Pray For Rain In Cambodia

In our weekly email to our friends and family we mentioned that Cambodia has been really hot and dry, so please pray for rain for Cambodia. Today was Fast Sunday and it was interesting to hear the topic of it being so hot and needing rain brought up in both meetings we attended. We made the need for rain as part of our Fast.

There are areas of Cambodia where the wells and safe drinking water are getting very low. When the wells are dry they have to drink what ever water they can find, which often is not necessarily safe for them to drink. The month of April was a very hot month, with very little rain here in Phnom Penh. The weather forecast called for a high chance of rain Thursday, Friday, Saturday and this morning, but no rain came. Finally just before 6:00p.m.  it started a good rain shower. We had a YSA Conference Meeting to go to, but we were still so grateful for the rain that it did not bother us at all.

Today was about a ten hour day for us, when you include the travel time. We left our apartment about 7:20 to make it to Steung Mean Chey 3rd Ward for the 8:00 a.m. block. It took us until about 11:30 to get back to our apartment. Then  we headed to the Chaktomuk Ward at 12:35 p.m. and we got back from there about 3:20. This evening we had the YSA Committee Meeting to finish planning for the upcoming YSA Conference. We were gone just over two hours to that. It is good to be busy and well used as we serve here.

Our picture for today is a collage of traffic as we went to the various meetings. The picture in the top left corner was an attempt to show the rain, if you squint just right, you may be able to tell. Often we joke that we see someone carrying a ladder on a moto every day, so we included one again tonight. It always interesting to see the street vendors with their wares on their head. We have been in country for fourteen months and the things that we see in traffic are still fascinating.