A Bunch of Burts

Last weekend we had the opportunity to get of Chiang Mai and visit a family about 31/2 hours NE of us. Their village is one of the locations we are considering joining, but it was fun to just go up and visit them. They have four children and our kids had a great time reconnecting and playing.

A treat of soda makes for cheerful kids in a hot car! Notice the sleeping dog. I believe this was before she threw up on Ema. ick.

Well, maybe Zach and Ema had a better time that Leah. There was no girl her age, but the 6 year old thought Leah was very cool and wanted to play with her all weekend.

Over the course of the weekend, we found out some very important information about this family, things that could make or break a relationship. They like to play the same games we do!
A couple of their favorites are Scum and The Farming Game.

Now I know The Farming Game is not a widely popular board game, but we enjoy it, especially Zachary. He chooses it more than any other game we have. It is a game that resembles Monopoly in design, but revolves around farming, (no surprise there,) and harvesting your different crops based on a roll of the dice. It was created by a farmer from Eastern Washington and had a short run in NW stores. Since it has been out of production for quite some time, we were quite surprised to know that this family not only knew of the game, but it is one of their favorites.

Greg had the chance to go out on survey with the dad, looking at potential villages for them to locate and base their church-planting effort from. A first for Greg, and one he enjoyed very much.
As we focus on our language learning in Chiang Mai, it is important for us to remin focused on why we are learning language. To bew able to take the Word of God to those who have not heard, who have no reliable Gospel witness in their language or culture.

Along the way to these villages, they stopped by the banks of the Mekong and Greg took these great pictures.

Please keep praying with us as we have many things to think about as we try to come to a decision in the next few months about where the Lord would have us work.

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