Ron's trip to Chiang Mei, Thailand

We have had a very busy year and the pace will continue as Ron leaves October 29th for Thailand.   We have been trying to get things in shape here since I will not be traveling with Ron this year.   I will continue to stay in Ronald and Gigi's house in North Georgia and try to keep things going well in the U.S. during Ron's absence.   

Ron will spend the next four months establishing a new safe house for girls in Chiang Mei, Thailand.    He got the booster vaccine today, hoping he will not get sick on this trip.   He is feeling exhausted tonight so the vaccine is giving him a little side-effect of fatigue.  

Ron hopes to find an existing building he can remodel and turn into an adequate home for girls.   This is an important area where there are many girls in need of hope.    Ryan and Ashley Lee, a couple from the U.S. have lived there for many years working with immigrants.   We visited in their home one weekend in February, 2020.   They will assist Ron with the work so I am pleased that he is going there.  They speak the language and know the location well.   I am sure our work can assist them as they probably need a home for many of the girls they counsel and try to help.

I will try to post weekly to this log, if not more often, to give updates on Ron and his work in Chiang Mei.   We will chat morning and night so we can be assured each of us is doing well.    His time will be 12 hours ahead of me so we will set a specific time to chat on the computer.   He wants to use some method where we can see each other.  I told him we will certainly worry when we see how bad we look at those times of day so I think I will hold him to just "chatting."     

Fall is here in North Georgia and I have been raking leaves.    We had five days of rain last week and the leaves fell along with the rain and covered the ground.   With Ron away, I will keep the front yard clean but cannot do all of the backyard.    The leaves will provide me with plenty of exercise until about the middle of December.  

Leigh Ann and Tatum will come from Florida to spend Thanksgiving weekend with me.   I look forward to their visit.

My 9-year old neighbor, Lane, will come over the day after Ron leaves for Thailand and we will bake Halloween cookies to give to her family and our next door neighbors.    It will be something fun for us to do together.    She helped me several times this summer to plant and weed my herb garden.   

A nurse friend from California has booked a trip to come visit me on Feb. 22nd for a week.   I told her the weather may not be so good in February.   She wants to rent a car and us drive to see Leigh Ann in Florida for a few days but it will all depend on our weather.    It could be nice or we could be in the middle of an ice storm.   January and February can be very cold.    She wanted to pay for both of us to fly to Key West that week but I declined as I am trying to stay away from crowds due to COVID.  

Our work continues to go well in all  locations.   At this time, no one is sick.  Some girls in Nepal (and some of our workers also) had COVID but they are well now.  Schools reopened in Nepal after being closed for many months.   The Laos border is still closed and most schools and businesses are still in lockdown.    Ron hopes to go to Laos and possibly Mukdahan, Thailand while he is abroad but it will depend on the virus and the closures.   He will probably have to quarantine as soon as he arrives in Thailand even with the vaccinations and a negative COVID test.

Please remember Ron and me in your prayers and the success of our work as we go forward the remained of this year.   

Thank you all for your interest in our work and for your love for us.   May God bless each of my blog readers.