New Year Developments
Hi all, just a 15 minute update before work resumes for me at 1pm.
Work has kept me pretty busy lately, especially with the recent spate of ongoings in Thailand. Thaksin’s interviews, bilateral relations and all. There’s bird flu one province away from Khon Kaen, bombings targeting schools in Northeast Thailand, and other issues on the KKCS side of things that threaten a stable time where we may continue ministry without being held back. In the light of all this, please do keep praying for Khon Kaen and KKCS.
My Aunt, uncle and cousins have been coming to church with me abt a month now. Last week my aunt said she wasn’t feeling well and so the whole family didn’t come. Please keep praying they won’t give up coming. Otherwise, they say they’ve enjoyed church.
As for myself, I’ve signed up for a cell group in covenant and applied for membership. This will probably mean a long-term gravitation towards involvement in church, although I’m not currently serving in any ministry there now. Developments BB wise, am training daryl and maybe one or two others (who are interested enough to want to do it), to become BS leaders.
Jarett said last Saturday he’d shared some “good news” with the officers. I know I guessed what it was correctly, because he usually only grins and smiles, knowing he cannot say otherwise (or it’d be lying), when people get it right. Sunday he shoved me (yes shoved!) grinning into Goldheart Jewellery. So playing along, I bantered with him, trying to get the floor and my rubber soles to agree on producing some friction, “You just want my ring size right?”. The truth was he’d forgotten my ring size, and had he lost the piece of paper he wrote it on.
He came up with some fishy story about Allan wanting to select a ring for his gf, and allan having approached him for help in ring selection. He insisted the story was true, and offered to call allan for me and pass the phone to me so I could check. (You could tell he was having fun with this, making it up as he went along.) When I challenged this badly disguised little ploy, I got to allan first. Haha.. Allan got stunned for a while, before saying “huh? ah.. oh ya!, ya I asked him!”. Of course, the stories they gave me were different. Allan said select nice designs cos he didn’t know what girls liked… Jarett insisted I had to try the ring “to see how it looks on her skin tone”. So I played along, refusing to try any rings, reasoning it wouldn’t fit her hands anyway, I’m much smaller than her. I picked out horrible designs I knew Jarett hated. Jarett made faces at some points, but he knew I knew, so he played along too. He chose rings with diamonds costing 2k per ring, etc etc… and I said, “oh that’s quite nice!” to the stuff that was 2k plus. And he’d compound the incongruity of the story by saying “but you like diamonds meh?” (I don’t.)
Anyway, it was good fun. In the end I felt sorry for poor Jarett who couldn’t help grinning cos he was a bad liar, and eventually relented. So I tried the ring He’d been making conspicuous attempts at making me wear thru the whole episode. I knew he’d been saving to get this particular pair for at least half a year now.
But I don’t think we’re ready to get married.
Share more later. Need to get back to work now.
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