Week 40: I Love My Mission

Sister Hall and I successfully went to the Market and were able to get all of our food this week without being ripped off! YES!! (we have to bargain for everything we buy at the market and when they see our white skin they tell us the food is about double the amount it actually is! It's super frustrating.)

 

This last week has been great!  Sister Hall has been Training me on my new calling/assignment in the mission. The best part of this calling is being able to work so closely with our Mission President and his wife. They are so amazing and I have learned so much from them! I also have laughed a ton with them this past week. It's going to be a fun couple of transfers!

Saying goodbye to my last area wasn't too horrible because I am just in the neighboring area! I told all the less actives I love that if they come to church every week they will see me! (Because these two areas use the same church building!) So I hope that will help give them a little extra push to come!  The new area is so fun! A few transfers ago I actually was put in this area for two weeks so I was able to help my companion find some members houses I remembered since we're white washing (when you have two missionaries come into an area at once and neither one of them knows anything about the area.) 

This ward has amazing members who are so strong. One of them is Mak Yaay. She is the strongest woman I have ever met. She is around 80 years old and has so much faith. She shared with us her story of how God has helped her thorughtout her life. She was married and had three kids. While her husband was at war he passed away and then shortly after, the Khmer Rouge (the communist party of Cambodia) took everyone that lived in her area and beat them on the head to a state of unconsciousness. They then threw everyone into a ditch of bodies where they would eventually bleed out and die. She told us she woke up on top of the pile and somehow lived through it all. She lost all her family and everyone she had ever loved. She told us that she asked herself all the time why she survived and so many others died. When she was in her 60's she found the Gospel and she told us how much hope it has given her. She told us this last week that the ward is helping her get to the temple so she can be sealed to her family for all eternity. This makes my heart so happy. She believes that God saved her so that she could be introduced to the gospel and do her family's work for them here on earth and seal them together. She is an amazing women and I look up to her and her faith. I love her faith and purpose.

This is Mak Yaay! She loves when we give her pictures! haha 

Thank you for all the support. I'm so sorry if the stories are hard to follow. I'm not the best writer and I don't have a lot of time! Be grateful for what you have! Sometimes we forget how truly blessed we are in our lives! I love you all! 

This is at one of the schools in our area! The teacher got mad because I totally distracted the class... haha But the kids are just too cute.