Sok Sabaay!
(That means hello!)
Hope this e-mail finds you all well. The morning after I arrived (Thursday) I traveled out, along with Wendy, to another village. We got on a ferry to cross the river and then had to drive through the rice pattys and very, very bumpy roads to get to this little village, which in English, is called, the Bamboo Creek. At this village, we met another team from TN which has been here working on a water tank for the last week. It was great to meet some more people and see the work they had been doing.
This village was very remote. The RDI team and the team from TN had been going to schools and to other villages close by, doing arsenic testing, and teaching about hygene and clean water. They passed out lice soap and other things like that. On Friday, I got to go to two different villages and help with the presentations. At villages, the RDI team shows short videos, which are kind of like music videos and some karaoke, which teach about clean water, hygene, etc… After the videos, people ask questions and then we got to play games with the kids and tell them a story. At the first village, we told them the stories of David and Goliath and Jonah and the big fish.
I had the amazing opportunity to tell the story of Jonah and the big fish at both villages, through an interpreter. We had two of the boys from the team act it out, and the kids loved that! We were able to tell them about God and that He wants us to obey Him. I had so many questions in my mind during this time about the people, their beliefs, and how to best love them. It was awesome that we could both tell them about God and then also provide for some of their physical needs, by making them aware of the water they were drinking and how that could change and by passing out lice soap.
I will spare you some of the details about where we were staying, eating, and bathing, but let me asure you, that it was a little rustic. And I loved it! 
 The villages consist of a wat (a Buddhist temple) and then a main dirt road, where all the houses are, and as far as I can tell there is farming land surrounding it. A river ran near the place where we were, which is where the people, cows, and everything bathe and get their drinking water (and sometimes use the restroom!- an interesting story goes along with that!). The houses are on tall stilks, some of which are concrete, because during the rainy season it floods a lot. Rice is the main meal here, most of the time accompanied with some sort of meat. In the village, they eat raw clams…which smell 
and they snack on sugar cane.
I am back at RDI for the next two nights and then it is off on an adventure with Wendy to Battambang on Monday morning, where we will spend the next five days.
Again, thank you for your prayers! If you have any questions, please e-mail me back and I will try to answer or give more specifics about what all is going on here.
Love you all!
Lindsey
