Sunday October 30
It was inspiring to start the day worshipping with the Siem Reap GBC. Pastor Chhom's message from Mark 5 can be summarized, "Do you want peace or the pigs?"
After lunch we all, except Steve and Deborah who rode a bike, piled into a van for the return trip to Battambang. The 100 mile trip took over 7 hours. It was a fun trip because of our traveling companions: Suah, Ohn, Tim and Jessica Robertson, and Chhom. We only briefly played no smiling with the Cambodians. They could not help smiling. I also enjoyed the beauty of the countryside. I think this trip I have noticed the beauty of Cambodia more than ever before; magenta or violet water lilies, yellow or green fields of rice, red bougainvilla, pastel blue butterflies at the Angkor temple Ta Keo, and, of course, the smiling Cambodian faces. One of the highlights of the trip was seeing a bridge which we had crossed on Thursday, totally collapsed. Dave got some great pictures of how we got around that.