Hello to all,
Hope you all are doing well!
This week I was able to travel with Wendy up north to a city called Battambang. Here, we were able to meet and encourage some friends with CAMA. They are working with Moringa leaves and have a great ministry there with Camai people. Hopefully, soon, they will be able to open a shop where they sell Moringa oil, powder, and capsules. If you do not know about Moringa, you should look it up because it is quite amazing. From simple ailments like sores to artiritis and even the AIDS virus, Moringa can be quite useful and beneficial to those who take it.
We were able to go out on Thursday with the volunteers who work with AIDS patients. This was a really hard day, as you can imagine. The first home we visited, the child with AIDS was at school, but there was another little boy who was very malnurished. His mother was an alcoholic and had not been taking very good care of him. The little boy was three years old but could not walk, could not sit up, and could not walk. He weighed 5kilos, which is about 11 pounds. The volunteers spent a long time talking with the mother and the family trying to convince them that the baby needed to go to the French Orphanage. The family was willing to let him go, but the mother would not allow him to leave because she can use him to get money so she can buy more alcohol. She did consent to let him go to the doctor, but we have not heard if he made it to the orphanage yet or not. I will keep you posted as we hear news of him. Please keep him in your prayers. We went to two other homes where the mother had AIDS and both women got it from their deceased husbands. This was very sad, because now some of the children are infected with the disease. Amazingly enough, these two women are taking Moringa and are looking very healthy! The first two homes were very poor, the second home was built on the side of a wall to a military base, had a very thin wall on the otherside and a tied on roof (which had blown off the week before in a storm) and was only one room. Please keep these families in your prayers.
On a lighter note, I am going to be able to meet up with a special woman named Leakhena tomorrow. I met Leakhena when I was in Cambodia four years ago and we have kept in contact with each other since then. She has told me that she’s prayed all the time that I would come back to Cambodia. Now I am back! And I am so excited to see her again! Please pray that I would be able to encourage Leakhena and that God would bless our meeting tomorrow 
The people here are much different than in the states, as you can imagine. The first question they ask after they meet you is “how old are you?” They usually think I am about 16-18 area and cannot believe that I am 22! Then they want to know if I wear colored contacts because of my blue eyes and then they cannot imagine that I can see both far and near without wearing contacts or glasses.
Wendy and I got back to RDI (outside Phnom Penh) tonight after riding all day in a taxi from Battambang. Not too sure what next week holds, I may get the chance to go out into some villages and tag a long with the team that teaches in the schools or I may be painting silver on the water filtration pots. Flexibility is key here
It has been great hearing from some of you! Thanks for your e-mails. I really appreciate them. I know it has only been a little over a week since I left, but it feels like much longer than that because of how different everything is here.
Love you all and praying for you,
the traveler,
Lindsey
