President: "Sister Snooks! It's Christmas Eve and Transfer Calls! How are you feeling right now?"
Me: "President I didn't even realize transfer calls were tonight!"
I promise I am a good missionary and I plan every day but I completely forgot it was transfer calls because I thought I was going to have six more weeks with Sister Semones before she "died" (Completes her mission). NOPE. Instead, I am training a mini missionary this transfer while she waits for her visa! She is going to serve in the Perth Australia Mission! I was pretty shocked. It's not very common for someone as young as me in the mission to train! So I'm leading the area and training and it has been great so far! Saying goodbye to Sister Semones was hard. I'm gonna miss her. I have been so blessed to have such amazing companions on my mission. Sister Semones was my saving grace this last transfer and helped me grow as a missionary so much. I can't wait to meet up with her again at BYU!
My new companion, Sister Heang is the best. Like I said earlier, she will be serving in Australia but right now she is waiting for her visa to go to the MTC in Provo. She has been training with Sister Brown for the first 6 weeks and I'm training her the last 6 weeks! So right now my job is to teach her as much English as possible and practice doing all the lessons. It has been so fun! I am learning a lot. I was shocked I was training so soon because I don't have a ton of language down but I have found out I know a lot more Khmer than I realized. I also live with 2 other Khmer sisters so in order to communicate I have to use Khmer or act it out! (My charades game is getting strong) Sister Heang and I can ususally always understand each other but there have been three times when we could not figure out what the other was saying. We sat together with a dictionary, acting what we were trying to say to each other and it just didn't click.... still have no idea....but other than that we work great with each other! Sister Heang is hilarious! Our first night together we both got in bed and I turned off the lights and she said, "Goodnight. I hope we dream of Spiderman tonight." I died. She really likes Spiderman! Also, I asked her if she knows who Taylor Swift is and she explained the whole music video of You Belong to Me. Hilarious.
Here is another story that explains her personality. We were practicing her visa interview questions and I asked her, "Why will you come back to Cambodia when your mission is done?" She responded, "If I don't come back, where would I go? I would have no money! No money means no honey." I have no idea who taught her that. She is hilarious!
Sister Heang is a huge example to me. She has so much faith. She has been a member for 23 months but is the only member in her family. She is from Kampong Cham and her family doesn't have a lot. When she was decided to go on a mission her family tried to discourage. Her family found a boy in Korea who was nice, had a good job, and had a lot of money and wanted to marry her but she knew that if she put God first and served for 18 months, God would bless her life. She is a huge example to me especially when I realized what she gave up to come on a mission. I know that if you put God first, He will bless your life and I know Sister Heang will receive so many blessings through out her life because of her decision to serve a mission. I am honored to be her companion and to learn from her! If any wants to get to know her and wants to write her an email her email is chenda.heang@myldsmail.net
No pictures this week. The computers at this internet cafe aren't cooperating.
Love you all-
Sister Snooks
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