A word from the heart

Here I am again….

I’m sitting here in the school in Takeo. I came out too late with Sothea on Monday night to teach either of the classes, so I stayed an extra night…I didn’t want to go home at all, so, 3 days later here I still am, enjoying the quiet country side. Ha…I didn’t bring enough close to last this long, but that ok. J The plan, is that I’ll go back with Sothea and Nget after church on Saturday.
I was getting so caught up with everything in the city…like, I may have been doing good things, but didn’t have a whole lot of time for my Lord…I just wanted to sit back and get my head out of a whirl-wind. So…here I am.
I went and climbed up the backside of the Goso mountain where the king would climb up to the temple. It took Sothea and I 8 ½ minutes! J I felt like throwing up when I got to the top because I had eaten a bowl of rice and those sour patch candies beforehand! :p Lol (For dinner that night (Tuesday), I tried ants….lol, they were sweet…not sure what to think about it….)

I really love it here in Cambodia!! The longer I am here, the more I want to stay. Yes, I miss things about home…(there isn’t one conversation between missionaries it seems that within 1 hour or less that it won’t turn into a conversation about food! Lol) Sometimes, I just wish that it could be cold outside. I wish that I could be in a forest of Evergreens. I wish I could drive my car out to church (Coastline) and just be there with my family there. I wish I could look out over the Columbia River. I wish I could be at my parent’s house and just be with them. I wish so badly that I could see my brothers…that one really hurts. But, despite all of these things, I wouldn’t go home. When Jesus said, you cannot be my disciples if you do not hate your mother, father, brother…He didn’t mean that you hate them, but what He meant, is that your love for Jesus out-weighs your love for your family so much that in the world’s eyes it looks like hate. …To the world, if I really loved my brothers, my sisters, my Mom, my Dad, then I would go home to them and build myself a life there, but, I’m looking for a city who’s Foundation and Builder is God (Hebrews 11:10). When I stand before my God, I do not want to be ashamed of what I’ve done here in this passing earth.

A couple of hours later….
I just got done doing my laundry and taking a shower out here in a province! Hehehe I feel SO much better! Lol I only brought well, ½ change of clothes, and I was beginning to feel a little less than clean. ;) I got the water to wash my clothes and to take a shower out of these huge clay pots in the back that were filled up with rain water, so it is much cleaner than from the water in the brown pond in the back. Lol
I am really living my dream here…. I out in the world serving my God…and He is the same God of Israel, the One True God! He took Enoch, because Enoch pleased Him by faith…He was with Joseph through all of his trials and used him as a part of His big picture…He’s the God who heard Israel’s cry for freedom when they were slaves in Egypt…He was strong and faithful and delivered His people from Eygpt…He saved Rehab the prostitute because she believed in the God of Israel and not the gods of her people and hid the two Israelite men in Jericho…He’s the God who told Hosea to marry a prostitute to show the people of Israel that He is a faithful God, and if she will turn from her evil ways then she can be in perfect fellowship with Him and be with Him forever in perfect joy and peace!...He’s the God that came to this dark world as a helpless infant and grew up without sin…He’s the One who loved me, and died for me and then rose from the dead to save my soul…He’s the One who said He would never leave or forsake me…He is the One that said I do not have to be afraid because of His perfect Love…He is the One who said that I can have peace that passes ALL UNDERSTANDING!...He’s the One who gives me power through His Holy Spirit…He’s the One who said I am clean from ALL SIN because He paid the price that I owed…He sees me as perfect because He sees me wrapped in the righteousness of His Son Jesus Christ…what more could I possible want or ask for…?!?!? He’s the Shepherd of my soul! He protects, guides, and corrects me.

See what He’s done for you???
No matter where you are, live for Jesus Christ.

Lana Salisbury

June 29th Blog

Hello all,

It’s been crazy busy here…. :p Lol
My team leader, Daniel from my first trip here a year ago, is here with his new wife and another team. They have been a major blessing. I took them out to Takeo a couple of times and they taught Sothea’s and Nget’s class. The first week they taught about the prodigal son and the second week they taught on the brother in that story.

On Sunday, Sothea came over to WoL and Mary (from Daniel’s team) and Rachael (a missionary here from England) and I got together and figured out VBS schedule, activities, lessons for his and Nget’s students for their 2 ½ month vacation, that happens in about 3 weeks.
Please keep this VBS adventure in your prayers. It is a good open door opportunity to give the mystery of the Gospel to the students out there in Takeo. Please pray that their hearts will be open to God’s Love for them and that the enemy will not be able to pluck up the seed that is planted.

I had a fun adventure going out to Takeo last Friday night. I wanted to go to the Rice Field Church (RFC) on Saturday morning, and Rith and Bora were going out to their family’s house close there so I caught a ride with them. Well, about 1 hour into our 1 ½ hour ride Rith gets a flat back tire…so we stop by this person’s house who was watching TV and she helped us for about 2 hours…she fixed the same hole 4 times…. :p LOL It was so much fun!! Well, then, after we stopped by the party that they missed and got dinner and when we were just about to Sothea’s, Bora’s motor’s back tire popped…. LOL So, we got Sothea and Nget to come get us. It took us 5 hours to get to Sothea’s…we arrived at about mid-night. Hahaha, it was a lot of fun. J
That is just a little bit of what is going on…there is more, but that would take pages to write. ;)
May you receive God’s grace, peace, and Love,

Lana Salisbury