June 2016 Official Newsletter!!

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Hello! 

I have been very busy with amazing things this spring. 

I hope that the new life that surrounds you highlights the new life that our

 Lord and Savior has given you.

I’ve been busy learning more Chinese, teaching biology, training and teaching women in Flourish, working with youth group girls, introducing my city to friends, planting flowers, and working with students in our trafficking prevention program.

I recently, learned how to play the famous Chinese game: majiang. It looks so complicated but once you have learned it, you realize that it is a lot like Rummicube.

Working with the Shine School Program English Corner, has proved to be a lot of fun as well as very rewarding. The kids are very receptive and the teachers are glad that WE are talking to them about hard issues.

I decided that I would teach Biology again next year, but May marked the end of this years term.

I gave Flourish graduation certificates to the girls from my home school co-op who participated over the course of this year.

We also had a graduation of Flourish leaders in April and it was a fabulous time of good food and good conversation.

I got to introduce my city to one of my best friends early this year. 

It is always a privilege to show my world to my loved ones. 

Feel free to visit anytime.

Please continue to lift me and these works up.

In my printed and mailed hard copy version of this letter I stated that I would be in South Dakota and Nebraska this summer. I have to apologize to those of you who were counting on that time with me. 

Some things came up that changed my plans. 

Know that when I am available to sit down with you in South Dakota or Nebraska I will let you know. If you would like to know more information regarding these change of plans please email me at: denisejasmer@outlook.com

December 7, 2012~First Presentation

I want to thank you all for your thoughts for me on December 7th. The most important aspects of last Friday went well. From the government official stand point we must have really done a fantastic job. The review he heard must have been good because he has big plans for us. But I want to tell you about the drama and comedy of the day. 

My team's appointment at the number twelve middle school was at 4pm. We arrived at 3:30 and the government official was supposed to meet us there.  Instead Mr. Lee told us around 1pm that he would be late and gave me the phone number of a Teacher Wang to call when we arrived at 3:30. So, we called Teacher Wang and told her that the foreigners had arrived. She wanted to know when we were arriving and I told her that we were already there. 

A woman approached our team and asked us if we were the Singaporeans. We told her that we were not the Singaporeans and then she wanted to know who we were and why we were at the school. We came to understand that she was not Teacher Wang and didn't have any idea of who or why we were there. So we had her talk to Mrs. Wang and she then took us to a giant conference room. Where we waited for the headmaster and Mrs. Wang. Once Mrs. Wang came it turned out that she also didn't really know why we were there. The headmaster finally came and told us that Mr. Lee would not be able to be there and that Mr. Lee really hadn't told him very much about why we were there either. 

The headmaster knew that we were there to teach something but didn't know what. So when Angela, my teammate and translator, told him that there was a portion of the program about trafficking prevention and moral sex education the headmaster told us that their students were good kids who didn't need to have that information.  He also told us that the 2 hours he had been told we would need had been reduced. He said that we could only have an hour and twenty minutes. Mr. Lee, the government official, was not there to protect the program so we felt we had no choice but to cut the last two points off the program. 

The actual delivery of the School Program was incredibly awesome. The youth soaked up the knowledge that they were valuable, had power to make good choices, and had limitless potential. When I asked them if they thought that one person could change the world the entire class room answered with a resounding NO. It was amazing. By the time that I was finished speaking I think that even if I didn't change their minds I at least gave them something to think about. I challenged them that I believed that each one of them could change the world. They were sooooooo adorable. 

Eden's boss received a phone call from Mr. Lee who called her to tell her that the headmaster had called to tell Mr. Lee that he was glad we had come and we were a great success. 

Thank you for your thoughts. I know that it is your thoughts that gave me continual peace throughout the craziness.  The peace that passes all understanding that comes from above is a great gift that I have not taken for granted. May these small victories open more doors for the greater glory of the Father and the ultimate good of His people. 

School Begins Again!!

Please Please Please ask Father for a good strong beginning at a new semester of Language learning!! For me to be self controlled and disciplined. Thank you all for your continual support and love. :)