Dear A,
We're REALLY looking forward to living in Vietnam again. We are anticipating some things which we don't experience in the same way around here:
- warm evenings with friends and bubble tea on short plastic stools
- coffee shop English clubs
- shopping for household goods (now, where do they sell ____?)
- motorbiking around town
- slurpy noodles
And lots of the things I'm looking forward to are also things we do in Bend. We're looking forward to evenings of games and puzzles. Hosting marriage workshops and helping people individually find freedom/peace/joy. Cooking and eating with friends. Using curiosity to encourage curiosity about matters of faith.
Nothing terribly exciting. No news. Just a daily surge of excitement about going, but it's boring because we've been excited all along already.
Love,
Tim
PS.
I might have mentioned this already, but if you have an old PHONE you want to send with me (provided you've reset it to the factory login screen and it's not carrier-locked), I'll take it to Vietnam friends who would be grateful. Cracked screens and useless batteries are NO PROBLEM to fix there, and the people I'm aiming to give them to won't be offended by old phones. Or if you want to send me $$ to @thechaseplace, I'll fix up someone else's broken-screen phone and find a grateful recipient. These are young people coming down to study in Da Nang from Vietnam's more remote/impoverished areas.
