Sup Ya'll

Hey there everyone in the world!!!!!!!!
This is my first blog post and it is interesting to be writing. I always said that I would not do a blog because I thought that they were too impersonal but I am realizing that i can't avoid it and it is the quickest and easiest way to keep people updated. I am currently listening to some random music that my cousin Ally put on my computer before I left about 2 months ago.
For those of you who have been wondering about me and have been worried, don't be, I am fine, I have been living in Phnom Penh for the past 2 months and have only gone out of the city once to go camping in one of the provinces. I have been able to keep in contact with my mom and dad which has given them a little peace of mind, I really wish that they would stop asking me to come home, because it doesn't make it any easier for me to be halfway across the world.
So far I am loving it here. i miss everyone from back home, but I know that God has brought me here for something. The children that i work with are awesome.... well sometimes they cause hell in my life, but I love the little boogers none the less. I work in a village called Svay Pak it is about 40 mins outside of Phnom Penh and it is one of the most spiritually dark places that I have ever been. In 2003 the International Justice Mission went to Svay Pak and closed down many brothels. One of those brothels has now become a church that I have the opportunity to work in and with, it is amazing how God has taken a place of such darkness and turned it into a place of such hope and joy and love. In our estimates about 80% of the little girls that we work with are sold every night to brothels in the city or to perverts that come out to the village. This has been the most difficult part for me. It is so difficult to see these children and try and tell them about the love of God when they are put through hell on a nightly basis.
For me I have felt very called to work with the boys out there and in Phnom Penh, because if prostitution is going to stop there need to not be any clients right??? So I have been looking into some things to reach out to the men here. A lot of the men here are very stuck in gambling addictions and also drug addictions and it starts at a young age. A lot of the little boys that I work with are drug dealers that don't know any other way of life. My heart is broken for the men of this nation. But there is hope. I had the opportunity to go on a mens retreat with the church that I attend here and it was awesome. They really want to impact the men of Cambodia in a way that will positively change this place. I pray that they have great success, and I know that they are having success because I see it every day in the guy friends that I have that I see every day.
At the end of the day i have the difficult task of letting it all go and giving everything to God because the reality is that He is the one who wil change this country, not me. I get the opportunity to work alongside Him who created me, which is the best privilege that I could ask for. Well, I think that is a good first post. i love you all and i miss you all and I will talk to you soon.