Jul. 9, 2007 - Monday in Asia

Monday is the slowest day of the work week in Number One Son's company.  "Why in the world???"  those of you who had a Monday like mine are probably asking.  That's because it is still Sunday in the Western hemisphere where their customers are!  See, Asia is 12 hours in the future from our time - so when it is Sunday evening here, they are getting up to go to work on Monday morning.  So, there's no communication with their customers, no got-to-jump-on-it-first-thing-Monday stuff, just a nice getting back to business day - sounds great to me!

The strange time difference makes it really hard to talk about what is currently going on in Number One Son's life.  Yesterday at church, I was trying to tell someone "He went to church tonight."  Boy, that sounds weird.  The alternative isn't much better, "He went to the evening service this morning."  or "He went to church last night - yes, they have service on Sunday."  Think about it.  How would you say it???

Anyway, the Lord is answering your prayers and Number One Son had a much more pleasant day at work.  We were able to talk to him this morning once he got home about 11pm.  His contacts were much less critical today.  Please keep praying for him.  This is a very stressful situation for him and he greatly desires to bear a good testimony to those he is with over there.

Several have asked what kind of work a high school student could be doing over there, so I thought I'd copy his work report from last week for you (removing identifying data, of course).  Looks pretty busy to me :-)

 Work Report

Summary:

This past week, I was travelling on Monday, so I didn't work at the office that day.

I worked the rest of the week largely on New Customer business.

Details

During the past week I have completed the following: