HEY GUYS!
Sadly, I don't have my flight plans yet.... BUT I'm still leaving this next Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday we just don't know when... I am learning a ton about patience right now. Pray for me.
Guess who's birthday was last Tuesday! Neil A. Anderson! How do I know this? Well he came and spoke to us on his birthday so that was pretty rad. Hearing from an apostle is always amazing.
I'm developing many talents at the MTC. Drawing is one of them.
This last week we have been really focusing on our Khmer and we did an English Fast so we would only speak Khmer to each other. It is HARD but we learn a ton when we do. Anyways, with a crazy language like this, Sister Cook & I have to ability to talk about people without them knowing what we are saying. So, we used this talent when a teacher who was teaching another language on our floor was in the computer lab. "This teacher is handsome," I say in the most appropriate way a missionary can. He was behind us and Sister Cooks asks me, "When is he getting married again?" I responded,"To me, when I get home!" Sister Cook laugh and says, "Oh really? You are lucky!" Me,"I know, he is very handsome." The teacher then responds, "Wow Sisters, you speak Khmer well!".... In khmer...he said it in Khmer!!! HAHHAHAHAHHAHAH Sister Cook and I died. So.....moral or the story. Don't talk about people in Khmer, especially if they are a teacher in the MTC because all the teachers here know each other's language. On the bright side, I was able to say all of that in Khmer! hahaha
We taught our investigator Om Thom about the Word of Wisdom and he was having a hard time stopping smoking so Sister Cook and I decided to take his cigarettes. Since "Om Thom" is actually our teacher, he didn't have any real cigarettes so when we asked "Om Thom" if he had his cigarettes with him he pulled out his phone acting like they were cigarettes. We then asked if we could take them from him to help him stop and he agreed! So Om Thom has stopped smoking and I got to hold an Iphone for 30 minutes! hahah Super funny. We both were happy:)
Sister Cook is amazing at piano. She gets these crazy hard pieces of music and can play it perfectly by sight reading. #jealous. She has a beautiful talent and she has had the opportunity to share that talent by performing at the Sunday Devotional for all the 3,000 missionaries! So proud and happy for her! I was also happy because I got front row seats for the devotional thanks to my sweet companion of mine. <3
How could you not love this cute face....Meet Sister Cook
My thought for this week comes from how we say our prayers in Cambodian. When we were first taught, we were taught to say "puaktoolboncuum" which is like an honorific "we", but now that we've mastered that, our teachers taught us this week that we can say "puakkoon" (if you're praying for a group of people) or just "koon" (if you're praying for yourself) which literally translates to child. In essence, we pray by addressing ourselves as children to our Heavenly Father. I love that because every time I pray, I am reminded of my true relationship with Him, as his literal child. I love the reminder every time I pray that I have a Loving Heavenly Father and I am his child.
Thank you for all the letters, emails, and packages. You have NO idea how much it helps to receive those things. You are all amazing and have given me the best support.
-Sista Snooks
Sister Firmage is officially in Canada. I'm going to miss her.
We are so sick of the food at the MTC. We all chose to eat cold cereal for Sunday dinner.
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