We made it!

Greetings from Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia!

We arrived in South Korea on Thursday and spent the morning and afternoon walking around Seoul a bit. We decided to walk up the steep mountain to the Seoul Tower, from which you can see all of the city, but got caught in some serious rain on the way up! We reached the top drenched, and the clouds obscured our view of the city, but it makes a good story I suppose.

We left Seoul Thursday evening and took an uneventful 5-hour flight to Phnom Penh, landing around 10:30pm. It's been raining a lot here, so the weather was in the low 80's last night, which was great. We all slept well, and now we're getting ready for a day of learning about Cambodia's past here in the capital. We'll be visiting Tuol Sleng (S-21), a high school that was converted to a prison and torture facility during Khmer Rouge rule in the 1970's, and the Killing Fields, the site of one of the hundreds of mass graves unearthed after the genocide.

Tomorrow we'll be taking a bus to Siem Reap (about a 7-hour trip), where we will spend the majority of our time this month. Once there we'll do a cultural orientation to Cambodia, and start figuring out just what specific ways we'll be helping YWAM this month.

Please pray for our hearts as we learn about a very dark time in Cambodia's recent history -- a time that deeply impacted one of our team member's family. And please pray that we are put to use in meaningful ways in Siem Reap.

We'll update again from Siem Reap, but in the meantime, know that we are all well and safe!