Good evening
So good to feel well again after our ill-parade. My
brother from another mother, Sonny is here again and off course we had to visit
a bit. Listening to him preach is always a learning experience. This guy can
really translate the word so our lay-people can understand it properly. So
fitting he talked about the 10 lepers that got healed by Jesus but only 1 came
back and said thank you. Off course all of them were thankful but just this guy
was grateful as well. Jesus asked if there were not 10 guys, but why only 1
came back? It is so easy for us to be Thankful but is it always from the heart?
After a call from Gordon, I went all the way to
Ratanakiri. It is a day’s drive to get there and the next day we went and visit
Ree and his wife Poi. They are Tompoon tribal people. He has a big ulcer under
his heel and cannot walk. He is very weak and have constant diarrhea and is malnourish.
I had to cut away the hard callous around the wound and cleaned it properly.
Showed his wife how to do it and hope she will?
The next morning, I was back but this time James, my other Khmer friend, asked me to look at Ree’s neighbor as well. His name is also Poi but there is a difference in the language. He showed me his wounds and it was not that bad but when I saw his hands and feet and ask a simple question, I was almost certain that he got Leprosy. He stepped into the fire and did not feel it. He got no feeling in his hands and feet and his hands are curled up like a typical Leper. Shame, he is being like this for 5 years already and the Department of Health did not get to him to give him any meds. I asked James to follow up with him and confirm about his Leprosy. Hopefully he can get meds. Well his wound was fixed as well and I gave both of them crutches to walk with. Poor Ree could only walk about 5 meters before getting dizzy. I hope that they can in time learn to walk with the crutches. It will help them to get outside and walk around for circulation of their legs as well as some mental exercise as well.
With instructions how to clean and lots of bandages
and the needed meds, I left them again. So sweet that Gordon got to this
village as Ree wanted to sell land because of a bad loan. He encourages him,
not to sell his land as it is all they have. Gordon and Bee are working with
the banks in order to stop all the corruption with all the micro loaning
business among the tribal people. Lots of them loose their land because of
this. So when he met Ree, he could encourage him as well with the Word of God
and he accepted. He and his wife are the only Christians in this village. Pray
for more people to hear about the love of Jesus through this wonderful program.
Please pray:
Pray that Anton’s visa will get approved and he get
back his passport before Christmas so he can join us here in Cambodia.
Pray for my friend Julie that is in the hospital and
the doctors are not really sure what is wrong with her.
Pray for peace on the border. Thailand is playing the
bully against Cambodia and push and shuff people around on the border.
Thank you for standing with us every Monday. Really
appreciate all your prayers.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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