Oh hey supporters! Thanks for checking in. How am I doing, you ask?? Well, I am still showering with toilet water and village folk still watch us use the bathroom, sleep and shower �” but other than that, all is well!
The past week has been very productive for me. Last Sunday we worshiped in church with the few Christians in the village, then drove an hour away further into the jungle for a small bible group study. We sang songs and encouraged each other and it was a very special time. After that, the teenagers we teach in the evenings threw us a party with delicious food. They demanded I sing a song in return for their favors, so I sang “Part of your Worldâ€� from The Little Mermaid. When they asked me to translate it for them I didn’t realize how difficult it was to explain this child’s movie…I was like “Ok, so there is this girl, the top of her is a person and the bottom a fishâ€�. “What???? A fish?!?!â€� “Yeah, but you see she lives in the ocean…but she wants to live on land. Also, there is this guy she wants to marry but…oh yeah an octopus took her voice away so she can’t say I love you!!â€� BLANK stares all around.
Valentine’s day was even better! I had a Cambodian valentine named Kunthea. He drew me some pretty great pictures. It was a total Napolean Dynamite moment, for those of you who are familiar with that movie!
The rest of the week was spent teaching English 3 classes a day, and between the classes, we spend time with whomever shows up in our windows. These kids and youths are hungry for attention and desperately want to learn English. We’ve been more and more bold every day teaching them from the Bible.
Other neat things:
Washing my laundry in the Mekong river next to cows taking a bath. How are my clothes clean?!? I don’t know, but they smell like soap.
Having the homosexual youths in the village treat me to the best manicures you’ve ever seen.
Performing songs for them daily. Like, on Valentine’s day they asked for a love song. I sang Beyonce’s Single Ladies. “If you like it then you should’ve put a ring on it!�
Bike rides through the most gorgeous countryside. Boat rides to the temple.
Girl talk at night in our little tent community.
Bicycling 20 kilometers to find a COLD COCA-COLA!
God is absolutely flooding this village right now. The joy is palpable. It sounds silly, but people light up and SHOUT at us when we walk by or enter a room! They see Jesus. It has to and ONLY IS Jesus they see in us. Because let me tell you what we look like �” we bucket ourselves with toilet water, we have no makeup, we sweat from sunrise to sundown and we are covered in a ¼ inch layer of brown dirt all the time. They see Jesus. The Holy Spirit is flooding this place!
Yummy. Sugar cane – one of our only luxuries!
Yummy. Sugar cane – one of our only luxuries!
