Rats in Cambodia!!!

Written by Em on July 24:

Running out of time, but the thought of sleeping in the student dorm with rats for more than a week deserves a quick prayer request back to the states, don't y'all think? :-) We cleaned out the dorms for a couple days mopping the floor, cleaning out the kitchen and showers/bathrooms... and setting mouse traps. I think we got about 8 rats the next day, but there are some more hiding around. Eeks! The funny thing was the six of us interns split up into two groups to clean out the dorms- Jon, Natalie, and I cleaning the showers/bathrooms and the other three doing the mopping in the rooms. Suddenly, we hear a high pitched scream and we start laughing because we knew our intern friends must be having some visits from the rats. When we all got together an hour later, we were told that Elijah was the one who screamed. Jess and Stan were up on the chairs the whole time, while poor Elijah was left on the floor screaming! To his defense, he said the rat touched his foot. The three of us gals will be sleeping on air mattresses during the whole week of English Camp, because the other short termers will take up all the bunk beds.

(On a sidenote, I think, or Jonathan thinks, I might have had a spider bite on my pinky. It hurts when I bend it and itches when I stretch it, and it was pretty swollen for a couple days. It's doing better now, no more swelling, just very itchy still. But I'm alive and I don't need to amputate it!)

The first team of 10 has arrived tonight. Two other teams arrive tomorrow, and the last one arrives on Saturday. Since Jonathan did a devotional at the Siem Reap ECamp already, the rest of us have to share one this time. Pray for me as I decide which Bible character to share and that it'll totally be God speaking through me! I'm getting a little nervous about it!

Sorry, I don't know what Jonathan's prayer requests are. We (the girl interns) are living at different places from the guys from now on, and I forgot to ask him if he has any prayer requests :-( Oh! Chris Manfred asked him to help with some interior design a the new C&MA office, so y'all could pray for that :-) The six of us spent some time working there today. We're both getting excited about this upcoming camp though! Gotta go, take care, y'all!

Finding courage in Him,
Em

PS- I don't think we'll be able to send any updates any time soon as more STMers are arriving and we'll have to take them around. Thanks again for your continuous prayers!