OK, it is 3pm on the 23rd anniversary of my birth and it has already been the b-day of a lifetime. Continue reading for further details! We are in Cambodia and have just started ministry with an organization that wishes not to be named or talked about so I will be pretty vague in talking about anything we’re doing.
We just moved to our own apartment that turns out will be only 50 cents more per person per night then our previous arrangements, with phenomenally better accommodations!! It is air-conditioned, we have 3 bathrooms(including 2 tubs and 2 showers), 2 bedrooms a kitchen, and there is a workout room with new equipment on the roof (8th floor) And all this for my birthday everything revolves around me incase you didn’t know, wow, I have an amazing team…
So, back to last night, Andrew and Ginger found a cool restaurant that was having a pool party that night so we got a bunch of people together and went over later that night. It ended up being an awesome dance party outside surrounded by huge trees and mats everywhere to sit down and enjoy friends company. We danced until we were
dripping then went over to the pool, which was surrounded by people dipping their feet in, but at 1a.m., no one had dared to jump in yet. That changed very quickly as our World Race group debriefed, you could say, and all splashed into the pool, I was dragged in fully clothed but I didn’t care, they were soaked in sweat anyways. They sang to me at midnight as we hailed in the most amazing day of the year, and we had a blast taking pictures with Andrew’s underwater camera most of the night.
Then it was home to watch a few episodes of the office, 3rd season that Stacy already got me for my birthday, and for the enjoyment of the whole squad, who are we kidding Stacy? You basically bought it for yourself!!! Then this morning my teammates let me sleep in until 10am. Then I got out of the room and started finding notes all over the house from my friends on the race and things that they love about me, naturally there were too many notes to count. I smelled pancakes and we all sat down to enjoy a wonderful breakfast that Talia prepared with chocolate chips and nutella. Then the gifts started coming out, from Mom and Dad. Thank you so much for all the food, you did well with the smoked salmon and the chocolate covered raisins.
Then after breakfast as I was taking pictures of my cornucopia of gifts there was a knock at the door. To my surprise it was a tiny Cambodian woman who was here to massage me! Thank you Ginger for that amazing gift! Since then I have been finding more notes and cards and relaxing until me next engagement at 8 tonight.
How are we going to possibly top what this spectacular day has already blessed me with? I wait in eager anticipation and will try to fill you in as soon as the information is made available to me.
I love you all and am so happy to greet you as a 23-year-old and no longer be that horrible age of yester year that I thankfully will never have to endure again (that number is my most loathed number of the entire number system.)
I love you all, if you want to call me (which is much appreciated) find me on skype, name jonathan.hiebert and send me a time request (I am 14 hours ahead of Vancouver), we have internet in our apartment so calls can be whenever. Or e-mail me and get our cell phone number for a clearer call…
Our ministry is going well and looks like it will be a lot of fun to help out with what is going on here, it’s insane to see how God works in such vastly different ways all over the world.
Here’s the cornucopia!
I have amazing friends
The best hour of my life
Totally deep tissue, my shirt is still holding up though!
