Grand Prairie and the nod of approval

We are going to Grand Prairie Texas and will be staying with the Lao brothers and sisters as the Laotion congregation will be hosting our visit.

Mondo and Leah are leaving today
Alan and Theresa are leaving at 4 a.m. tommorrow
and the rest of us will be heading over throughout the day on Friday.

So excited!!!!!!

I had an exciting moment yesterday. Last night was the first Hmong Theocratic ministry school!
We are still waiting for our Hmong songbooks to come in so we were trying to keep up singing in my engligh book when I decided to look over Barbara's shoulder and try reading her song book. To my surprise I was actually able to read the Hmong songs!

My assigned comment last night was about pagans and the cross.
FUN....not.
I had to find the words and figure out how to pronounce them. It was difficult because the Hmong resources do not list words like "Christianity" So I had to look through my Hmong bible teach book and find words.
I was so certain I was going to mess it up, unfortunately the time came for me to give my comment and I managed to spit it out in a pathetic manner before someone pointed out that I had gotten the "nod of approval" from Fuji our Hmong brother. Apparently that is an honor and that is his way of saying "I actually know what you said and it sounded pretty good."
Everyone wants to get a nod from Fuji, He even does it for his wife and she is almost more Hmong than he is!

I was very very proud of myself.

Anyways, Benny had the bible reading in English last night and he did so well! I still can't believe he was able to pronounce all those words right!!