1 YEAR + LICEEE

Well as you can tell from the subject of today's email it has been quite a crazy week out here in Cambodia, the adventures never cease. 1 YEAR MARK THIS WEEK!! This has been the happiest year of my life and I love Cambodia with all of my heart :) 

Maybe I will start with the work. We have so many investigators right now it is hard to find time for everything - we are working on sifting through and finding the elect and making sure to focus on them. Bong Kunthea accepted a baptismal date this week and she has been coming to church for a month now - she is really good and we are excited for her. Can Ly is reading the book of mormon so fast, she started just 3 weeks ago and she is already finished with 2 Nephi. She really keeps us on our toes because she asks a lot of hard questions about the book of mormon and most of them were from the isaiah chapters this week. A little hard to explain in Khmer but the gift of tongues is real. She comes to church every week and is amazing! Bong Niang is really progressing and we have a great member help with her. One of our other investigators Lina has this giant glass masterpiece as a centerpiece in her house and it is a giant lettuce!!! ITS SO FUNNY. She is the only rich person I have ever taught and they just have the funniest decorations - gotta love Cambodia. Also Bong Ny has been praying for a way to soften her husbands heart so she can come to church and he finally accepted and so she can learn again!

STORY TIME:

So my head has been really itchy for 3 weeks now, and I had sister Nguyen check me several times out in Battambang but she didn't see anything and so we just figured my scalp was dry and moved on. Well this week it was way itchy and we have an asian in our house and so I asked her to check me and all the sudden we started filling up a bowl with hot water and picking all these little lice out of my hair. Shout out to Sister Bao Yen for combing through my hair everyday and trying to get all the lice out she is a real champ. My hair is too long and so it has been kind of a pain. But hopefully we can rid of it soon!!!! So we have been cleaning everything like crazy in our house so nobody else gets it. 

Story #2 Sister Clark and I stopped on the side of the road for some roti - kind of like a crepe - they were all sold out so we were only there for like 15 seconds and this old guy walked up to sister clark when her back was turned took the water bottle out of her bag and just was sitting there playing with it, he was coming back up to take her bag and I was ready to fight the guy but then I remembered we are missionaries and so we just let him have it and left. 

Story #3 somebody told Sister Clark that her faced looked like a Cambodian this week... not sure where they got that. Also we have this crazy neighbor, we rode up with him in the elevator and the entire way up he was staring at us like he has never seen a human being before, kinda weird.

#4 we made homemade cinnamon rolls and pizza this week super tasty

Long story short this week was an adventure. We also had Elder Homer of the seventy come and talk to all the missionaries in the city a little bit about working with members and the doctrine of Christ. 

Doctrine and Covenants 88:73 " Behold, I will hasten my work in its time."  The Lord is hastening His work NOW, there have been so many people just walking in the church asking to learn and I truly know that the Lord is hastening His work now and I am so happy that I get to be a part of the hastening.

 "For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—" We just all need to be really sensitive and aware of the needs that are surrounding us and do all we can to help Him in this great work and the bring salvation to many souls. I love being a missionary and working with the Lord :)

Love Sister Lice Stratford