Day 5 - Wednesday 5th December

A mixed time today consisting mostly of hard work. We started off the morning with a visit to the Russian Market for Andrew and Rochelle to try a spot of hard bargaining with the locals in order to buy themselves some clothing suitable for decorating. Half an hour later with arrived at Steve and Midge's with a new t-shirt each and pair of Gap shorts each and $12 less in our pockets (yes that's about six quid for the lot). Much as we would like to take the credit for this frugal use of our funds it was all due to the great negotiating powers of 8 year old Jordan. We spent the rest of the morning painting and making a mess. As well as continuing the Bible study and English lessons we started yesterday, we spent the latter part of the afternoon with the youth of the church. This was a mixture of good and bad news – the good news Becci was able to fire them up with some great games. The bad news - we played with them, Simon got over exited and broke a chair. Andrew spoke for about 20 minutes on Baptism and filling of the Holy Spirit and we had the joy of praying for most of the group, this finished with the memorable quote from one young man after he got up from the floor “How did I get down here?”

Later on we retuned to the house of Glen and Torie for a fantastic meal. They have 7 children who had been with us during the afternoon. We went on two tuk-tuks, but unfortunately ours blew a tyre on the way. But not to worry this is Cambodia so thirteen of us piled onto one 100cc tuk-tuk designed to carry four and carried on mission accomplished– mind you, the health and safety risk assessment looked a bit dicey.