Aaron here. Only about 5 mins left at this Internet Cafe in Taipei, so I'll have to be fast. As you already know, the mission is over. When we left Yunlin on Friday/Saturday, I didn't feel too sad, but now that I realize how fun the last two weeks have been, it's going to really suck to have to go home and look forward to starting school soon. Like Lawrence said, it was a lot of fun, but I bet I would have had as good a time as him if I could speak Chinese better. Oh well, hopefully after an entire year of Chinese at BCC will prepare me better for the mission trip next year, if I decide to go.
Well, the mission is over and I am now in Taipei. I'll
probably write a more extensive "trip report" when I get back to the
states. This past week was a million times better then I
could have imagined. I can only thank God that he placed me
with such incredible students, seriously, the BEST students I have ever
had the privilege to teach. It was also encouraging to see how so
many of them were open to what we shared at the Gospel
meeting. I just pray that the Lord can continue to do His
work in them. Alow was asking me whether I rather have 1
million dollars or this past week (he likes to ask these type of Qs)
and I can honestly say, that I would pass on the 1 million ... hey man,
some things in life are just "priceless", such as this video of me
pwning alow 1 on 1 in bball.
Coming to Taipei is almost like going to an entirely different
country. Sure the food is awesome, but its nothing like the
past 2 weeks. It just FEELS completely different. Oh
well, I am just thankful God gave me this oppurtunity to do His work,
and can only pray that I would get the oppurtunity to do it again.
Today is the second day that we taught at Yulin. My English and social study students are the advanced level ones and their English are pretty good. I had a lot of fun teaching them and they are very willing to try understanding me and answering all my questions. =) As far as dance goes, both of my classes went really well also. I pretty much finished teaching the main part of the dance routine today and the students are having a lot of fun. Noel is my TA for all 6 classes and he is really helpful. :) He help contoral the CD players and playing all the music for me in the dance classes (which is an essential job.) Tomorrow, we'll have the gospel meeting. Please pray for the salvation of the students. I remember Andrew Murry wrote this: if education does not bring people to Christ, it does not have any eternal value. I hope our time here can be of vaule in God's eyes and I really pray that all of these wonderful kids can be saved.
