Lingle’s Newsletter – May 2016

By Brandon and Brittney Lingle
Thailand

Hey Supporters!

Greetings from Khao Yai (Big Mountain)! We just took a little family vacation 2 hours north east of our home. We enjoyed a nice 2 night getaway before the new baby comes. We have a video for you at the end of the newsletter to show you all we experienced. We had so much fun spending family time together.

Teaching at North Bangkok University:
We have started teaching english in a University near our home. The focus is building the students confidence in speaking english. So we meet every Wednesday for a few hours and talk. It has been fun meeting new people and learning about their lives through them practicing english with us.

In the picture is our group from last week. We hope to grow the number of our students and eventually invite them to our homes for “english night.” That will involve eating together, games, and hanging out so students can practice their english with us. During those nights we will be praying for opportunities to share the gospel with the college students.

Thai New Year (Songkran)

We celebrated Songkran a few weeks ago. It’s basically a week long water fight.. You can google it. It is the hottest month of the year so playing with water is ‘cool’. I don’t have any pictures of us playing with water guns because I didn’t want my phone to get wet, but above is a picture of Josie hanging out with her “Aunties” (they are teaching her to call them that).

Brittney has a story to tell…
As I was out for a walk with Josie early one morning during this time. There was a big ceremony going on in the neighborhood. A monk was there chanting a blessing over the neighborhood and many people had come out to ask blessing from him for the new year. Of course as I passed by all the children ran and flocked around Josie in her stroller, I began to talk with them and their parents about… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL NEWSLETTER