Wow! This week has been crazy and I have so much to share but so little time!!! Oh and the subject line is a question Sister Davis asked me last night. I just looked at her and smiled and let her answer the question for herself. For those of you that don't know, Cambodia does NOT have a Walmart. haha
Sister Davis. Love her.
Last week we went to Angkor Wat and it was SO BEAUTIFUL! I have so many pictures to send. While I was at Angkor Wat I started to speak Khmer to a tour guide. As I was walking away a man asked the tour guide in English, "Did she just speak Khmer? How does she know Khmer?" and the tour guide said something like, "She teaches about Jesus." The man responded, "Oh... She's a Mormon..." Hahaha I started laughing so hard. It was funny because no one from here even recongizes what a mormon is so I hadn't been referred to as "one of those Mormons" before. It was a fun experience.
Me just casually contacting a German man about how he can be saved through Christ infront of Angkor Wat. No Biggy. It looks fake, but its NOT.
The District, Aka the SR Family. The Unity is real.
Me trying to retake the picture I took here the first time I came to Cambodia... I'm pretty sure it's on my instagram (haha) but I'm making a funny face in this one.
when missionaries don't kiss
Right after we got done with Angkor Wat, our district (all six of us) got in this sketchy car we rented to drive to BattomBang. Someone sat in the front seat, four of us in the middle, and one laid in the trunk and we played EFY music the whole time. We had Zone Conference the next day. Each missionary, for every zone conference, prepares a talk and while I was preparing my talk I thought to myself there was no way I would get called up because President and everyone in the mission had already heard me give multiple talks and trainings while I was Sister AP....but, NOPE. President called me up to speak again. It made me laugh. Good thing I had prepared! It was on the sacrament which is something I have really been focusing on my mission. How great is it that we have to opportunity to do an ordinance every week to have a remission of our sins. I love playing the piano and translating during sacrament because we sit up front on the stand and face the congregation. I love watching our recent converts and investigators partake of the sacrament and start to pray. So cool. So humbling. These people are so sincere.
We had an opportunity to do service this week! We were working in the rice fields for a member who has three huge fields and she does it all herself BY HAND. She was very grateful for our help (even though I wasn't very good at it). It was fun! It was the first time I've had the opportunity my whole mission to work in the rice fields! After, we ate lunch with some members and Sister Davis had the best language mess up I've ever heard! Elder Ouk called us and he was on the phone with the other Elders in our Distrcit. He asked Sister Davis who we were eating lunch with and she was trying to say, "we were with pretty girls." but instead she said "we are with naked girls". hahahhahahahahahah I was crying I was laughing so hard.
In the rice fields
They use scarves to protect their heads and necks from the sun. Works pretty good!
Me having Charity and helping others.
We had a miracle happen this last week. Last Sunday we got a new amazing investigator and she lives far away in an area that Sister Davis and I have heard about but have no idea how to get there. We had a member tell us that she could go with us and show us how to get to her house. The investigator didn't have a phone so we had to do what they did in the olden days and we schedule and appointment in advance and hoped and prayed that she would remember. On Friday morning I called the member to see if she could still help us by showing us the way to the investigator's house but she was sick and could no longer take us! We couldn't get ahold of any other members to go with us so we just said a prayer and started biking. All we knew about this little village was that it was an hour bike ride if you are going at a good speed. So we biked and had a prayer in our heart. After we had been biking for close to an hour and there was still no village in sight, I started to regret the fact that we biked so far out without any help. We stopped and I said a little prayer for help and right when I looked up I saw the Branch President and called him over. I told him that we were lost and trying to find a house of an investiagtor that we had no idea where it was and just by chance he knew exactly who I was talking about! And get this, we had actually stopped right infront of the small road you turn off and ride down to get to her house! SO cool! I know God really is with us and this is His work. I know he loves all of us and especially new investigators because there has been so many times in this area where we somehow find a house, like this story, or that we can remember the way to a house we have only been to once at dark. This is His work and through Him we are able to do many things to help the people of Cambodia come unto Christ.
These are our cute recent converts with their baptismal certificates and our new investigator
I love my mission and I love being a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Have a great week! I love you guys!
Sister Snooks
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