Duck farming & Adventure out with Dave & Ryan

This past week we spent 2 1/2days & 2 nights camping at duck farm, helping out. Some firsts for us were herding 1000 t ducks to their new duck house. We got them moved without anyone getting away:)

The ducks had to figure out their new water system , walking up a ramp... Didn't take them to long..

Baby ducks figuring out walking down a ramp Ming built to take them out of their house. 

Ming feeding the babies.

Egg gathering & washing them was one way I helped out there are approx 690 here. Stan helped with making necessary repairs pond cleaning & fence building. 

   Thursday Chris & Phally took us swimming at a nearby hotel, they had a beautiful mural painted on the wall of history of Cambodia .

These are a few pictures of it, so you can enjoy the art work:) 

On Friday morning Stan returned to the dentist for his "crown" seems to be good:) & Friday afternoon Phally & I went to Vandee's to teach English.

Our friend Dave Hall & Ryan arrived from Phnom Pehn Friday afternoon. Spent time visiting with Phally dad & Stan & Chris. Saturday Stan & I went with Dave & Ryan to find the village of Sueah, we stopped at a "sketchy" roadside stand for breakfast of cooked eggs, crickets & cooked over fire bananas. Also rice with pork...all tasted ok... ( I didn't do the crickets, to early in the morning for me :}... Back on the road ,the road got a bit rough but was encouraged they were working on it for future:) 

Like the guardrail?

Here are a pictures of sights along the way.

We found the village without any problem, Dave has been here before with a couple other people a couple years ago, coming from a different direction. The goal was to find the school & deliver some books for their library, with goal if future English classes and presenting the gospel. Since we came on a Saturday we didn't know if we would find anyone. But God had everything planned for us, not only were the teachers at the school having a meeting, but they had just built a new library building & said they were waiting for us to bring the books for it!! Everyone was very gracious & received us warmly:)

Here are pictures of the library .

Mural being painted in library. Beautiful!

After our visit in Sueah we went on up to Sisophon which is in banteay menchay province.There is a Bible School there that Dave has visited in the past he wanted us to see. It was started & is ran by Koreans. It's located in the heart of a Muslim village! They have approx. 100 students they also have a kindergarten thru 2nd or 3rd grade. They have plans of expansion . 

The visit was an unexpected blessing! The president , man who started the school is a famous Korean singer! He actually sang for us Psalm 8! & presented each of us with a set of his cd's & and a gift of red ginseng tea. 

He then invited us to have a "kimchi"Korean lunch! With them. A few of the Korean missionaries there showed us their rooms "proudly" & we got a tour of the place! We were all so incredibly blessed by our visit there. 

The funniest part of our visit was this man thought Stan was "Gene Hackman movie star" lol we all had a good laugh! He then came over to sit between Stan & I for a photo with Gene Hackman look alike :)) I wish I had a copy! 

Testing the water from the well.

Sunday we helped at church Stan has been teaching the youth Sunday school, 

With sreynuok translating for him, 

After church we had a meeting with Bunthan, he wanted to share with us what he is doing in his home church ministry. 

  Then off to Vandee's to help with her Sunday children's worship bible teaching time. This week she made home cooked food for all the kids! Packaging it so they could take it home! We had nearly 120 kids.. Ran out of food!

A fun time :) the young man who translated for us had an amazing testimony he shared with the kids! Challenging them! He is a product of vandee ministry:) I'm so impressed what this lady has accomplished here for her "kids" helping those who can't help themselves.. 

 Stan & I will be here 1 more week, then we will be heading back to Phnom Penh to study language & visit Sovanapoom friends. 

  Phally had a new great niece born thus week also, I enjoyed crocheting a hat for her:) a few picks of baby before I close

Phally & her mom ( her first great grandchild):) with new baby

Week of teaching

We have kept fairly busy this week, Phally and I went to Vandees to teach English Wednesday & Friday afternoons, we had about 35-40 kids. Sunday (today) Stan went along and we taught a bible lesson , enjoying getting to know them & their needs. 

  Stan was Kept busy teaching a couple boys welding & working on projects for the church and the duck farm. 

Studying Khmer & preparing for teaching Sunday school classes & teaching at vondee's kept us busy.

The river is much higher than normal for this time of year, causing a little concern I think ( it runs through Battambang)

Chris Seawright visiting came by to see Phally dad ( Stan has listened to him preach in Khmer on Sermon Audio.com)

Stan teaching David to weld, making window frames for Sunday school room addition at the church.

Stan decided to get a tooth crown done while here , it should be ready by end of this week I'll let you know how it went, if successful we could all afford to fly to Cambodia to go to the dentist with the savings!! $35.00 crown!

Wedding week, one along the street , never saw so many monks attend a wedding ! We also got to enjoy the noise/music of one next door for 2 days:}

Afternoons spent Study Khmer, coconut milk, perfect study drink:)

Sunday afternoon we went and taught a bible lesson to the kids at Vandees kids ministry there was approx 90 kids this Sunday ages 1-20 or so

Games, red light green light:)

Answering questions

Cuteness:)

Such a good big brother, letting him use his shirt to blow his nose:)

Our little project. 

Trip out to the country

I just realized I forgot to post a little about our day trip out to check on some of the family members land & enjoy a Khmer picnic together , Thursday, Phally sister "Rajana) was  able to get a 1/2day off work, ( she cooks for the YWAM group) she wanted to take us out to see her land & take 200 baby mango trees out to plant on it. It was approx 11/2hr drive out of Battambang  towardsThailand. So we, Rajana & her husband "Ming " Phally's. Mom, her brother Yoot, & Chris. 

Stopped at the farm to load up the baby mangoe trees & pu Ming.

Yoot checking out a casava crop 

Unloading the trees & looking at the land 

This is the farmer that is growing casava on Ming & Rajana land. He will plant the trees in between the rows . 

Pretty good ground I think ! 

Nice hat:)) 

We hiked across the field to a river under the trees the water was pretty brown because of the rainy season. But a nice shady spot:) ( except for the zillions of ants attacking my legs, I might have enjoyed it) 

Khmer picnic , rice of course, cucumber, fried fish, round green eggplant cooked with some herbs , seasoning it was very good but I don't know what it was called. 

Phally mom

 A fun day of sight seeing...