We grilled in our house... hahha there was so much smoke, i cant believe the fire alarm didn't go off. #blessed It was worth it. So good.
This last week we had MCL which is a meeting when all the mission leaders come together and meet with our Mission President. I conducted the meeting. Pretty proud of myself. Felt so professional. After the meeting we had an exchange with two other Sisters and I got to go with Sister Sum for the second exchange. I love her so much. She is a friend I met when I came to Cambodia the first time. She taught me so many cool and simple ways to teach different lessons! One reason I love Sister Sum is because she is so willing to help me learn the language. She loves to read with me even though I read really slow! She is a true friend. I am so sad because her mission will be completed next transfer. We were talking about prayer and how God answers our prayers. I asked if she had an experience she wanted to share in the lesson regarding having her prayers answered and she told me that she prayed that I would become Senior Sister Training Leader the day before transfer calls, and God answered her prayer! She thinks she is so funny... hahah We laughed and laughed at her little joke.
Sister Hall and I were waiting for the Elders at the church to go to a member's house and these two white girls were in the church and we started talk to them and oh man, I am so incredibly awkward. I kept doing weird Khmer things, pointing with my lips (it is rude to point with your fingers so you point with your lips... like doing duck lips), bowing, saying khmer words instead of English, and shaking hands with two hands (you do everything with two hands or it is rude. Example, if I handed you a bowl, I would either hand it to you with two hands or I hand it with one hand and I put my other hand on my elbow while I pass you the bowl. Sorry if that doesn't make sense. ) Carson is going to get a good laugh out of my awkward Khmer things I do when I get home.
So, I'm pretty sure Cambodia parties harder than any other country. This week is Khmer New Year, Aka everyone leaves the city and it becomes a ghost town. Basically, Spring Break but on steriods. In the past, missionareis have said that this is the hardest week of the whole year because there is not a single motto on the road in the city.. So Sister Hall and I will have a lot of fun trying to find people to contact this week! Anyways the Stake celebrated Khmer New Years this last week! Our investgator wanted to go with us and then later we were talking to a member who is unable to walk. We also invited her to the party but she responded she had no way of getting there. Sister Hall and I decided to rent a tuk tuk and have the member come with us and the investagtor! She was so excited to go to the party! As we were on our way home we thought of another member, a widow who's story I shared last week, and so we stopped by and asked if she wanted to come with us! She was SO happy! She told us that becasue her family has all passed away, the holildays are really hard because she has no one to be with. She was so excited to come with us to the party. We basaically had the coolest group when we showed up in our tuk tuk. We brought the party to the party! It was so fun. Khmer games are crazy also. We played a game where they hang up clay pots full of powder and candy and you are blindfolded and you get three chances to try and break the clay pot. It is so funny. The best part is no one wears shoes when they do it so they are just running across chunks of the brocken pot. Another game was they wore a headband with a needle on top and they had three balloons above them and the first person to be able to pot all three balloons by jumping wins! The problem was it was windy and the balloons were all over the place! Very entertaining to watch! Khmer games are the best!
Funny story. We were teaching about Joseph Smith and sharing his expereince and a member told Sister Hall and I , "One night I looked up in the sky and I saw two shooting stars and in that moment, I knew Joseph Smith was a prophet."..... hahah (I'm pretty sure I heard/understood him right) We told him that was a cool expereince (?) but that he should read the book of Mormon also and try to gain more confirmation through the Book of Mormon that Joseph Smith was a prophet. He said he would!
Conference was so good! For missionaries, Conference is like Chirstmas, but even better! When it ended I was shocked! It was already over? I swore before my mission conference lasted wayyy longer! Before conference I had five random questions I prayed about and was trying to find answers too. While watching conference, all five were answered which is always reassuring to me that the 12 Apostles, the quorum of the 70, the Rel Society Presidency, the Prophet, etc are all called of God. They are here to help all of us. I am thankful for them and the inspiring messages they all shared.
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