I can’t believe it is time to move on to our next country already! Working with the neighboring kids at the orphanage was a blast! Our last day there this one little girl followed me around everywhere and helped me cut out “fruits of the spirit” for the smaller kids to color. They loved playing the games and singing the songs, and it’s so rewarding and fulfilling to work with them.
While we had a great time with the kids, I was surprised at how moved I was working with the University students. In Cambodia it is illegal to go door to door preaching the gospel and you cannot share your faith with someone if they do not ask you about it. How mission organizations work around the regulations is they set up free English classes and the students come knowing that the teacher is Christian. The school now has a Christian Club that meets to do Bible study and many of the students either are Christian or ask questions and want to understand what we believe. It’s really inspiring! Last Friday we had a movie night with all our students and we watched the Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The students really enjoyed the movie (especially the battle scene) and at the end we explained the symbolism of the movie and how it related to our faith. It was funny tho; that night we ordered pizza to eat with the students and when I gave them the address they said the account was under Fhem (our contacts name) and wanted to know my relations to her. The guy on the phone asked is she your aunt, sister, friend and I quickly responded “Oh, she’s my mother.� Fhem is from the Philippines, but when she heard me she started laughing. We joked about it for the rest of my time in Cambodia, and I will miss her laugh! 
Then Saturday morning we went out with a few students and the Christian club member to Angkor Wat and they were our tour guides to some of the temples. The temples are amazing to see! How the trees have grown on top of them over hundreds of years, and the history that took place there; it’s crazy! As you climb up the temples, you literally have to climb hand and foot to get up the stairs that are a foot high and 3 to 4 inches deep. It’s tough, but all those ice skating lessons prepared my thighs for the climb. In the middle of our tour we sat down to have a Bible study and this Bulgarian girl sat down beside us and said she was only resting, but ended up staying for the entire Bible study! I can’t explain how it felt to sit on this patio worshiping and studying with 15 Khmer Christians who want change and truth brought to their country. 
I will truly miss all the people we have worked with in Cambodia and the different people we have met through our contacts and ministry sites here. It’s sad to have to leave, but I thank God every day for the people he has brought into my life in the past two months and I know that by moving on He will introduce us to even more!
