A trip to Cambodia

In a way, it's an answer to our prayers, just not the way we expected.

At the end of last year Rosa's sister had a chance to go back to Cambodia for the first time since they all originally came here in 1981, so it was pretty exciting for her and for us because it would be the first time there would be person to person contact with any of the family that still lives there.  One of the things that we were hoping for was to find out any information about the extended family, especially Rosa's mom.  We found out just a few months ago that Rosa's mom's brother was alive and that was exciting because we really don't know much about Rosa's mom and we figured we may finally be able to learn a little more about her.

Well, we're still processing some of the information that came from the visit, including a video interview with Rosa's uncle, but the one, very unexpected and very wonderful thing that came from this is it turned out that he had a picture of Rosa's dad!  And, it turns out that the name we had for him was just a nickname they used in the army.  So we not only know what he looked like, but we know his real name.  We feel incredibly blessed by this.  The picture is very small, just a wallet sized, but one of the most valuable things we possess.  Truly an answer to our prayers.