The beginning of my ministry

Hello from my beloved Thailand! :)
Finally I got some time to update my blog and put some pictures in for you. The last days have been full of caring for David's and my motorcicle driving licenses, planning and talking about how we will help out in the Wongen for the following year and recovering from our travel from Bangkok to Chiang Mai which we did in a really adventorous, old  and wet bus that surprisingly revealed a door right next to my seat in opening it up in a curve! :D

But now I wanna tell you about our last day in Bangkok which we spent with my lovely friend Palm and a friend of hers called Nicki. As some of you might know Palm moved from Chiang Mai to Bangkok a few month ago because she finished her studies and found a job there. Bangkok is around 11 hours far away from Chiang Mai, if you choose to travel by bus and someday Palm told me that she found real friends and a home in the Wongen Kafe, so I was very happy to hear that she still gets visited by her friends from Chiang Mai!
However, we spent our day in going to chinese town and having lunch there, taking the tram to the biggest market in the world and taking about how we've spent the past four month.

rainy season is a quiet rainy season...

The following night we spent travelling to Chiang Mai and arrived there safely but cold and wet at 6:00 am. 

The first thing I did, when we arrived at the Wongen was searching for a free Bed! After I got up I started  worrying about if the staff would be angry with me because I caused them so many worries with my visa, but I was welcomed so warmly that I was just happy to be at the Wongen again :)

As I said, the last days had been stressfull for David and me because we tried to get our driving lisences. David made it, but I have to try it again on monday. This is one thing you really could pray for me, because it would be really helpful for us both to have a thai driving lisence. Travelling by motorcycle is much cheaper than travelling by Song Tao and it will be a big part of my ministry.   

I really can't wait until I have more time for my ministry, which mainly is caring for the students who are coming to the Wongen and planning on activities with the other staff.

At the end of this post I want to ask you for your support in prayers and donation, because I can't do this mission without God's provision. Please pray that David and I will grow a lot in our faith and love for God and that we will always be faithfull in obeying and working for him. I'm still struggeling a lot with accepting that God really loves me. And that's the most important thing that you need if you want to experience real change in your life! So please pray for a lot of growth and provision, so that we can stay here for one year!

Thank you! :)

Finally in Thailand!

Hello from  Thailand!

Finally my boyfriend David and me made it to Bangkok after around 24 hours of traveling.
Maybe now you are wondering if I got my visa? I will tell you what happened:

A few days ago, on august 12th, I got a message from YWAM Thailand that the responsible person for my visa letter had trouble with a lady who had to sign it. He told me that he could send it to me at Monday evening (13th of august) or Tuesday morning, which was the actual date of our depart from Germany. But for some reason this message was not too shocking for me and one of my first thoughts was to go to the Thai embassy in Essen, Germany even without having received the necessary visa letter, just in case God would provide it when we would arrive in Essen. So we did on the next day which was the last day we would spend in Germany before traveling to Thailand and God provided the letter on our trip to the embassy! :)
But we still had to print the letter out and so we searched for a copy shop in Essen, but we didnt find a single copy shop and so the only thing we could do was to go the the embassy without the necessary letter. We arrived at 12 am, which actually was the time when the embassy should have closed. But anyway we had no problem with entering the embassy and the Thai women who were at the reception were really kind to me. One of them just asked me for my passport, a picture of me and the 130 Euro I had to pay for my one-year visa, so I started hoping that it would all go out well. After I finished filling out my visa appliance I asked her if she could print out the visa letter for me, like I asked her before after I entered the embassy, but she couldnt do it for me. But anyway I told her that I had to get my visa for the next day and her only response was telling me I should wait for it 20 minutes :) So, that was the story how I got my visa. Easy going :)
God is so great and even if I dont feel the great purpose for David and me being here yet, he HAS a great purpose for us!

take heart!

i know that it's only a few hours ago since i posted the last update, but today i struggled a lot with a bad      conscience because i should be much better prepared for thailand than i am right now. 

i finally sent my application to YWAM thailand and now i worry a lot if all will go out well.

i still need

- to be accepted at YWAM thailand

- my visa!!

- to make some important phone calls (and today is saturday, so i can only do it on monday)

that's quiet a lot of important things i need to organize until august 14th.
but then i listened to the song on top of this text and now i know that i have to believe that god forgives and helps me. my mistakes won't stop him from showing me his good plan for me. 
it's hard to believe that, but i hope that he will show me that it's true in making it all going well! 

only 10 days left!

hey guys!
first i wanna thank you for visiting my new blog in which I want to inform you about what and how i'm doing on my journey of discovering and following god's plan for me! :)
i know that there are quiet a lot of people who know that i'm going to leave germany to be a missionary in thailand very soon and with who i really want to stay in touch with during this time. this blog is for you - believe me, it really takes me a lot to overcome my laziness and write updates for you regularly, but i will try my best! ^__^


well, here's the update:
today it's only ten days until my boyfriend david and me will leave the country to experience an adventurous journey of getting to know the living god as our loving father, provider and savior!
i'm so excited about what we will experience with him and how much we will grow in our faith during the next two years. but i also must confess that i currently feel a little bit guilty and afraid, because it's only a short time left 'til our flight goes from frankfurt airport, germany and i still have to prepare a lot - even sending my application to YWAM thailand!! so, if you thought  that conscientiousness would be a part of my character, you were totally wrong! :p i'm one of these persons who always got good marks in school without doing anything for it! so now i have big problems to care for myself in the matter of "adult stuff". the good thing about my carelessness is that it makes me able to do crazy things, to jump into something totally new and life changing such as doing a DTS or being a missionary in thailand!


as you can see, i need help. would you please pray intensely for me the next days so that i will finally sent my application to YWAM thailand, call my insurance and finally get accepted as a missionary in thailand before i will leave germany?


thanks for all of your prayers and encouragement! :)