tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51321615687482205262024-03-05T14:47:51.422-08:00Sister Zoe's Cambodacious JourneyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13762444082519896239noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132161568748220526.post-51637133066725235272017-01-08T18:57:00.003-08:002017-01-08T18:57:46.168-08:00Last and Final Email #HOME<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, it's over. The best, and hardest, 18
months of my life are over. I honestly can't express the gratitude that I have
for my mission. It changed my life and me. I know I’m still really young, but I
feel like I aged about 10 years on my mission. I learned so much about charity,
love, patience, humility, trust, basically all the important things in life
I’ve learned at least a little bit about over the past 18 months. I was
privileged to serve in the best mission in the world, you can argue that your
mission is better, but you're gonna lose. Cambodia really is the best place in
this world-the people, the food, the culture, the heat, and most importantly,
the LOVE. It's home and since being back in America, I’ve missed it terribly,
especially with all this snow and all this English (:, but missing it has
helped me learn even more from the Khmers. I think I will continue learning
from their examples for the rest of my life. and for that I am so grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm also so grateful for each of you and the
support, love, and prayers that you have given in my behalf over this crazy
journey. I know I couldn't have done it without you. You guys supported me
before my mission, through my mission, and I know that you'll be there for
whatever else life throws my way after the mission. Thank you so much!!! That
being said, I’m so excited to apply all the many many lessons that I learned
and I can't wait to see what experience I get to have next. I know now that I
can do anything with the Lord's help. If I only learned one thing on my mission
(which I didn't, I learned so much more!!!) it's that the Lord is always there
to help us. He wants us to succeed so badly. That’s really all he wants in
life. That's the reason we have the plan of salvation, a loving Heavenly
Father, a Savior and older brother who loves each of us so much, His Atonement,
the commandments, the Book of Mormon, trials, challenges, etc. Everything in
this life works together for our good. It may not seem like it in the moment,
but in the end our joy will exceed our sorrow. In fact our sorrow will be
swallowed up in our JOY. The whole reason we are here on earth. JOY. Find it. I
know this church is true and that Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father love us
more than we can even comprehend. We just need to trust them and everything
will be okay. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you so much!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, this week has been full of ups and
downs. The highest of the ups and the downest of the downs. I'm gonna keep this
short, well, I’ll try... haha because I’ll be skyping with my family soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So... remember my little moto accident? Well...
it was a little more serious than we thought... it was SUPER swollen and
infected and they were scared that the infection was going to enter my blood
stream, so they sent me to the doctor and they cleaned it out, which hurt SO
bad, and then they put me on an antibiotic that I’ve been taking for the past
few days. Sister Christensen and a senior couple were super worried about me, so
they put me on bed rest... I didn't really go proselyting on Wednesday, except
for English class, and then on Thursday I was inside ALL day... I was
dying. It literally killed me. I HATED IT. But it did make my foot feel a lot
better, so that was good. Maybe I should just not be stubborn. haha My foot is
still pretty nasty, but things are looking better. No worries. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wednesday we had a combined spiritual thought.
We have three classes and about 130 kids that attend. We all met in the chapel
and the missionaries sang some Christmas songs and read from Luke
chapter 2. Then they had two missionaries bear their testimonies. I
got nominated cause I’m close to dying. At first I refused... I don't really
like speaking in front of a ton of people who speak English and Khmer better
than I do, but I quickly changed my mind and accepted willingly cause I knew it
was an opportunity to testify of my savior, Jesus Christ. It was perfect. I was
brought to tears. So powerful!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also got the opportunity to bear my
testimony at our ward Christmas party AND in sacrament meeting. It was
cool to see everything come full circle because last year I got to bear my
testimony at Christmas too. Lots of things have changed. One-I’m not
afraid to bear my testimony any more and I actually find joy in it. Two-I can
speak Khmer. Three-I understand this gospel a whole lot better, especially the
atonement and the true meaning of Christmas. It was perfect. I was able to
spend lots of time with members in the ward that I love. It was hard, but good.
The hardest part so far has been saying goodbye to my recent convert, Tola. She
just bawled in my arms... it was heart breaking. I didn't like it at
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christmas was good though. Not much to say, I
just want to say that I am so grateful for ALL
the experiences and opportunities I have had over the last
18 months. And there have been MANY!!! Man, I honestly never thought this day
would come. Freak man, I don't know if I can do this... It all just hit me like
a brick wall. I don't even have words to express my gratitude and love that I
have for my savior. I love him so much and am so grateful to have his
gospel in my life. Merry Christmas!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty good here in Cambodia. The weather cooled off a little, which I didn't
like at all because I was freezing!!! But I still managed to sweat a ton. haha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The same old same old was going on. So not
much to tell you guys, BUT Tola got baptized, so that is gonna be the highlight
of this email. She was SO excited. She bore her testimony and said "nhom
sabay cet" (which means she is really really happy) like 4 times. It was
so cute. She thanked Sister Benson and me or all of our patience (we didn't
need any because she understood everything, so easily) and just had the biggest
smile on her face the whole time. It was cool to see her family come together
and really support her. Her aunt spoke, her uncle-in-law spoke, and her uncle
baptized her. It was so fun!! Now we just need next week to roll around so she
can be confirmed the newest member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. (: What better Christmas present could I ask for?? (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still pretty nasty. Yesterday my voice was completely gone... that makes doing
missionary work extremely hard. hahah but the members all thought it was
hilarious. Hopefully it comes back so I can really get into the Christmas
caroling. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people. I don't even know what happened... Sister Benson said that the moto
just came out of nowhere and hit me and then I flew... all I remember thinking
was "oh no, my shoe fell off...." haha. I was in shock and didn't
notice the blood gushing out of my foot or my hand until a look pu and this boy
came up and tried to help me. Then this other guy stopped and told me that I
shouldn't clean it with water, but that I should use lubricating oil, for like
a car. I politely told him that he was crazy and that that wasn't something that
we did... and he was so confused... haha but everyone thought that I was crazy
for just getting back on my bike like it was no big deal. Honestly I was fine,
a little flustered, but the pain set in today. Super super sore... but don't
worry I’m okay. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I could literally go on and on and on about
Christmas, because we've been studying it for a while, but to save you guys
some time and to save my hand for hurting more than it does already, just know
that I know that our Savior, Jesus Christ, was born and died for us. Christmas
is more than presents, good food, family and friends. It is a time for us to
really ponder and wonder about the savior's birth and atonement. I am so
grateful that I get to spend one more Christmas as a missionary cause there is
no better gift for me to give Him than my time bearing testimony of Him to the
Khmers. (: So crazy to think that Christmas is in less than a week, it honestly
snuck up on me, but MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! May you all remember the true meaning of
Christmas, feel the Spirit, and prepare room for Him in your heart and in each
of your homes. Love you all. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Love, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Sister Loftus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Double D <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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P.S. <span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">almost forgot. Well, I did forget last week,
but this week I wasn't going to forget again. I FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON IN KHMER.
Holy longest thing of my life, but I learned a lot from the way they translated
it and it was quite the accomplishment. I was/ still am super proud of myself.
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good and I think this week is going to be even better. We are getting closer
and closer to the Christmas festivities. I can't wait. Nothing quite like
Christmas in Cambodia. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the amazing opportunity to go eat dinner with President and Sister Christensen.
Unfortunately no pictures... sorry!!! It was so good to spend some time with
them. I went with a different Sister as well and it was SO fun!! Like so fun. They
are honestly the coolest people I know. I just tried to soak in all the time I
got with them. We were just asking them life advice and they were just talking
about how they met and I was just dying. They are so cute!!! It was weird
though cause although I was with the mission president and his wife, we were
out past curfew and I felt so guilty!!! Ha ha. That’s when you know you've been
a missionary too long. Just kidding. There is no such thing as that. I LOVE
being a missionary with all my heart!!! (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good. Tola got interviewed yesterday for baptism and the elder that interviewed
her said that it was easily the easiest interview he's ever done. He said she knew
everything so well!! She didn't mess up once!! We were so proud and she is so
so so excited to get baptized!!! So that means that we have a baptism next week
with a confirmation on CHRISTMAS. She thinks it's like the coolest thing that
she is getting confirmed on Christmas. She also made us the cutest little
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really good. We had a less active, okay in-active, of about 6 years come to
church. I’m not gonna say much about her, I’ll tell you here whole story when I
get home because there are SO many details, but long long long story short, we
went and met her every week with very little hope of her coming... she just has
had a lot of things happen. This past week, we weren't able to go visit her
cause we had a FOUR hour zone training, but then on Sunday we were standing at the
doors welcoming people and there she comes walking in.. I was speechless and
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like completely flat 3 times this past week... not okay. I don't understand
what's going on... we bike up to the shop, just a little shop on the side of
the road, and they just look at me like I’m crazy and ask me how I did that to
my bike. I just have to laugh and say that I don't know. And then they talk
about Sister Benson and me, thinking we can't understand them, but then we
start laughing, and they get super embarrassed. It happens every time. haha I
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when we go over to meet her, she doesn't let us share with her. She just talks
with us and we do our best to work gospel topics into the conversation,
but this past week, she brought up prayer, so we jumped on that opportunity to
share. We taught a great lesson and really felt like she understood it. She
even promised to pray, but then we asked her if she's been reading the Book of
Mormon. She said yes, good, but that she was also reading the Buddhist
scriptures and Islamic scriptures as well... haha Sister Benson and I
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week. Actually, one of our less actives, Srei Touch, is progressing very
nicely. She has started reading her scriptures every day and she came
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rule that the mission won't pay for holidays anymore, which means it's the missionary’s
responsibilities to prepare something for holidays. I was way sad that I
wouldn't get a good Thanksgiving, but our senior couple, the Dowds, saved the
day. We got to go to their apartment as a zone and enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving
dinner (lunch). We had all the fixings too. It was so so so good!!! I was so
grateful for it. My stomach is even smaller now than it was before my mission,
so I only ate a little bit, but it was so tasty. Then they had prepared a super
sweet little program and we were able to go around and share what we were
grateful for. Man, the spirit was so strong. Something super cool about hearing
the testimony of 24 missionaries. However good your Thanksgiving was, it did
not beat mine. Not a chance. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walked up and she was just sitting there and said, “Hey, Sister Loftus!”. I
freaked out and she just laughed at me. We had a killer lesson on
the Restoration with her and I was SO happy!!! She even told us that
now she'll have more time to meet with us. I guess I should've just had faith
in her and trusted the lord. (: Maybe one day I’ll learn that lesson.
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<span style="background: white; color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Dear Family and Friends, </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This week was LONG and ROUGH... I don't really
know what's been going on lately, but I feel like all of our lessons fell
through. It was the water festival and everyone was busy dau lenging
(hanging out) and couldn't meet with us. Also, our ward is kind of falling
apart... Lots of people have just stopped coming to church and no one has their
phone number or knows where their house is so that makes going to find them to
try to help them come back, pretty impossible... Our
relief society president is less active and going to a different
church, along with a recent convert, and a couple other members as well. They
are going to that church because they give out rice and if they go to that
church they don't have to pay for their kids schooling because the church will
pay it for them... <b>Unbelievable</b>. It just breaks my heart. Also, a
few of the members are still doing their Buddhist traditions
(worshiping ancestors) and there is no way that they can have strong faith
if they are caught up with that... I just don't know how to help them. I feel
like they won't listen to me, a little 20-year-old American girl, even if I am
a set apart missionary of the Lord. I go in and teach them, what I think is a
great lesson, by the spirit, and NOTHING. I have faith in my calling, power,
and authority, but maybe they don't. I've been trying to work with the
members to see what we can do to help them, but they have all kind of given up
hope... they just say "Sister don't worry about them. They won't come
back." but that's not what I should be doing. I should care. I should
be helping them. That’s my purpose and calling as a missionary -to
help people come back and repent, really repent and change their lives. I just
don't know how to do that if they won't let me meet with them... you know? I
feel pretty hopeless right now... I just want to help this area progress,
especially with the little amount of time that I have left, but nothing seems
to be working.... that's what we are working with for the less actives. Our investigators
seem to be doing pretty good though. We have 6 right now. 3 of them are pretty
solid, Tola (14 year old girl) Bunleu (the pregnant one), and Marina (the
member non member situation) and then the other three are kind of iffy,
not really wanting to meet us and such. But I should just be grateful we have 3
good investigators. And I am. I love them, but I just want them to be able to
come to church and feel like it's something they want in their lives, but if we
only have 40 people there... makes it kind of hard. I know you guys have never
had to deal with Buddhist drama, but if you have any idea on strengthening
faith in Jesus Christ, I’m all ears. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">As for Zeekaa, yes, she gets a whole paragraph
to herself... she has basically dropped off the face of the planet... we have
natted with her (made an appointment) three times now and she just doesn't show
up... I know she's busy with work, but she worked before and still had time to
meet us. When she got this new job, maybe a month ago, I asked her if it would
affect her church attendance and she said no... and now she hasn't been to
church for two weeks in a row... <b>Unbelievable</b>. I’m super sad about
it and Sister Luke didn't even get to say goodbye to her... also, I talked to
her and she's now reading her scriptures, so that's cool... Praying we can
finally meet with her this week and help her see the light. Her birthday is
this week and I’m planning on getting her a birthday present, so hopefully that
sweetens her up a little bit. haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">We spent a lot of time saying goodbye to
members this week. It was way sad seeing Sister Luke say goodbye to them, but
made me even more grateful that I am staying here in PCT, the work might not be
moving super good, but the members are the BEST!!!! We had dinner Thursday
night with some of the elders recent converts that we've grown pretty close to
and it was so fun. We just laughed and had the best time. They are such
examples to me. Nimol, the older brother (their parents are dead I’m pretty
sure) was a street contact and he was golden. His little sister and two of his
cousins have since been baptized and the elders are currently teaching his
brother and his wife, so they are the best!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Luke... also, everyone that was going back out to the khets gave me hugs and
said "I might not see you before you die, so goodbye!!" and that when
things got super real... I didn't like it... so that was the down side to transfer
day, but the upside was Sister Christensen's nephew was there and he
is the cutest!!! Also SISTER BENSON!!!! She is a year younger than me and
from Ephraim Utah. And she is SO GOOD!!! She blew my mind. Her Khmer
is <b>Unbelievable</b>. She must have worked so hard in her training to
get where she is. She is basically as good as I am. She is going to help PCT so
much!!! We've had a few lessons already and she teaches by the spirit and
teaches things so simply. I really really love being her comp and it's only
been 4 days. Excited to see how we continue to grow over the next few weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Tola is doing so good. We met her last night
after not meeting her for about a week and she remembered EVERYTHING. She
is so good. I love her. Super good for her to have such a good support system
around her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I know this email was super sad and negative,
but I’m actually pretty excited to see how my relationship with the
lord develops over the next few weeks. What a great way to end, right? I know
that I can't do this work without His help. I will trust Him and He will help
PCT. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve the Lord. So much
happens on a mission that can't happen anywhere else. My mission has
changed my life. I am a different person since the day I entered the MTC, all
because of the Lord. His plan is perfect for each of us. Through the Gospel, we
can find joy and happiness in this life. We can overcome all things through the
Atonement of Christ. If you don't have a personal relationship with your savior
yet, I encourage you all to start reading the Book of Mormon, Today!!!! . The Book
of Mormon is the word of God and a book that, if read and applied in our lives,
WILL CHANGE us. I have seen it so much in my mission. Reading of the Book of Mormon
is the game changer. Always. READ IT!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This week was really really long and I’m not
really sure why, but it was really good at the same time. Monday was like the funniest
p-day ever. We did Srei Sarts. We went to a photo studio and got our hair and
makeup all done up and dressed up like Khmers. It was so so so fun!!! Not a
whole lot to say, you guys can just look at the pictures and freak out like
everyone else about how it DOESN"T look like me at all. All the members
don't believe that's it me... haha I've wanted to do this my whole mission and finally
did. Good choice to do it with Sister Hall and Sister Luke. They are the most
fun. When the lady put the finishing touches on my clothes she said koon khmer
hauy (Khmer child already) and I just started laughing. Then we biked to the
mission home with our makeup still all pretty and got flu shots. Great day. (:
haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">We had some tender mercy's happen this week. We
have some families that have multiple less actives in them, but we can
typically only meet one, but the lord was preparing the way for us and we were
able to meet with two new less actives this week. We were so excited!!! One of
them said that she is planning on coming back to church in 1-2 months. I was so
excited!! As for the other one... she is in a really really tough situation
right now. Her grandma and her dad just passed away, she failed a
test at school, and then she lost her job. She feels like the lord has forsaken
her and she has no desire to pray or read her scriptures... I don't know how to
help her and I don't think she'll meet with us again for a while, but her
cousin, who she lives with, is a great RM, so I hope that she helps her out to
regain her faith. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Tola is still good but she went to her srok
for the water festival.. so we didn't get to see her on Saturday, but our
lesson on Tuesday went well. Then we met with Bunleu again. She is so
nonchalant in the lessons, like super chill, but she is feeling the spirit and
she went to church for all three hours again. She’s surprising me. I love her!!
She just laughs at me. haha and then this week on Sunday we started teaching a
new investigator. Her name is Marina... she has been coming to church for
years. Like her whole life, but three weeks ago her mom came up to us and told
us that we needed to teach her again and baptize her cause she never got
confirmed... remember her? I think I told you about her before... but we
finally met with her and she blew my mind. She is so cool!!! Way cute and talks
a ton. She knows more about this gospel than I do. "Golden
investigator" for sure. (: She’ll get baptized way fast. (: She has read
the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and the Bible all the way
through already. WHAT?? So good!!! Super cool. as for Zeekaa... she didn't come
to church... I’m a little bitter about it. She promised the Lord and us she
wouldn't miss church. It would be fine if she had a good reason, but she was
"just busy" that's all she said. We think she was doing something
with her many many boyfriends, or maybe working... even though she's never
worked on Sunday before... and she hasn't been meeting us... I’m a little bummed,
but am going to try super hard this week to help her realize the importance of
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Sunday was good with them as well. We ate left over curry after church while Sister
Luke said her goodbyes to everyone. Got some good pics. (: oh, I am staying in
PCT for my last transfer with a sister named Sister Benson. She just finished
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and hours biking with not very many lessons... it was the worst. But that's
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last Monday I was trying to get money out of
the ATM and it ate my card... I got my money, but I guess I took too much time
folding it and putting it in my wallet cause as I reached my hand out to grab
my card, the machine sucked it right back in. I was so mad!!! I just came out
and yelled, "it ate my card!!!!"And then Sister Luke, who had an old
man trying to speak French to her, started freaking out too... We didn't know
what to do. So once I calmed down, I found a number and called customer
service, but in order to get my card back we would have to wait until Tuesday
at three... so we just went throughout our day like normal and then biked 45
minutes to their headquarters on Tuesday just for them to tell me that I needed
my passport to get it back. All I had was a copy and apparently that wasn't
good enough... so then we had to bike 20 more minutes to the mission home and
get my real passport, then bike back, but by the time we got back.... the bank
was closed. What bank closes at 4?? Apparently some banks in America do, at
least that's what Sister Luke told me, but I always thought they closed at 6...
so that was just a cherry on top of that day... then we had to bike to one of
our far areas, another 50 minutes to meet with Tola our investigator. I wasn't
happy to be biking that much and we showed up super sweaty, but I love her, so
it was okay. We still didn't have my card though... so we had to bike back out
there on Wednesday and I finally got my card. I was super enthusiastic and the
lady helping me just laughed at me as she handed it back to me. haha everyone
just loves me. (; But that wasted a lot of our time, so not much to say on less
active lessons... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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name is Bunleu, it means light, and she's super cool. She’s pregnant and way
funny. She is a referral from English class and last week she went to church
for all three hours, before we even met her. Super cool. We asked her why she
was interested in learning about Jesus Christ and our church and she said that
she wanted to have a light in her life. She wanted direction. That changed our
whole lesson. We ended up sharing a verse on how Jesus is the light and then
showed her this way cool picture of Jesus holding a candle. After we taught
her, we just let it sink in and all she said was "light</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...". <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">I think
that means she liked what we taught, but we natted (set up another appointment)
with her this Thursday, so we'll see if she read and prayed!!!</span> Feels
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friday we had a killer zone training. Like so
good, but one of the ones that if I try to tell you guys what I learned you
wouldn't really understand. You kind of had to be there... but there is an
elder that dies (goes home) in 2 weeks and he bore his testimony... that's when
things got way real about going home... I DON'T WANT TO... I got super
emotional, but enough of that. The actual training went like an hour over, so
we missed one of our lessons and that just set everything else in a downward
spiral... we didn't get any lessons on Friday and I was super super bummed...
like way ticked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saturday was spent biking as well. We had
started our personal study, when a member called us and asked if we could meet
her sister, Srei Leak. She is our investigator, but super super busy and can't
ever meet us, so this was an answer to our prayers. We went and met her and it
was really good. Taught the plan of salvation and she said a great prayer. Said
it really helped her understand her purpose in life. Hopefully she keeps progressing!!!
Saturday night we biked 30 minutes, only for the aunt to tell us her niece
wasn't home and that she'd be home at 5, so we biked to the church to meet with
bishop, who didn't show up... and then biked back out to Tola's house. She
walked in and I asked her how she was and she said not good and started
crying... so I asked her what was wrong, but she was crying too hard to tell
me, so her cousin and aunt explained to me that she had failed her English
test... we were just going to move on with our lesson and not really address
the elephant in the room, but we knew that wasn't a smart idea and knew that
this was an opportunity for us so show our love and concern for her, so we did
what we do best. TAUGHT ENGLISH!!! Except it was way hard because it's a rule
that I never learned in English, something that comes naturally for us, but for
them they have to learn it and it's way hard... so we spent a way long time
teaching her, but she seemed to get it and by the end she was in a lot better
spirits than when we showed up. We also taught her about faith and it was super
powerful. I LOVE TEACHING THE GOSPEL!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spirit. We had two girls get up and bear testimony that through us their
prayers had been answered. It was so cool for me to finally understand that the
lord is working miracles through us and we don't even know it. I started
thinking about my mission as a whole and all the people I’ve talked to or come
in contact with and realized that I’ve done a lot more good here in Cambodia
than I could've ever imagined. Such a sweet experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, with transfers coming up I was really
hoping to leave, but after the great Sunday we had I am super hoping to stay. I
love Pochentong. The members have become some of my closest friends and I don't
want to say goodbye to them. I can joke around with them and be spiritual. It’s
the best!!! We have a ward activity this Saturday and I am way
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We FINALLY met with Bong Lida. She came back from her hometown for just a little, just long enough for us to teach her two lessons, and then she went back yesterday... I’m way sad. I may not see her again before I leave... but she's so good. She bore a powerful testimony of the happiness that comes from the gospel and believing in Jesus Christ. She knows that without it she would be so lost and her marriage would be horrible, but because of the gospel, her marriage is great and she loves her husband and her daughter. I may not have seen it happen with me, but one day she will go to the temple with her family to get sealed. </div>
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Friday night we got a little festive and carved... persimmons... haha. Cambodia doesn't have pumpkins like the ones we carve in America, so we got a little creative and it was so fun!!! It was really hard though... I gave up, but Sister Luke did really well. We just laughed and ate some good Halloween candy. Thanks mom!!! </div>
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First off, for all of you who are wondering, I am better. I am 100 percent better. I took some Cipro (a medicine to kill bacteria in your stomach) (they give it away like candy basically) and it took like 2 days to start working, but now I am healthy and ready to keep serving the lord!!! Oh, also, I lost 2 kilos (about 4 pounds) and 4 cc on my waist... haha but I am okay!!! (: I’m pretty sure I’ve gained it all back hauy hauy (already). </div>
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This week went by way too fast. I have a feeling that all the coming weeks, what little time I have left, (let's not talk about it, okay??) are just going to keep going by faster and faster... I don't like it. Every night I just lay in bed and have a little panic attack... I don't want to go home. I don't know how to live in America anymore or be a normal person. I am a missionary. Leaving this country, which has been home for the past 14 months, may be the death of me.... </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYV59ZE1cHjeiCvk2idtqJfdaf0WJLyc30pXiPDg6zdPZfn8pmpYqiScXN5bP5Tr0sp87zU5VxB0KqorkkZTZnhso284BxaFlK7aBCrL9LFpWie3kW3_Z3rDat9hp1m86tUJgWVOvxC_M/s1600/DSC03081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYV59ZE1cHjeiCvk2idtqJfdaf0WJLyc30pXiPDg6zdPZfn8pmpYqiScXN5bP5Tr0sp87zU5VxB0KqorkkZTZnhso284BxaFlK7aBCrL9LFpWie3kW3_Z3rDat9hp1m86tUJgWVOvxC_M/s400/DSC03081.JPG" width="300" /></a>Monday we had a way fun p-day as we traveled everywhere in the rain and went to the Royal Palace with Elder Seng and Elder Maurer. Before going to the Palace we went and got food. Elder Seng took care of me and got me some rice porridge, but at the very end he told them to "dak chiam" which means add blood... I was a little worried. When I got my food there was coagulated pigs blood and lots of other mystery meat... I felt bad not eating it,so I just ate a little here and there and then finally asked him what the "meat" was. Turns out it was lungs (not that bad) and intestines (which I did not eat...), but other than that it was pretty chngaan (tasty). </div>
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I'll be honest... I don't really remember much of what happened other than p-day... after so long everything just kind of blurs together... um, Tuesday it rained cats and dogs, that is the saying right?? It was like biking through a river. Super fun. (: but everyone gets way worried about us. they tell us not to fall in pipes... haha I just laugh at them and say okay and take off. (: It’s quite the adventure!!! Gotta love it. (: </div>
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Friday I went on an exchange with Sister Cook, don't hate me but I didn't take any pictures... so you guys won't know what she looks like, but it was SO fun. I got to go back and serve in Tuol Kork, my birth area, for a day and it was the best thing ever!!! We didn't meet any of the people that I was really close with, but the members still remembered me and were so impressed with my Khmer skills. Night and day when you compare me in training, not talking at all, to now talking all the time. I got lots and lots of comments. (: It felt good to realize how much I have progressed and changed on my mission. The lord works miracles!!! Also, the Lords work is progressing. Tuol Kork has had so much success. I loved seeing that!!! This church is true. (: </div>
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Saturday we met with my most favorite people ever. Dohla and Zeekaa!!! I just love them so much. Dohla is the cutest thing ever and has such a strong desire to learn the truth. She just sits there and soaks it all in, even though she doesn't understand like at all, that's okay because her faith is strong enough and she has enough people to teach her when we aren't there. One day it will all click. She read and prayed!!! Golden. (: I wanted to take a picture, but forgot. next week for sure. Then Zeekaa. She is still doing good. We taught her about faith and Alma 32. She answered all our questions perfectly and shared great insights. The Lord really did prepare her to become a member of this church. Still waiting to teach her family, but one day they will start learning!!! </div>
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I have nothing to talk about this week... actually that's a lie WE HAD A BAPTISM!!!!! But I will get to that in a second... let me start from the very beginning. </div>
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Tuesday we had zone conference. I absolutely love zone conferences. President and Sister Christensen are the coolest. We talked a lot about having the faith to see miracles. It was definitely directed to me. I’ve been kind of faithless lately with finding new investigators and less actives coming to church, but it was a nice slap in the face to wake up my faith and get me ready to see miracles. The AP's shared a way cool story. It hit me way hard, so hopefully you guys like it too. </div>
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<b><i>The Unmoved Rock<br />
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Once upon a time, there was a man who was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man He had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. This the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might.<br />
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Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain. Seeing that the man was showing signs of discouragement, Satan decided to enter the picture placing thoughts into the man's mind such as: "You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn't budged. Why kill yourself over this? You are never going to move it." Thus giving the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure.<br />
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These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man even more. "Why kill myself over this?" he thought. "I'll just put in my time, giving just the minimum of effort and that will be good enough." And that he planned to do until one day he decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.<br />
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"Lord," he said, "I have laboured long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock a half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?" To this the Lord responded compassionately, "My child, when long ago I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all your strength, which you have done. Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push.<br />
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And now you come to me, your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewed and brown, your hands are callused from constant pressure, and your legs have become massive and hard. Through opposition, you have grown much and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. Yet you haven't moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. This you have done. I, my child, will now move the rock."</i></div>
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It just made me think so much about my mission and what I thought it was going to be compared to what it has been. I learned so much. Much of what I learned was pretty personal, so I won't share it, but just read this story, ponder it, and learn what the lord wants YOU to learn from it. Sister Christensen taught about the culture, specifically about Angkor Watt. I was blown away. It’s SO cool and it made me way ticked because when I went last month I had NO idea how cool it actually was. Now I just really really want to go back!!!! haha </div>
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Our new investigator-her name is TohLaa (October in Khmer) and she is 14. She is the cutest thing ever. She is the niece of a recent convert. We went to teach her and had 3 members helping us. Pretty cool. She is originally from a province, kind of far away and she's here with her extended family, not really sure why yet... we were teaching her prayer and I like to use the analogy of calling home, but as I starting teaching it she just started bawling. Like literally sobbing... it broke my heart. She really really missed her mom and dad. I don't know what I said to comfort her but next thing I knew she had prayed (a great prayer, might I add), she stopped crying, and she gave me the biggest huge. I love her already!! And she came to church. She's super awesome!!! </div>
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ZEEKAA!!!! The long awaited baptism. Goodness. It feels so good saying that she is now a member of the church. The baptism was supposed to be at five, but both people getting baptized, Zeekaa and Chantrea (an investigator of the elders) were late, so we just kicked it at the church until they got there. haha it was fine though because the font wasn't even filled up yet. Sister Luke gave a killer talk on the Holy Ghost. She was really really nervous, but she did a fantastic job and Zeekaa loved it!!!! Zeekaa said she wasn't nervous, but then as she was getting in the font she said "why are my feet shaking??"haha I just laughed. Elder Otto baptized her and it was the coolest thing. He’s a new koon too, so still struggling with the language a little, but we had called him the night before and told him that Zeekaa wanted him to baptize her and that he needed to start practicing the prayer. Every time we saw him we had him recite the prayer. He killed it!!! Did a great job. After, when Zeekaa was changing she said "Sister, I feel so good." ah, exactly what you want to hear. (; Then during her testimony she bore a super powerful testimony about how the lord had prepared a way for her to find the one true church and become a daughter of god. I was so proud of her!!!! She said she liked the way she was feeling and that she felt different from before, but a good kind of different. Ah, I love her!!! It had been a while since I’d had a baptism... I forgot how good it felt to help others find the light of the gospel. It was a lot less stressful than I remember.... maybe because Zeekaa had prepared herself, with the help of the spirit, 100% to get baptized. I didn't doubt our decision to baptize her AT ALL!!! She is the best!!! This work is the coolest EVER!!! </div>
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Sunday we had church and we actually got to watch conference again... haha the things that happen in Cambodia. I just love it. (: And then I talked to Ming Samay, a member here, she is my Khmer mom, about my sickness. and she FREAKED!!! she thought I was dying... then when we got home, she called me to check up on me and told me that she really really cares about me and was worried about me. I’m so grateful the Lord is allowing me to meet these amazing people!!! I love her!! </div>
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So it is currently 6 o'clock at night. Yes, koh cbab (against the rules) but we had a crazy day. We went with our zone leaders at 8am this morning to help an Om move houses... it was only supposed to take an hour and then we could have a normal p-day. Like everything else in Cambodia, it didn't go as planned and we didn't leave until 1... but it was okay because I love our zone leaders, Elder Maurer and Elder Seng; laughing with them for 5 hours was good. Needless to say we had to do a little adjusting to get everything done that we needed to... the zone leaders gave us permission to email right now, so I guess it's not that against the rules. But moving houses is way hard work especially with all the stuff that she had. She lives alone but had SO MUCH STUFF. Therefor I am way way way tired right now and don't really have the energy to type a good email. SORRY!!!!! </div>
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P-day we went bowling-not much to say about that except it was a bad idea. It made me so so so trunky. Complete throwback to thunder alley and Bountiful Bowl with the crew... it was bad.... but so much fun. You guys have never experienced true happiness until you have seen a Khmer bowl. Oh my goodness. The best thing ever!!!! </div>
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We finally met with a less active. I thought she hated us and was ignoring us. We kept trying to meet her and her daughter kept telling us that she wasn't home... I didn't believe her, but really wanted to let her know that we cared, so we kept going. Righteous persistence is always rewarded with blessings. We met her and had a way good lesson with her. </div>
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Conference. I don't even know what to say. My subject is pretty clear. I loved it. Like I always do, but I am way sad that that was my last one as a missionary because conference as a missionary is the best thing ever!!!! I really really liked all the talks about Joy and how that is the purpose of this gospel. That’s exactly what I’m trying to do here in Cambodia. Bring them all joy; even if they don't want to accept it, I will keep trying. Also, worshiping. That’s something we can all work on. None of our Sundays are perfectly spent thinking about the savior. Make it better to become holier. Also, I love that conference is so individual. I’m not even going to bother telling you guys everything I learned because, if you watched, and I hope you all did, you should have received some personal revelation of your own. So now what??? Act on it!!!! Make goals and commitments to yourself. Watch your life start changing. Allow the savior to make you something amazing. Something we cannot become on our own. Ah, I love this gospel so much and my savior, Jesus Christ. We are a part of something so cool. Every time one of the big hitters got up I would just look at my comp and say man, I love them. They are so amazing. And she would just laugh at me. She even called me a nerd once. I just really really love this gospel and conference. (: </div>
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That's all I’ve got. Just know that I love you all and I’m still kicking here in Cambodia; loving and making the most out of every day. LOVE YOU!!!! OH!!!! Almost forgot. BAPTISM next week. Zeekaa is still shining bright. GET EXCITED!!!!!! </div>
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LONG and not a lot happened cause Pchum Bun... remember that holiday from last
year? The 15 day long holiday where they celebrate the dead and go back to
their sroks (hometowns) and go to the wat and drink beer and make missionary
work for us basically impossible? Yep, it happened once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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way good by watching women's conference with all the sisters in the city and
Sister Christensen and all the senior sisters. It was the best!!! Conference is
already way good, but then you get like 16 missionaries in one room and the
spirit is incredible. I loved it so so so much and it got me WAY pumped for
conference. We get to watch it this week and I can't wait. Singing the last
song, I Know That My Redeemer Lives, was really powerful and brought almost all
of us to tears. It was a way cool experience. I was really touched by it
because that is the message we are taking to the Khmers, that their savior
lives and he loves them more than they can even comprehend, even if they have
never heard about him before. AH, this church is the best!!!! And to make that
way good opportunity even better, Sister Christensen had food for us: rice
krispies, homemade cookies (which are to die for) chips and salsa, you know, a
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of everyone evacuation the city... so we didn't really have much work to do. I
mean you typically don't have much work to do, but then the people who we
normally meet leave the city and we've got nothing to do, so we took the time
to have a bonding activity with our district. We had district meeting and then
we cooked food together, perks of having a Khmer district leader... there was
SO much food and it was chngan chngan. So delicious. Like mouth watering... and
we just laughed and talked with each other. I really really love our district
so much. And it was a good thing we did that because transfer calls came and
both the Khmers, Elder Seng and Elder Ouk, who are my new favorite people in
the world, literally best friends. I am convinced we were best friends in
the preexistence, are leaving... I am so bummed!!! But Sister Luke and I are da
dael (the same) so I was really really happy about that. (: But we (Sister Luke
and I) made a cake for district meeting. Better than anything cake Khmer style,
which is just a chocolate cake with sweetened condensed milk poured over the
top cause that's all we can find here without spending a fortune. But it's
still so so so good and the Khmers LOVED it, so that was good. It was a great
day. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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normal day. We actually had 3 lessons, which was crazy!!! We had a really good
lesson with one of our members whose daughter is less active. We’ve been working
a lot with them lately, Ming Niat and Danee. We taught her about Mosiah 27:
8-14 which is perfect for her situation!!!! And she thanked us multiple times
and said that it was exactly what she needed. I love them both so much. Danee
was actually sad when we came and asked to meet with her mom instead of her. That’s
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house. Like deep deep cleaned it. I was way sweaty by the end and had to clean
up some way nasty crap... not even sure what it was, but I think there were
worms growing in it... maybe that's what's been making Sister Luke and me so
sick lately... haha but now it's all gone, so we'll get healthy. It took us a
good 5 1/2 hours though... because our house is four floors and there are only
two of us.... but we bonded and I was WAY grateful that Sister Luke is as cool
as she is because if I didn't like her I think I would have died... but we are
best friends and we just sung and the top of our lungs and laughed about all
the crazy things we had to clean. Good times for sure. (: After cleaning we
went to the South Stake Center to watch Ephraim’s Rescue. I’m not going to say
a ton about it, only that it WAS SO GOOD!!!! All of you should watch it. I’m
not sure if it's really that good or if I just loved it so much because I’m a
missionary. (; But you guys should still watch it because the stories in there
are incredible!!!! I was way pumped to go out and do missionary work, but then
NO ONE was home, so we sat inside for the next three days and just looked at
records and organized and tried to contact with very little success. But now
everyone is coming home and things will start picking up again.(: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really really well. We didn't meet with her this past week. She didn't answer
her phone, but she came to church and is still so good!!! Her baptism got
moved to the 15th because of conference next week, but we are still way
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Here we are again with another week under our belts. I don't like it. One more week down means one more week until I go home. Don’t get me wrong, I miss my family like crazy, but how many people get to be a missionary in Cambodia?? Not very many and I just know that once I’m home I am going to be craving Cambodia every second of every day. Wishing I could put my tag on just one more time and go out and serve the Lord’s children here in Cambodia. Man…I love my mission. It’s not easy at all, but it's so worth it. </div>
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This week started off a little interesting because I went to SIEM REAP!!! It was crazy. I got to the mission home and they immediately said, “ Sister Loftus, let's go”. So off I went. Ripped away from my beloved baby Sister Luke. It was heart breaking, but it was okay because I got to be companions with Sister Semones (my MTC comp) again!!! 5-hour bus ride with her was SO fun!!! We got to Siem Reap and it was way weird... everything was in English... because of all the tourists... then we stayed up way late talking and reminiscing... (whoops) and then we woke up at 3:50 and off we went. It was way cold... and there were tons and tons of people, but we had a good time. The ruins BLOW my mind... how they built them I have no idea. There is a ton too... like 6 or 7 and they are huge!!!! It rained... so we got way wet, but it made some of the people leave, so that was good. We surprised a lot of people with our Khmer skills. It was the best. I love talking to them. I don't really know what to say, not a whole lot to share because you just walk around. We didn't have a tour guide so we don't really know a whole lot about them, just know that they are giant stone buildings. haha enjoy the pictures!!! Then we took a bus ride home and then I had the amazing privilege to take Sister Xiong, one of my favorite companions, to the airport with President and Sister Christensen. She is sick, so she had to go home, but I was so blessed to be able to see her one last time and be able to be her companion. She changed my life for sure. I love her so much. </div>
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normal, but yet so good at the same time. I always feel like so much happens
and then it is down at the computer and pleec ah lieng mong (and I forget
everything). It’s kind of the worst, but I'll do my best to do this week
justice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tuesday was a pretty
interesting day... we woke up and we planned to have district meeting, just
like any other Tuesday. When we went downstairs my bike was broken so we left a
little early to get it fixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
waiting for them to bang it out with a hammer, cause that's how they
"fix" things here and we got a text from both companionships of
elders in our district (we are the only sisters) saying that they had bike
problems and someone was coming to look at their house so they would both be
late. Perfect. So we just took our time at the bike place. I gotta hand it to
the Khmer’s, they do a pretty good job fixing things with hammers. If I tried
to do what they do, I would make it 100X worse... haha it kind of blows my
mind. Then we went to the church and neither of the Elders were there, so we
just did some training while we waited. Eventually the Khmer companionship of
elders, our district leader, got there. This was at about 11 and typically district
meeting is over at 11:30. We called the other elders and the guy was still at
their house so they weren't coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just decided to do it without them... haha talk about awkward. Just me, Sister
Luke, Elder Seng, and Elder Ouk, rocking it in the high council room together. It
was way funny cause the first thing Elder Seng said was “sorry but I’m going to
speak and teach in Khmer because I don't have the gift of tongues like you
guys..." I was dying. Typically he is very professional when he teaches,
but today he just joked around with us. I was laughing so hard. He turned his
questions into a game show. We were just laughing all together. It was the best
and we learned a ton and felt the spirit. It was so good. And now me, Sister Luke,
Elder Seng, and Elder Ouk are best friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our less active Yiay. She is the picture from a few weeks ago, my Cambodian
grandma. She is the cutest and has a ton of faith, but just quite doesn't
understand everything. So lately we have been giving her chapters to read in
the Book of Mormon and she reads them like once every day so like 7 times
before we meet her again so that she can understand it all. And then we go and
she just teaches us and I love it. She learns so much and understands it all. But
then after this way good lesson she says "oh sisters. I have a num (treat)
for you", because she always gives us something.... she says "last
night they were signing to their ancestors and I know that's against the rules
for us, so I signed to Jehovah. I have two extra nums and I want to give them
to you two. Typically we eat with her there, but these nums she boxed up. What
was she expecting us to do??? Go home and burn incense to Jesus?? haha we
kindly explained to her we don't do that, but we did go home and eat the nums
and they were quite delicious. (: They tasted like 7 layer bars. so good!!!!
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family... but I’m way bummed because they told us that they are moving... kind
of far away and won't be in our ward anymore... we just can't catch a break out
here... man.... but we had a good last lesson with them and taught the husband
how to tie a tie. And…loved on their cute little baby boy. He is the cutest
ever. I love him. So blessed to get to know all these amazing people!!!! Tender
mercies. We went home and worked on CBR's for 3 hours... with not much success.
But that is okay. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the same spot as she was, still not coming to church but I still have so
much hope and faith in her, so we will keep teaching her. She really wants a
new job and we taught her fasting, so hopefully she applies it and starts to
see some miracles happen according to her faith. As for Zeekaa, she blew me
away this past week. She is getting interviewed for baptism this week and so we
prepped her a little for it. Just asked her the questions they will ask her and
she passed with flying colors!!!! She knew EVERYTHING. Her answers were so
good. I honestly can't wait for her to get baptized!!!! she also got to attend
a baptism of the elders and that helped her get even more excited!!!!! 2 more
weeks. YES!!!! The Lord is looking out for us here in Pochentong. We might not
have a ton of work, but we've got a good investigator. I love her. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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convert. She is so so so good. She works every day except Sundays from 7 in the
morning until 8 at night... she has a little 10 month old baby... she doesn't
have anything to ride to church, but she is so good. We walked up to her house
and the door was open, like usual and both her and her husband (not a member)
yelled sister!!! and then they turned the TV off and started learning with us. I
am in love with her little baby girl, Srey Nic, she is the cutest and she's not
scared at all. She was smiling and laughing!!! I loved it!!! She has crazy
faith. She is from Kampungcam and when she learned with the sisters there she
was like 6 months pregnant and walked an hour there and back for church. I am
way excited to start meeting her on a weekly basis and seeing if we can help
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was kind of short. I was in the middle of my email, on a roll, and then the
power went out, so then I lost all my thoughts that I wanted to share....
sorry!!! Just a quick note. I get to go to Siem Reap tomorrow because I’m cit
slap hauy (close to dying, except not really. I still have loads of time (: )
so get ready for the best pictures next week!!!! Love you all! Thank you so
much for the love, support, and prayers. You are the best!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This week was way long... I don't really understand why, but all of the areas
that I serve in start out really good when I first get there and then slowly we
lose our investigators and the work just gets harder and harder... it was
really frustrating at first, but now I think I'm finally starting to understand
it: the Lord just really really loves me and wants me to learn as much as I can
on this mission. He teaches us through trials and afflictions, challenges and
temptations, I have plenty of those on my plate right now and as I continue to
rely on Him I will grow stronger and stronger each day, slowly becoming the
person He needs me to be. I still can't believe how much I have grown as a
missionary and as a person. Missions truly are full of miracles.<br />
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We had a huge trial this week. Our recent convert of 2 weeks lost her job and
told us that she had to move back to Kampungcam... super far away from the
church.... We were heart broken and at first, just for a split second, I was angry.
I didn't understand why it had to be happening to us. Why she had to leave? And
then once I remembered "it's not about you..."I started thinking
about her and her situation... her situation in KC is not the best. She has a
step mom who isn't very nice and she will be living with her parents again
after 1 1/2 years on her own... that's not easy. She was not very happy about
the whole thing. I feel so bad for her... but after the initial anger and
confusion wore off I was able to see things clearly. The Lord has a PERFECT
plan for her. There is a reason she has to go back to KC right now and not be
able to go to church.... I don't really know what that is yet, maybe she will
convert her whole family, help them know about their savior Jesus Christ, but I
have faith that all will work out. She does too. She was so positive about the
whole situation and promised that she will read and pray everyday. We will keep
checking up on her and praying that she finds a job and can come back
quickly!!!! We had a really good last lesson with her yesterday. Sister Luke
has a heart of gold and gave up her really nice gold plates (Khmer scriptures
with gold covering on the pages) because Sokhiab only had the Book of Mormon
and we didn't feel good about sending her away with just that, so we called all
the resources we could, but couldn't find a triple, so she very willing gave
hers up. She is the best. How did I get so lucky to meet Sokhiab and be
companions with Sister Luke??? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in my training that moved to PCT?? We had a killer lesson with her on the
temple this week. She really really really wants to go and I really really
really want to help her get there. We gave her the temple book and she started
reading it. She is really feeling the spirit and I hope that things keep
progressing and she can go within the next few years. It would help her so
much!!!! But she went back to her srok (home town) for a holiday and won't be
back for 3 weeks. Hopefully she stays strong and reads and prayers and we can
just pick up right where we left off with her!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our investigators, all two of them haha (:, are great!!! We had one of them
(Zeekaa, who reminds me so much of Michelle, my sister-in-law) tell us she
can't wait to get married in the temple and that if anyone that isn't a member
asks her to marry them, she will say no because she wants to have a good happy
family. Also, she is so good and involved in the ward that Elder Otto, an elder
serving in PCT, thought she was a long time member. hahaha Then we have one
more investigator, Srey Moam. She works on Sundays, so she doesn't really have
the ability to come to church, but she is so good and is progressing a ton. When
I first met her she wouldn't talk at all, but this past Saturday we had a way
good lesson with her. She was laughing and joking and just super super happy. I
attribute it all to the gospel. It’s starting to click and that's what brings
lasting happiness in our lives. I love seeing the gospel change people’s
lives!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Last p-day was way fun. We
went to a restaurant called Ramen and it was a Korean BBQ place. We went with
six other missionaries and it was SO delicious. We cooked our food on grills in
front of us and then got a bento box. I never thought it’d say this, but I love
sushi. I could eat it everyday and never get sick of it. Also, so to make
everything even better, it was half off, so a meal for all 8 of us would
normally be almost 100 dollars, but we got it for like 50 and then splitting
everything it was only like 6 dollars for each of us. It was so good!!! We
might just go back every p-day... and then we played spoons and spastic Uno. It
was so much fun. Never laughed that hard in my life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">We had quite the miracle
take place this week, but you guys are going to get the very very condensed
version cause I’m running low on time. But we went to find a CBR and we followed
a map that an old missionary drew, so they aren't the greatest... haha so we
started off on this trek and really have no idea where we were going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were trying to follow the map, but the
streets didn't line up, so we just stopped for a second to talk. I was ready to
go home but Sister Luke said I believe we can find it, so she took off and just
started taking random turns. We ended up in front of this house and she said I
think this is it. I looked at the shoes and there were little kid shoes... the
family we were trying to find didn't have little kids or so I thought... so we
turned away to bike to a different lesson when this little boy yells
"hello sister".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I turn to Sister
Luke still biking away and said "did you hear that??" She said no,
but I felt like we needed to turn around and ask him, so we did and guess what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The house that we just awkwardly sat in front
of debating if it was theirs or not WAS THEIRS!!!! And we were able to meet
them. Huge blessing and tender mercy - 1. because we found it following the
spirit 2. she had prayed the night before to meet us. 3. she is getting ready
to get married and can't meet us for about a month so everything worked out in
favor of us. The Lord is the best!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always makes for an interesting night full of laughter. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Most of our week was
spent SOAKED!!!! It poured like 4 out of the 7 days this week and we just get
on our little bikes and off we go to do the work of the Lord. I find it quite
hilarious that in the white handbook it says not to bike in heavy traffic, when
it's dark outside, or in severe weather. Here in the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission
we do all three of those almost on a daily basis. (: hahaha don't worry mom,
there are definitely angels protecting us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Yesterday was literally
the best day at church. We got a new bishopric and I’m way excited to start
working with them. Also, our stake president spoke and he is literally the
coolest person ever. He knows so much and the way he phrases things just blows
my mind. one day I want to be like him. I learned so much, so much that I’m not
even gonna try and explain it all except for this one little quote. Service is
learning. It sounds cooler in Khmer, but just ponder that for a second. That’s
why missions are so life changing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I love my savior and redeemer. WE are so blessed. Have a great week. Love you
all!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sister Loftus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This week was probably the longest week of my life.... haha We had two training meetings, one on Thursday night and one on Friday morning, so there was a lot of riding back and forth from the mission home and Pochentong, but that's okay because it was all worth it. The meetings were so inspired and they really helped me figure out the kind of trainer/missionary I want to be for the time that I have left. It was also such a fun opportunity to look back and think about when I got in the country one year ago (my one year in country is this week. Crazy, right??) I have come so far. Like it blows my mind, all because of the Lord. I am so grateful for everything I’ve learned. Missions are the most incredible experiences ever. It’s hard though being on the other side of things now because sometimes Sister Luke struggles with the language and says that she is never going to learn it and gets really down on herself or she doesn't know what the members are saying and just gets super discouraged and all I can say is "it will get better, I promise." It will, but she just has to trust me. And in the moment it seems like you're going to die and that nothing is going to get better and that you are going to be in this country forever and you're never going to go home and then one day you wake up and you have like 4 months left and suddenly you think "man, I don't want to go home. I want to be a missionary forever." You know that that can't happen and then you get way sad.... that's my thinking process about 10 times a day. I really really love being a missionary and it has taken me 14 months to really appreciate it, sure there were days where I loved being a missionary, but then something would happen and I would just want to go home, but for the past few weeks I’ve only had thoughts that I love my mission and talking about going home really really makes me sad and stresses me out. I just want to keep being taught by the Lord as a missionary and keep putting my tag on every day. AAAAAAHHHHHH. Don’t make me go home. I really have so many thoughts running through my head and I can never articulate them very well.... just know that my mission has changed my life and continues to change my life every day. This gospel is true. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and can help us with every problem we have. Trust the Savior and his perfect plan for each of us. </div>
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Okay, now that that is over, I apologize that was all over the place but I just had to get it down on paper because I really really don't want to leave.... but it's okay because I still have 4 months of incredible experiences with Sister Luke in Pochentong, honestly one of the best wards here in Cambodia. We have way fun experiences everyday together. She sees stuff that just blows her mind and she'll ask me questions and I’ll just say "yep, that was a funeral just going down the middle of the road throwing fake American $100 out and candy" or "yes, our neighbors did just raid our trash to get our recyclable to sell so that they can have food to eat" or when we walk downstairs in the morning for breakfast and there are 4 cockroaches dead in our kitchen she freaks out, I just step over them and start eating my food. haha And our butts being wet all the time 1- because of sweat 2- because of the fact that we don't use toilet paper. We use this thing that we call a bum gun to rinse off, we shake off a little, and off we go. hahaha you guys are gonna start getting all the little things about Cambodia that I forgot to tell you about in my training. Get excited!!!! (; </div>
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Now for the work. We are currently rocking teaching our very new (as of yesterday) recent convert, Sokhiab,. She is the one that was sick last week and didn't get the Holy Ghost, but don't worry cause she came yesterday and received the Holy Ghost and was just glowing!!! I love her so much. We had a lesson with her and she just told us how much this gospel has changed her life. But she told us that her work won't let her work for about a month (I don't really understand why it happens, but it does...) so she has to find new work and if she can't find work she'll have to go back to her Srok (home town). I'm praying way hard that she can find work because if she goes back she won't be able to go to church for a month... but if she does have to go home that is Heavenly Father's plan for her and maybe she can help her family have the desire to learn. She is so good!!! </div>
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We are still teaching Zeekaa. She is the cutest ever. I want her to get baptized, go on a mission, marry an RM, and then just have the cutest little family ever. She has so much potential and she speaks English, so Sister Luke can actually communicate with her. She Loves Zeekaa. We will keep teaching her and hopefully get her prepared and baptized in 2-3 weeks. (: We taught her Friday about the priesthood. She said she wanted to marry a man that holds the priesthood and can help her have a happy family and life. She said she wants to move to America... I bore powerful testimony, as prompted by the spirit, that the Lord has a perfect plan for each of us and if he wants her to go to American it will happen. But if she's supposed to stay here that’s what will happen, but no matter what happens if she stays strong in the gospel and keeps doing everything she needs to do the Lord will bless her. She just looked at me and all she said was "amen". It made me happy. (: </div>
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We are currently working with a family Ming Niat and Danee. I love them will all my heart. Ming Niat is a very active mother and Danee is her daughter who is semi active. Ming Niat is really worried for Danee so we are trying to help strengthen both of them and get them reading in the Book of Mormon because that is the game changer. We had a way good family home evening with them where we shared the talk “I am a Child of God” from last conference and then shared in 1 Nephi 11:17. I don't really know how we managed to tie it all together, but they were both engaged and told us it was exactly what they needed to hear. So props to the Spirit and revelation. gotta love when that happens. (: </div>
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Sunday was good, as usual. Testimony meeting was way powerful. Sister Luke made momma proud and bore her testimony. She is going to do great things. (: I love her and am so blessed to be her comp. We got fed again. Delicious food. Not so delicious food. We "didn't have enough food" so they just went out and bought more... on Sunday. All of us were members and have callings in the ward, but it still happened and no one said anything.... haha you've just gotta love and appreciate Cambodia for what it is. I sure do. (: </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13762444082519896239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5132161568748220526.post-65010541748884454972016-08-29T20:33:00.000-07:002016-08-29T20:33:28.293-07:00And Baby Makes Two!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">This week was too good. I
GOT ANOTHER CHILD. She is the coolest ever. You guys should all be way jealous.
So the story starts way back in December. My third transfer, when I was ripped
from the grasp of my loving mother, Sister Fields (my trainer), because she had
another child, Sister Haddock. Sister Haddock came and talked all about her MTC
group, especially one sister, Sister Luke. Sister Haddock talked her up so much
and made her seem like the best person ever. Sister Luke, unfortunately had to
go home at the end of her MTC stay so she didn't come to Cambodia with the rest
of the group but rather went home to work through some things and all Sister
Haddock said was one day Sister Luke was going to come back and serve in
Cambodia. I thought to myself "one day I’ll be this Sister Luke’s
companion. It’s destiny." So after that I didn't really think much about
it, until I saw her picture on the transfer board and thought "holy
goodness. She is coming back" and since that day, like 3 months ago, I
said, "I am going to train Sister Luke." No one believed me. Thursday
rolled around and guess who is training Sister Luke???? ME!!!! That’s right. I
am THE LUCKIEST ever. I wish you guys could have seen me when I got the paper
with her name on it. I screamed so loud and all the Elders just looked at me. I
was so happy and excited that I almost peed my pants. I wish someone had gotten
it on camera. She is amazing!!!! Definitely just as good, if not better, than
Sister Haddock said she would be. She’s worked so hard to get here and she is
so ready to start doing missionary work and loving the people. She is from
Tennessee and my same age. They didn't want to make her got to the MTC again,
so she came straight from normal life, so that's been a little weird, because
she forgot some of the weird aspects of missionary life, like praying a million
times in one day and it's weird because it's been like 8 months since she has
spoken Khmer, but it's good. The words she knows she says really clearly and she
is so determined to learn a ton. She’s gonna pick it up so fast!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chest and you guys all know who THE Koon of the century is, I can now tell you
about the rest of the week. (: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">The last few days with
Sister Seng, my mini missionary, were pretty interesting. We played Uno on p-day
and that was so fun!!! Then on Wednesday we had a little devotional for all the
mini missionaries so they could bear their testimonies... her
"testimony" was interesting... not really a testimony at all, just
kind of her bashing on me. I don't even know what she was saying. Too
embarrassed and mortified to understand her Khmer... all I know, is that after,
so many people came up to me, even President, and thanked me basically for
"taking one for the team" and training her. I had emailed Sister Semones,
my MTC companion, the first Monday of training the mini missionaries and tried
to explain to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then after the
testimony meeting she came up, put her arm around me, and said, "Wow, I
didn't realize it was THAT HARD." I just laughed. It was way hard, but I
learned so much from her, so I’m way grateful for that opportunity and now I
have just way good stories and I can laugh about it. (; haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mission home, got a little bit of training, and then hopped in the tuk tuk and
went to the airport to get our new koons (new companion, new to Cambodia). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s when I almost peed my pants from
excitement. It was way cool while we were waiting at the airport because my
entire MTC district is training so we were all at the airport together one more
time. I love them all so much. We've come SO far. haha We didn't know ANYTHING
when we got here... it's been a very humbling experience to see just how much
the Lord helps us on these missions. It would be impossible without His help. I
went from barely even being able to say a prayer in Khmer and now I can teach
full lessons and make small talk with the members and people I meet on the
road. OH I ALMOST FORGOT!!!!! Speaking of the language. I had a recent convert
tell me on Saturday that I speak Khmer beautifully. I HAVE BEEN WAITING OVER A
YEAR TO GET THAT COMPLIMENT AND I FINALLY CAME!!!!! (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">note from mom-she forgets how many other Khmers have told her that
already</i>) I remember getting here like a year ago and everyone talked about
this sister, Sister Lindley, and that she spoke beautifully and it become a
goal to get that compliment on my mission. Goal accomplished. I was SO HAPPY. I
was freaking out. The lord is helping me so much!!!! I am eternally indebted
and grateful for Him. The atonement is real. USE IT!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">So my koon lucked out
getting me as her trainer (hahaha just kidding) but she really lucked out
getting born in Pochentong. She has the best members ever. We were at church
and one of the recent converts came up and invited us to her house for lunch.
It was so much fun. Sister Luke had no idea what was going on and EVERYONE
wanted to talk to her, but it was still so fun. She got some native Khmer food
and it was the funniest thing ever. We used to live with a Khmer, but on
Tuesday night, she got an emergency transfer call and left the house. So now
it's just Sister Luke and me living in this giant house... kind of a bummer,
but it'll be good. I just wanted her to eat good Khmer food and not my knock off
American Khmer food... she'll just have to keep getting it from the members. (:
We ate fish, fish paste, larvas, and so much other stuff and this really good
pumpkin dessert. Every time I eat it there are always ants in it. So this time
I asked... they just said they crawl into it and I made a joke and said that I
just thought it was one of the ingredients and they thought it was the funniest
thing ever. hahahah But then our investigator, that got baptized last week was
sick, so she didn't come to church to receive the Holy Ghost. So to make sure
things were still good with her, we trekked out to her house and had a really
really good lesson with her. She is the sweetest. I love her!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Investigator update: Zeekaa is still doing well.
She will most likely get baptized in like 3 weeks. We taught her about the
sacrament and the atonement and it was a really really powerful lesson. We were
all bawling and I was prompted to ask her if she knew that this church was
true. She shared this story how she has been to a lot of different churches and
didn't believe in any of them. Even when she started learning with us; she
didn't believe. But then at the end she said, "I know that this church is
true." Ah, she is SO AMAZING!!!! Then Srey Moam and Bong Moam came to church.
I was so happy. Bong Lida is not progressing, so we will most likely drop her
this coming week. And then once Sokhiab (the one that got baptized last week)
get's the holy ghost she will no longer be an investigator, but she is so
good!!! I love them all so much!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mission and never want to leave. Hope you all have a good week. Good luck to
everyone who just started or will be starting school soon!!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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First off, the bike, the Giant bike. It is so nice. Probably nicer than my car back home. (just kidding my car at home was really nice, thanks mom and dad for letting me drive it. you spoiled me) but for real. It is so nice. And I feel way bad driving it and going to members houses when they don't even have enough money for food, but it's what president wanted us to do. So I took that as revelation and bought it. Trying to make the best of it. Make jokes and tell people that they forced me to buy it. They think that's pretty funny. But the nice bike wasn't without price. It was lots of money... I won't give any specifics, but more expensive than some of the motos that are out on the streets in Cambodia.... and it took a total of 4 hours at the Giant store trying to get it all figured out. Talk about 2 days shot. No proselyting done in our area... I thought my koon was going to die from boredom... sorry!!! Wasn’t my fault. </div>
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Baptism. So this was probably the weirdest baptism I have ever had on my mission. You know out of all 3 of them. haha because I haven't even taught her a single lesson yet. The sisters that served here last transfer taught her all the lessons, got her all prepared and interviewed, and then got transferred... so I just came in and got the baptism. haha I wish missionary work was always that easy... but the investigators name is Sokhiab and she is the cutest thing ever. She is SO good. She was so excited. I was talking to her before sacrament meeting started and all she could say was how excited she was. I asked her if she was nervous, because typically they are way nervous, and she said nope, not at all, just so excited!!! So she made it through three hours of church and finally got baptized. After the baptism she got up and bore her testimony. She said that this day was so special to her and a day that she won't ever forget. She said that the night before she only got like 2 hours of sleep because she was so excited!!! How cute is that. And then she promised God, from the pulpit., as well as everyone that was there, that she would never go less active. She would continue on this path forever; all the way to the celestial kingdom. Ah, she is the cutest ever. And her story of how they found her is so amazing. She lives with a different investigator and that investigators story is way crazy... and I still don't really understand it all, still getting details from the other sisters every day, but one day I’ll tell it to you. But let's just say that I am so excited to start re-teaching Sokhiab the lessons and helping her strengthen her faith and testimony even more. </div>
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The storm. So there was a less active that came to sacrament meeting yesterday and one of the counselors in the relief society presidency wanted us and the elders to go with her to visit her but she lives way far away like almost an hour biking, So we prepped mentally and off we went. We were about 30 minutes into our ride when it just started POURING. The drops were huge and they hurt way bad when they hit. I thought it was hailing it hurt so badly. I was drenched, soaked from head to toe. And the water was getting in my eyes, messing with my contacts, making it basically impossible to see. I thought I was either going to hit something or get hit by something.... it was so sketchy, but we finally took shelter at a gas station along with about 40 other people. They all just started talking about the Barangs (French people, that's what they call us all the time...) little did they know that we could understand them. Their look of confusion and surprise when we started talking with them in Khmer was priceless. I loved it. hahaha We waited there for about 10 minutes trying to decide what to do. Half of the group, there were about 10 of us, so three of them, went home. The elder invited us to go with them to visit one of their recent converts, so we went with them; still in the pouring rain. It was so black. The sky was the blackest I have ever seen it. But we ended up making it safely to the recent converts house and they fed us really really really delicious food, so all was good. Biking home the streets were flooded, up to my mid-calf. I love biking when the streets are flooded. Good thing I had my trusty bike to help me out. (: </div>
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Our investigators are good, well, kind of. Two that were progressing before have stopped since I got here... the curse of Sister Loftus. But the one investigator, NoZeekaa, that I didn't think would progress is amazing. She is my favorite. She is about 20 years old and knows so much English. I thought she would be really really flaky, you know teenage girls, but she meets with us twice a week, and comes to church. She understands so much. She just gets it. And she reads the Book of Mormon almost every day!!!! Super amazing. I love her so much. I'll give you more details on the other 3 next week, hopefully they will start progressing. (: </div>
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Saturday night we had a way cool experience. We were sitting at our table and these little Cambodians kids were playing in front of our house, so we went out to talk with them. There were four of them and they were not scared of us at all. There was one who was 14 and he just right off the bat asked us if we taught about Jesus Christ. He learned a little bit about it at school. He knew all about Adam and Eve and really wants to know more. So cool. He seems like such a good kid. The other boys are too young and they didn't really know what was going on, but the oldest asked us to sing "bot comriang khaang sasnaa" (church songs) so we, Sister Hall and I, started singing “I am a child of God” and “I love to see the Temple”. The spirit was so strong. We also gave the little boy a pamphlet and he just started reading it. The coolest thing ever. Not sure if anything will come from it, but we planted a seed, that's for sure. It’s experiences like that that make being a missionary so worth it. They were just so innocent and willing to listen. The Lord will prepare a way for them. I know it. </div>
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Also, I was studying in Ether today, and the brother of Jared and his faith blew me away. If we could all be like him, this world would be so much better. All of you should go read in Ether about the brother of Jared and just be amazed by his faith. I can't even put in in words. I sat there for a long time trying to write about it in my study journal and I couldn't... haha. We can learn so much from him. He had so much faith that he saw the Lord. The Lord showed Himself to him. So cool!!!!</div>
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The subject of this email is a shout out to all of you who are obsessed with the new Pokémon game and it is a perfect description of my week. That is exactly how I feel. I just kind of bike around looking at these poorly drawn maps hoping that I am lead to the less actives that I am trying to find. And then if/when I find them I think to myself "wow, what a success." haha </div>
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Huge Miracle. I was looking through the CBR book and I found the CBR of a less active from my birth area, Tuek La?ak. Her name is Bong Nida. I went and found her and she gave me the biggest hug. Before she wouldn't let the sisters go teach her, but while we were there she told me she wants me to start coming twice a week. So cool!!!! I am way excited to start working with her again and helping her start doing what the lord wants her to do. She has a very young family, so it will change her life and well as theirs. I know that I’m supposed to be serving here in Pochentong. The lord has a plan for everything!!! </div>
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Well, I’ve got some BIG news. I am currently pregnant with TWINS. Twins that are going to come two weeks apart... haha now that you guys are all way confused let me explain. So transfer calls were last night and I got the call that I am going to be training a brand new missionary. Cool, no? I’m all grown up, even though I still feel like I am in training. (: They had to make some adjustments in the dates of missionaries coming because of a change in the MTC, so my new koon (new missionary, means kid in Khmer) doesn't come for 2 more weeks, so in order to feel the empty spaces from the missionaries that die (go home) this week until the new ones come in two weeks, we are having mini missionaries. Young men and Young women from the local wards who want to serve, but haven't saved up enough money yet, just to help them get a taste of this amazing work. So I'll get a Khmer and train her for two weeks and then in two weeks I’ll get another koon, the Khmer will go home, and I’ll start training an AMERICAN!!!! Oh, and to make this even more challenging for me, I’ll be white washing. That’s what's up. I'm leaving SMC and going to Pochentong; back to north stake-same stake I was born in, but different ward and area. The Lord has a lot of trust in me. (: I'm SO excited, but also kind of peeing my pants I’m so nervous. hahaha </div>
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This past week Sister Soem and I taught a kick butt zone training on chapter 10 in PMG (Preach My Gospel). So good. The whole zone training was on PMG and I LOVED it. We are so blessed to have it as a resource to aid us in this work. It truly is inspiration. I encourage everyone to read it. Those wanting to serve and just all you member missionaries, it helps us become better missionaries, but even more, it helps us become the disciples and people the Lord wants us to become. We were supposed to teach for 30 minutes, but ended up teaching for an hour. It was so good. You know it's good when you learn something new even when you're the teacher and that's exactly what happened for me. I know I’m not perfect at chapter 10, but it was such a good experience to be able to evaluate myself and find out what I can do better to become a master teacher like the Master himself, Jesus Christ. </div>
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I came up with this email subject as I rocked out to some Disney tunes (sung my Motab) as I showered... I still get trunky for Disneyland on a DAILY BASIS. No joke, but it's okay. Don't worry, being a missionary is 1000 times better and more rewarding that Disneyland... maybe. (; But it sums up my week. New investigators, exchanges, a baptism, and a new bike. </div>
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So last week when I was emailing Hayden, I was talking about some of the daily "joys" of being a missionary in Cambodia. Hopefully my mom included them in the blog, but I realized that you guys really have no idea what my life as a missionary here is like. AT ALL. And I apologize for that... I’ll try to do better and put more effort in these emails home.... starting next week. haha. I’ll pick one aspect of Cambodia and then just expound on it. Like the phsaa, the traffic, members, etc. GET EXCITED!!!! </div>
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But as for this week, last p-day I took a 2 1/2 hour nap. Man, was it heavenly. So good. Missionary work is starting to take its toll on me. But it's okay. The help from the Lord is also starting to kick in, so I’m making it through every day. (: Speaking of dreams and sleeping... before my mission I rarely remembered my dreams, but lately I’ve been remembering all of them and they are CRAZY!!! Two nights ago I had a dream that my investigator was chasing me and my mom through a mall... haha which was more like a nightmare... she scares me so much. </div>
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Ming Sohpi. Remember her?? She's not really progressing... but we are just keeping her around because Sister Soem has received revelation that one day she'll get baptized... that's one thing about Khmers, they are way in tune with the spirit, typically, so I don't really want to doubt her, but every time we have to teach her I get so stressed out which interferes with the spirit... we are trying our best, but she has such absurd questions. What nationality is Heavenly Father? How am I supposed to answer that?? At first we were trying to answer every question she had which got us way sidetracked (teaching her 4 times and still not finished the first lesson....) then Sister Soem went on an exchange with Sister Beng (a Khmer who is pretty intense in lessons) and she refused to answer questions unless they pertained to the lesson with was good. Sister Soem took it a little to the extreme and our next lesson she was way tense and we didn't teach with love or the spirit at all, so that is now a focus of ours. Teaching with love and the spirit. Sister Soem told me that during the lesson, the only thing she could think about was the story in the bible about Legion... haha she was convinced she was possessed... haha but when Neak Ming left the lesson she said she felt really good and that she felt like a lot had jooled (made sense to her) so that's cool. (: </div>
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New investigators. We got FOUR!!!! So cool. One is a referral from the boyfriend of a missionary. Her name is Kim Hua and she is the sweetest. We met her and she said., “all I want is salvation.” I responded cool. That’s exactly what our church has to offer and what the Lord wants to give you. I expect her to slowly start to shine. (: As for the other 3... I haven't met them yet... we had an exchange on Sunday, yes, I know SO weird, with the sister AP's. So, I couldn't really argue against them, but they got them when I wasn't there... but I’m still stoked and know they are blessings from the Lord. As for my exchange... it was the weirdest exchange of my life... one it was on a Sunday, two, I jool ruamed (attended) a baptism for their investigator, so that's where the baptism fits in. I might not have very many baptism stories of my own from my mission, but I definitely have some good ones from other missionaries. (: This one was crazy and quite honestly a miracle that it worked out. Tender mercies from the Lord. </div>
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PIONEER DAY. You guys, it would blow your mind how big Pioneer Day here is. Bigger than Christmas but a lot of their understanding is wrong. But we, American missionaries, didn't have the heart to tell them.... haha. We spent all day at the church on Saturday, literally all day. 9-5. Super against the rules... but when you've got a Khmer comp sometimes they just don't listen to you. So we did a play about Joseph Smith right? Getting everyone in "costumes" and getting their make-up (fake eyelashes, about an inch of foundation, straightening their hair until it smoked and smelled like it was about to fall off) took forever.... I just sat there in the corner reading my scriptures, such a missionary, I know, while Sister Soem was right in the middle of it. She was right at home... but the actual performance went well. We did the play, they had some youth do some square dancing, they did a traditional Khmer dance (SO cool!!!!), and then they had some of the young women do a pop dance song... it was pretty interesting and not related to Pioneer Day whatsoever. And because they don't have a cultural hall all of this was done in the chapel... was it appropriate for the chapel? Probably not.... you've just gotta love Cambodia. hahaha </div>
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By the subject of this email you probably think that something exciting happened this week. Don’t get your hopes up. (; It’s still the same old same old here in SMC, BUT I have taken on a new perspective. Instead of wallowing in my misery and thinking "why me?" "Why can't we have investigators?" I’ve decided to learn from the experiences that Heavenly Father has given, that is, what he wants us to do in this life after all right? So hears to a new outlook on life. (: I KNOW the blessings will come, even if it's not during my time as a full time missionary. I will see them eventually. </div>
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This week I learned to love the Book of Mormon more. I learned for myself, again, that it is true and that it is the work of God. We went to teach a recent convert and when we got there, right off the bat, she asked us, “Sisters, is the Book of Mormon really true, did it really happen?” We were then able to bear powerful testimony of the truthfulness of it. Such a cool experience. That is we read it and apply it in our lives it WILL change our lives and bring happiness to us. What a great blessing!!!</div>
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I was also reminded of the power of revelation. We went and visited a less active and she just bashed on the bishop the whole time. I stopped her and bore powerful testimony that our church is run by revelation, every little detail, callings included. I am so grateful for all the leaders of the church and for my testimony that I know they have been called of God. They aren’t perfect, but no one is, so as we support them we will learn together as we do the Lord’s work.</div>
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Hour bike ride to pray with Srey Roat. She is my favorite member in SMC and will make the best missionary when she leaves in one year. So much fun.</div>
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