Well first off about 10 of us met at 11:30 to pray about this visit, then we went outside to wait for their arrival. They didn't show up at the appointed time of 11:45 which wasn't so suprising. But lunch ended at 1pm so at 12:30, with no sign of them yet we went in to get food ourselves. They never showed up for lunch, but I hoped and prayed they would still come eventually.
At 2pm I went to work. I was posted at the info desk in the bookshop for the first while. It wasn't too busy and I made friends with one of the local volunteer translators, Ratana, from Phnom Penh. He plays guitar and drums and I said maybe I could show him some things on the drums some time.
Then I was moved to the cashier position, where my brain exploded trying to learn how to use the machine, converting between USD, Khmer riel, and "Doulos Inernational Units". To make matters more exciting, the computer system for the cash registers was messed up so half the items wouldn't scan correctly and couldn't even be entered properly manually. Most of that time involved the head cashier telling me everything to do step by step and correcting my mistakes every other step while my mind had a traffic jam. Fortunately the head cashier and customers were patient with me.
Next was supper and then "gangway in" which involved greeting the visitors, ripping tickets and clicking a counter (we had 1726 in total that day). During that time Daniel and Jack (the guy with the crazy life story) came out saying they had heard that the Vietnamese guys had come and they were looking for them, but I didn't know anything about it. A little after that a large group came and they looked a little different from the locals so I asked where the were from. They answered that they were from Jupiter and I was like "whaaa?", but they clarified that it was a cruise ship, some of them were wearing uniforms.
Later on I recalled that the cruise ship I had seen sitting offshore since my arrival was in fact the Jupiter.When I got off work I talked to Jack and Daniel - hehe "Jack Daniel's" - and found out that the Vietnamese guys finally showed up! And guess what, they were the ones from the Jupiter! Aaand, apparently the visit went really well. At least one of them, a girl said she felt God in her heart and wanted a picture of Jesus. I wasn't there so unfortunately I can't give the best description but I think most of the others responded postively too. Daniel and Jack were happy about it anyway.
Some of the Vietnamese said they wanted to come and work on the Dolous, and I don't think that was because our ship is so much fancier! They were told that we don't get paid, which suprised them a bit but they were still interested.
Prayer requests:
- Praise God that the visit with the Vietnamese went well
- Pray that I would focus on Jesus and be attentive to his will, not divided in my pursuits
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