A year ago this week I got my call and my wonderful family dropped everything and drove to Provo to see me open my call at 11:30 at night. Opening my call was the best and most overwhelming feeling I've ever felt. I know that God needed me here in Cambodia but I also know that I needed these specific experiences in Cambodia to help me become the person God wants me to be. I love my mission!
Another amazing week in Cambodia! But, I am having a hard time recalling what happened.....
I teach English class twice a week and it is so important because about 90% of our investigators come from English class! I teach the intermediate class which means I speak mostly English in the class and if they do not understand me I will translate into Khmer. At the beginning of my last class I asked a question in English and everyone looked at me confused so I translated it and a girl in the front row gasped and said, "She knows Khmer!" White girls speaking Khmer is always shocking to them. lol. Trying to teach the Cambodians to say, "Th" is the funniest thing. We always tell them to put their tongue in between their teeth and say, "Thhhhh" but it always comes out "sssssss". Anyway, we started class with an opening prayer and explained that we pray to thank God for this church building and to ask God to help us learn Khmer. At the end of class we shared a 10 min spiritual thought and then many usually stay and visit! Its great! We get a ton of referrals from it! This week a girl came up to Sister Om and I and said, "I noticed that when you pray, you close your prayers in Jesus Christ. I do too! I am Protestant. I am wondering since we all worship one God but why do we have so many churches?" Such a good question. There are so many churches who believe in the same God but yet there are hundreds of them. IF we have one God, It would make sense that we would have one true church. We answered her question and shared with her the restoration. It was amazing. I love seeing how God prepares people. Sadly, she is not in our area but I hope that she will be able to figure out for herself if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the restored Church with the fullness of the Gospel.
Our mission just received a group of new missionaries! It is weird to see Sisters younger than me in the mission! Because they were new they all had a training. I live with the Sister Training Leaders so when everyone came into the city to go to the training they all stayed at our house! It was so fun! 10 Sisters in one house and only two bathrooms with 1.5 showers.... (its 1.5 because one of the showers in broken..) It was a party! We put all the bed mats out in our front room and had a "sleep over". Super fun!!
I love my companion! She is SO GOOD. I know I say that about all my companions but they are all so great. One thing that Sister Om does that I appreciate is when we are contacting and I speak, people will not listen to me and will look to my companion to say it for me because they know she is Khmer, BUT she will not say it for me. I love that so much! It helps me a ton! It makes me feel like she's respectful of my efforts to learn their language. It is soooo kind of her. I am teaching her English and she is teaching me Khmer. Its perfect!
No pictures this week. Sorry. I'm at a sketchy internet cafe and I can't get pictures to download. Oh fun times in Cambodia!!
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