tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51103035182716640472024-03-05T14:16:39.288-08:00Elder Ernest Morris Mission UpdatesElder Ernie Morris is serving in the Cambonia Phnom Penh Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-54156537673061042482016-02-29T04:02:00.000-08:002016-02-29T17:25:33.701-08:00Not Serving in the Phnom Penh Mission Anymore..... Everything is different... Buckle up, life get's crazy sometimes. <br />
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Message from Ernie's delinquent blog poster: I must apologize for my not posting Ernie's weekly message weekly... First off, his blog emails were kind of hit and miss for a while... Nevertheless, some wonderful things have transpired recently that simply must be posted... I'm afraid I have to spoil it a bit before I post his comments...As many of you know, Ernie received an interesting mission call... nearly two years ago now.<br />
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Some of us were confused when he got the call, as you can see... his call says "You have been called to serve as a missionary... in the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission... But then it said "In addition to your calling to share the Gospel, you will be assigned to serve in the "Vietnam Mission Region" speaking Vietnamese. I soon learned that missionaries that were not at least "part-Vietnamese" wouldn't be aloud to actually serve IN Vietnam... but the calling seemed pretty clear. During his mission so far, he did manage to go up to Vietnam on a training trip, Then this happened:</div>
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<a href="http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/new-mormon-missions-africa-asia" target="_blank">Church Announces New Missions in Africa, Asia</a></div>
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In 1966, Elders Hinckley and Hanks dedicated So. Vietnam for missionary work... but then the war got in the way... Vietnam has been on the minds of the Brethren all this time and at last... Vietnam has a mission... Ernie is now one of the first 15 missionaries in the newest mission in the world. He has the privilege to work alongside the Mission president as his Assistant.</div>
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Now the call that Ernie got... finally makes sense.</div>
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Here is Ernie's first message from Vietnam:</div>
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So, we changed our plans for the day... and just started saying goodbye to our members. I had to go and see my recent converts first, and tell them "thanks for everything". It was so sad, but I'm so grateful I got to see them. We didn't have much time to do anything after that. </div>
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Then there was this huge parade thing that went all the way through our area, it was the craziest thing I've seen in a while. So many people... all dressed up...running around to people's Buddhist shrines and they like threw water and food and sometimes they would cut their tongues open and the blood blesses the house... or something weird. I don't know. It was creepy. We had our last English class... and I told one of my best little buddies in the advanced class we were leaving... he started crying. I'll miss him. After all that, we went straight home, and started packing. Sorry but I wasn't exactly obedient... and didn't get to bed until 1 <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_544447656" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">AM, </span></span> because I had to pack all my stuff up.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We got to the church and just ended up waiting there for like 3 hours. We got in some good study. We went out together and ate some delicious pho at this pretty cheap place. That was fun. Then the big meeting happened. Elder Gary E. Stevensen, Elder Gong, Elder Funk, President and Sister Christensen, and the new president, President Hassell came in and we talked for a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> With my old trainee...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Then we went up to have a meeting with just the missionaries. In all, there are </span><b>15</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> of us, counting the three senior missionaries. That is the same number of missionaries that were called to come to Vietnam the first time...during the war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The spirit was electrifying in the room. Everyone could feel it. What an honor to be in the presence of so many spiritual giants. There were so many emotions going through my mind that I couldn't hold back the tears very well. They told us that this is Heavenly Father's work, and we are called by Him to do it. He chose each one of us specifically to open up this new mission. It became so real to me, all of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> felt His love for me... and that this is where God needs me to be. It is His work and it has to be done His way. I am so humbled. After the meeting, I took lots of pictures for "history's sake" and then they had all of us write our names down on this document about this new mission... and the missionaries serving here. It was nuts. Then, we had this big meeting with all the members. We talked about how big of an event this is... and what this all means now. There were a lot of tears. We have all dreamed of this for a long time.</span></div>
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It's just four of us now here. My companion, me, and the sisters. It's a lot to take in. </div>
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While we were riding our bikes, we stopped. Sister Diem said "hello" to a lady on a bike at the stop light... and got a feeling that something wasn't right. She followed the lady, and as she asked her if there was something wrong, the lady started crying heavily. We spent the next twenty minutes consoling this lady. We asked her to come with us to the church... and it was amazing how fast some of the members that we called came to help out. </div>
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We proceeded to have a missionary meeting with the members. We have like 7 branch missionaries!! Half of them are recent converts. They are so strong and so good! I am so excited to work with them. </div>
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It's so good!! I'm like, speechless. We all went up and sang hymns with the crying lady... and then shared the gospel with her a bit. </div>
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It is so fun here. People are so happy to be at church to partake of the sacrament... and they are so very reverent. The culture here at church is completely different than in Cambodia... No ladies laughing out loud, no kids skateboarding during the sacrament, no phones getting answered during talks. It's weird... but I kind of miss that... (Haha) </div>
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After church, we had three lessons and then went home. It's our first P-day right now and I'm still starstruck. I'm still trying to take it all in. We have so much to do... and I'm so sad that I have so little time to help do it. </div>
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This week was amazing. I have a lot of pictures., </div>
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I love you all, and hope you have an amazing week. Buckle up, life get's crazy sometimes. </div>
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Love you</div>
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Saying goodbye to families in Cambodia <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJ12lcthRjQg6eW3CF-W4LbLf6eC8iRBx6k9GI6PyXolP65X8s88fDOUOeg-M2yWHw29YFo-AULzCdSM1UDjUMFFRLD3_3hvurb7899dd2OwzZwRkpD7jnml_urdEX8JcInlI6qoVRCk/s1600/IMG_0107.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJ12lcthRjQg6eW3CF-W4LbLf6eC8iRBx6k9GI6PyXolP65X8s88fDOUOeg-M2yWHw29YFo-AULzCdSM1UDjUMFFRLD3_3hvurb7899dd2OwzZwRkpD7jnml_urdEX8JcInlI6qoVRCk/s200/IMG_0107.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88SwjB8sykcyqZs5vMovrRlkG1cI_JT5j50e_-6369nTYD-GucLQXNDHDbzz0Sa1GPPq4fOlz4faFx2m2mewJKDy3hzQ0toWNMoBeeHuNL7UInsVwSgodqyXWlT3vdjT5CZAw6kH5fWk/s1600/IMG_0100.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg88SwjB8sykcyqZs5vMovrRlkG1cI_JT5j50e_-6369nTYD-GucLQXNDHDbzz0Sa1GPPq4fOlz4faFx2m2mewJKDy3hzQ0toWNMoBeeHuNL7UInsVwSgodqyXWlT3vdjT5CZAw6kH5fWk/s200/IMG_0100.JPG" width="200" /></a><br />
and also to Cambodia...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Our recent convert</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nt-9osV8doJC803QOHjns5qRWMedJdk3XKfxOmdotBqRtQC8H_WNkykbjR7AWr7I3sXrl_vV9FwdE6Ah9YkuPlAy98AmIOrPpExmzaMC5UDeemLwm6dPvVXQ6O01PAzbXsdKegn_XV4/s1600/IMG_0085+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nt-9osV8doJC803QOHjns5qRWMedJdk3XKfxOmdotBqRtQC8H_WNkykbjR7AWr7I3sXrl_vV9FwdE6Ah9YkuPlAy98AmIOrPpExmzaMC5UDeemLwm6dPvVXQ6O01PAzbXsdKegn_XV4/s200/IMG_0085+%25282%2529.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Visit to </span><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12.1333px;">Siem Reap/Ankor Wat</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1ArDnOEc08SqirG52gOneLg0T6vxsoxxC-fEvAbdaThKG7JkykuQcv0c5R9IIEj2jleknrVHVnjvntAxbwfMDlxw4D6CapiQUTM4CEPwq9p6DZv0V9VreoDcD5eke_aOaUTV8NgCZik/s1600/IMG_1513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1ArDnOEc08SqirG52gOneLg0T6vxsoxxC-fEvAbdaThKG7JkykuQcv0c5R9IIEj2jleknrVHVnjvntAxbwfMDlxw4D6CapiQUTM4CEPwq9p6DZv0V9VreoDcD5eke_aOaUTV8NgCZik/s200/IMG_1513.JPG" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrlAYKcu_S7OwufaLb43r33-zTkLzPuT9FNrhkx28rDblJObLwr3248tn2l8FvINiDcp14wqMIc1K0Gq0UXMA9mcBPKjZ9OjVM8iCF8DtS_ItzkSB-5Ihtw77w8P3bFYjowOUk8LvZLE/s1600/IMG_7332.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrlAYKcu_S7OwufaLb43r33-zTkLzPuT9FNrhkx28rDblJObLwr3248tn2l8FvINiDcp14wqMIc1K0Gq0UXMA9mcBPKjZ9OjVM8iCF8DtS_ItzkSB-5Ihtw77w8P3bFYjowOUk8LvZLE/s200/IMG_7332.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuyUDYHonfCZUE7SiYC_FlhTeR-hwkIUnE3r6tOnvrqk8uFdFnHDOaC0cU53zVFYWZy1dhhtnNA6I_7nQI6Gdm9wSKl3hCSgbXt6tCxdxssKLM0W-m_TQJTS70JZNB-wCUTqnvfVIt08/s1600/IMG_7307.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiuyUDYHonfCZUE7SiYC_FlhTeR-hwkIUnE3r6tOnvrqk8uFdFnHDOaC0cU53zVFYWZy1dhhtnNA6I_7nQI6Gdm9wSKl3hCSgbXt6tCxdxssKLM0W-m_TQJTS70JZNB-wCUTqnvfVIt08/s200/IMG_7307.JPG" width="150" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOI1frymIYL6BGRXuuSxtq6UEDEmrirhukBDcrp0uBO34UJ6FaP8PEm6aBMmdvxJbjAKbFD_aEYF33P-hxlXRhiEkovy2Wc_Eyw_EkAdKkF7wbY9ADDat4TnM-dhnySmhZI6EZK6thtZg/s1600/IMG_7315.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOI1frymIYL6BGRXuuSxtq6UEDEmrirhukBDcrp0uBO34UJ6FaP8PEm6aBMmdvxJbjAKbFD_aEYF33P-hxlXRhiEkovy2Wc_Eyw_EkAdKkF7wbY9ADDat4TnM-dhnySmhZI6EZK6thtZg/s200/IMG_7315.JPG" width="200" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_jzOrS_8-maJC4YTMr8rpFjTorEho2kF6x3dLkRk_THjbpYiBB1IFZgdggkvtOvZ75RJ8oxy9yCnXZ8Rubab85Hk_ZfRWK1vbf3MRNBfHSVFT23ZWBoy0GlZ4InFgDJ-BPffsq5-2Ng/s1600/IMG_7212.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia_jzOrS_8-maJC4YTMr8rpFjTorEho2kF6x3dLkRk_THjbpYiBB1IFZgdggkvtOvZ75RJ8oxy9yCnXZ8Rubab85Hk_ZfRWK1vbf3MRNBfHSVFT23ZWBoy0GlZ4InFgDJ-BPffsq5-2Ng/s200/IMG_7212.JPG" width="200" /></a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-54997947775422271442015-06-26T15:39:00.001-07:002015-06-26T15:39:32.162-07:00Week 56 (or something)... It has been a while since Ernie has been able to find time to blog... Working hard in the Mission Home<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This week was bananas.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">So we will begin the craziness with Tuesday. We woke up and went to the office to get everything ready for office staff devotional and prepare for District meeting. Then we get a call that we need to take some people to the bus station last minute. We drop everything and head to their house to take them. Get them to the station like a couple minutes before the bus leaves and then head straight to district meeting. We have our district meeting take some pics because everyone in our district is leaving pretty much. I have no one to talk to in Vietnamese now that sister Bui is going to Hanoi. Sad. Then we eat lunch and get our buns back to the mission home to prepare for office staff devotional. Office Staff is just a meeting where we meet with President Moon, the Assistants, and the other finance senior couple and talk about what to do with the mission. It's way intense and you have to be prepared on presenting your part to President or you get toasted. After a super long meeting there we had just a few minutes to get food before we left to our Branch meeting. We spent like 45 minutes talking about cleaning the church. *Insert forehead slap here*</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LhkOQqoxDO0oXlvVYiyWLpP3D6I9FmkMVBmTeYjTMH5BG_NK-00TXVR9HoG5-4frFl4rfuPgi2AdpeDeotqKqhjIzUdqhN_0M65fQrJ6ERhZd_Lus56NhoFszgAvtfBXY7Kp7S73CCA/s1600/head+slap.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LhkOQqoxDO0oXlvVYiyWLpP3D6I9FmkMVBmTeYjTMH5BG_NK-00TXVR9HoG5-4frFl4rfuPgi2AdpeDeotqKqhjIzUdqhN_0M65fQrJ6ERhZd_Lus56NhoFszgAvtfBXY7Kp7S73CCA/s200/head+slap.png" width="83" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Wednesday got pretty intense because it's English class day and we also had to get our car serviced because apparently Elder Le Nguyen and I broke the power steering Joy Riding. By joy riding I mean traversing giant puddles of water on a huge dirt road in the middle of nowhere, in a van. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC2ggHo9ahJMLeeHwN9f8cPoX-5ac93cUOOk3jX33JqmO14AHrHcWCAdK8Rnfo85DZfIwy_MWwLug9b2b7DkW8sichmvNgSj9cH2h3RBcqMkETvDbRPPsJhqXJhUaT88UoukKtx_JmPt4/s1600/joy+ride.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC2ggHo9ahJMLeeHwN9f8cPoX-5ac93cUOOk3jX33JqmO14AHrHcWCAdK8Rnfo85DZfIwy_MWwLug9b2b7DkW8sichmvNgSj9cH2h3RBcqMkETvDbRPPsJhqXJhUaT88UoukKtx_JmPt4/s320/joy+ride.png" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">All because our investigator needed salvation I guess. Anyways, we took it to one place and they took like two hours to check it out and told us it was 2,000 dollars. So we went to a different place and it took another two hours and they told us it would be a little less than 2,000 dollars. Day wasted. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Okay then we got to our English class which is the light of my life at this point. I love English class. I had a table of all boys which was the best! I got a guy to accept learning the gospel and said he will come to church this Sunday. That is why I love English Class. That was the end of the night.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Thursday was the day all the new elders and sisters came. We had to get all the papers and everything together. It was a bunch of fun! They are all pretty fun. I got to teach them all about viruses and how to get them off and how to use the different programs in the mission and then I got to do all the picture taking. It was amazing. Then that night we brought them home... they were asleep before I even got into the room.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Yesterday was transfers. All but one of the companionships in the Vietnamese program was transferred so everyone came to the mission home. Plus all the new elders and sisters and everyone going home this transfer, there were half a million people at the mission home. It was really fun though getting to see all the people from my MTC group and everything. I will try and get a picture that we took. It was fun. So hectic though. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Then when all the screaming and crying and everything had subsided. I plopped myself into my chair and fell asleep for like ten minutes. Then Elder Hibbert came, making me super sad...cause I wouldn't let myself believe that he was leaving so soon. He is such a good elder. I am gonna miss him so much. We just closed the door and had a little talk about life. He is like a brother to me, and I know he is going to be great. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We helped everyone get their bags into the van and then President took them to the airport to leave. Poof, they were all gone. Some people had family come, and we were like taking pictures for them and everything. It's kind of really weird to see missionaries finishing up with their families. To me it's like a dream that will never happen so it doesn't bother me too much.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Today was P day and it turned out pretty well. We got to email a bit and then we got bored and left to the Stake center to throw around the football and pass around the soccer ball. It's good to be out and about. It started raining super hard which was perfect. It's finally rainy season and it couldn't have come sooner. I love Rain. We did some shopping and then I made everyone wait while I tested all the colognes in the store. There were actually a few good ones (: Don't worry, they totally wanted to smell them all too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Then we got to the mission home again to change and some Elder in Japan calls and says they have a Vietnamese guy with them right now and they want to Skype. So I just threw on my shirt and tie and called em haha. It was a great lesson! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">He is a 19 year old boy from close to Hanoi. He is super smart and really interested in the Gospel. I taught him about who Heavenly Father is, and why we need prophets. It was neat. He said I have beautiful Vietnamese so HA!... the office won't bring me down. But still have to practice a ton. It was interesting and they want to Skype us again next week. This week was crazy, hard, and busy...but I feel like I am doing my part. I sleep much easier now a days knowing I am giving everything I can to the Lord. My testimony that everything works out for a reason was tested this week, but I know that Heavenly Father never gives us anything we can't handle and will never leave us. We just need to have our eyes open enough to see who's lives we can reach out and touch during those times. A good friend told me a quote by Elder Bednar who said that God gives his hardest trials to the ones He trusts the most, or something like that. I know that's true and I know Elder Hibbert has people to save back home. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Elder Morris</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-80459003439289089232015-04-25T06:15:00.000-07:002015-04-25T06:15:19.084-07:00Week 38: Out to the Kilos<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Ok so this week was pretty sweet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Then we went to Dairy Queen and ate some ice cream and came home. It was good. Then we just planned out how we want the work in our new area to go. </span></div>
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Tuesday was the Mission Leadership Meeting, which was really really good. I came in a little scared because everyone else had companions and stuff but it was super good! Then we came home and did our weekly planning for the rest of the week and review a little bit of the things I learned in the meeting. Then we went out to give a few lessons which turned into a new investigator and then on the way home some kid like yelled out to me and I said hi. He like ran up and just jumped onto the back of my bike. I was a little surprised and just looked at my companion and said something like, "is this kid serious"? Then the kid asked where we were going and I said home and he asked for a ride until we turned to go home. I said fine. Then he just jumped off when we got to the turn and he ran into an alley. Super weird haha</div>
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Wednesday was amazing as well! We went out to kilometer 11 to see a member and he was out getting his hair cut. He lives right by the river so we just went down and sat on some rocks while we waited and this lady said that we could go down and hang out at her floating boat house. We said ok and sat down. I asked about her family and stuff in hopes to share a message with her. We ended up sharing about the Plan of Salvation and she was really interested but said that she couldn't join because her family is Buddhist. Then we went out and found some old investigators from when I served here before. It was super cool, two of them, who were initially mad at me at first for leaving them (haha) and decided that they wanted to start learning again. So we picked up those investigators again, they are so great too! Then we had English class! I was so excited to finally get to be back at my old English class. We had a few minutes before class so I started contacting outside for people to come to class. This one boy name william said he would come and then he actually came to the class! It was cool. I sat at this table with william and a few others. One was a girl in college preparing for medical school. I really tried to make friends with them and make them feel comfortable. Then I was asked to share the spiritual thought and shared about Lehi's vision and then I challenged everyone to write down any question they have about the Gospel and we will answer it. Then William started asking me questions! He had some great questions. At the end of class william and the girl in college gave their phone numbers to the elders and stuff! It was amazing. They have already began teaching them. </div>
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Thursday we had another weekly planning for next week and then went out to the kilos to see another old investigator. He is really nice and has a desire to keep learning and meeting with us. He is about to have another son and is really concerned for his family and their futures. Then we went to meet a member and see how they were doing. We were just walking when I felt a sudden splash of cold water. I turned and some kids were laughing. I was a victim of a malicious water balloon attack... Not too long ago, I was the hooligan throwing the balloons at the older kids. So now I guess the tables have turned. The lesson went well though. :)</div>
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Saturday was a doozy. We scheduled an appointment with a member who recently moved houses so we could know where they live. So he told us just get on this road that goes out to no where and just keep going. We ended up riding a little over 20 kilometers before we arrived at the place he told us to wait. Altogether it was around 25 miles. haha I'm sore. </div>
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Sunday was awesome! Our elders quorum president called in the morning and wanted to visit some less actives before church, which is so cool. He doesn't have a bike though so I gave him a lift on the back of my bike. It was fine until he said he wanted to go to Kilometer 9. Ha so that was fun. Then it was church. First off, I love fast Sunday. Second, it is Easter Sunday! I was asked to play the piano last minute but it went ok. We had a record breaking 60 come to church! More than we've had in over six months. I felt like my heart was going to burst and I had to go up and bear my testimony of gratitude for all the Savior of the World has done for me. I am so blessed to be out here. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve. I know that Christ lives. I know that He took upon him the sins of the world, and that through Him we can be clean and we can live with our families forever. I love you all and hope you can show your gratitude this Easter Season! </div>
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Wednesday so we could be done before English class. We painted and cleaned more and started on this really cool tree idea that one of the sisters had. We painted a tree and put the pictures on it. It was awesome! </div>
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The hard thing was that the next day, Thursday, I got a call saying that we would be transferring a day early and I that I should start packing my things. I didn't see that one coming and instantly my heart sank like a rock. I didn't think a transfer would be so hard. I am such a baby. We would be switching houses and stuff so I packed up on my things and left all the food in the fridge for the next elder moving in. We also had the elders from Vietnam again over at our house. That was really fun. I met back up with my old MTC companion! I missed him a lot and it was so good to see him. </div>
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We moved all the stuff out and then we moved. The branch three house is nice. It's the biggest in the mission and this time it was super clean. It is really good looking now. The only thing is that the Khmer elders totally swiped our old room and took all the good stuff. We are in a little room on the top floor with a dinky little light. My companion says he feels like he is in a prison cell.<br />
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Then on Friday, we got to go pick up elder Hieu, who just finished his mission. We took him to the mission home so he could figure out his things. He is the best. Then, I spent the day with a new missionary because my companion needed to renew his visa. He is in the Vietnamese group and he is from Argentina. He speaks a little Viet already which is a big head start for him. He is way funny and I really like him. He reminds me of an old friend I have back in Japan named Api. Really fun. </div>
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Then we had a baptism on Sunday which was really great and I now think that I am catching a cold. I took some medicine and hopefully I will back to a 100% in no time. Not a lot of time this week, so apologies. I love you all and hope you have an amazing week. </div>
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This week was a roller coaster of stress and stuff! All is well, so don't worry.<br />
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Monday we just had a stellar p day. Went bowling again for an elder's birthday. I lost this time which was a bummer. I knew I just hit a stroke of luck last time. Then we had a great lesson with our less active family we are focusing on, they are great. Came to church this Sunday too! Woo hoo. </div>
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Tuesday: was a little bit <i><b>ehhh</b></i>. Just because we made plans for like 8 lessons....and only ended up getting one. It all good though because <u>that one lesson was really good</u>. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Century; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: Century; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J </span>Oh and I guess the mission has a list of people with singing ability so somehow I got put onto a list of people to sing at an upcoming Conference, where Elder Gerritt Gong of the Seventy would be coming. We had rehearsal and it went really well. They needed my to do bass in the Vietnamese part and then I had to sing in Khmer for the tenor part and then sang the melody for the English verse. It was a good practice though. </div>
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Wednesday we met with our new investigator who sells sandwiches by this huge group of buildings that people use to throw wedding celebrations. It is out in a parking lot and there is no shade. We almost died sharing with him but he is a great learner. Then we tried again to do an English class, but once again we still only had one person come. We had a meeting of how we can improve the class and have decided to do a lemonade stand with handouts and things. I will keep you posted on that one! </div>
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Thursday started out rough but ended up being pretty stellar! We met with a less active member...and it went really well. She accepted the challenge to try and come back to church and to develop her faith more by starting to read and pray everyday. </div>
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Later, we had an insane lesson. We got a referral from some other elders and she finally said that she could meet with us.... She told us this really amazing story about how she had sacrificed living comfortably with her family so that she can go to school in the hopes to start a business so that her children with have a future. <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-weight: normal;">But I did not see this coming... </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">After we started to share about the Gospel and the Book of Mormon... all of a sudden started asking questions about the Bible and said that she had studied in Bible school for like 13 years. She began testing me and I answered all the questions but one. I told her that we would love to answer all of them for her... but maybe in the next lesson. She kind of got mad and asked me how I would be able to teach her, if I didn't know anything. Ugh... I told her that there is no way I could know everything. But her answer was that I<b><u> should know everything</u></b>. She told me that I need to be better, if I expect to teach anyone out here. To be honest, I wanted to tell her off and throw out a bunch of scriptures and stuff, but I just said that I would try harder and that we would love to meet her again. I hope she meets us again. </span></div>
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Right after the conference, I was feeling the spirit pretty strong and had a huge desire to apply the stuff we had learned. So we went contacting... and some cool stuff happened. </div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">We found a little family on the top of this building. I asked a few simple questions about his family and then shot him </span><i><b>the</b></i> question, "If I told you that you could live with them (his family) forever, how would you feel?" I testified to him, right then and there that he can!.. and that this gospel and this Church are true. He was very excited and gave me his number. This exact same thing happened two more times that day. It was pretty amazing. </div>
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This was a huge testimony builder to me, that you never have to coax, trick, or sneak your way into sharing the message of the Restoration. Because it is true. They have all heard it before. We are only helping them remember. I saw the Light of Christ working inside them as they pondered the questions we asked and the testimonies we shared. I am grateful for that experience. </div>
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week was amazing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty much just hung out with the elders from Vietnam after studies. It was
fun. They went back to their areas and are happy now. We had a lesson with some
members so I thought it would be a prime opportunity to spring the lesson on
the new guy, Elder Quoach. I know, I’m a meanie… but that's how you learn. He
did awesome anyways! I just supported his thoughts, and it all went great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shared the district meeting lesson on The Holy Ghost and about recognizing the
spirit; I also shared about the Light of Christ. I love learning about this
subject… and it just so happens that one of my all-time favorite apostle shares
a lot about it as well. Everyone should watch the 3 part video called <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-01-010-patterns-of-light-the-light-of-christ?lang=eng">Patterns
of Light</a> by Elder David A. Bednar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had lunch at a member's house… and it was awesome. They are preparing to go to
the Salt Lake temple when they go to General Conference. I am so excited for
them. They are a little better-off than most, because the husband, Bun Ly is a
big movie start/ movie maker here in Cambodia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon we went over to a member family's house because our investigator is best
friends with them. We had a really great talk about why the members are so
important, and then we invited them to help bring the investigator to the
waters of Baptism. They said yes. Things are really going great. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weekly planning. Everything went smoothly and we planned for yet another
awesome week! Then we went over to our District President's house to kind of
coordinate a little on the upcoming events for our Branch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went to visit a less active member and instead ended up sharing with her
father. We shared the first lesson and I invited him to be baptized by the proper
authority. He said he was interested in learning more, but wasn't sure yet if
baptism was right for him. We will continue teaching him and see where that
goes. I have high hopes :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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found out that our Branch President's son had moved back home, and he has a new
wife who happens to be Buddhist… and wants to learn, so we will start teaching
her as well! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my favorite families in the world made a tough decision this week and it was difficult
to hear about during our lesson with them. They have decided to let their kids
stay in Vietnam to study, instead of living with them in Cambodia. They only
want them to have a bright future, and know they can't have that here. I will
miss their two children dearly. They are really special. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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night we went over to an investigator's house and his mother had come back to
visit for the holidays. She is Vietnamese, but lives in America. She lives in a
Viet community in Atlanta, Georgia, so
we had a lot to talk about. She made me promise that when I come home I will
come visit her and eat at her restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had an awesome special training session from President Moon and sister Moon.
They taught us about obedience and happiness. It was weird because we kind of
talked about life after the mission too. President Moon shared an amazing
quote. After that we had another meeting with the District presidency… and then
another that evening with the Branch Presidency. Sometimes I feel more like an
administrator than a missionary. It's really great though, I am learning a
lot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><br />
― </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/193164.Ezra_Taft_Benson" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666600; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ezra Taft Benson</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It was fast Sunday! I love fast Sundays. We went to Church and had an
amazing fast and testimony meeting. Afterwards, I shared a lesson with the
youth about Christ and how He is our example. How we need to let our lights
shine and follow that example and share it with others. After we went home and
studied, and then I had to go to Branch 6 to get some baptism papers signed! We
had two baptisms in Branch 6. I am so grateful that I got to interview those
two amazing people. Theirs were great baptisms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been praying so hard for a miracle to happen. My companion and I even made it a
weekly goal to have faith such that a miracle would happen for us. It came
yesterday. I talked previously about the old lady by our house, who was really
sick and had a big family… right? Well, we talked to another one of her
daughters, and she wanted us to come and teach <u>her</u> a lesson. We went by
there yesterday. She was on her way out, but she told us to wait a few minutes
and she would be back. So we sat down with another man who was playing on his
phone. We started with some small talk… which led to talking about the Gospel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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man's name is Chu Long and he said he was baptized in 2006. He told us of how
he was a teacher in the Gospel Doctrine class… and how he had had a disagreement
with some members, so he left the Church because of it. He bore a strong testimony
that he still knows the Gospel is true. I bore to him my testimony that this
Gospel is true as well. This Church is the true church. And then the Spirit
guided me to invite him to repent and come back into the fold of God. He said
he wasn't sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time, the women we had intended to meet came back. We asked if we could share
our message with her… and I invited Chu Long to stay and help teach with us. He
accepted and we taught a great lesson on the restoration. He shared beautifully
of the atonement and of how the First Vision really did happen. The spirit was
so strong. I invited her to be baptized next month and she said yes. She prayed
with us to know these things were true… and after the lesson, Chu Long pulled
me aside. He proceeded to tell me how he hadn't felt that kind of love… and hadn't
felt the Spirit like that in years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then asked if he could come back. I could barely hold back tears of joy as I promised
him those feelings and his meeting with us was a gift from Heavenly Father. He
said he would change his schedule so that he can help our new investigator (Chi
Nhi) come to Church this Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this is His work. I also know that as we prayerfully and obediently seek them,
we <u>will</u> see miracles. He has blessed me with the opportunity to see His
hand in my life. This Church is true. This Gospel is true. I am so grateful for
the mighty change that has… and is happening in my heart. I love you all so
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-77815726348523374172015-02-26T18:20:00.005-08:002015-02-26T18:20:39.147-08:00Week 33: The kid did NOT want to learn...<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
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we didn't have any time to play soccer. :( But! We went to the mission home and
I got some cool new ties. I will send a picture of them next week because I
forgot. Then the new guy really wanted to take a look at New Market, which is
just a huge market with everything a tourist would ever want and it all for at
least half price. So we walked around there for a while. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Meeting. This one was pretty dry because it was about learning the language.
This lesson always just makes everyone self-conscious and ashamed for not being
more diligent (haha). I tried to keep it as upbeat as possible though. After
that, we found out that the Burger King has a super whopper deal where you get
two and one meal is for free. Those were nice. Then I think Elder Toan ate too
much and he was feeling sick so we took him home and he slept for a while. I
just started making a bunch of calls trying to set up appointments with less
actives and lost members. It actually ended up pretty good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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attend this English Class training meeting for all the English Class leaders.
It was super cool! We finally got our Facebook page and website set up. A whole
new program is being set up and I can't wait to get it started! Then after that
we had a Mission Leadership Meeting with all the Leaders in the mission. That
was so cool. I love being in discussions with other missionaries about the
work. They are all so seasoned and have so many great insights. That was really
neat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taught a lesson and then went out contacting. We found this lady because this
guy on the side of the road said there was one Viet lady living in the alley nearby.
She was kind of asleep when we came. She woke up and told us that she has a
serious hard problem and had been sick for months and will pass away soon. I
felt like we needed to tell her who we were and that our message was what she
needed. She took the pamphlet and asked us to pray with her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Well kind of. Some of us fell asleep and we didn't end up getting a lot of
planning done. But we turned it around and got a few good lessons in for the
day. I had an idea that we should do something for the members that are still
in Cambodia for the Chinese New Years. Oh by the way, It has been like a ghost
town the past couple of days because of the holidays. It sucks if you’re a
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bread and started our quest to visit all the members. We spent the day sharing
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exchange with the zone leader elder Tri. He is really cool and knows this
language really well. We went and taught a lesson in the morning to one of his
investigators. The investigator is like 10 and his mom is less active but helps
in all the lessons. We came to their house the kid did NOT want to learn. His
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to the sick lady's house to share a lesson with her. We went by and this other
lady was there. She said she was her daughter and kindly asked us to sit down
with her. We sat down at the table and there was a bible open and it looked as
though someone had been studying. That made me happy until she said that she
was a Jehovah's Witness… and so were the other 10 kids in the family. YIKES. I
immediately started sweating profusely when the lady asked if she could share a
few things she really liked out of the bible. It wasn't quite a bible bash, but
we had to use a few scriptures to counter the crazy stuff she was saying. She
got stuck when we shared about prophets and Joseph Smith so she said she had to
go. It kind of sucks because she was really sweet to us. We will go back there
and try and help them. </span></div>
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have very many people there but it was really awesome! Everyone was helping a
lot and things went smooth. It was also the birthday of one of the youth. A
girl named Nhi who just turned 19. She is preparing for a mission and will
hopefully turn in her papers soon. I made her a Banana Cake which turned it out
to be crazy, because everyone at church started saying how good it was and that
they had birthdays coming up too! Ahhh!! Then that night we went out and decided
to just find people to do service for. It was really fun and we met some really
cool people. Love you all and hope you have an amazing week! </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-43500001643882442032015-02-17T18:21:00.000-08:002015-02-17T18:21:02.185-08:00Week 32: A Crowded House<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
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inspect our house to see whether or not we were following the simplified
housekeeping challenge! I almost pooped myself at this announcement seeing as
our house is not up to par. We rushed home and cleaned everything as fast as we
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Meeting at the church only to find that the guard took the day off and no one
had unlocked the gate to the church. We got to have our meeting at the stake
center which is so cool! I shared a lesson on the Atonement and then we had a
musical number, because one of our sisters was about to finish her mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had hoped for! Our investigator is so awesome and he hopefully will be
progressing towards the first of the month. :) Then we went and helped out
doing some translation work. I am really starting to like doing translations. I
have finished a few Mormon messages and talks in Vietnamese, just in case
anyone wants to check them out. ;) While we were helping with that, one of the
Elders came across some really funny articles on this website called <a href="http://www.millennialmormons.com/" target="_blank">Millennial Mormons</a>. It is borderline sacrilege, but a pretty entertaining read.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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written down in the notes for the day. Thinking back, we did weekly planning.
Oh we looked around for people to serve, and then hunted down a less active
member, who has been dodging us like we're the mob or something. He is a nice
kid though. He just loves the computer games. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the morning to another investigator. Then we went out looking for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/240-Miles-Feed-His-Sheep/dp/0615908829" target="_blank">Lost Sheep</a>.
After that we had a good time translating the new hymn book for the Vietnamese
Branches. Hopefully, we will be done with all of that in the next week or so. I
am stoked. Then we biked out like an hour and a half to find a less active
member. He is so great and promised he was going to start coming back to church
and back to the path of righteousness… I hope so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for my companion and I. We will be sticking together for another one. It should
be fun. We also got a call that we would be taking care of not one, but three
companionships. We have nine people in our house that usually has four. It has
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glorious. The sister who ended her mission on Saturday had her parents
come to Cambodia to visit! They were super cool and they even bore their
testimonies during sacrament. It was really special and everyone was moved. I
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other Elders said they would teach and we got to be in the gospel principles
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surprise birthday for one of our members who is preparing to go to the temple
with her husband. It was really special. The thing that is so cute about
birthdays here is that people always do two things: 1. They bare their
testimony and thank everyone for everything. 2. Instead of making a wish, they
say the prayer and bless the food for everyone. It is really special that they
make something so fun and simple as a birthday party a spiritually uplifting
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played some soccer and stuff. We had some misunderstandings and had to go home
and talk them out. So even though there has been some stuff going on with my
companion and I, I think this week went really well.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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exchange and I went to another area for the first time in forever. I went to
Branch 6 and it was awesome. There are so many people over there and you can
just talk to anyone. It was like a dream not hunting down Vietnamese people. We
had some great lessons and did some contacting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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switched back and had English class. The elders from Vietnam came for
the leadership counsel and they slept over that night. It is never a good night
sleep when the elders from Vietnam come over. They always keep us up with
questions and awesome stories. I got to spend some time with my old companion Elder
Cuong though. It was fun :) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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were a lot better. We talked a lot of things out and I think it went well. My
companion had an interview with the president and I did a lot of translation work.
I have really grown to love this language through translating. It is
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had a big leadership training from our zone leaders. They gave an awesome part
about true love and how to show more love for others. I really like all the
things we talked about. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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had a meeting with the leadership of the branch to figure out our goals and how
they should improve so that we have more progression in this area. It was a
really productive meeting and I am so happy about the direction the Branch is
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things got interesting. At the last minute, the pianist told me that I had to
play. I quickly recalled my four years of percussion…Honestly I didn't
completely butcher the hymns. haha that was fun. </span></span></span></div>
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attendance I have ever had in my mission. I have no idea why no one came to
church<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1728159513" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">this Sunday</span>, except that it was the Vietnamese
New Year. Everyone goes back to their hometowns and stuff. It is a dark time
for the missionaries. After that, we taught<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1728159514" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Sunday</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>School
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headed over to a member's house to get their help for a lesson. We all went
over the lesson and then watched <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2011-07-63-lds-filmmaker-brings-stories-of-early-saints-to-life?lang=eng">“17
Miracles” </a>together. We then shared about sacrifice and temple work. It was super
spiritual and they promised to come back to church... and that they wanted to go
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knows what we need in order to grow the most. I shared <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/122.7,8,9?lang=eng#6">D&C
122: 7-9</a> with our less-active members. I know that everything will be for our own experience and benefit. I know that this Gospel is true. I know that Joseph
Smith is the prophet of the Restoration, and that through him I am blessed
by this Gospel. I know that... because I have been given much, (so) I too must give, and
I am so grateful for this opportunity to do that. I love you all and hope you
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Yes, I know, it has been way too long! I have been really lazy and haven't written an update in forever!<br /></div>
<b><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1868925723" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span> </b>was pretty simple. For the past few weeks, we have been organizing soccer in the mornings for P day. This helped me keep my sanity. I have missed soccer so much. After running errands all day we went to meet some of our less active members. They are great... and promised to come to church! ( which they did) :) and then we met with an investigator. We agreed that he needs to push himself a little bit harder, and drop some more things so that he can be ready for baptism. Then at the end of the night we had a big family home evening with the senior couple, Brother and Sister Bailey because sadly they had a family emergency and went back to America. Everyone in the branch was really sad. We had a spiritual thought and then we played a game. It was really cool. One of the mothers asked for a blessing before we started the FHE. She wanted Brother Bailey to give her one before he left. I was asked to translate. I had never done that before and it was really neat. I felt the spirit so strong during the blessing. At first, I was thinking of what needed to be said...but that didn't go very well. Then I began listening to the spirit and the words started to flow out. I knew that member was feeling the spirit because of the tears in her eyes as she thanked us for our service. I am so grateful for those opportunities.<br /></div>
<b>Tuesday</b> we had district meeting. It was really great. I truly felt prepared this time and the lesson went just as planned! I was pleased how it went, and everyone participated. Then we went to my old area and helped the Branch President there with some paper work that he didn't understand. That was neat to see how the church records work.<br /></div>
<b>Wednesday </b>we met with an "eternal investigator" who is really starting to show some progress! It is really great to see his desire to learn spark up again. After that, we had a really awesome lesson with our Branch President and his wife about how we can better serve others. Then we shared about the temple and what we can do to help others in the branch prepare to go. They agreed to start visiting the members and help them to prepare. Then we had English class! This is week two of the English class here in Branch 10... and we already have 9 people coming. It is growing really quickly and hopefully it will continue to get bigger.<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Yesterday</b> (Sunday) was awesome. W</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">e had a great Church meeting and everything went well. We had some investigators come and said that they felt moved by the sacrament meeting, and the lessons given. I had to play the bad guy in S</span></span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1868925729" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">unday</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> School... which really stunk. Well, I am the teacher because none of the other members want to teach that class... because there are around 15 kids and they are pretty rowdy when they want to be. That was yesterday for sure. They had no intention of paying attention, which is weird because usually they are so good! I got a little bit frustrated and told them how we take time out of our busy schedules to plan the lessons for them... and that the least they could do was to listen. They apologized, which was cool, and we got through it. I passed out some candy from Christmas for them. </span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="background: white;">It is almost Christmas and I couldn't be more
thrilled!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Monday, we had emailing and then went to help an
investigator do some paperwork in English for a few hours. That was rough. I
don't even know how to use Photoshop. Then we went to the mission home to pick
up the Vietnamese elders who came in for Visa work.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Tuesday, we had District meeting and then ran
splits with the Vietnam Elders. I went with Elder Hieu who is pretty close to
going home. I was blown away at how good his Vietnamese was and how great of a
teacher he was in our lessons. We went and taught a lesson to an old
investigator, Chu Hai. He has been learning for close to five years now. We
tried to get a lesson going, when he stood up and started yelling at us… saying
that he didn't want to learn and that we were trying to force him to do things.
We apologized for hurting his feelings and left. He was being a drama queen
though in my opinion.</span><br />
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<span class="aqj"><span style="background: white;">Wednesday,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">we taught a bunch of great lessons. We taught one to
our Branch President, and then he set some goal with us for next year. He wants
15 baptisms and 90 people at church. He says he has faith that we can do
it… me too.</span><br />
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<span class="aqj"><span style="background: white;">Thursday,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">we taught a lesson to a new investigator, Chu Bao. He
has the cutest little daughter ever. She was combing my hair during the lesson
and tried to paint my nails so I could be "pretty" like her..</span></span><br />
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lesson. She said she will try and make it back to church (so please pray for
that). We taught a lesson to Anh Thanh at the church. During the lesson, members
kept randomly showing up! By the end of the lesson, we had five members helping
teach the lesson! It was kind of crazy… but also really cool that they stayed
and shared. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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America and he was heartbroken. I got pretty choked up. We taught him that he
needed to continue learning and following God's commandments. He asked if he
could be baptized this month, but we told him that he needed to prepare a
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didn't want his kids to learn with us anymore. I am really sad right now about
that, because they want to be baptized and come to church. But he said that they are not ready yet. I
hope his heart will change. Then at church we had a little bit of a mix up. At
the end of the Sacrament Service, our Branch President announced the day for
our Christmas Activity on the 20th. I guess that no one knew about it… and
there was an uproar. People started yelling and pointing fingers. It was really
crazy. Then, during the third hour, our recent convert brought in a giant
Christmas tree and said that the people wanted one in the church. That was
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parties and things are really hard. (in spite of everything) This week was
really good though. I am grateful how willing the members here are to sacrifice
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contacted all morning. After about two and a half hours, we found one person
who was Vietnamese. They really do know how to hide… or something. But that was
just the beginning. We decided we would try and find a referral from the Sister
missionaries. We found him working up on some scaffolding. We climbed up there
with him and talked for a bit. His name is Thien. It turned out that he was baptized
in the Catholic Church about four years ago. He said he would like to meet with
us again later in the week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recent convert gave us a call and told us that his older brother would like to
join the church. We were pretty excited and went to meet them. His brother said
that he was tired of the other churches and wanted something that had meaning.
We will now be going to meet with him again this week and start teaching. The
power of referrals is amazing. Also, a member of our Branch got his mission
call. He was called to serve in Cambodia, speaking Khmer! We really could've
used him in the Vietnamese program, but I am happy he is going to serve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zone Conference! We were taught a little more about how we can use our time
more wisely and how to extend better commitments. We also talked about this
Christmas Season and how we can better show our appreciation for the Savior and
all He had done for us. We are now committed to find one thing we can sacrifice
for the Lord, because He sacrificed everything for us. I know I have a lot that
I can sacrifice. Next we met with our investigator Chu Long and his two
children. We taught a little more about Baptism and what that means. At the end
of the lesson, his two children said that they both want to be baptized and
they accepted a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. I hope it all works
out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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met with a recent convert and his mom. His mom is not a member of the Church.
We weren't sure what we should share and out of the blue she asked us about baptism.
She told us about her husband and that he had died and was worried about his
eternal wellbeing. We taught a powerful lesson on Temples and Baptism. By the
end the lesson, she didn't set a date, but said that she wanted to be baptized…
and for her husband to be baptized as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did weekly planning since we didn't have the chance to on Thursday. We then
went out contacting for 2 and a half hours. We did find 2 Viets… but it was
hard. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Fast Sunday. I love fast Sunday because they are always so
powerful. Our investigator, Anh Thien, met with us before Church at his
Grandmother's house. He told us about his baptism some more… and how he felt
like he was meant to find something greater. We shared a lesson on the
Restoration and baptism and how we need the proper Priesthood authority. He
asked if that meant that they both needed to be baptized again and of course, we
said “yes”. They said ok, which was amazing… but not really the answer I would
have expected. Thien has a baptismal date for the 28th of this month. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only time when nearly the whole world focuses on Christ. I know that OUR
sensitivity to Spiritual things is heightened. Heavenly Father wants all his
children to know of His love for us. I know that if we sacrifice a little of
our time and share the message with just one person this month, miracles will
happen. I love you all! Have the best week ever! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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houses and we went by their house and the building next to it was on fire! It
wasn't like a fire you could put out with like a cup of water either, this baby
was massive! Then we helped them move for about three hours. We all thought it
would be way easy so we wore our proselyting clothes and by the end we were all
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week was, Thanksgiving of course! So much fun. We got to go to The Bailey's
house for dinner, and they had a turkey, stuffing, rolls, and all different
kinds of food. It was super good. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="aqj"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222;">This Friday</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; color: #222222;"></span> we had kind of a
second Thanksgiving feast… just the elders in our house. We had a true feast
for fools. We made a ton of food. It was amazing. <span class="aqj">Friday</span> also marks the start of my baking career. I
made some cinnamon rolls, complete with icing from scratch. They had to have
been good, because Elder Hibbert in our house ate like, six of them. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">We also received an announcement that the </span><a href="http://www.mormon.org/christmas"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>“He is the Gift” </b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">initiative has begun! So come on everyone, get into the Christmas
Spirit! We have already started decorating our house and since our Thanksgiving
meal, we have been listening solely to Christmas music. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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explains the title. Our investigator who that thought he was going to have to leave
for Vietnam figured everything out, and we were able to prepare him such that
yesterday… he stepped into the waters of Baptism! It was so amazing! All the
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The members all brought food for him and the
testimony he gave after was really special. He talked about how he doesn't have
any family here, and now he feels like he does… one big family. My companion
and I each gave him one of our shirts, a tie, and a pair of pants so he would
look sharp. The feeling is something I will never forget. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We started it off with a real
bang this Monday as my companion lost his ticket to claim his bike when
we were at the market. It was actually pretty funny, because we don't speak
very much Khmer! They wouldn't let him have his bike and said for him to come
back later in the day so they could see if anyone else will take it. We decided
to not fight it and just went to get our hair cut… and wait it out. We both cut
our hair for a dollar #DealsForDays and the people there said that I looked a
lot like Justin Bieber… </span><br />
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up with the idea that we could go home and grab a camera with a picture of my
companion and his bike. We found one and brought it back to them, and for some
reason they thought it was way funny. Oh… and when I woke up in the morning, I began
brushing my teeth as usual. When I looked down I noticed that my toothbrush was
littered with little black worms. For some reason there were little worms all
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Tuesday we had an amazing lunch provided by our Senior Couple, the Baileys.
We get to go eat lunch at their house during the last week of every transfer.
We had pulled pork sandwiches, corn, and Sister Bailey made some amazing peach
cobbler. We also celebrated the going home of my old companion and trainer,
Elder Barker. It was pretty sad. Oh also, I don't know what it was… but I had
some serious stomach problems. I could have received a frequent customer’s card
for how many times I had to go to the bathroom. It really wasn't fun. We got a
call later that day from a younger member named Nghia. He is like 14 and called
saying he wants to start preparing for his mission and wanted to come with us.
We went by to pick him up and it was so cool to see him waiting outside his
house… all dressed up in his church clothes. Since then he has come with us
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we decided to try out an angle for contacting in the morning. We went out, and
as we were riding down the road, my companion stopped and said he had a feeling
that we should talk with an older guy that he noticed a few streets back. So
we went back and began talking to him. It turned out that spoke Vietnamese… and
after some small talk, he said we could come by his house and talk some more.
We ended up teaching him the entire first lesson. We taught him one more time
since we first met him and he has accepted the Book of Mormon. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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planning, and Elder Hibbert said that he still had money left over from his
birthday, that his mom wanted him to spend on us… so he bought us all these
humongous foot-long burgers called "Bazooka Burgers". They are so
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Then we
went out and helped the Branch President some more while we waited for our
investigator. We had previously set up a “members help” for the lesson, but
decided that that particular member wasn't the best choice in helping our
investigator progress because she is super intense, so we asked a different
member. We went upstairs to go over the things we would share with the Branch
President… and we found that super intense member asleep. I guess she learned
where we were going to meet, and came two hours early so she wouldn't miss it.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anyway,
we started the lesson and then things took a turn for the worst. You know how
in those TV shows, like “When Animals Attack” or whatever… and the narrator
says, "…and then things took a turn for the worst" That was what
happened in our lesson. Our member help started talking about super deep doctrine
while talking really fast… and wouldn't let anyone else talk. This went on for
about an hour, when we finally got a chance to end it. I felt bad for the investigator…as
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guy came up to me and started asking me questions. I took him aside because
everyone had told him to go away. I sat down with him and ended up teaching him
a lesson. He told me about his life, and
why he was living on the street. He said he used to travel a lot and how he studied
to be a doctor. It seems that he had just made some mistakes and was living on
the street. I told him that there is always hope, and he has the power to turn
his life around. He agreed with me, and said he wanted to meet again this next
week. I guess we will see how that goes. After that, we went and picked up my
old Trainer, Elder Barker for the last few hours before he would board the
plane to go home. It was a special experience getting to serve with such a
seasoned missionary. </span></span></span></div>
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to a recent convert’s house for lunch because she said she had prepared some food
for us. Her first dish was rice porridge with a lot of squid in it. The second
dish was actually pretty good, just some way good meat on rice with a little
bit of pig skin shavings. Lastly was a bowl of soup with a whole boiled small
chicken. This chicken was pure black. I asked what it was called. She answered
me in English, "Chicken Black Man". I see this could be taken as offensive,
but she is Vietnamese and English isn't her first language. I laughed so hard I
almost died. She asked me if I would eat it but I told her I was really full. Actually,
I just didn't want to eat it. I think she had made it as a joke because then
she smiled and asked me if I was scared. Taking that as a challenge, I broke
off the little foot (talons and all) and popped it into my mouth. She kind of
made an "eww" noise and then laughed. It was really gross! She waited
a little before telling me that you aren't supposed to eat the feet. (haha)… Oops. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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contacted a whole bunch of referrals from the sisters. Then we went over to
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We met with an investigator before Sacrament meeting and taught a lesson. We
made a whole bunch of calls reminding people about Church, and telling members
about the investigators that would be coming in hopes to get them fired up. It
worked! We had 74 people at church… which is only two away from our year goal!
We had five investigators at sacrament. It was so cool to see everyone coming.
The only thing that stunk (literally), was right as sacrament was starting. One
of the ladies brought a sickly baby who wasn't wearing pants. He pooped all
over the floor! It immediately started smelling like death, and we all hurried
to try and clean it up. The members started smelling it… and kind of started freaking
out. After using a substantial amount of glade air freshener and wet wipes, the
mess was cleaned up. It wasn't but 15 minutes later when the dang baby pooped
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really started freaking out! It was nearly a disaster. People were gagging and
covering their faces with scarves and towels. Two more cans of air freshener
were brought out, and people started yelling at the mom with the sick baby. It
was sad when they made her take the baby outside. The missionaries didn't
really know what to do. It was hard. After church, we went out and taught some
lessons. I was talking about the day
with my companion and I looked down at my foot and noticed this pretty big
black spot on it. I think there is like a fungus growing on it. I have to go
talk to Sister Moon, the mission president's wife. Oh and yes, I do wash my
feet. This week was a blast, hope you all have an amazing week too! <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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market to look around for some stuff. As we were walking around, we got a call
from our investigator who we had planned his baptism for this week. It was hard
to hear him, but what I did pick up were the words, "sorry, arrested, and
leaving". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this. The reason things are wacky lately is because the government of Cambodia
has started tracking down the Vietnamese people and asking them for papers. If
they don't have papers, they either get forced to move back to Vietnam or they
have to pay the police officers off. From what I have heard, this is a method
they use to make more money. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shaken up by all this stuff because most of them don't have the proper paper
work. Anyways, we went over to our investigator's house to find out more about
all this. He said not to worry, he just got caught by the police with the wrong
paperwork and he had to lay low for a while or he will be sent back. I couldn't
believe how calm he was about all of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little rough. I woke up and started the day off as I usually do ironing my
shirt and doing a light workout. I went upstairs and we got a text from the
district leader asking if we could teach the District meeting in two hours. My
companions were still asleep, so I replied yes. I started looking up scriptures
and putting together a lesson for the meeting. It took everyone a little longer
than expected to get ready and we got out the door late. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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15 minutes late. It wouldn't have been a big deal, except President Moon
decided that he would attend the meeting this week. My comps, being zone
leaders, instantly started pooping their pants. I was in panic because I was
giving the lesson! We walked in and after apologizing for being late we began.
The District leader finished the announcements and invited my companions to
teach the lesson. He was pretty surprised when I said that I was giving the
lesson because I guess he thought one of my companions replied to the text
earlier that morning. With sweaty palms and a shaky voice I shared some points
I had thought of. After the lesson, we finished with a word of prayer. I was
just happy it was over, or so I thought. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talk to me. He said that he had asked the District Leader to have the zone
leaders teach the lesson so he could see how they would do. He said he was
really surprised that I shared the lesson. He gave me some points of advice and
thanked me for the lesson…so scary. After that, we went to get some lunch and then
did service at a member's house. We pealed a lot of hard boiled eggs for them.
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spent almost the whole day inside because Elder Pham was really sick. I updated
the book and had two personal studies. (haha), we also watched 17 miracles on
the little DVD player. It had Vietnamese subtitles so we counted that as
additional language study. We finally got out at the end of the day, to teach a
less active member and his two sons. We had planned a lesson on reading the
Book of Mormon. The spirit led the lesson and we ended up teaching about the
Temple and ordinances essential for our salvation. He said he wanted more unity
in his family so they could be happily sealed together forever. It was so
cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with a potential investigator named Chi na. He didn't have a lot of interest
the first time we met, but he invited us to come and share our message with
him. We got there and at first we didn't say much. He was looking at his phone
and we didn't really know how we should start. I got this impression that we
should watch the Mormon Message called "The Hope of God's Light". I
told my companion how I felt and he thought we should try it. They don't have
it in Vietnamese, so I told my companion he would be translating this one on
the fly. He did an amazing job and the spirit was so strong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there were more movies like this one that he could watch. He also asked if we
could teach him more about Christ. We gave him a Book of Mormon and gladly
accepted a return appointment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The District leader would come up to our area and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">would jump in with us for the
day. We started off by teaching a member out of a talk from General Conference
earlier this year. After the lesson he made us some amazing food. We contacted
for a while until we had to go to the fireside. We heard some amazing talks and
it really motivated all the missionaries. </span></div>
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lessons with our Recent Converts. They are so much fun. Co nhien learned again
with us and she is a hoot. She loves trying to speak in English so it gets
pretty interesting when we go over there. Then we went to teach our
investigator Chu Ken. In the middle of the lesson his friend came and sat down
to listen. It turned into a big discussion about the dumbest things. I couldn't
understand a thing they were saying so I looked around and noticed another guy
sitting behind me listening. I began asking him questions and we had a great
talk about some different principles in the Gospel he had questions about. At
the end of the night we were invited to attend a member's birthday party. The
Branch President's daughter was turning 8. It was a lot of fun. She reminded me
so much of my little sister Emmie. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">This little girl was so excited that she
could now get baptized! She even prayed over her cake right before she blew out
the candles. At the party one of the members started asking me about Japan. She
asked me in English if I knew about the "Cinnamon". She said a little
while ago "Cinnamon" covered the people and a lot of them died. I was
so confused. As she kept explaining this disaster, I realized she was trying to
say Tsunami. I explained what she was saying and we got a good laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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getting dangerously low. For breakfast Elder Pham ate a tomato with a pack of
cheese and crackers. Elder Tan ate some old fruit from the fridge and some
flavored water. I made myself makeshift oatmeal with some marshmallows I found,
so I microwaved it and it turned into a pretty decent Rice Krispy treat. After
church we lucked out because a member was having a get together and we ate some
food. Last night was transfer calls! I am going to be staying in the area for one
more transfer! I am so happy that I don't have to leave and start from scratch
again. This week was so good. Love you all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Well the title for this week
pretty much speaks for itself. There were a lot miracles this week.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Monday
we went to the Mission Home to pick up our suit pants from the dry cleaners.
Then we cut P day short to meet up with some young men in the Branch. They said
they wanted to prepare for missions and that they wanted us to teach them how
to teach better. We shared with them about testimonies and the five points to a
really strong and simple testimony. They loved it! We decided to go on splits so
they could go with one of us to a Family Home Evening with an investigator,
while we went to teach a lesson to another to a boy in the Branch also
preparing for a mission. Our lesson went so good. He asked so many questions
about missionary life and how to share with the spirit. I gave him some advice
on things that have helped me a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Tuesday
an investigator called us in the morning telling us to come to get breakfast
with him because he had a friend he wanted us to meet. I grabbed our things and
ran out the door. His friend is this lady who has a few kids who are studying
in Australia. She said she really wanted to learn but wasn't sure about coming
to church<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1808001222" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">on Sunday</span></span></span>. She was very funny, speaking a lot of English to
us. We tried to pay for the meal but she wouldn't let us, and in Vietnamese
culture you don't try and force it or they will get really mad. So she paid for
us, and we called her a taxi. She asked me how long I would be in the city. I
said probably for a long time, she said, "good". She said she was
going to go to a few places and might do some shopping and then asked me if I
would like to join her for like a date (kidding of course). (haha) I explained
to her that we don't date until after our two years are up. She laughed and got
in the car. She is hilarious though.</span><br />
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<span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span style="background: white;"><span data-term="goog_1808001223" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Wednesday</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span><span style="background: white;">all
the leaders had to go to a leadership training meeting which lasted for nine
hours. I just dropped off my companions and went on an exchange with a
Vietnamese elder from the other two Branches. I was senior companion for the
first time on my mission. It was kind of scary, right when we got outside the
mission home gate, they were looking to me for direction on where to go, so we
decided to start out in the Branch 3 area. I have really missed Branch 3 and it
was just like old times going back. We taught two investigators that I had helped
to find last transfer, which was really cool. In our second lesson, the spirit
was really strong. I didn't waste a minute in inviting their investigator to be
Baptized. His answer was amazing, "Who's gonna do it?". I was so
happy that he was making an effort to change his life for the better. He said
he will try to come to church. </span></span></span></span><br />
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is still in training) the house of a less active member. We went by his
workplace as well and we actually found him there! I asked if we could share a
lesson with him. He said he was having a hard time reading the scriptures, but
that he is trying to pray. He agreed that he needed to come back to church. I
was so happy to hear that from him. After that lesson, we headed back to the
mission home. We had about 15 minutes to spare, so we stopped at this really
good ice cream place… because one of the other elders said he was going to die
if he didn't get some ice cream. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was really good.</span></div>
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<span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span style="background: white;"><span data-term="goog_1808001224" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Thursday</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span><span style="background: white;">was
great! We had our studies, and of course weekly planning. That went really well.
I have come to realize that if your weekly planning doesn't go well, then your
week doesn't either. We headed straight out and then went to teach a couple
lessons. We had one with a new investigator, Co Huong. She was a little uneasy about meeting with us
at first, but this time she told us to come over right away! We sat down and immediately,
she pulled out a little booklet. She opened it up… and I couldn't believe it.
She had written over 15 questions that she wanted to ask from reading through
the pamphlets. We answered a lot of them and then taught her about the
Restoration. I pulled out my Book of Mormon and gave it to her and she said she
wanted to read it. Later that night we went on a split. I went to go and
contact, while my companion went to teach another investigator. It didn't take
us long to find some people to talk to. We went down one street and found a
huge group just hanging out together. We started talking to them and ended up
having five people listening in on our lesson. We taught most of Lesson 1 with
them and received a few phone numbers. In the lesson that my companion went to
go and teach, our investigator accepted Baptism for the end of this month! We
met her last week. I could not believe my ears!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span style="background: white;"><span data-term="goog_1808001225" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Friday</span></span></span></span><span style="background: white;">, we
had Zone meeting and it was so good! It was all about the talk by D. Todd
Christofferson, "The Worth of A
Soul". I got a better perspective on others as well as of myself. We need
to see the potential of others. Having Christ like charity is a spiritual gift
that we need to be praying continually for. I really enjoyed that talk,
especially </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">because he gave the same talk in a devotional at the MTC while I was
there. Following that, I went on an exchange with my old Trainer Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Barker!
It was so great to combine forces again. It felt like it had been forever, but
right away we got back into the swing of things. We went and taught a lesson to
a recent convert. He helps us all the time to teach lessons and stuff. He asked
if we could teach him a little more on Repentance. It was an amazing lesson and
the spirit was so strong. Right after that, we went out contacting. He took me
to this place where he had met a guy who spoke Vietnamese six months ago. He
and his wife were home and invited us in. We naturally flowed into talking
about the gospel. They were really interested, and they said they wanted to
learn more about Christ and His Atonement. I gave them another Book of Mormon.
They promised to read and pray about it.</span></span><br />
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too special. We went out to lunch with two investigators. It was actually
really good. They are kind of better off than some of our other investigators
so they wanted to go to a nicer place than the one that we chose. It was around
three dollars each, which here is pretty expensive for a full meal. We taught a
few more lessons that afternoon and then exchanged back. We taught a couple
more lessons..</span></span></span><br />
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great! We almost broke a record with Sacrament attendance! 67 people. Our
Branch goal is 75 by the end of the year! I know we can do it. We had a few of
the usual investigators and our investigator from lunch the day before came as
well! We met her this week! I was asked by the AP's to sit next to the Japanese
guy for sacrament and try and translate or something because he didn't get to
take the sacrament in the International Branch. I taught him a mini lesson
based on the talks that were given. There is a little chubby boy in the Branch
here that is always eating and running around. We have given him the title,
"The Juggernaut". Yesterday, he was running around during<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1808001228" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Sunday</span></span> School with a dry pack of Ramen Noodles in hand. He
was running around making fighting noises and whenever he would get tired and
stop, he would take a bite of his Ramen and "Power Up". (Hahaha) Everyone
got a kick out of that. </span></span></span></div>
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previously given a Book of Mormon to. We went with the Branch President. As we
sat down, I looked on her little coffee table and saw that she had all the
pamphlets out and that she had been reading from the Book of Mormon. She told
us all about Lehi's dream and how interesting and amazing it was. We taught her
of the Plan of Happiness and that can share the fruits of the Gospel with her
family as well. She always gets so excited when we talk about the Gospel with
her. Then we went to teach another lesson, and on the way, a recent convert
stopped us in the road. He led us to a guy who sells food from his cart. He
told us that this guy was his friend and that he wanted to come to church and
learn about the Gospel. Then we taught our lesson and as we were helping clean
up their food cart, we bumped into another guy. We asked him if we could meet
and if he would be interested in learning. He said yes and that he also had
friend that would want to learn as well!</span></span></div>
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mission, they made a standard of Excellence for us missionaries. The goal for the
total lessons in a week is 24. We ended up getting 26 total lessons! That is
more than most of the Khmer companionships get (from what I hear) and more than
anything we have ever gotten before. My testimony that the Heavenly Father's work
is being hastened has been strengthened so much this week. I know that if we stay
obedient and diligent, Heavenly Father with bless us and that we have to earn
His trust. This one was way long sorry, but I am just so grateful for all that
is happening here! Love you all and hope you have the greatest week ever.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This week was full of miracles.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Monday was pretty normal aside from we had to go to the mission home to pick up some Elders coming in from Ho Chi Minh for Visas so we went out early. It was alright, we had to take them home first so they could drop off their bags and then we got stuck in the worst traffic. We ended up not getting to visit anyone.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Tuesday, we went on splits with the Elders who were visiting and then we went out to meet a potential investigator named Chu X. Sounds way cool right? Then we just contacted for about 3 hours around the area. We found 0 Vietnamese People. That was rough. We also had District meeting which was really great. Afterwords they thought it would be a good idea to use our lunch to go to this Japanese place called Roku. It was pretty good, I had Katsu Curry. Then we split up again and taught some more lessons.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Wednesday was really good! So... we have a member who does this thing called "Ep Chai". Basically they pull a cart around and pick up plastic and things that they find on the side of the road and then try and sell it. She works all day and only gets a few dollars for it. We felt we should do something, so we decided we would wake up early and gather all the plastic we had saved up over the months and take them over to her house... along with a special cake-type thing that we got as a gift from someone. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">W</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">e filled up 3 garbage bags with plastic and a few other things, I even tossed in a few of our bowls. We looked like Santa delivering presents on Christmas as we carried these huge bags while riding to this member's house. We knew she wouldn't be home so we sneaked in and put all of the stuff into her little shack of a house, and then left. We decided to contact for a few minutes while we were already out and about. We chose this little alley... This is when the miracles began. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We walked about 50 yards and then I decided to ask a guy if he knew where the Vietnamese people were. I thought I was speaking really clearly, but he just didn't seem to understand what I was saying. So I thought... maybe I should just ask in Vietnamese. He then began speaking back in Viet to me. After a minute or two of introducing ourselves and just talking, his friend came and sat down. We asked if we could share with them and they said yes. After that, another one of his friends came and sat down. We were teaching this guy and his two friends... and as I was showing them parts of the pamphlet, a lady just passing by stopped to see what we were talking about... and then she left. We taught them the full lesson 1... and then they said they wanted to learn more.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">They all wanted pamphlets, and gave us their phone numbers as well! I am overjoyed and this amazing series of events. After thanking them for talking with us, we started walking back to our bikes. Just as we were nearing the road, a lady calls out to me. I turned, and to my surprise it was the same lady that had stopped to see what was being taught. She said for me to give me all the pamphlets so she could learn more... and to right down our phone number and address to the church so she could come this Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">I couldn't believe what was happening! I wrote down everything and gave her the lesson pamphlets and we left. We went home for some lunch and then went back out to teach a lesson with one of our investigators. This guy is really educated and I was warned beforehand that he loves to talk. I didn't prepare myself for what happened. He went on and on talking so fast that I didn't know if it was Vietnamese or what! I was lost for a good 30 minutes. The whole lesson was so confusing. After the lesson we decided to stop at a Corn stand. They just grill corn on the cob and then dip it in this like garlic butter sauce, it was amazing! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">We stopped off back at home to grab some more banana bread for our other investigator and dropped it off at her house. That night we had an appointment with another investigator and this lady who works with him came over and wanted to talk about the Church. We taught her Lesson 1 as well. It was a really really good day. :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Thursday was also really great. One of the Elders in our house had a birthday and his mom gave him money to buy us all a treat or something. We decided that we would order in some smoothie type of drinks from this place called BOBA. It was way good. Then we taught a lesson at a members house and finished the day with another Family Home Evening at our investigator's house.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Friday we set up a morning appointment with the lady from the alley that wanted to learn and come to Church. She is a quick learner. Then we went to our investigator Anh Thien's house again. I was scared because of the last visit with him. He just talks so fast. We taught him about prayer and had him share his experiences regarding prayer. He told us that he prayed and feels he needs to be baptized this next week! I understood that part and almost jumped out of my chair! After that meeting we met with another investigator of ours who is having problems at home. Her parents are not big fans of the Church and it has been a real struggle helping her progress towards baptism. In our lesson, she explained how she received personal revelation after reading a talk </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5714282989502px;">that we gave her, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">about having courage to stand up for what you believe in. She said she wants to talk to her parents about the Church and that she needs to be more courageous, she also said she wants to get baptized.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Saturday was a little empty because six of our seven </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.5714282989502px;">planned </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">appointments fell through. In our planning for the day, I felt that we really needed to try and teach a recent convert of ours who hasn't been taught in over three months. My companions said that they have tried countless times and she always comes up with excuses why she can't learn that day. I told them that we needed to try... and that it would work this time. We went over there and she and her husband were eating lunch. I pulled up a chair and just starting talking with them. I asked if we could share with them and they said that they were too busy today. I suggested just sharing with them while they eat. They agreed. We shared about temples and family history. Well, they finished eating and the lesson continued on for another 20 minutes. I know that the Spirit was there and that is why this new member stuck around to learn more.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Sunday was fast and testimony meeting. I love Fast Sundays! The lady from the alley came to church, along with anh thien and one other investigator. I felt that I should stand up and talk about how the Lord had blessed us this week... and how grateful I was for the efforts the Branch had made... and that our investigators have made. It probably wasn't the clearest of testimonies, but I am happy I went up. Then I got to teach the Priesthood Class with my companion. We taught about the Aaronic Priesthood. It was a good lesson and the boys tried really hard to pay attention. I am super grateful for them!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">This week was a testimony to me that Heavenly Father prepares his children for the Gospel. I know that if a person will humble him or herself... and ask with real intent, the answers will come. I have a heart full of gratitude for the miracles, blessings, and tender mercies given to my companions and I. I love this Gospel and I testify that it is true. I know that... because Christ walked the path alone, we will never have to. I have seen seeds of faith grow within myself and I encourage all to feast on the word. I know that if we continually partake from the living waters we will be a light to others and our faith in the Redeemer of the World will be unshakable. I love you all and Hope you have the best week ever :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Elder Morris</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-80092345707655158642014-10-28T20:19:00.000-07:002014-10-28T20:19:42.191-07:00Week 16: I understood everything that was going on.<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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we go to Central Market and look for cool things to buy. Elder Cuong and I
ended up buying two of the coolest hammocks and for only 6 dollars #Bargain.
Next we went to visit a recent convert family. The mom of the
family is Co Nhien. She is really interesting and says some of the funniest
things. She just so happens to love everything Japanese, including me because I
always get snacks from her :). Anyways, she was asking us about animals from
America and other places. She started talking about animals in Japan and stuff
and she asked me about the "Big Dragon". She said that it lives in
Japan and terrorizes the people. The other Elders told her that it doesn't
exist. She argued back saying that it did exist because she saw it in the
movie. Finally she asked me... since I lived in Japan. I didn't have the heart to
crush her dreams by telling her that Godzilla doesn't exist, so I told her that
Godzilla was really sneaky and that I have never seen it before. She seemed
satisfied with that answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nothing out of the ordinary. We contacted a ton after District meeting and that
was about it. It rained super hard and we couldn't go outside. </span></div>
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taught two more recent converts and then we received a surprise call from the
Assistants asking us to come to a special Conference that night. We went and it
was so cool! We had the presidency of Church History there in the Stake center.
They all gave talks and some great advice. They talked about the importance of
keeping records for our posterity. They committed all of us to write in our
journals more often. It was really cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had to cut our studies in half because we got a call that we had to interview
with President Moon. For some reason like half of the missionaries are scared
of the president here. I think he is like super nice. My interview went really
well and he gave me some really great advice. Then we went out contacting and
for lunch we decided to try out this place that we found out by the national
museum. It’s called Cartel and it sells like burritos and tacos. I was really
surprised how Americanized it was. It reminded me a lot of Costa Vida, plus
they were playing the Beatles so I couldn't complain. The food was pretty good.
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so Friday we had to go to the dentist office again for a check up on
the stuff that happened the previous week. It wasn't too lame because this time
they gave us juice and we got to put on some cool white crocs. After that we
headed over to teach a family. I made it a weekly goal to participate even more
in lessons, and this time I ended up teaching the whole thing. It is kind of
stressful, but I am glad that my companions give me those kinds of
opportunities. Then it was raining super hard so we took refuge inside the
church. That day we had planned to meet with a youth who is preparing for a
mission, but we couldn't get a hold of him and we assumed he wouldn't be able
to meet. To our surprise, he came walking into the church and said he had time
for a lesson. We shared a scripture that I read in personal study that reminded
me of when I was preparing to leave. D&C 52:33. We tried to pump him
up as much as we could and I think it worked because since then he has already
started on his papers and met with President Moon. It blows my mind that I
could serve with him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a blast! We taught an investigator in the morning and came home to study. It
started raining really hard so we took that time to make Banana Bread for our
investigators! It was a lot of fun. </span></div>
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at a Halloween Party that the Youth had set up. This is really cool because it
is the first time that the members prepared and planned everything without the
missionaries help. Some of the people who helped plan were two brothers. These
two boys are part of a dance crew that works with the Step Up movies. When we
got to the church, there was around a hundred people there and even more kept
piling in. It was so wild. I must say, there were a lot of immodest costumes
and kids who dressed like Justin Bieber, but all in all it was really cool. I
was so proud that the Youth put it all together so well. We shared for a little
bit and they had prepared a sort of haunted house thing. The Elders went
through first to see if everything was appropriate. We went with all the kids
who were there. I guess some girls jumped in the back of our group because we
were about half way through and some random girl tried to like grab my arm and
stuff. I freaked out and like pushed her into the next room and ran back to my
companion. I was more scared of her than of the haunted house. Yikes. I think everyone
enjoyed it a lot, and after we left I guess they had a huge dance off. I saw a
video that one of the members took. I think the whole dance crew showed up
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kind of a cool milestone for me. Nothing really special happened, but I
realized in the middle of sacrament that I understood what the speakers were
saying. Without even noticing, I understood everything that was going on. I was
really happy :) </span></div>
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ordinary. We did get to go to this big store, I bought Yogurt that was on sale;
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that needed to go to the dentist. One of them was getting his wisdom tooth
removed. Yikes. That elder is our District Leader and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1712989617" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">on Tuesday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> we
have District Meeting. The task to lead the meeting fell upon my shoulders. I
prepared as well as I could in the waiting room of the dentist's office; which
was really hard because they had National Geographic on the T.V. and it was
about the biggest rescued crocodile in the world. </span></span></div>
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I think. We had an appointment later that day teaching a family with three
little kids. They are so cute and one of the little boys reminded me a lot of
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But every time we were about to leave to the lesson, we would get a call saying
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more lessons fall through, but that was ok because we had planned a family home
evening at an investigator's house. It went really great. We had his two
youngest children learning too. We played a really fun game where everyone is
in a circle and the person in the middle closes their eyes. A person outside
the circle has to make an animal noise and the one in the middle tries to guess
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">木曜日:またレッスンはキャンセルされた。でも、その晩求道者の家で家庭の夕べをした。とても良かった。一番小さい子たちも学んだ。ある楽しいゲームで、皆は輪になって、中にいる人は目を閉じる。輪にある一人は動物の鳴き声をして、中の人は誰がやったか推測する。楽しかった。</span></div>
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Things were all going great until this little chubby kid came over. He started
making loud noises, spitting, poking our investigator, while he was farting up
a storm. My companions and I were getting really frustrated. We tried to ask if
he wanted to learn with us; even pulling out a chair for him. He just grabbed
the Book of Mormon from our investigator and made things even worse. I was so
mad that I wanted to drop kick that little poop. When the investigator began
reading a scripture and he started poking her head again, I stood up and asked
him to leave. He laughed and frolicked away. That is probably one of the times
in my mission that I was most angry thus far<span class="apple-converted-space">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">金曜日:ある進んでいる求道者に教えた。すべてはうまくいったが、近所のぽっちゃりした男の子が入って来た。おならをしながら。。音を出したり、唾を吐いたり、求道者を指で突いたりした。私たち皆イライラした。「一緒に勉強しようか」って行って椅子を引き上げたけど、彼はモルモン書を求道者からつかみ出した。僕は腹を立っていた。求道者はモルモン書を読もうとしたとき、またかれは指で突いた。それで僕は立って、「帰って下さい!」と言ったら、彼は笑って、はしゃぎながら出た。今まで、伝道中でこんなに怒ったことはなかった。</span></div>
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at the local cafe were Vietnamese. We went over there it turned out that there
were a lot of Chinese people. But they spoke Vietnamese too… a very cool old
couple. Then we did a split and Elder Tan and I went to meet our Branch
President because he said he had a referral for us. It started raining really
bad so he said he didn't want to go out in the rain. He made us eat dinner with
them though. This one was rough. They brought out a bowl of noodles and with
the noodles were a bunch of blood cakes. They are really gross, but bearable.
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building. The members are all so sweet… greeting me with a lot of smiles and handshakes.
In the middle of sacrament, a man came over and asked the assistants something.
They came over and talked to me. They said that this man was Japanese and that
they needed me to help teach him a lesson. I almost had a heart attack. I'll
just say right now that my Japanese is a lot worse than my Vietnamese! I found
out where he was from and that he is a teacher here in Cambodia. He wants to
learn about the gospel, and has already read about the Restoration. The lesson
was pretty hard but I think it went really well. He said he wanted to meet
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<span data-term="goog_1712989616" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1712989618" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1712989619" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1712989620" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1712989622" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">日曜日はよかった。始めて、10番の支部に参加した。会員たち皆はニコニコしたり握手してくれて、親切でした。聖餐会の途中、ある男の人はAPたちに何かを訪ねた。それから僕の方に来た。その人は日本人だと言って、レッスンを日本語で助けられるように頼まれた。心臓が止まった。やっぱり、今の所、日本語よりベトナム語のほうがうまいだろう。。その人はカンボジアで先生として仕事していると分かった。そして、かれは福音を勉強したいって言いました。彼は回復のことをすでに読んだことがあること言いました。レッスンはとっても難しかった、でもうまくいったと思います。また話し合いたいと言ってくれたので、私のレッスンはそんなに悪くなかったみたいでした。</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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baptism! I was so excited because I hadn't seen one yet! It was so good! We
sang a special musical number and we had to wait for some of the girl's family
to show up so we sang like five hymns. It went really well and the spirit was
strong. This week was a blast and I can't wait to see what this next week has
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-58670680317876670022014-10-13T21:39:00.002-07:002014-10-13T21:39:51.792-07:00Week 14: I guess I look like a girl...<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hey Everyone!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week was amazing!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday was full of fun and excitement! We went on the hunt for anything and everything related to Halloween that we could find. This was super hard because the country has no idea what that is. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We ran around to few different craft stores and the central market for as many things as we could find. We found some stuff that we could use as decorations and for costumes. Then we went over to the Branch 10 elder's house to construct these costumes and to make a peach cobbler in the slow cooker. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The cobbler turned out really well and we had a little ice cream with it as well. All in all, a good P day. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday was also very fun! We had our studies and then we had District meeting as we usually do on Tuesdays. After, we received a phone call from the Assistants informing us that we had two missionaries coming in from Vietnam who had to renew their visas and they needed some babysitters for a few days. They had volunteered Elder Barker and I for the job. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I soon found out that the two elders were Elder Tran and Elder Nguyen, <b>my companion from the MTC!</b> We were both excited to see old friends. We picked them up and went on splits. Elder Nguyen and I would go and teach together. It was so much fun. We taught an investigator and contacted for a while and then returned home. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We were expecting maybe 20 people to show up, but to everyone's surprise we had a grand total of 38! That is a miracle seeing that only a transfer and a half ago we had almost 0 people in attendance. We played games like Chubby Bunny (my station), and a game where they ate donuts on a string. We did the skit and I think it went really well! People were really paying attention and the spirit was really strong, especially at the end where the actors/actresses got to bear a testimony. It was so much fun, and everyone wanted to take pictures with me. I am so happy that I got to spend a little more time with some of my favorite members and the best English students ever.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXZJ10xkZ5h_TcWjtJbrnZQfNlM5QXA63Ih6y1uN8gDL0m9Ur_0EAyBJHDlVstLo6I4IMMSEH3Oi1JkQWUk599MEcvBx27FtSGpYLCVAZwXpvtxJ-gbSalsNp3IgBHyTDwQqG9O75DKk/s1600/dirty+Ernie.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQXZJ10xkZ5h_TcWjtJbrnZQfNlM5QXA63Ih6y1uN8gDL0m9Ur_0EAyBJHDlVstLo6I4IMMSEH3Oi1JkQWUk599MEcvBx27FtSGpYLCVAZwXpvtxJ-gbSalsNp3IgBHyTDwQqG9O75DKk/s1600/dirty+Ernie.png" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thursday was interesting. We went to do some service in the morning and on the way back, we decided to go through the market. I was super dirty because we spent the morning </span><br />
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scraping paint off of a member's walls. A man in the market stopped me and asked in English why I was so dirty. I said that we were helping someone with their house. Then he asked if I was Christian, and I answered yes. He then invited us to talk with him somewhere a little quieter. We began to talk to him and he said that he was a hair stylist and that he also cut hair for a little orphanage for free. He said that he also spoke Vietnamese because he went to school there and that he had heard about the church. We told him a few things about the church and asked for his number. After giving it to us, he said that we should come to his hair salon. He said that he wanted to cut my hair because it was beautiful. hahaha That's not all. He then told me that I looked a lot like a girl. I asked if that was a good thing and he said yes! Score, <b><i>I guess I look like a girl.</i></b>..<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Later that day, we had a lesson with a progressing investigator. I have become more and more aware that he has a weird understanding of the Holy Ghost. I found this out because when we arrived at his house and I asked him how he was doing he answered, "I am great, the Holy Ghost and I are happy today." I think he thought that the Holy Ghost can live in his heart and is like a friend that he can hang out with. He said he had an amazing experience with the Holy Ghost. He told us that they were riding their bike together. He went on to say that it had just rained so there was a big rainbow up in the sky. He said that the Holy Ghost took him up into the rainbow and he felt really special up there. He said the people were so small and he felt like he was on like another level or something. So there's a funny story for you. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday was a blast! Transfers! We went to the mission home a little early because Elder Barker had a training meeting and we both wanted to see the new missionaries. I was being transferred with the Zone Leaders. We split up and the day went pretty normal and because of some weird circumstances we had to sleep in a room with five people. It was pretty cramped, but also super fun.. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday was so much fun! <b><span style="font-size: large;">General Conference! </span></b>I have been waiting so patiently and it is finally here. We got to meet up at the stake center and we all had snacks and watched it together. We watched all of the sessions and I loved it a lot. Not to jump on the bandwagon, but Jeffrey R. Holland's talk was amazing. I also loved the talks from Eyring and Bednar. The one from Elder Callister about families was also a favorite of mine. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday was amazing as well. I don't have as much time as I would like to write about it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This week was amazing. I am so grateful for the opportunity to fill my spiritual cup and I am so ready to continue this marvelous work. I know that Christ is at the Helm and if we rely fully on him, we will see miracles in our lives and the lives of those around us. I love you all and hope you have an great week. :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Love Elder Morris</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-65747078286743328772014-10-07T00:19:00.000-07:002014-10-07T00:19:01.292-07:00Week 13: Turning 20 in Cambodia<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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week was a huge improvement from last week, as far as floods and thieves
go. Monday was pretty exciting! I had been told for the past week by
every missionary I came in contact with that I had received a package! I was
waiting to get them from the mission home so it would feel more like I was
opening them on my birthday. So we went to lunch at this place called USA
Donuts. They have like Cambodia famous donuts and food. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We got lunch there and
I got an Apple bear claw. It was a pretty darn good. Then we headed over to the
mission home to get the packages. I strapped em' down to my bike and I kept one
hand on them at all times. I am a little paranoid still about getting stuff
stolen...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Tuesday was
pretty fun. We went to a member's house after studies to help him wash and re-
paint his cart that he uses to sell his little bread creations. We decided that
red was the best color. After about an hour it was looking brand spanking new! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After
that, we went to go contact a little bit on the main road before an appointment
we had set up with an investigator. We started to contact and group of
motorcycle taxis. They all wanted to learn English and we passed out a few
fliers for that. I was pretty surprised when one the Taxi drivers turned to me
and said, "You are very cute." in broken Khmer/English. (haha)..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Later,
we met with our investigator Chu Phong. He is really nice guy and loves to have
us over. He made us agree to eat the dinner that they had prepared for us.
First, he began setting out cans of Alcohol for us, four each. We explained
that we have something called the Word of Wisdom and that we don't drink things
like that. He said sorry and gave us some water. Then his wife brought out the
food… three different dishes of fish because of a slight communication error
from an earlier conversation. They thought that I told them that “I love to eat
different kinds of seafood more than anything else”, instead of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'MS Pゴシック';">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I don't much like seafood”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
prepared myself mentally, as we set out the plates and said the prayer. It was
actually pretty good, they she brought out a dish of little fish about the size
of your index finger in some sort of green sauce. She said that these were
really good and we would have to worry about the bones because these fish we
could just eat whole. I find out pretty quickly that these fish had not been
gutted. (haha</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'MS Pゴシック';">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Suffice to say… not my favorite
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home feeling a little un-easy about the whole thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
forgot! Tuesday was also my birthday! I lit a few incense candles that I
had received and my companion and I shared some candy in celebration of my big
20. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday!
We went to meet what we call our Eternal Investigator, Chu Hai, who has been
learning for around five years now. He has been close to getting baptized for
about two months now, but his wife was never interested in learning...until
now! We talk about the Temple and how in the temple we can be sealed to family
and married for eternity. She got really excited about that thought and now she
is learning with us. She has told me that she really wants to get married and
they have both agreed to let us throw them a wedding :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thursday was
a real treat. We had decided that we would refer an investigator of ours to the
sister missionaries. We went to her house and her sisters were both there
visiting. One was from Vietnam and she started asking us questions. Both the
sisters were probably double my age, but that didn't stop them from asking if I
had a wife yet and if I was looking. I answered, "no" to both
questions but that didn't stop her. </span></div>
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grabbing my cheeks saying that she wished she had a child that looked like me
that she could hold and kiss all day. I took that as my queue to leave. As I
was unlocking our bikes, she asked me for my phone number and asked if I wanted
to go grab a coffee sometime, she just didn't know when to quit! I told her
that we didn't drink coffee and the sisters could tell her more about
why. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Thursday was
interesting. </span></div>
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We had an exchange with our zone leaders on Friday. I went with Elder
Cuong, or Pham in English. I really was taught a lesson on the importance of
planning. I was going to be the one leading the day so I had to plan the
lessons we would be teaching. I spent a long time thinking and thinking. I just
decided to teach a simple lesson to both of the investigators we had planned I
planned a lot of scriptures and back-ups for them if the lessons weren't what
they really needed. We had our lessons and I was amazing that the lessons I had
planned seemed to fit like a puzzle piece to what the investigator needed. I
know that if I hadn't taken my time and really thought about them and their
needs, our lessons would not have worked out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday, I woke up and felt like I was going to die. I felt like I needed to
throw up all night Friday, but assumed it was nothing. In the morning, I
had ridiculously high fever and still felt like I was about to throw up. I
forced myself through studies, but the sick feeling just </span></div>
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got worse. I took some
medicine and it didn't help. We would exchange back to our usual companion at
lunch so we just waited it out. We made some curry together during our lunch
hour. Luckily my mom left really easy instructions for us or it would have been
a disaster. It smelled great but I didn't have an appetite. We decided it would
best for me to just sleep it off. I napped for a few hours and I woke up to a
puddle of sweat, but on the bright side, my fever was practically gone. It was
a miracle. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This
Sunday was great! No floods this time :) I realized during priesthood
meeting that for the past four months, my life has been a giant game of
charades. I haven't been able to understand very much of what goes on, so I
just try and guess based off of the hand gestures and facial expressions of the
person talking. I found myself laughing out loud during a story someone was
telling that involved something dancing around the room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a night I don't think I will ever forget. We had a family night at
President Lam's house again. We had a short spiritual thought and played a fun
game where we pass quarters two each other with spoons and forks. After, I
thought we would just end and go home, but they turned off all the lights instead.
I thought it was another game or something, but then they came out with a cake
and a lone candle on top. Of course the cake was carrot. I'm not gonna lie, I
got choked up. They heard about my stuff getting stolen and that it was my
birthday this week. I made a wish and blew out my candle. I am so grateful for
such a loving Branch with such amazingly caring people. They have truly helped
my feel at home here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Last
thing for the update: Transfer Calls came. It only seemed fair that just as I
became comfortable here in Branch 3, I would be getting transferred to Branch
10. I will be serving in a trio with both the Zone Leaders. I guess that
doesn't happen very often. I am both super excited and super sad to be leaving.
I am really going to miss these people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have
such a testimony that Heavenly Father truly prepares people for the Gospel. I
know that through love, we can change people's lives… and without love, we
cannot teach. I know that Heavenly Father knows each and every one of his
children and that if we rely on him and his plan for us, we will find true
happiness in this life. I love you all so much, and I hope you have an amazing
week as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Morris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last Monday was one of the hardest days in the mission so far. I have realized
that some days it just feels like there is a dark cloud over your head,
continually raining on your parade. We started out the day waking up a little
late because the alarm didn't go off. We have our P days planned out so thoroughly
that if we aren't like perfect with timing, then everything is messed up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ended up being a little late to a few things and then we headed to emails a
little late. Then we headed over to the middle of the city to meet up with
everyone. We met with all these members and other Vietnamese Elders and we
headed off to go play soccer. We had some fun and everything was going alright.
Then our appointment fell through with both our investigators so we decided to
get the groceries we needed with the time we had. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to this newly built super store; it had a whole bunch of American food products
and things! The only catch was that a box of Lucky Charms was almost 15
dollars. We ended up not getting any groceries because they were all over
priced. I did get a big piece of delicious looking carrot cake for 50 cents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the store and were on our way home. We were riding for a while and I heard a
motorcycle coming up beside me which wasn't unusual. I turned thinking it might
be a member or something. I yelled out "Hey!", but as the word left
my mouth I realized he was grabbing my backpack containing my Scriptures,
Soccer Cleats and clothes, my ipod that I had put conference talks on, the keys
to the house and the church, and my wallet with my mission debit card and
insurance card, and THE CARROT CAKE! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grabbed my bag and sped off. I kicked it into the highest gear and the chase
was on! I was yelling after him and we chased him down almost three streets
before we lost him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thought was, "Dang, I was really looking forward to that Cake..." . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about two minutes a man came riding up, and stopped next to us. Immediately
after that another two boys came riding up. They were all members of the Khmer
Branches. They said they heard what happened and one of the men said that he
saw the man and chased him on his motorcycle! I was speechless that these
people acted so quickly and baffled at how they caught word so fast (haha). I
couldn't believe how quick to serve these people really are. I got choked up a
bit… mostly about how much these members cared… and a little because I really
wanted that cake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a lot better! We had Zone Conference which only happens once every two
transfers. We all get to meet together with the Mission President and receive wisdom
from him for like six hours. It was really long but they played some videos and
we talked a lot about how we can improve… so I felt that it was worth it.</span></div>
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side note: If you haven't seen the Mormon message titled, “The Hope of God's Light”
, then I suggest you watch it as soon as possible.) We learned a whole bunch of
stuff and they fed us like candy the whole time so it was amazing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon we decided we should do something about the keys to the house. We
rode around and found a guy who makes key copies and stuff. I found pretty
quickly that this key business is pretty sketchy seeing as in the time we told
him what we needed him to do, three men came by asking if he could make a key
to a motorcycle's ignition that had been cut out. I think they were all stolen.
I hear that is common. It took him a while to do it, but he made our keys for
about 5 bucks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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forgot! This whole past week was a Buddhist Holiday that lasts all week. The
city felt like a ghost town, especially at night. All the shops were closed and
stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pretty normal, and then we had English class. We didn't have as many people as
we had originally planned for because it has been raining like crazy here. When
it rains, usually people don't ever come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Friday we met with a guy who has been moving around a lot recently, because
he doesn't have a job… and the last people like kicked him out. The reason he
got kicked out wasn't because of the fact he doesn't have a job, it is because
he won't stop trying to teach them the gospel! His name is Chu Canh. He is an
amazing guy. Everywhere he goes, he tries to share the gospel. We met with him
and he told us about how he is looking for a job, and he is staying in our area
for the time being. He has only been around here for about a week and said he
has talked to almost everyone where he lives and that he had some referrals for
us! He is incredible. He truly lives the scripture Romans 1:16. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we met with a few investigators and also met one of the sister's investigators
for a Baptismal interview. Then we went to a member's house and had a family
home evening. After, I thought I would ask if she knew anyone around the area
that was Vietnamese. She said there was a wealthy family that lived down the
road. We rode around looking for it and stumbled into a group of guys standing
on the corner. It was pretty late so I was debating whether or not it was smart
to chance getting mugged again. I gathered my courage and rode over to say
Hello. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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few minutes I found that the men spoke Vietnamese! There were 15 of them that
lived here and worked on the wood work for the mansions around the neighborhood.
I explained why we were out this late and why we were in Cambodia. Then they
asked us about English Class. They were all super interested in English Class! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was crazy! This was the first time in my life that I passed the Sacrament
without shoes (haha). We woke up in the morning before church and it was
raining very hard. As it got closer to the time for church to start I prepared
myself mentally for what I knew was ahead. We opened the gate and as I
expected, the streets were flooding. It was only like a foot deep by our house,
so I decided to keep on my shoes and stuff on. </span></div>
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got to the railroad. To my amazement, the water was up to the windows of the
cars… easily up to my chest. We decided to take a detour through a little
village and came out on the other side where the water was only up to about our
waists. We rode through it and I got completely drenched. When we arrived at
church, so as to not track water all over the place they told me to just come
in without shoes. It was a good day. That was my week! Definitely had its ups
and downs, but I have decided that I am grateful for the hard points of the
week. It really reminded me of who is really in charge. Thank you all. Love you
tons!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. </span></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for my first pair of pants! Woo Hoo! The best part was that the pants cost 8
bucks. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Score!</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> 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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. </span></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. </span></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">(haha)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">. 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. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>This week was a blast. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">* Pol Pot, was the Cambodian communist
revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997.</span></span></h4>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658022145092166539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110303518271664047.post-13584671452703970932014-09-15T05:39:00.001-07:002014-09-15T05:39:34.882-07:00Week 10 In the Field: I think I’ve seriously missed something about the culture here...<div align="left" class="MsoNormal">
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Vietnam!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Pゴシック"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week was especially delicious. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for the
Priesthood! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an appointment this Monday with a less active member named Chu Sa
Line and his family. They are always so nice and fun to be around. We came over
and things were looking grim. Chu Sa Line was laying on the ground and seemed
to be in a lot of pain. His wife was too. He said that he didn't know why, but
his stomach was killing him and it had been hurting for 4 days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Co Nga, said her head has been hurting a lot recently as well. We asked them if
they wanted to go to the hospital. They said they would, except that they are
afraid because hospitals here are really sketchy. Many people die in the
hospitals, even with minor operations for a lot of reasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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asked us for a blessing… I was insistently the most scared I have been in the
mission so far. I had no idea what to say or anything. After trying to explain
to them that blessings were very special and asking them if they had the faith
to be healed, we proceeded to bless them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scared of messing up, but as I started to speak I felt the spirit guide me. The
spirit was really strong that night. We thanked them, wished them the best, and
then left. Two days later they called, explaining that after we had left that
night, their pains went away and that they had slept well that night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that Priesthood Blessing are powerful. I know that through the priesthood we
can not only be healed of pain, but through the power of the Priesthood, we can
perform the ordinances essential for Salvation. I am so grateful for that
experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had two Elders who are serving in Vietnam come down to our neck of the
woods. They had to renew their Visas so they stayed with my companion and I.
They are so much fun… Elder Hieu and Elder Bao. We took advantage of this newly
found manpower and went on as many splits as we could. </span></div>
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the upper Kilos. We stopped in Kilo 7 and went contacting. Something about
Elder Bao… is that he is not the smallest Elder around. We had to walk on a lot
of Monkey Bridges so I asked him if he felt comfortable. He said yes, and after
agreeing that if one of us fell in, the other would jump in after him. That
made me a little scared. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about an hour, we went all the way to the end of the bridges to a house
floating on the water. We stopped and asked the man there if he spoke
Vietnamese. He said yes and invited us to climb across his boat and over to his
floating house. I jumped across and Bao waited on the other side. They asked me
who I was, so I introduced myself and why we were there. They became really
excited and told us to go over to their other house. Across another boat was a
big blue house. They led us across some more bridges and up some stairs. We immediately
began teaching their whole family. We taught them how the gospel blesses
families. I bore my testimony to them and asked if we could leave them with a
prayer. They said "Yes Please!". First, we taught them how to pray… it
was super cute because they all had their arms folded and eyes closed even without
us telling them to. They said they wanted to learn more, and asked us to come
back another time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had English class! It was so good! Bunthy came again and he told me that he had
accepted Baptism… and would be getting baptized on October 5th. WOW! Then
at the end of class, we had a new member of the class ask to learn with the
Khmer Elders. English class brings miracles for sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we went to get some breakfast at a member's food cart. While we were waiting
for the food, an old lady came up to me. I said hello and she did the strangest
thing. She called me beautiful and then slapped me really heard and then started
laughing. I think I've seriously missed something about the culture here (haha).
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Sunday, we had a lot of people come to sacrament meeting. We had one of the
Presidents presiding named Ong Dung. Whenever I see him I am reminded of the
time we went to their house and he was watching a 007movie from like a million
years ago when Sean Connery was James Bond. At least I think it was 007.
Anyways, we had a great sacrament and due to the fact that my companion was
called to give an emergency talk; I planned the entire priesthood lesson! It
was so hard. My companion saw that as a learning experience for me and decided
to let me teach. That was so rough. A bunch of old guys judging your terrible
Vietnamese for an hour was pretty tough. But I thought it went well. I taught about
Family Home evening and the importance of it. I kind of called some of them to
repentance though when I used D&C 68:25 “…(the sins be on their parents)… They
took it well though. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all, a great week! This gospel is true. Every day that I am out here, my
testimony is strengthened. I know that Christ is at the helm, leading our
church. I shared a spiritual thought in Branch Missionary Meeting. I shared
from D&C 31, one of my all-time favorite sections. I know that Heavenly
Father does prepare the hearts of the people (verse 7), I have seen it first-hand.
It’s real. I know that there is no reason to be afraid, for the Lord is with us
(verse 13) and if we rely on him and keep a prayer of gratitude in our hearts
always, we will be blessed. I love you all and can't wait to start this
next week better than the last. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Morris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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