Brethren,
The recovery from my injury and surgery has progressed well since our last update. I am still taking pain medication, but am much improved. Every day it is better and I am mostly functional. My dear wife and our faithful staff have made it possible for me to get the rest and time for recovery. How blessed I am! Thank you for praying, please continue!

We are awaiting word any day about the shipment of a 40,000# container from the USA. When it arrives, we will need to handle the details along with the cost of delivery and clearing it from customs. Most of the contents will then need to be trans-shipped on to other strategic locations along and across borders. We estimate this to cost somewhere around $8,000.00. We currently have around $2,000.00 on hand. Please pray.

Now that the huge project of re-typesetting the Burmese Bible has been completed, we have turned to completing several publications already translated into Burmese. As soon as the typesetting and layout is finished, they will be posted on our website, www.resourcesformissions.org. We have recently given other publications to translators in a number of languages.

We cannot express what a blessing it is to know so many are standing with us in prayer and finances. I assure you, it is evident when the prayer cover is not in place. We do not want to try to minister without it. Thank you!
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
Please excuse this hastily written update. My surgery went as planned on Saturday afternoon. The surgeon said he was able to repair the damage to the nerve in my elbow/forearm. However, after the surgery pain persisted. I spent until today, Wednesday in the hospital mostly to deal with pain. It was necessary to undergo large doses of painkillers. The Dr. said that the damage was repaired but in my case it may be weeks before the pain is gone. We are not sure about the numbness in one finger.

Please pray that we can control the pain with oral medication from home. It will be necessary to go to the border on Friday so that visas can be renewed.

Thank you for praying. Several have called and written. We have even received special offerings to help pay the medical expenses. I cannot express how grateful we are for the concern you have.

We thank the Lord for our staff of dedicated co-workers. They were faithful at the work while I was out. We are most blessed of the Lord. Among other important work, the disk for printing the Judson version of the Burmese Bible was sent to the printers yesterday! PTL!
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
We learned today that additional surgery will be required to repair nerve damage caused by the accident two weeks ago. I have been in constant pain in my hand and wrist even though the wound was in the elbow/forearm area. After several physicians and referrals, a specialist has said a microsurgical procedure would be the only way to repair the nerve. When the original surgery was done, there was so much blood loss that it stopping it became the priority.

I must make a previously planned trip to Singapore tomorrow and return on Friday morn. The surgery is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. If all goes well, I should be released on Monday.

Please pray about the trip to Singapore. I am on some heavy doses of pain killers and sometimes it affects me badly. Pray that I can get done what is needed in the short time there. Pray that the additional surgery fixes the injury to the nerve.

This comes at a bad time financially as we have not yet recovered from the move. God is in control. Thank you for praying however.

By the end of this week, the typesetting for the Judson version of the Burmese Bible should be completed and the file sent to the printers in the USA. Please pray for the brethren who have committed to printing and shipping these Bibles, New Testaments, and Gospels. We are now awaiting a shipping date for a 40,000# container. With the Lord's provision several other shipments will follow!
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
Please pray for the people of Thailand during these days. I could go into a lengthy explanation, but suffice it to say that protests from the rural poor in the commercial area of Bangkok has once again escalated into violence as the authorities try to disband them. These protests have literally shut down a couple of the busiest commercial areas in the city since March. Thousands of shops have been shut down as well as major hotels which service the tourist trade.

Since Thursday, two dozen people have died and hundreds have been injured. In addition to the authorities taking action, counter protests in the past have resulted in sporadic violence. The fear now is that this will escalate into all-out civil war.

Some of the protests have taken place in several other Thailand cities including where we live now, Chiang Mai. These are mostly peaceful but who knows what could happen if a all-out crackdown starts. We are far from the conflict area at this point and have no intention of going there.

Just about the time we moved from Bangkok is when the first of the violence started. About 2 weeks after we moved, the protesters set up a road block using a hijacked bus on the main highway just in front of the street where we were living. That was 25 miles from the current protest site. As I said, we are safe, but please pray about this situation. Most Thai people are ambivalent but just want to get on with their lives.

If you are interested in knowing more about the situation, you can easily find it on news sites on the web.

Also, let me update you on recovery from my injury two weeks ago. The incision has healed nicely, but I am still having significant nerve-related pain in my forearm and hand. It is debilitating at times. I am scheduled to return to the Dr. on Monday to see about it. Please pray for full recovery. Pain medication really makes me drowsy.

We praise the Lord that we are in His hands. I know of no safer place to be than where He wants us. We are very grateful for your intercession however. God can and does use you.
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
I want to thank you for your intercession and for the many expressions of concern we have received via e-mail and phone. How comforting it is to know so many are behind us in prayer.

The wound on my arm is healing well. Stitches were removed yesterday. The numbness I felt in two of my fingers has progressed and regressed at the same time. One of them now is free of the numbness, but the other one, along with much of that hand is very painful at this point. It is not near the wound; rather a referred pain that the Dr. said was nerve damage. He said there is a possibility that I will never be free of that pain or numbness. Only time will tell.

Please continue to pray about this. How we thank the Lord the injury was not worse. Please pray for full recovery from it. Only the Lord can perform healing in that manner.

This has really slowed me down for the past week. We thank the Lord for faithful co-workers who continue on with the work. How we appreciate you standing with us. We are blessed beyond measure.
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
I am grateful for God's protection and provision today! I know many of you heard about an accident I had on Monday evening. I was just released from the hospital this afternoon.

On Monday evening in our house in Chiang Mai I tripped over one of the last boxes yet to unpack from our move. Trying to recover from the stumble I toppled into the glass closet door and it broke. A large, deep gaping wound on my forearm was the result of that. Of course it bled immediately but much worse because I am taking blood thinners.

Surgery was necessary due to muscle and nerve damage. The biggest factor however was blood loss and potential for more. I spent the first night in ICU then another on a ward. I was released today after 7 units of plasma to replace lost blood and increase the clotting factor.

I asked the Dr how many stitches he put in and he said, "Oh, so many, did not count." The surgery went well and a repair to muscle was done. We are not sure about nerve damage yet as there was a lot of swelling. I do have numbness in two fingers now. I am due to return to the hospital every day for dressing changes.

We have received many expressions of concern via e-mail and calls. We are grateful for each of you, our faithful co-workers, and several missionary families here who have offered encouragment and help. We do appreciate your continued intercession for healing. Thank you so much.
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
This email is copied from an email Mrs. Gaudet sent home concerning Bro. Tom Gaudet's injury yesterday...
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I just left the hospital. Tom had surgery last night to repair his arm. It was cut below the elbow on the inside almost to the bone. There was massive bleeding because of the blood thinners he is taking for his heart. They gave him several pints of blood plasma and he was in ICU over night because of the bleeding. The doctor was able to repair the damage and we hope there was no nerve damage, but that will remain to be seen.

As to the accident itself: the doors to our closets are glass. He stumbled into one of the doors last night and it broke and he fell thru it and that is how he was injured. He could have easily been killed because of the blood thinners. God is good and he should make a full recovery. I will let you know more as I know more.
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Thank you for your prayers on their behalf.
(Myra Noel for the Gaudet family)
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet

Brethren,
Please forgive the length of this report about the move to Chiang Mai. Before we undertook it we knew at least three things about moving here:

1 It would be a challenge moving existing offices and housing.
2 It would be expensive.
3 We knew it would prove to be a strategic move in many ways.

Indeed all three proved accurate. It was indeed a challenge; terminating the contracts on houses and office, securing trucks to move, packing... then finding suitable office/housing/storage in Chiang Mai.

Indeed, it also proved to be expensive. We knew about most of the costs, but it was those portions that we did not know about that got our attention! In the end, we went over the estimated cost by nearly 2X. It was also necessary to buy an additional vehicle because transportation is more challenging here than in Bangkok. We are very grateful for churches in the USA who helped us with special offerings to make the move and buy a car! We now have a "new" car, a 14 year old Honda! Anyway, it will work nicely for our needs. Please pray as we attempt to sell our light weight passenger van and find a heavier duty vehicle for road trips and hauling people.

The value of the move in the long term has only just begun to be evident. We have access to language helpers that we never dreamed of in Bangkok. As we put the word out what we were looking for, we have actually had to turn two of them away for now until we see where our finances are after fully setting up things. We now have two new locally based co-workers in the office daily.

One matter which was a concern to us is additional housing and transportation for Jeffry and Sarah Evans. They plan to come for at least one year sometime this summer. We were envisioning having to locate another house and outfit it then do something about transportation. Meanwhile, we heard about a missionary leaving the country for two years and she was looking for someone to sub-lease her house. We looked at it and immediately told her we would take it! It is a beautiful, fully furnished place which includes the use of her car for the two years. The price was lower than what we paid in Bangkok for a similar house. $160 per month! What a God we serve! He knows our needs when we only know to fret about something.

At this writing, men are in the office installing wiring and moving the server into a permanent location. Everything should be 100% by the end of next week. Work goes on in several languages, fully set up or not.

Thank you for praying. We are blessed to have God's people standing with us in these things. The possibilities are endless.
For Souls Still Waiting,
Tom and Krinny Gaudet