Monday: Mai Sai and Fang

Today, after 10hrs of sleep, Pastor P woke me with the hotel phone at 7am. We didn’t set a time.

We had a good conversation, many ideas for future trips. I visited the orphanage, did a short sermon and impromptu skit at the Sunday morning service. Also visited possible sites for boys orphanage dorm and a drug rehabilitation center. With 80 chuches, a college, orphanage, and his own church Pastor P. now has someone to oversee/manage the orphanage, college, and his church has a new pastor.

I traveled with Timothy and Fang Fong to Fang and we stopped at little noodle place in the mountains for lunch, turns out to be the same place that Scott Linklater, cc and I ate at 5 years ago on our first trip. And the noodles were as good as I remember.

We went to the new church; it is really nice. We did a few items around the building while other workers buzzed along on the finishing touches. I purchased some plants for front of the stage and steps leading up, it was a bit bare. The outside is very nicely landscaped with multistage fountain and GRASS around it. Most of the fence that we put up 1.5 years ago has been replaced with solid walls 6 to 8 feet tall. Pastor P purchased a last supper print in T where we had it framed along with 2 Palouse prints that Laurie took and we printed them at home with verses. They did a professional frame.

Tonight we went with 2 of the ‘boys’, young pastors to a ‘Korean’ barbecue’. This was NOT an experience for the faint of heart or picky eaters or those concerned about food born illness. There was standard chicken, pork, beef, clams, shrimp, and squid. But also all their insides were available and NONE of it was kept cold. You cook and eat with the same chopsticks. There were 3 bowls of excellent dipping sauces for the meat. They kept bring out new odd things which I of course HAD to try, I felt like Andrew Zimern, consuming one slimy, transparent, strange, or oddly green item after the other. The no live plant matter ‘salad’ was other worldly in appearance and texture, but rather plain flavor. For all five us, all you could eat, the total was $17.00 including drinks!

I have wireless Internet in the lobby so I hope to have regular updates.

Bruce