First Couple of Days

Our plan is to post a new update every week, but we thought we would share a little bit about life in Cambodia, as of the last two days.

            Yesterday (Monday) was kind of a blur, because Kelsi and I were both having quite a bit of jetlag. We got up early, but then crashed in the afternoon. Our day was filled with adventurous things though, like a tuktuk ride to the Lucky Mart to buy some groceries—it was basically a day to get settled in and get our heads on straight. Because yesterday was Monday, we would have been introduced to the BYKOTA kids, but Heather (the teacher of School of the Nations) has been having back difficulties, and school was canceled—make sure to pray for Heather, because she is a large part of this ministry and we are unable to begin teaching without her here to show us the ropes. Today (Tuesday), she was unable to make it also, but instead of canceling school, we had the kids come and we did ice breaker activities and get to know you games. The kids are all wonderful, and we are really excited to get to know each of them personally. In the morning, however, SJ (Stephen Judah—one of Rhonda’s soon to be adopted sons) had weird blotchy spots on his back and his eyes were swollen, so Rhonda had to run to the clinic. Kelsi went with her to see it. She found out that we have available a really great nurse practitioner that has been all around the world and is familiar with our talent trust insurance—basically, God provided for our medical needs wonderfully. The nurse was unable to tell what was wrong with SJ, other than she thought it was an allergic reaction, and SJ has progressively gotten better as the day goes on.  After the morning, Rhonda wanted to take us out to the market. Lucky Mart was very modern, kind of like a small Wal-Mart with less variety and no dill pickles or strawberry syrup. The market Rhonda wanted to take us to was much less modern. I would describe it as the largest flee market/farmers market I have ever seen—with a metal roof over the whole thing. As we walked around and bought various things we needed (like a mirror for me to shave and a straightening iron and blow dryer for Kels to tame her hair), I found that you could not look at anything for more than two seconds, or else the sales person would jump up and try to sell it to you—I kept my eyes forward for most of the time, once I discovered this aspect of the market. On the way back, we stopped into a really nice restaurant/coffee shop called Jars of Clay—owned by a group of Christian women who love Jesus and are trying to raise money to stop the sex trafficking of women in Cambodia. Kels and I drank frappicinos that tasted amazing … suffering for Jesus ;) Other exciting news, we received a phone call from the airport saying that they found our one piece of missing  luggage, and we are picking it up tonight at 10 P.M. (did we say that we had one piece missing?). This was a huge blessing, because it has my study Bible and my worship song book in it. Our video will be filmed while we are riding in the tuktuk to the airport, so if you watch it you will see Cambodia at night J That is all for now, we will keep updates coming, hopefully every week. Until next time!

BecauseHeLives,

Micah and Kelsi