Teaching Day 3

The third day of teaching has ended. Today was the most difficult day for us because it's the middle of the week, and we are all feeling pretty exhausted. As always, we wake up before 6:30am to do our devotions and then eat breakfast and clean up. We are having a great time and really working together as a team though. We have been able to visit many of our students families at night and gotten to talk to their parents about our testimonies and why we came to Taiwan, and we are making many friends here. We also got the opportunity to visit a mantou store, where 4 of our students live, and have been getting to know their mother.

Here is an update on each of our classes and our prayer requests.

1st/2nd: Anna & Elean - We continue to struggle through lesson plans and we are basing all of our teaching off of how well the kids are paying attention. Dealing with our 3 year old child still takes a lot of energy, and we need continued energy to keep up with our kids. We also aren't allowed to go outside to play (according to Zhu Chuan Dao, the pastor that is leading the church here), so the kids get more and more hyperactive towards the end of the day and more and more difficult to control.

3rd: Norman & Esther & Vivian - The kids are sometimes inattentive but they are truly learning the material. Please pray that the students would be less loud/rowdy (they shared a classroom with the 5/6th graders and often disrupt them with their noise level). Norman is sometimes too nice for his own good, pray that he can continue to keep the kids under control.

4th: Jacqueline & Victor & Isaac - The ADHD child, Andy, is the main cause of the problems in the class. He literally needs constantly attention and discipline, and so Jacqueline can barely teach for 10 minutes at a time without some disruption. Pray that Andy would be more calm and that the teachers would be able to continue helping their class through lessons.

5th: Karen & April - Their class is unenthusiastic because they are at an awkward age where they try not to show interest in the camp. Pray that Karen and April would not be discouraged but will continue to work hard to make the lessons more interesting and fun for the kids.

We are also having some problems getting along with Zhu Chuan Dao, the pastor here who we must work with. She is often difficult to get along with because we seem to operate on different wavelengths, and some of her requests seem unreasonable to us. Still, the Bible commands us to get along with the local church and encourage them, so pray that we may all have more patience and understanding!

And finally, here are the following prayer requests for our health. We are eating tons of vitamin C and multi-vitamins, but we still need your prayer!
Elean - minor ear infection
Karen - bad skin reaction to mosquito bites, so she ahs large red patches where she gets bitten
PJosh - strange purple bruise on his ankle
Vivian - has stomachaches and headaches

Thanks everyone!