Scott Keele, Jerry Lundy, John Ward and Alex Mills are here!

 On January 6th, Scott Keele and Jerry Lundy from Broken Arrow, OK arrived.

This is Scott's 5th trip and Jerry's 2nd.
This picture is of Jerry teaching chapel on morning and Rich translating.

Scott taught James in the mornings to our students, while Jerry taught I and II Peter in the afternoons. Veasna translated for both of them.  (I always forget to get pictures of them teaching their classes!  Sorry!)

On January 10th, John Ward and Alex Mills from the North Heights congregation in Batesville, Arkansas arrived.  This is the first trip to Cambodia for both of them.






As Jerry, John and Alex had never been to Siem Reap, we made a quick trip to see the temples there on Saturday, the 13th.

Alex and John are showing you how steep the original stairways were at Angkor Wat.  This stairway that they are standing beside it quite tall as you can see in the next picture.




This is at the top of the inner temple area at Angkor Wat.  These are the stairs that we walked up and down and they are quite steep...but the original ones underneath are steeper still.






 But we did make it down as you can see.

I hope you can see from this angle the difference of the wooden stairs that they are coming down and the stone steps that are about 5 feet in.  I can't imagine trying to go up and down those stairs carrying things - and no railing!








We made new friends.  (Monkey on the ground)





And took the required Angkor Wat reflection picture with Alex and John.




We had an unbelievably nice day.  Not hot at all.

Jerry and Scott posing for me since I didn't get many picture of them.





John and Alex at the Elephant Terrace.


I failed to get any pictures of the at Bayon Temple or TaPhrom Temple.







This is how we got around town.  That is Rich, Jerry and Scott in their tuktuk.




Jerry decided to try out the fish.  No, not eating the fish, but letting them eat on you.

All over Siem Reap there are places that you can put your feet in the tank and let the fish nibble off the dead skin from your feet.  And they have some teeth.  You'll have to ask Jerry (if you know him) how that felt.
 On Sunday morning, we worshipped with the Siem Reap congregation.  Alex preached there.

On Tuesday, Rich took Alex and John to 3 villages to see some of our graduates working in their villages, while Scott and Jerry continued teaching at CBI.

Wednesday night, Alex gave the lesson at the Phnom Penh congregation.

Thursday, Rich took Alex and John to Borey's village, another one of our graduates.
Thursday night, we had our normal singing at the BEST Center.

Friday, Scott gave his final in James and Jerry gave his final in I and II Peter to our students.

Saturday night, Scott Keele and Jerry Lundy left to fly back to Broken Arrow.  We enjoyed their visit and appreciate their willingness and ability to come and teach here.  We also appreciate all of you who are partners with them and us through your prayers and support.

Much love,
Ronda

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