OBEDIENT - TIGHT LIKE UNTO A DISH

Well another good week out here in Cambodia. We had a brunch at the mission home with Sister Lewis - she is great cook! We went out to the killing fields for pday last week and it was one of the saddest places ever. These people have such a hard past and they are some of the strongest people I know. 

As far as investigators go - Can Ly. I don't even know what to do about her. She is literally the most progressing investigator I have ever had. She reads the Book of Mormon everyday she has read through Jacob already, she prays every single day. She meets with us and is on time every single time. She has school all day sunday but she takes an hour out to come to sacrament. She asks so many good questions BUT she won't accept a baptismal date. She wants to keep learning and she knows its true and knows she should get baptized but is hestitant. We are trying to help her resolve her concerns - hopefully she will just accept in these next few weeks. She is so good in so many ways. 

Gunthea is still doing way good and progressing towards her baptismal date. She is so smart and keeps all the committments. We were teaching about the 10 commandments this week and explaining why we keep the sabbath day holy and reading with her in mosiah 13 18 But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; She read the verse and says (with the most innocent voice so excited that she knows exactly what it means) "Oh Sister I get it! We need to bring our animals to worship with us." I was dying of laughter. 

We had zone conference this week too which was fun! Also we did our first exchange of the transfer which was good times. We had this potential who has read the bible 4 times (literally nobody here has read the bible or like hardly anyone has even heard of it) Anyways she seemed way interested when we met her last week. So we went back and she just was not having it. She just keep bashing us and told us to never come back on that street again. She literally wouldn't let us say anything. It was kinda funny but I think it kind of scared the sister I was on an exchange with. 

Miracles never cease! We literally have had someone walk into sacrament every single sunday since I have been here that has wanted to learn. They have all been in other areas but this week someone from our area came :) Her name is mey and we are hoping to meet with her this week. Also we got another investigator KA who seems way cool - she is a professional hip hop dancer. All other investigators are fairly new so we will see how they progress.

I have been studying in Ether all week and this scripture really stuck out to me in chapter 2:17

"And they were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish. "

I think it is so important every day of our lives that we are obedient to all the small and simple things thus becoming tight like unto a dish. It is the small and simple things that matter the most. Once the Lord knows He can trust us in the small things, then He begins to trust us with the larger things. As we are exactly obedient making ourselves tight like unto a dish then we see miracles happen in our lives. It is the same with disobedience, it is the small things that gradually lead us astray. 

So let us all become tight like unto a dish!!!

Love Sister Stratford