Until my internship that is! Tomorrow officially is my first real day on the job! I will try to get caught up on what has all happened over the past little while and all that God has been teaching me through it. Not sure I can do it all in one blog post but I’ll give it my best shot! In my last post I was waiting for a visa. Since then I got my visa, spent a night in Bangkok so that I could be legal, and moved to Kampong Thom province! The province is where I will be doing my work and now spending the majority of my time with a few trips back to Phnom Penh to regroup. While I’m here I will be working alongside the teachers at Empowering Cambodia to improve their skills as teachers as well as their English. When Patrick and Carol (my mentors and the directors of Empowering Cambodia) originally told me I would be training teachers I panicked a little because I’m not a teacher and don’t know the first thing about being one. But they reassured me that having grown up and been educated in a developed country I would be fine. The first couple of days I spent here there was a short-term team here from Australia (so many delightful accents) so those days were packed with dance parties, boat races, jump rope, paper airplane contests, and so much more! (Special shoutout right now to anyone from that team who might be reading this. The way you guys accepted me into your group and loved on the Cambodians is something I can never say thank you enough for! I love you guys, maybe I’ll see you again someday!) Then they left and I didn’t realize how much I would miss their presence. It can get pretty lonely being the only ex-pat around. But as I sit and type this the sun is shining on me, the river is flowing gently by, a man just rode by on his ox-cart, and I can’t help but think that I’ll be just fine. There will undoubtedly be some very difficult days and days I don’t really have any clue what I’m doing but God does and He’s got me. (Sense a theme developing?) I was reminded recently that one of the most common commands in the Bible is to remember. Remember what God has done. When I find myself focussing on the mountain that is the next five months sometimes I despair and think I can’t do it. But when I look back and remember all that God has done in my life, just in the past three years, I am blown away by how faithful He is! (Sense another theme?) All this to say, I still so desperately need your prayer, even though life has slowed down a bit from when we were in a new country every week I’m glad you guys are still with me, and God is so good. Reading Romans I was reminded of a verse God gave me while I was in the Yukon, Romans 14:8, “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.” There’s so much comfort in that. I hope you’re all well and I love you all so very much! With Christmas coming up please take time to remember just how special it is that God is with us. No other god makes that promise, must less lived it out. Love you guys! :) |