Good evening you all
Praise the Lord that Anton could come and visit us
again. He is on his Trimester break. To get him here was a head ache. We
struggled with his visa as they wanted so many new things and I was on my way
to Ratanakiri in the bus. Later I gave up hope and phoned Toinette to do it on
the computer. She got it right to upload, send a pitiful letter with to tell
them that we only want our son to come and visit, and we got the visa. Sjoe….
Well, my trip to Ratanakiri started problematic. Like
I said, we struggled with Anton’s visa the whole week, I booked my bus tickets
wrong and tried to change it and had to rebook again, Twans felt ill in the
morning and when Twans dropped my off at the bus, the car was broken. Clutch
was not working as it was leaking oil from a broken cylinder. Well, Junmar to
the rescue and he told the mechanic that it’s still under guarantee as they
fixed it a week ago. The got it fixed and all for free. I was on the bus. In
the end everything worked out for good, we know already that when I go to
Ratanakiri that things will get bad. We just had to do a bit of spiritual
warfare.
I met up with Gordon and Bee in Banlung and we went to
see my 2 tribal friends. Poi’s foot still looks the same as the wound is really
big. He keeps it nice and clean and his health looks better than last time I
saw him. I actually think now that the Lord is busy healing him spiritually as
well as physically. Gordon is busy training a pastor from a nearby church to
reach out to these guys as there is no church in the village. Poi and his wife
accepted the Lord but now the hard work is ongoing.
Our” Leper “friend is doing fine, his wound healed up
pretty good, praise the Lord. We could see a few other people as well and could
give them some advice. Always a great time with these 2 wonderful people. I
also met up with my longtime friend, James. Always good to see him and hear
from him how life treats him.
News from Twans and the Acts program in KoukResay: We
finished a 3 day First Aid Workshop with the kids. All the classes, from the
morning at 8 till the evening 7h30pm.
They learned about basic wound care, how to stop bleeding, stabilize
fractures, nosebleeds, snake bites, what to do when someone goes into shock
etc. The children enjoyed the practical application after each topic. Lots of
laughter if the "patient “would get so excited during the role-play and
"Cry out in pain" or pretend to faint. Some of the older students
wrote in their feedback that it gives them confidence to help others. Please
continue to pray for the Acts students. Some of them have very difficult
situations at home. Parents leaving to other provinces to look for work to pay
off loans, leaving children with sickly grandmothers. Please pray also for
wisdom and guidance on how to help these students more in a practical way.
Thank you very much for praying with us.
Love
Rossouw-clan
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