This past week has probably been the hardest week for me yet. The Saturday of the 10’th I began to feel a little sick and after that things just kept going down. I slept almost all day because I was determined I was not going to be sick and miss ministry, so I tried to fight it. Monday I was still under the weather, but I was going to try to tough it out and be Mr. Big Man. That didn’t work at all. I might have stayed at ministry, but I was just wiped, and not much help. I attempted morning ministry a couple more times, but I never made it to where I was good enough to make it to teaching. I ended up having to go to the hospital and found out that I had gotten the Flu. I ended up getting pretty bad to where I barely had the energy to get up the stairs to where our room is. But about a week and a half before this I had begun walking with the Lord in trying to have joy in every situation, and so this was a very trying period for me. But I made it through and God was faithful, as always, and I ended up getting better even though it took over a week. That was definitely a major struggle, but then on Wednesday we got the news that two of my squad mates were going home. This news came as a major shock and it was a very sad time, but it was also a wake-up call. I’ve been with these two the entire time I have been in Cambodia, but I hadn’t gotten to know either very well. And I know that’s something that I can’t change, but it made me realize that we don’t always have as long with someone as we think. I have heard that saying before, but it never really clicked in my head the reality of it. I just assumed that I would have nine months with these two, but God had different plans. So this week has been a lot of testing and learning things the hard way, but it’s the way that it needed to be for me to get it.
PS: if you two are reading this I love y’all and regret not getting to know y’all very well.
