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New student!

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We want you to meet Rina Thy (pronounced 'tee').  She is 18 years old and just started at CBI yesterday. She is the daughter of Thy, a long time friend in the village.  He preaches for the congregation there. She is the youngest of 3 children.  She comes from a wonderful family and we are thrilled she is here. Please keep her in your prayers. (In case you were wondering, most of the time, the children's last name is their father's given name.)   This is a gecko (we call them 'chinchuks') outside of our house.  I saw it when I was doing the laundry.  I have never seen one with this coloring, and I have seen tons of them. According to Dara and Piset, our friends and Christians at the Capitol congregation, chinchuks shed their skin.  I've never seen one in the process of shedding before.   I forgot to post that the Capitol congregation had a day at the beach on Saturday, August 1st.   Rich gave the devotional talk.  It rained...

More family came to see us!!!

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After Randall, Kassie, Kenley and Ryah left, we had a couple weeks before we got to welcome our daughter, Rebekah, Evan, Jack, Caroline, and Graham.   Jack had been here before, but since he was only 1 year old, he doesn't remember it.   This is Rich, Caroline and Jack walking to chapel one morning. After chapel, Jack, Graham and Caroline are looking out our gate.  Graham loved watching all the motorcycles. On the 4th of July, we had a party at the school.  We played Bunco and ate pizza together.  A fun evening. Our students loved getting to interact with Evan, Rebekah and the kids.   This is a picture of Rebekah and Caroline with our girl students as well as Navy and her daughter, Nahkin.    Of course, we had to run across the street to have our hair washed.   I think the wash, head massage, and blow drying cost $2.50 each.   After being in Cambodia for about 10 days, we all went to Thailand.  As some ...

Cambodia through Kassie Dolan and Amy Thrailkill Britton's eyes

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As I told you, I would blog some of the pictures that Kassie and Amy took while they and their families were here.  It is all 'normal' for us since we have been here so long, and I have trouble trying to figure out what to take pictures of.  Here are the things that they thought were interesting. A lot of these were in Siem Reap where we went to Angkor Wat, Bayon Temple and Ta Prohm Temple. Showing how steep the original stairs were. Looking up those stairs The baths at Angkor Wat.  There are 2 sets of these.  Both sets have 4 baths, built in a square.  The baths at the top are for the leaders, king, etc.  The ones at the lower level were for the common people. One of the many carvings on the walls in Angkor Wat Ta Prohm Temple. The birds drop seeds onto the buildings and the roots begin to grow, making it look like the trees are growing out the top of the buildings.  They have amazing roots.  They wanted to leave this temple more the way it was o...