Sihanoukville Mansion

            Have you
ever walked into a place, or down a street, and just got a bad feeling or knew
something was wrong? Before coming on the race, I would get feelings like that,
but I never took the time to try to discern what the feeling was or what was
causing it. Most of the time I would just assume I was being paranoid. Since
arriving in Sihanoukville, we have all been feeling very heavy spiritual
climates. And it is easy to see why. Everywhere we look There are middle aged
white men with young teenage to twenties Cambodian women, mainly who have been
bought for a good time. 

            The other
night after my team ate dinner, we decided to go on a prayer walk. I was with
Nate, Lindsey, and Kristi. We started walking down the road praying to
ourselves, and I had a very strong feeling that something was wrong, but it
wasn’t like we were in danger or anything, but I couldn’t figure out what it
was I was feeling. After walking for a few minutes we stopped, and Nate asked
me if I was feeling anything so I told him, and he replied, “That’s interesting
that you can’t figure out what your feeling because what I am hearing is there
is a strong spirit of confusion.” So we stopped and prayed against that, and
then continued to walk.

            I looked up
at the corner we were at and saw and escalade, and felt like we needed to go
down that street. So the 4 of us started walking that way and about a minute
later came across 2 white men who were about to sit down with 3 young Cambodian
women clearly dressed as escorts. So we stopped to pray for them, Nate for the
2 men and the 3 of us for the 3 girls. In the middle of my prayer, it was
almost as if my voice had left me so finally all I could say was “Go Lindsey”
and she started to pray. When we were done, Nate looked at me and said that he
was hearing that I just needed to pray in the spirit so as we walked I did.

            Then all of
a sudden, my ears felt like they were being muffled so I stopped my group and
told them that. Nate prayed against silence and whatever it was that was making
me not be able to hear and then my ears started to feel like they were burning.
After a few more minutes I looked up and asked the group if they wanted to keep
going or go back. Nate all the sudden looked at me and said, “No, you are
supposed to raise your hands and pray in the spirit for this entire area, and
do it out loud, don’t worry about what any one thinks.” So I started to do
that, and Nate did as well, and Krisit and Lindsey started praying too. I
started praying facing one direction and just kind of started turning in a
circle then all of the sudden after I had turned about 180° I
got a very strong feeling. So I stopped and opened my eyes and we were all kind
of facing the same direction, and we all had just an intense evil feeling. We
were facing some kind of compound that was gated and had security cameras. The
feeling was so strong that I almost threw up, and after praying for a little
while Nate had to get out of there because it was so intense.