Cambodia

I am happy to say it is month 9 and this is where we are. For most of you who don’t know Cambodia is lovely. Seriously. Lovely. Luckily we are here in the rainy season so it rains everyday pretty much all day long.. which is good for us because if it weren’t raining we would all die from the heat! This place is insanely hot and I literally swear 24/7. I wake up sweating, go to sleep sweating, and all throughout the day I sweat…. so unless it rains. I sweat. Lets face it.. either way.. I’m getting wet 🙂

So this month we were finally introduced to our first “World Race” experience.. like a for real one. We live in a really small village in the Kampot Province of Cambodia where about 200 families live. Everyone here, for the most part, are all rice farmers. No electricity, no running water, no air conditioning, I’m tenting and sleeping outside, and going to the bathroom in squatty potties, and I’m showing with pond water.. but guess what! I love it so much 🙂 I wouldnt have it any other way because there literally are no distractions around me. Just me and my new team (an all girls team) and the Lord… 


My new house 🙂


 So when I arrived here on Cambodia.. i looked at the people here and something jumped inside of my heart.. I finally found out what i look like. I am half Chinese and half American.. so that blended together and it made me.. A CAMBODIAN! Seriously.. i look like all of these people here. We work with children all day long, and about 200 kids come to learn English from us in the village.. and I look like I could have birthed every single one of them. I seriously look like I’m teaching my daughters English.. these kids are precious because they are all on their summer vacations, but they choose to spend their vacation time learning English with us. 


Me and Kim-ei (one of my fav students)

We live with our contact Vuthy (28 years old) and his Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Grandmother, and 2 cousins. Vuthy has an amazing story of how he used to be a Tuk Tuk driver and he started driving for a couple of YWAM-er’s who introduced him to Jesus!! He then went to Discipleship Training School at YWAM here in Cambodia, where God revealed his heart for teaching English to children as well as sharing the gospel with him. He prayed about it and God has opened a door for him to finally start the English school and church in his small village. Now he runs it and he is building an orphanage in January.  

Vuthy has an English school where everyday almost 200 children come to learn English and about Jesus! Most of the families here are Buddhist and do not approve of the Jesus part, but free English is a huge deal! So they come. Vuthy has completely changed the Youth here. He is a pretty cool guy if I must say so myself, and all the kids see that you can be cool and love Jesus! Its pretty awesome to watch. There are about 25 kids that have come to be really hard core Christians through Vuthy becoming a Christian and starting this school.

Some mornings before we start teaching we go out into the village and just see where the Holy Spirit leads us, and we do house visits. We have prayed healing over a limp arms and stomach tumors! Prayed over a road that was wiped out by the rains. And over a few random Buddhist temples.


So quick background story, when I was in Mozambique I was prophesied over that God has given me a gift of teaching and that he is going to refine that gift and use me in that way. Last month in Thailand I taught English to the girls from the bars, and now this month I am teaching English to Cambodian children. We teach about 4 classes a day, and each class is an hour each.  I absolutely love getting to know the children and seeing them finally understand it and it clicks in their head. I’m not sure if this is going to be in my future.. but i love how God is refining me and preparing me for what is ahead 🙂 

I would like everyone to pray for these kids to be more open to learning about Jesus, and for over the next year we want to see 150 youth come to know our savior, and for funds for the school to keep flowing in. And for two of our students who are leaving tomorrow to go to Discipleship Training School TOMORROW! They are leaving the village to go 2 hours away to school for 6 months!  And for the sun to stay away!!!