Aarons post

Today Gary Colfax, Kelsey, Janna, Jared, and myself went to Phnom Bassaac to visit some families in the small villages there. Gary drove the car, and for most of the way the dirt roads were jam packed with pot holes and bumps, but we were lucky that we didn't get monsooned on and that the roads weren't a complete mud hole.
The first place we stopped was a family who had a plow for Gary to pick up and bring to Mr. Jim with whom we spent most of our day. After Jerry-rigging the plow onto the front of Garys car and driving for another 45 minuets or so we got to Mr. Jim's house where we ate lunch and hung out with his family for awhile. None of the families we visited spoke English so it was nice to have Gary there to translate. A little while after we were done with lunch, we said our goodbyes in Cambodian and went to visit another family of Christians about a kilometer or so from Mr. Jim's house (Mr. Jim has done a lot of evangelizing out in the villages and he knows most of the people out there.) At the second family's house we visited for awhile and chatted with Gary translating, and then we shared some bible verses and sang some songs (the 22 year old daughter said it was the first time she had ever hear a white person sing.) After that we prayed, and then Mr. Jim offered to take us swimming in the pond he had built. I was the only one that went swimming aside from Mr. Jim, but he had built a shack where all the others hung out. It was really nice cooling off in the water, and especially so because there weren't any leeches because it was an isolated water source, but there were a lot of fish, and after swimming around I noticed a cast net hanging near the shack and asked Gary if he could ask Mr. Jim to show me how to use it. I watched him throw it and then I retrieved it, and then he guided me through setting it up to throw. We didn't catch any fish, but I picked up on it quickly and had a lot of fun throwing it out and then going and finding the tiny blue tag in the middle when the net was in the murky water, and Mr. Jim told Gary after watching me that I almost looked like I knew what I was doing. I feel great that I was able to kind of connect with someone through learning about how he supports his family and start build that kind of friendship and sense of being one family in Christ despite the language barriers.
After an hour or so there we headed back to Battambang on the long and bumpy dirt road, and made two short stops at some other believers houses and now we are at the hotel waiting until we are going to have dinner at the sunrise cafe just a block from the hotel (they have really good food there, and its really cheap)