We woke up this morning (Sunday) and had breakfast while the kids went through their praise and worship practice. A lot of kids from another orphanage and around the neighborhood came and listened to Pat bring the word, I really enjoyed listening to him talk, he works well with the kids. One little girl attached to me and played/messed with me the whole service, she was the cutest little handful though. Afterwards we packed up and had lunch with the kids and just hung out till Deb took us to the bus station. I was totally not ready to go, I could have spent my whole time in Chaingrai!! I love the Wheeler’s and especially the kids!! Matao is one of the boys they took in and he just won my heart in the four days we were there. He is 17 and has Cerebral Palsy but as Deb said “has peace like a river” and is the happiest boy ever. The first time I saw him was after Deb came to get us from the airport and as we pulled up to our gate she said “one of our boys is in charge of the gate” and he was just hauling butt running down the driving way…I got so tickled. That’s when she told us all about him and he gave us this big ole grin and I immediately just fell in love with that kid. Watching him play with the dogs, try and help the kids out around the house, or even play the bongo drums and dance during praise and worship just made me melt. You can’t understand what he says but he chattered and hung out with us the most probably when we were just hanging at the house. I seriously couldn’t help but to just smile when I would look at him, he as precious when he rode with us to the bus station today too. I cannot WAIT to come back this next year during some of my teaching breaks!!
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