Vol.# 80
Thank you for your prayers
this week.
For the first two days of classes I had to
wear a mask to class because I was coughing so much, but God answered your
prayers in that HE gave me enough strength throughout the morning so that by
the time I went home, I just rested!
And today, which is Friday, my third day
of classes, my head cleared! Unfortunately, learning the Khmer consonants and vowels (33 of them) was a fog! I could not
distinguish the sounds of ‘k’ (there
are 4 different sounds!). So this weekend I have to work on that! I am picking
up the sentences and practising on all and sundry!
Last week I bought a couch and my prayer
chair for the balcony and had to pray for the workers, who, with ropes like
pulleys pulled the chair up to the 3rd floor! That was not an easy
task! They had to go out on the roof on the 2nd floor to pull up the chair from
street level while avoiding the electrical lines overhead! Then they scraped
one of the chairs so came back to ‘fix it up’ which meant spray-painting it!
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| My couch! |
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| My Prayer Chair! |
Can you guess what happened?
Yes, spray paint all over the floor on the
balcony and yes on the wall (black paint). I had to breathe in and out before
telling the guys who just kept smiling and saying “som doh’’ (sorry in English)
to clean it up! I actually went back to the place to let the lady know and she
was glad I came to tell her.
So for now, no dining room table or chairs, just a
wide couch! I got curtains that are being made right now, so I will put them up
on the weekend! I also got another bamboo wardrobe for my clothes so I can
start to take them out of the suitcase! Yay! Channak and Jonny, in exchange for
a meal, put up my curtain rods (bamboo rods again) and a place to hang my
towels! SO now instead of dripping everywhere looking for my towels, I can
actually just reach out and grab them!
I still need to put up my mosquito net. Since
I was sick, I could not use my a/c, and the mosquitoes love me so I spent most
of my night trying to huddle under the sheets!
I thank God for all
of you.
I have been spending my time listening to
Pastor Sunder’s messages and going into the different links by C. Yuan and
others, educating myself on the topics being spoken of. Here in Cambodia, there
is such an abuse of God-ordained sex within God-ordained marriages; you have to
have His wisdom and grace when you are confronted with the distortions by man
here!
Prayer
request: continued prayer requests as I battle consonants and vowel
sounds! I need to hear the sounds so that I can say the words correctly. I want
to have the correct foundation for the language. One surprise here is that I am
not only learning how to speak the language, but also how to write the script!
So however God leads you to pray creatively for me, I do so welcome your
prayers!
I went with Dong, one of my ‘brothers’ here,
to the Post Office to open a P.O. Box! Khmer do not have mailboxes, so I had to
go to the central post office in Phnom Penh! Please email me to get the P.O. Box address! At least I have a P.O. Box for the year and paid only
$15.00 US!
It is raining again, and the mosquitoes are
coming in so I have to rush off to close the windows! Please continue to let me
know how we can dance together in His partnership in life!
Love,
His Warrior and Disciple, submitting to
be His dance partner here in Cambodia,
Your servant, Vidya
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