KHMER NEW YEAR

Hellooo

This week was crazy with Khmer New year. Lots of crazy parties and drunk people everywhere. This week we went to wat ek phnom which was cool, I will send pictures. Because of the Khmer New Year president had all of the sisters come home and be in by 6:30 because it is not safe to be out with all the parties and crazy people out. WE got sprayed with a lot of water and flour this week from the New Year. They closed the road to our house off because of the party down the street it was wild.

Ming Hout and her 3 children Hing Hong and Hon all committed to a baptismal date this week! We just finished the first lesson with them and are getting really excited. They have so much faith and are so prepared to hear the gospel. They live out in the jungle and its so fun biking over to their place. My tire popped this week during the new year and there hasn't been any places to fix it because nobody is open for the New year and so I am hoping I can get it fixed today or tomorrow. I have been borrowing a little japenese bike that is sketchy to ride so its been an adventure these past couple days. Literally everyone is so busy with celebrating the new year we did a lot of contacting but we found quite a few potentials we are hopeful for.

We only had 20 people at church on sunday so the missionaries were the whole program and I spoke which was fun. I am hoping to meet more of the members next week after the new year is over.

I loved Romans 8:37-39 this week 

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I also loved John 15:7" If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."

Have a good week!!

សីុស្ទើរ​​​​​​​ស្រ្តាតហ្វឺត 

Comments from personal letters - 

The bus had air conditioning which was a miracle it wasn't too bad. We just threw our luggage under the bus and headed out. My new companion is good, she is from wyoming  I am just super depended on for the language and teaching and really everything coming up with what to teach. I will ask her to testify and share parts of the lesson but she gets scared so hopefully we can get her more confident so she can teach more instead of just me. The other sisters are good, we have a new girl from pennsylvania who apparently roomed with morgan keller and got my emails before she came and then a khmer sister and we all get along. 

The sad thing is I haven't really met the branch because we had general conference and then it is khmer new year and so only 20 people were at church but we have been visiting a few of the members so i am excited to get to know them better. The english class here is SO SMALL. We only had 11 students last week on wednesday and nobody showed up for saturday becasue of khmer new year. So its a lot smaller than getting an average of 90 a week in the city. Our area here is huge!!! We have a lot of jungle and the middle of nowhere which takes 45- and hour to bike there but its beautiful. Our house is on the edge of the "city"part which really isnt a city. WE live right across from the church. It is a lot safer riding out here its crazy how you dont have to avoid getting hit all the time because there isnt much traffic its great.

We have mostly the same things to eat here. The american store out here is actually bigger than in the city so we just eat lots of mangos and we can still buy milk so no problems. I have been doing a lot of the cooking here me and the khmer sister will cook together for everyone because these other two dont know how to cook so we eat khmer food every day pretty good lots of rice. WE HAVE GOTTEN SO MANY FREE MANGOS this week. When we visit members they just cut up mangos for us and send us home with more too its great and everything out here is so cheap I bought 3 kilos of mangos this morning for myself this week should be tasty. 

Sister Training leader is fun it is like a zone leader for elders. So we are over the other set of sisters in Battambang and the sisters in Siem Riep. They come to our area for a day and we do an exchange with them and then we get to go to leadership trainings once a month. In the mission there are 4 companionships that are sister training leaders. 3 of the companionships for the zones and then there is one more that are like the ap's to president who are in the city. Right now we are only over 4 sisters, we hardly have any sisters out here in the khites. The language is coming a lot better mostly because I do almost all the teaching and listening. My comp is struggling with the language right now so I have to be the one trying to understand and teach which has been really fun. BATTAMBANG IS SO BEAUTIFUL I love it out here, no traffic and lots of beautiful jungles we get to go through. I am not sure how many members we had but this last sunday only 20 people showed up. We live in a little 3 story house that is super hot and humid. There is just a little showerhead on the wall of the bathroom pretty small but the air conditioning isnt very good in this house so we all sleep with fans blowing on us. But we still have clean water so its okay. From the moment you turn off the shower you just sweat until you shower again its crazy. I love you!