God Answers Prayers

I have been steady teaching most days since my last update. I've added multiple students since then as well. I now have a total of 14 students ranging in age from 2-55 years old. Most are in person at their homes. Two adults are online students. And one 8 year old is at my house. I'm loving teaching and love having children and adults at so many different levels! It usually means more work, but I really enjoy getting to teach different subjects and difficulties. My full teaching days tend to be Tuesday-Thursday, but sometimes my Mondays or Fridays end up being full too. All of these students is just one example of how amazing God is and how He answers prayers! He knows and sees my heart and has blessed me immensely. For pictures of my students, feel free to check out my mission page at https://www.modernday.org/field-workers/clmoye77/ It has pictures, names, and ages. It also has details of other ministries I am involved in from time to time. My new home I'm renting is good. It has given me so much more space than before. This extra space has allowed me to open my home to students. And I now have a kitchen! I'm so excited to be able to cook for myself again. I also recently bought an oven which allows me to bake again! Cooking and baking has been something that brings me joy since I was old enough to do so.I enjoyed baking cookies with my students and I made some delicious banana blueberry bread with butter sugar glaze!

Another answer to prayers... I have been praying about starting some type of teaching ministry at my home. The first thing I offered was a Saturday English Camp to happen once a month with possibly adding more. I sent that information to my students who are capable of listening and working semi-independently and EVERYONE answered back with a YES of interest! I was so excited! Then I spent some time in prayer about offering a Sunday Bible and Morals English Camp. I finally sent out information about that and boom! 4 out of the 6 answered back with a YES! I was finally seeing God work a miracle, answer my prayers, and make my dream a reality! I offered both days of camp last week and they went great! All the children had fun and loved it and can't wait to come to the next one! I was blessed beyond measure by the four who attended the Bible and Morals camp and their great interest in the biblical Easter story! It was truly an amazing day and I couldn't have been any more happy with how it went! For the next time, I'm considering making the camps a full day. This will allow me more time to do more teaching. With a one woman show, that means lots of time is used in transitions and lunch preparations which cuts way down on the teaching time. But I'm so excited for the next two camps! If you'd like to support me and my outreach and ministry, please follow this link https://www.modernday.org/field-workers/clmoye77/ and at the bottom of the page is a place you can donate. You can donate one time or sign up for a monthly payment. Now that I'm moving forward with having children come to my house for classes, expenses have increased for meal and snack costs, teaching materials, craft materials, etc. Your support will be a huge blessing to me and my ministry!

There are many things that are going well here. Covid is still ever present and I wear a mask everywhere I go. If in public, outside of teaching, I wear two masks. I have managed to avoid getting Covid so that's a huge praise. I just keep praising my God for protecting me and leading me in every day life. Things do still go wrong from time to time. Not everything is perfect 100% of the time. But that is life. Life is not perfect. Things go wrong the same as they do in everyone else's life too. I have emotional ups and downs and I have physical ups and downs. For example, last Friday, I slipped and fell and busted my bottom. I'm still in pain and had to cancel classes for today. Due to the pain, I am unable to lower myself to the floor to sit and teach my students. I love all my students and enjoy teaching them so it's quite disappointing when I have to cancel on them. Another example: Just like many other teachers, I have days where my students just don't listen, don't do what I've asked them to, or cry. Nothing is perfect and I never expect perfection. We are all imperfect humans living in an imperfect world. I also still have some sad days where I really miss my sweet Lucy or feel homesick from time to time. I would love to visit America some day soon. Because of Covid and travel restrictions, it's just been too hard to travel. But restrictions are starting to lessen so hopefully soon. Especially since I will be starting my 6th year in Thailand here in a few months and have yet to visit home! Anyway, all that to say God answers prayers! My dream of opening the Love English Learning Center from my own home is becoming a reality and I couldn't be more excited to see what God has in store for this ministry!