This week was so crazy! We had some straight downpours. I have never been in rain like this before but I LOVE IT! I have never been so wet in my life, literally soaked from head to toe and dripping. All of the streets start to flood and it feels like someone is just standing over your head with a bucket of endless water. It is the happiest (only time I am not sweating is when its raining). Everyone thinks that we are crazy for walking around in rain up to our knees trying to talk to us. None of the Khmer people like the rain, even if it is just sprinkling outside they won't go out until the rain stops.
We visited Tuol Slang Prison this week and it just broke my heart, these people have been through so much and my heart just aches for them. This prison is where Pol Pot kept prisoners and killed millions of people here. So many of our investigators lived through the Pol Pot Regime and their stories are so crazy. As I have been thinking this week about all the hard things that these people are going through I have grown so much in my gratefulness for the things that I have been given.
I love in Alma 34:38 where is says "live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you." We truly have so much to be thankful for everyday and it is so important that we are thanking our Father in Heaven daily for the gifts that we have.
I also love Helaman 3: 29-30 "Yea, we see that whosoever will may lay hold upon the word of God, which is quick and powerful, which shall divide asunder all the cunning and the snares and the wiles of the devil, and lead the man of Christ in a strait and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery which is prepared to engulf the wicked. And land their souls, yea, their immortal souls, at the right hand of God in the kingdom of heaven..."
The Lord has given us the Book of Mormon and fullness of the gospel in this time. We have so many things so easily ready for us to use and it is so important that we are studying and pondering them daily. As we are reading the Book of Mormon daily we are promised so many blessings. The gospel brings us so much happiness and peace and guidance. I know that as we read the Book of Mormon daily that we will be blessed. The Book of Mormon has so much power, please read it!!!
We are still getting really excited about Serei Roth, she is planning on getting baptized on December 3 and progressing so well! We also found 3 new investigators this week who seem really good and we are really excited about teaching. I love serving in Cambodia with all my heart!!!!!
Love you lots!!!
Sister Stratford
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