Ric and Sharon Bruce On a journey with you to Thailand Most weekends we go out with our friends from church. Primary activities include: visiting sick people in the hospital, going to weddings, spending six hours praying, boiling eggs at hot springs, going to a revival or riding a hot bus for hours and hours. Not exactly the way we would have spent our weekends back home.
Here’s what we’re learning though: it doesn’t really matter what you’re doing. The most important thing is that you’re doing it together with friends. That’s certainly a strong value we’ve observed playing itself out over and over again in the six months since we’ve been here. Embedded on our website are some pictures from this weekend illustrating my point:
Activity: wedding. Yes, it was pretty but also extremely hot and long.
THIS was what mattered: we were together. That made it fun.
It didn't matter that we drove two hours on motorcycles and had two flat tires.
This was what mattered: having fun no matter where we were.
It didn't really matter that I couldn't understand what they were saying sometimes.
This was what mattered: that we were together and hanging out.
That's fun. By Thai standards anyway.
Learning new values and priorities is anything but easy.
Tags: activity, boil, definition, eggs, friends, Fun, Karen, Lawa, Mae Rim, Pictures, pray, revival, spring, Thailand, together, tribal, tribe, wedding, weekend
