Rich and Ronda Dolan

Soporn helps me in the house.  And, she decided that she would rather get married than to continue to help me.  Can you imagine?? Anyway, EARLY Monday morning (I am talking 6am), Rich and I hop on the motorcycle (I am riding sidesaddled since I am in a long Khmer style skirt) and take off for Soporn's wedding. We arrived after much traffic, dirt, potholes, and one wrong turn.  This is what the front of the area looked like.  Her house is toward the other end.  When they have a wedding, they block off their neighbor's houses with a tent for the event - usually for an entire day. Once all the family members and close friends arrive, we all line up in a processional that starts down the street, and we walk back, in pairs, to the wedding place. This is the groom and his parents in the front .  If you spot Rich, you can see that the photographer put us just behind the groomsmen, in front of the grandmothers.  We tried to move to the back, but they ...

 On Sunday, we were thrilled to be able to add 2 more to our family in Phnom Penh. Cheanrea and Seakcheng are 2 of our new students at the preaching school. This is Cheanrea and Rich before his baptism.  And Seakcheng is a new person! Please keep them as well as our other student in your prayers.  Also, please pray for our graduates and their families as they teach God's Word to those around them. Much love, Ronda

 We were blessed during the month of December to have Rich's mom, Glenda and his grandmother, Billie Howell, here with us.  Then, on Dec 20th, our son, Reuben and his wife Emily came. So here are some of the sights that they saw while they were here. This is the traffic by the temple near our house.  There was a wedding on the other side so it was blocked, making everyone go around this way.  This picture was taken on the other side of the river from Phnom Penh.  These are fishing boats as well as the houses for the fisherman.  Just behind me is a huge 5 star hotel that they are building.  Such a contrast of lifestyles. This was December 27th at the airport when Rich's mom and Grandmother were leaving.  (Obviously, these pictures aren't in order).  And yes, that is the Dairy Queen behind us.  They only have some ice cream and hot dogs, but we still enjoy it. As is our custom, we spent Christmas at the coast.  This is o...

We were thrilled when 2 of our students decided to put their Lord on in baptism. The top 2 pictures are of Rang and then the next 2 are Veng.  (Sorry but the program didn't let me space them well)  They are 2 of our new students.  This is Rich with Rang and Veng singing after their baptisms.  Please keep this 2 in your prayers as they strive to follow God in their lives. After the song, there was a prayer of thanksgiving for these 2 new brothers. Such a sweet time! Love, Ronda

We enjoy seeing different signs around town with incorrect or funny usage of English.  This sign is on our walk to the preaching school. We wondered if the house was ranting, or if this is where you needed to come to rant.  But, it is only upstairs.  On our trip to Siem Reap last month, we were held up as one of the schools along the highway was getting out.  Just thought you might like to see the cute kids on their bikes leaving school.  There were tons of them!  I just got the last few. These are flowers on the pond in front of Angkor Wat.  I think they are pretty and it looks so peaceful.  There is a lot of beautiful places in Cambodia.  You should come and see them! Much love, Ronda

 Matt is back in the US now, but we enjoyed him being here. This picture is of Rich, Matt, and Veasna one morning.  Matt is just getting ready to teach.  Veasna was his translator. I told Matt that I was going to put this picture on the blog, since he gave me a goofy face. He taught Bible Geography to our students.  He gave each of our students 18 maps, which was great as most of their Bibles don't have maps in the back. We hope he will be able to come again.  On Sunday, we got to see a new sister born into Christ.  Her name is Da.  She has been visiting for some time. We rejoice with her in her decision.  She and Bora (the guys with his back to the camera baptizing her) will be engaged shortly.  These next pictures of just ones I took along the road. We passed this van on the highway from Siem Reap.  As we passed the van, I noticed that there were probably 30 people inside the van, so I think these guys are the lucky o...

 Matt Wilks is here now!  Since we have a holiday this week, we got David Maynard and Scott Keele on the plane on Sunday night and took Matt to Siem Reap on Monday afternoon. This first picture is of all of us on Sunday evening.  It was fun to have all 3 of them together for one day.  Of course, Scott and David got the beds, so Matt ended up sleeping in a chair.  I think he was tired enough that he chose not to move.  This is a picture of Rich, David and Scott buying Roties off the cart in Siem Reap.  Roties are a very thin tortilla type dough, fried and then banana and/or Chocolate syrup and/or sweetened condensed milk and then rolls up.  Truly fantastic!!  This is from one of the walls in Angkor Wat on the trip with Matt.  I thought that the headdresses on these soldiers depicted on this wall were interesting.  Can you imagine trying to carve these?  Each of these walls are about 100 feet long.  This is the...