Where Else But Iceland!

We are teaching a Thai family who have lived in Iceland for 9 years. The mother speaks a little English and Icelandic and the kids speak mostly Icelandic and Thai. It has been interesting but the most interesting event so far was giving them service. Sunday they could not come to Church as they need to tie hooks. The mother works gutting fish when they need her, cleaning a rest home when they need her and tying fish hooks on lines for the professional fishing industrywhen she can get them. She stills says it is better than living in Thailand. She has been able to send money home to her family so they could buy a car and a tractor. The Elders said if you come to Church we will help you tie hooks. They came and so we went Tuesday to tie hooks. She earns approximately $0.80 per 100 tied hooks. Luckily Tree and her two kids can tie quickly or you could call it slave labor. In the hour we were there we only managed to tie 900 hooks between the 4 of us. We offered to come back and tie again and Tree said no you come back for fun next time. I think we were too slow for her. She has 50,000 to complete by Friday so she has both the money to pay the rent and so they will give her more to do. There seems to be a lot of Thai in Iceland who want to do the work so there is competition in getting the hooks to do.