A very belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to
you all. Phewww what a hustle and buzzle this was of a time. Christmas parties
and staff parties and lots to eat, yummy, need to think ahead of the year to
reduce, not so sure that will happen but need to try. We had a wonderfully
exciting time with Lida Marie here with us. She just left last night and is
almost home right now. Great to have a family for Christmas in a place where
Christmas is not big on the agenda.
Just before Christmas, Lida, Manoj, and Scott came with
Heang and I to visit the people around Phnom Chi. Lida was a real champ with
Heang on the bike. We had great fellowship this time with the people where we
stopped for meds. We are working on a plan to go in and spend a few days
exploring the mountain with our friends. So much for us to learn from the local
people.
We made it back in good timing for Heang to go home still as his wife
was highly pregnant. That night they went to the hospital in Kampong Tmau and
the next day a healthy little girl was born. Her name is Dol Marrychanvaty. God
is good to His servants. Poor Heang was a bit tired when we greeted him in the
hospital.
I am looking
forward to the New Year exploring even more places around the mountain. I want
to visit again Relose that I visited many years back. There are 30 families
staying and digging for gold. Pray with us for open hearts and minds in these
areas. Another dream of mine for this year is to help Samai in Ratanakiri. He
uses all his time to visit local tribal churches and encourage pastors to
continue their work with a new zeal. Together we can help more people in the
remote areas.
Please pray for poor Apo. Recently his bedsores became
bad again and I am helping him daily to get this one deep hole on his hip, to
get better. Pray with us that he will get healed from this one. I was just
amazed at his mom and dad again, seeing how good they care for their son. Pray
for encouragement for them as well. I am using the Ozone machine and it seems
to help but time will tell.
We are applying for visas for New Zealand. Yes, our
friends will sponsor us to visit them and this is a huge undertaking. All
Gideon can talk about is fishing and hunting he will do there. So please
pray for us that we will get visas in order to go. We are planning to go in
April.
School starts in 2 days, Hallelujah hahaha. Pray for
Anton and Gideon to study hard. Schooling is real hard for Gideon but Toinette
is trying her best for him to do school. The boys are growing fast and seem
like yesterday when they were still small. Where has time gone by??
Ok, I leave you here. Thank you for continuing to pray
for us.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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