What a week....filled with learning that "God's got this"

At one of the farms we stopped at, they also build these chairs! So the man asked Stan to sit in it & asked to have their picture taken together!!:)

 Here is a little glimpse into our week here, hope you enjoy,  Hard to put into words all we experience & feel.
     We arrived back from the trip to Siem Reap stopping to look at a couple farms to check on their crop on the way back. We are still learning all about this process, ("Patience is a virtue " I have to keep reminding myself) we were a little surprised when we were greeted at the farm with a chicken & fish with (rice of course), dinner prepared and waiting for us! Hospitality first :)

   They next day we went out to start the pickup to take "Nisa & Joy out to check on another farm that is close by the general's farm, and then take them to the Thai border, Our pickup wouldn't start:((
the guys here tried to help us get it going, but to no avail.
I was grateful it decided to wait until we got back to the Farm to be a problem though. We purchased a new battery and fuses, still wouldn't work...
It was making us late for our appt. with the farmer. the General kindly loaned us his car & driver for the day.
   The Thai border is at the top of mountain range, ran into a pretty good rain climbing up!

   So the next day we got a mechanic to come look at the pickup, its difficult to say the least when you've got a bunch of guys talking fast, can't understand much that being said and the car is being torn apart, looking for wiring issue ect.....  Causes your prayer life to be deepened  bit! God has been teaching us daily that He is taking care of us each day and through each issue! The mechanic was getting frustrated when he finally found the "brain" and discovered it was a problem. he took it back to town and got a good one, was back the next day. and got the pickup running, I was a bit worried they would never be able to put it back together, because the dash was literally torn apart!!!                                                                                                                                  

Working on the pickup

Exchanging language lessons during lunch English vs Khmer

Saw this while waiting in the car for Stan, a family leaving the DR. office, notice the IV on a stick...its attached to a sick boy on the ladies lap.

 This week we've spent part of each day, with a couple guys from Thailand attempting to teach us all about the Sacha Inchi, from preparing the seeds , to care of plant in the "nursery"

 to pruning , spraying requirements, at each age of the plant thru to maturity, a very interesting task, since they don't speak english, & possibly less khmer than we do, and we don't speak thai!! Lots of repeating and gesturing ect.

Stan stopping to help out the guys for awhile setting posts and digging the holes , they are always amused ;)

These girls, shyly  followed us while we were being "trained" 

This is the new "Pepper" field they just got planted very nice in here under the shade cloth! 

The day after they planted the "Pepper  field this group of people showed up to prepare a special lunch in celebration of the planting. we were introduced to The Govenor of the province where we are living. We never know who we may meet! 

Stan is helping me with laundry :) wringing water out of  the pants! 

This was all hand sawn with a chain saw "perfect 1x8 "HARDWOOD!
PICTURE OF IT BEING SAWN IS PREVIOUS POST

Giving the main house a facelift, new paint & more cement patio area

This little girl (3yr old) is my special friend! :) I was able to Dr her leg, giving her a little candy, 

This has given me a little "in" to attempt to visit with her mama,:) I was praying for an opportunity to show them a little bit of love and care. Another lady brought me her baby to show me, it was 4 mos. old & born without a foot or hand on his right side, pray for this little guy, these are very poor farm families. Pray that God will continue to use us somehow to show them "HIS" love & light in this dark place. We are the only Christians here on this farm, among possibly a couple hundred people if you count all the small kids. We keep reminding ourselves when we don't understand what to do here or how to do things because without understanding fully the language, & there are two languages being spoken around us daily Khmer & Thai. It gets a little frustrating....That maybe God has us here to be "Salt", &  Light. So daily we seek Him to show us and to ask Him to use us however He wills to shed a little light to these people.

Payday!!!

Sunset last night :) nice reminder that God who paints a beautiful sunset for us to enjoy, is the same one who loves us enough to care for us each day! 

A group of ladies planting the Sacha Inchi plants in the new field we spent this afternoon helping , It was a muddy job, but it gave us a chance to work alongside the ladies, attempting to visit a little practicing speaking a bit. It also gave them some laughs! 

Ice cream break :) even way out here the Icecream Moto man
makes his rounds on the farm:) Its not a DQ dilly bar, but its cold :)

One of the improvements of the week was getting WIFI installed!! 

Can you find the guy, installing the Wifi dish/antennae? I couldn't believe this when I watched him climb up the pole like "No Problem"!! 

Pumping the water up to the Fields

Some of the workers enjoying lunch! 

"Oscar", he is a very large Gecko,about 8-10" long and fat! He lives in our room, usually only comes out at night , hence we tried taking a picture with the flashlight! Yesterday i came into our room during the day, he was crawling along the edge of the bed!!!!! I yelled at him! ( the lizard loving kids would like him) along with the large mice that I see running around the room, (we've caught one in one of our steel traps :) ) I was nearly ready to move out!! 

Slowly we are gaining at getting to know a few more of the workers each day, and hoping we are gaining their trust, It is a lot different than working with Sovanapoom or being in Battambang, these people haven't been around foreigners and don't quite know what to make of us....