Last time I was in Laos I left in kind of a hurry. Don't know what came over me, but something just felt so oppressive. I had to get out of here. I guess I was still carrying some baggage from our time here, maybe a bit of anger about how we had been treated, at how our lives had been disrupted after so many years of pouring our lives into the people and problems here.
This time it's different. Feeling once again that God is at work here (of course he never stopped) and that the last chapter for us, as far as Laos is concerned, is not yet written. I am here with two twenty-somethings--the children of good friends of ours. They are wondering what God wants them to do with their lives. So I have the joy of showing them parts of this little country, of introducing them to some great work going on here, of giving them a window on the issues and opportunities of this place. This is great!
One great blessing has been to see how they agricultural machinery and equipment we worked so hard to bring into Laos is once again being used to bless the people of this place. A good Lao friend of ours bought the equipment from us and has transported it to an area outside of Vientiane where it is part of an evolving plan and growing vision to set up grain harvesting centers in many of the poorest parts of Laos. So, once again the grain bins are full of corn. Once again farmers are growing for the market. Once again committed people are being placed in places where they can be salt and light.
This does my heart good. I feel good.
Kristina & Erik Amundsen with Iona Rogers
The few grain bins we had have now proliferated! There's a great story here.
