Day 4
So this morning we woke up at 4:30 am. We cleaned up and got ready for church. Then we went down to the Internet to call our friends and family. It was Brayden's Birthday Party at Ashley's house and Randa's family was there too. Then we went to breakfast at our hotel and Ashley had hot tea and toast. Randa had.... After that we went to the Rapha House church service. It was very moving. Most of the time we couldn't understand what they were saying, but you could really feel God's presence. We would sing in our language and they would sing in theirs. John preached for them and someone translated. Then it was time for the baptisms. There were a lot of people that got baptized, probably around 25 to 30 people. The children played in the baptism pool after the people were baptized. It was made out of concrete and filled with water outside. Then we took a tour of Rapha House. First we toured the church and saw where the vocational training was. Then we toured the buildings. Downstairs was vocational training and English classes, upstairs was the girls dorms. The dorms for the girls had bunk beds. Then we visited the counseling boat. It was for the girls to go and let out there feelings, or just draw picture. They could also talk to a counselor if they needed to. Last, we saw the mushroom project, which to us was just amazing. It was a way for the girls to connect with their family and help support them. Each family was taught how to raise the mushrooms, then they were given a bag to start their own mushrooms. Then they could sell them and get money for them. We then went to eat at a place that looked like a hut. The food was AMAZING!!! Randa and Ashley both had shrimp pad thai. The restuarant was right next to the Jolie-Pitt Maddox foundation. Which is Angelina and Brad Pitts foundation in honor of their son Maddox. We then went back to the Teo hotel. We decided that we shoud take a tok tok tour of Battambang. In our tok tok we had Josh, Jen, Therin, Katie, and us. We went around and Therin explained to us what everything was and what the people did with it. We also took a detour to Therin's g-mas house. Her g-ma is buddhist so they dont have the same views on many things, but going there was fun. They cut down jack-fruit and served it to us while we were just standing around. Afterwards we came back to the hotel to rest for awhile. We went to Rapha House after that. As we got off the bus, the girls were already waiting. S had just got back from school and S was waiting for us too. We performed our welcome skit for the girls. Then we had to sort out flip flops into sizes. It was a mess. The girls started coming in and they were scrambling to find the right pair of flip flops. Some were picky and some weren't. We took pics with our girls and told them they were beautiful. Then we played a form of duck duck goose, but with partners. There were several crash collisions. We had to leave, but we hugged our girls like 10 times, and didn't want to leave them. They even said we should take them to our hotel, or that we could stay with them. After leaving we went to eat. Randa ordered a lot of ice cream, a shake, and beef stir fry. Ashley ordered something that tasted like fish...enough said. Then she ordered French Fries and a shake to cover up the taste. We had devos at our hotel and went to bed.
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