One of the places we love to visit is about 45 min away from Battambang. There are several wonderful members in the same neighborhood. When we visit with the young elders, at least two families meet together so no one has enough plastic chairs for everyone to sit on. It is fun to see them bringing their own chairs from across the street. It is like one big family joined by their common commitments. In one of our recent meetings, one of the member sisters mentioned that she had just come from planting rice. The Elders offered to help her and so we arranged to bring a crew of eight missionaries and a couple of others the following week.
The rice field that needed our help was some distance from the home of the member so we all got on a trailer pulled a two-wheeled tractor.
With delightful kids tagging along, we were all ready to get out into those fields in our hats to give us a little protection from the sun and Khmer scarves to help wipe away the sweat. It was quite a crew and we hoped that we would be able to do more good than harm.
Everyone got into the muddy water with bare feet and took bundles of rice plants and transplanted them to the sparse area so that it will fill in. It was all good muddy fun!
The rice field that needed our help was some distance from the home of the member so we all got on a trailer pulled a two-wheeled tractor.
With delightful kids tagging along, we were all ready to get out into those fields in our hats to give us a little protection from the sun and Khmer scarves to help wipe away the sweat. It was quite a crew and we hoped that we would be able to do more good than harm.
Everyone got into the muddy water with bare feet and took bundles of rice plants and transplanted them to the sparse area so that it will fill in. It was all good muddy fun!
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