Hi Everyone!

We finally have an internet connection!  We thought we would have one daily, but that has not been the case.  Thanks for all the emails!  It has been fun hearing from everyone!

We are doing great!  Pat is really excited about how things have been progressing.  He is especially excited about one of the health promoters he is working with. Her name is Sunat.  She has four wonderful daughters.  One works with World Vision and the other is their church's Sunday School teacher... a really neat family.  Sunat has the same vision we have and that the missionaries here have.  She is passionate about working with people living with HIV.  That is somewhat rare here, because many don't have the education that we have, many don't have the meds here so they watch their loved ones waste away and in general, the just have a huge fear of it.  She also has a passion of working with local villages and teaching them about good health.  She wants to mentor them spiritually, physically, and emotionally.  Life here can be very hard.   Sunat is truly a light in here!

Pat, Matt (wonderful missionary here) and George (wonderful medical student with us) were able to meet with the man who recently translated Where There Is No Doctor into Khmer (Cambodian language).  That was a great as this is the curriculum they plan to use to teach the health promoters.  They guys were also able to meet the director of Angkor Wat Children's Hospital (thanks Scott and Andrea!).  He is doing some amazing work here and is a great connection for us!  .

My role has been different than we thought it would be.  We envisioned that we would do a lot of this work together.  The isn't really possible with the kids here.  However, the kids and I are able to participate in other ways though.  We are helping out with the kids' program on Sunday mornings, we are doing Vacation Bible School activities during clinic and we will be visiting a local village on Saturday.  It took me some time to adjust my expectations and role here, but now that I have, we are loving it.  The kids are having a blast.  They have fun wherever they go! Overall, they have been such troopers and have been so good!  We are blessed.  We can't imagine the trip without them.

Today, the health and hygiene team comes.  We will have three days of health and hygiene talks.  On Saturday, the clinic teams arrives.  We will have 4 days of clinic. 

We genuinely appreciate your prayers!  We definitely need them!  

We hope you are all doing well!  We miss everyone!

Love, 

Kacie and family