastor. its great to see how we effect each other and how we all encourage each other. sigh. it was indeed a great moment. PTL. afterwards, everyone was all over the church taking pictures [first picture, fanny finally decided to take pictures with the teachers today because she is somewhat photophobic] , exchanging emails, and writing messages in notebooks.

this year, ive been talking to jenny [second picture] alot since she hangs out with us teachers at bear cafe after class and she was in my small group of three people for our afternoon english class. jenny came to sunday service today and i gave her my dogtags as i usually do every year to students i spend alot of time with. i gave mine last year to kevin and the first thing he showed me this year was that dogtag. haha. i hope i can do my best to follow up with every student and continue to keep them in my prayers even after this missions trip is long gone. i still have a couple weeks here in taiwan afterwards and i plan on returning here every sunday for morning service, lets hope i can get jenny to become friends with more of the youth coworkers at baifu so she can regularly come to church! and anna: eden did not cry this year. he did, however, call me three times within an hours time to ask me if we got to the next place safely and if i could go online so we could facebook chat... i think he misses our team already... haha

thanks would have to be for this week. i didnt imagine it would go very well as i was not at wudu elementary teaching, rather instead at huaxing elementary, and separated from the rest of the missions team. but God was faithful and this week went better than i ever could of hoped. i had alot of opportunities to share my testimony and to hang out with the kids. prayer requests would be for my skin problems as it sometimes gets really painful. also i am deciding whether or not to join the baifu church for another stm for a couple of days in taidong before i return to america. they are going to serve a church that was hit by the typhoon last year. i dont know what exactly i can offer as i am not very fluent in chinese, but it seems they would be happy if i came along. it definitely seems like a great experience!