Sunday, August 14, 2011

The countdown!

Hey peeps!

So we are now 7 days away from our departure of Cambodia!! so crazy!! This week we began teaching English at safe haven! It's been so much fun! We all love it! It's too bad we only have one week left, now that we've started doing something we love.... Because we don't teach on the weekend...no kidding....we went to some villages with 'our' parents on Saturday. We went to a soldier village and prayed for about a dozen people and everybody got healed!! it was amazing!One man came to us and could barely make it to the table (we sit on tables here) by himself. He told us that he had pain from his elbows to the top of his head for the past 10 years. He was also very shaky all the time and walked with a sway. He had very little energy all the time. He told us that he had stepped on a small land mine when he was 27 and he is now 56. After we prayed for him a couple times the pain on both sides was 100% gone! He was smiling for the first time that we saw and he could walk by himself without a sway. It was Amazing! While we were asking him how he was feeling he told us that he could now see! He hadn't mentioned anything about his eyes until that moment and he said that his vision had now improved. We prayed for a woman a little bit later, she had fallen off of a tractor 10 years previously and had a constant head ache and stomach ache ever since. After we prayed for her a couple times her pain was also 100% gone! Then she too informed us that her vision was perfected as well! She told us that before we prayed she couldn't tell if she was talking to one or two people and faces were distorted. After we prayed she could count fingers from across the room! God is soo cool! We didn't even know about her vision and it was completely restored! Today we had a lazy day :) We went to church this morning and came back and slept for a couple hours :D It was just lovely! Annnnnd now we're gonna have a family games night and go to bed! This week will probably be similar to last... Teaching everyday and playing with our kids :D Our English class at CHO has now doubled in size... going from two to four :P so we will also be doing that in the evening :D and thats pretty much all on the agenda for this week! We can't believe we leave Poipet in 7 days! But we're super excited to see everyone and to eat normal food :P
Love ya lots!

Sunday, August 7, 2011

The vacation is over...

Hello from Bangkok,

Koh Tao was super fun once it started 'sunny-ing' up! It was beautiful! On our second day there we slept in then headed off to Aou Leuk and wave hopped and snorkeled! And we all got burnt, but not too bad...yet anyway. The next day was more exciting, we got up early, rented a boat and 2 drivers from 9 till 5 and we motored around the ocean, stopping at different snorkeling sites. It was super duper awesome! The sun was shining, the wind wasn't blowing and the ocean was at peace. After swimming all day we went back to the resort and swam in the pool! As tradition... it was a perfect day so it ended with an icecream cone :D We were all tierd out and a little on the crispy/tender side due to our sun exposure... so we had a really relaxed day and went shopping in the afternoon. Both of us decided it was too expensive and the sales people persons were grumpy :( it wasn't very fun.... On Friday we went snorkeling to our favorite places and re-established our burns :( but it was a good day anyway. Saturday we went to Koh Samui and tried shopping again... same results. Annnnnnd Sunday we got up early to fly to Bangkok where we are now! We were going to go to the MBK mall  but random stuff came up and we are hanging out at the hotel for the day!Janelle leaves tonight for Canada! So we're driving her to the airport later We don't really know what the plans for the rest of the week are but we're going back to Poipet either tomorrow or Tuesday... Then only two weeks there and we're commin' home!... Prepare yourselves :P

Monday, August 1, 2011

Thailand!

Hey!

So we went to Bangkok and are currently in Thailand for the next week! The trip here was brutal...let's just say that God's testing us in patience a LOT this trip....but we're here now and the resort is really nice! Today we slept in!! Till like 8:00! It was more than beautiful! :) And to top it all off, we had a wonderful buffet breakfast! with milk and whole wheat bread! do you know how long we've been deprived of these delicacies?? After food, we went to look for grad dresses...(we wanted to get our's custom made here)...but we had no luck, wasted half our day, and have now decided to wait till last minute and get them right before grad next year! ..well maybe not quite to that extent...but something like that....:) we met up with everyone else this afternoon and went down to one of the beaches on our island...shark bay. We saw no sharks, and snorkeling wasn't all that great as it was quite choppy and we couldn't see a whole lot.....but it was super nice to be able to swim! So yeah, that's all we've been up to today....tomorrow we don't know what we'll be doing yet...it's lovely! we'll probs sleep in again! we LOVE holidays! so yeah..that's all for now...we'll keep y'all updated...talk to ya all later....love you chups! :)