Hear Ye!
Hear Ye!
This
week was a blast! Monday was probably one of the best P days so far.
We were told of a new place to play soccer so we went out there and there were
like full on teams playing. I gathered my courage and asked them if they wanted
to play against us. It was so much fun, I have been hoping for soccer to get
more competitive! We won of course and it helped us all realize how easy soccer
would be for contacting people.
Tuesday we were out in Kilometer 7 and we were walking on some
monkey bridges looking for people to meet when this lady pokes her head out of
one of the stilt houses and yells at me! I ask what she wanted and she said to
just come over there. I walked across some boards to talk to her and she told
me to come into her house. I looked in and there were five others in there. We went
in and she kept calling me her child (con) and referring to herself as mother
(ma). She started asking about our religion and we told her why we were here
and what our message was. Without asking any further questions, she told us she
was going to follow us. We explained that we were not the leaders of the
church. (haha) She accepted a Book of Mormon and said she would read it. We
gave the others Plan of Salvation pamphlets and they began reading them right
away as well! It was crazy.
Wednesday morning we went to a local tailor and I took measurements
for my first pair of pants! Woo Hoo! The best part was that the pants cost 8
bucks. Score! Almost as good as the DI... then we went to meet our investigator
who is close to baptism. He is amazing; he has gone from smoking two packs a
day all the way down to four cigarettes. He wants to be baptized so badly. He
said it was really hard to quick smoking and I told him to give me all his
empty packs of cigarettes from this week so he wouldn't be tempted by them.
We also
had a ward activity that night before English Class. We were just about to
start, when the old Branch President asked if I could give a spiritual thought
to start the activity. I had quickly picked a few scriptures to share about. I
didn't know what to say or anything after I shared about the scriptures so I
decided to just bear my testimony and to show my gratitude to the members for
everything they have done for me. Sometimes it is hard and I was a little
scared coming here and they helped me feel at home and showed me a lot of love.
I started to tear up and I can testify that you cannot speak Vietnamese when
you cry.
Next
thing was Thursday. We were invited by one of our members to come to her
house for a family home evening. She is by far the wealthiest member in the
Branches and I had never been to her house before. We went to the richest part
of the city. She has a nice house and it was really fun. She asked my companion
and I how our parents went about teaching us the gospel. It was fun to look back
and really think about it. We came home and planned for the next day.
I have
started a kind of work out group a couple weeks ago. We live with two Native
Khmer elders who are notorious for not getting along with anyone. I have made
it my goal to be good friends with them. I work out every night and about two
weeks ago one of them asked me if I would show him a few things. I helped him
and his companion work out and since then they ask me every night if we will
work out together. I have seen a change in them since we have been spending
time together and becoming friends. They are both really great
missionaries.
Next we
went to our other investigator Chu Bay's house. It was like 1000 degrees
outside and I almost died. We went there and began reading the Book of Mormon
with him. He loved the story of Lehi's family and then shared this insane story
about his life. He said that when he was young in Vietnam, he and some people
thought they found a land mine. He started throwing rocks at it and when it
wouldn't blow up, they went to investigate why. He dug it up and it was a lock
box. He opened it and it was a Kilogram of pure gold! He told us about how in
the time of Pol Pot* people buried stuff like that and told us how he has
payed for virtually everything with this block of gold. He has lived in four
different houses off that gold. That story blew me away!
Then we
had District Conference this Saturday. We had President Moon there and
also an area 70. It was really good and I met a bunch of members from the other
Branches. It was so exciting and I learned a bunch of new words.
That night we
went to a place called Phumsamaki to contact people. I was walking and these to
teenage boys started talking to me and one was wearing a jersey for the soccer
team Chelsea. I asked about it and he said he loved soccer. I told him I played
a little and he was very interested. We walked into this little neighborhood
and he started talking to the other boys and they all asked me if I would teach
them how to play soccer. They all spoke Vietnamese so I told them I would.
Then
this morning we decided it was time for a haircut. We found this old man in a
little shop who said he cut hair. He had a folding chair in front of a mirror
and two pairs of rusty scissors(haha) . I was a little apprehensive about it, but
hair is just hair. I reasoned with myself and decided that even if it was bad,
it would just grow back in like two weeks. It actually turned out really well
and we gave him a dollar for the new cuts. This week was a blast.
Love,
Elder
Morris
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