This week was so much fun, I love Cambodia with all of my heart! Last P Day Sister Smith and I tried to go explore a watt and we went to go talk to the Lookpu that was in charge of letting us in. He instead brought us to another room filled with Buddha idols and offerings and started lighting candles and gave us incense to hold and we were just sitting there looking at each other like what on earth do we do? We didn't want to offend him or be disrespectful but also we aren't trying to worship Buddha haha. We just kind of sat there and looked at each other for 5 minutes as this old man was trying to get us to pray it was so funny.
We got invited to go to a wedding this week which was super fun. In Cambodia they rent about 5 dresses and change throughout the day, super fun. We also found a krispy kremes which was so delicious and happy!
We have an investigator named Serei Roth who is sooo solid! She has a baptismal date set for December 3 and we are getting so excited. We met her a few weeks ago. She already has such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and hasn't missed church since we met her. She is so good and we are loving meeting with her.
I was studying a little bit about the Atonement this week and came across some scriptures I love:
Mosiah 24: 15 "And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs."
1 Peter 5:7 "Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you."
I know that the Savior cares about each of us so much and is constantly calling for us to rely on Him and Come unto Him. I am so thankful for an infinitely patient Father in Heaven who loves us no matter what and is always willing to work with us where we are and always has a plan for our lives. This gospel is so amazing and I am soo thankful for the love and care I have felt from the Savior in my life.
Love,
Sister Stratford
Things in Cambodia are so amazing I love it here!!
My health is doing better my stomach still hurts a lot but I am doing good no problem
I usually just have fruit for dinner so I dont eat dinner a lot but that is okay when i am really hungry i make something or have cereal
The language is coming slowly. I can understand words here and there and depending on the person I can pick out phrases and understand the basic idea but there are some older people i literally have zero idea anything they say
We have 5 investigators right now and most of them are progressing. There are so many hard obstacles for these people to overcome to receive baptism. We have 3 with a baptismal date in beginning of december so we shall see if they can make it. Ming Vanaat is the lady I took a picture with she is the one who needs to get a marriage license that her village leader wont give her other than that she is so ready to get baptized i love her. Bong pana is an amazing member but we just found out she is living with an abusive girlfriend and she is trying to get out of that situation to get baptized she says she doesnt love her anymore but doesnt know how to get out of that situation it is so heartbreaking. She showed us some of the bruises that she got and it broke my heart. Serei roth we meet maybe 3 weeks ago and she is so solid and planning to get baptized on december 3 she came to all three hours of church yesterday which was amazing hardly anyone does that in cambodia usually just sacrament.
The discussions with investigators are so fun. I dont know what you want to know about those?
Typical day we wake up at 5:30 and exercise and then get ready for the day and eat then study personal for an hour and plan for a half hour and then we either study language or go meet some investigators. We just throw in our other studies where we have time throughout the day. We just go out and bike to lessons ususally 20 minutes away for most our investigators right now. Then we contact people or visit ward members that need help or we are close with for referrals. We have an hour for lunch which we just cook at home and then we have two english classes as week on saturday and wednesday. So we just contact and teach lessons all day and then come home at 7:30 and either eat or get ready for bed and usually go to bed at 8:30 because we are always exhausted but we can s tay up till 9:30 but we hardly ever do.
These last few pdays we have ran errands and gone to markets to buy fun things and explore. Today we are going to a paul pot killing field which is going to be so sad. We always go the market on pday to get groceries for the week. There isnt a ton of things to see in the city
Sundays are crazy long. If the speakers dont show up they ask us to speak but i didnt speak yesterday. We are at church at 12 to meet with bishop from CTM and then a 1 and 3 o clock ward we go to.
I will try to send a recording this week
I am only allowed to take pictures on pday which is so hard because there are so many things i want to take pictures of throughout the week but its against the rules and i dont ever care to take pictures on pday because we havent done anything too exciting. Its so hard because there are so many things i want to take pictures of but cant
I love riding a bike because you can weave through traffic but the traffic is so insane i always feel like i am going to die but its fun
No big rain storms it rained a few nights. The rain scares away all the people they all go inside and we cant knock doors its illegal so the work is better when it doesnt rain but i also love the rain because i dont sweat to death
Funniest thing I will write about in my mass email as well as spiritual such a fun week! I will go check the mission home today for the package
That picture was one of our investigators in her house ming vannat she is so cute i love her\
Thank you for the ant advice!!! we will try that
That makes me laugh so hard about blake he is the funniest i miss him. Church in cambodia is literally the funniest i will tell you more about that later remind me its so
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