SMALL AND SIMPLE THINGS

Good week this week. Literally feel like investigators were just falling into our laps all week. Srei Noic walked into church and wants to learn, srei Nit was at one of our investigators houses when we visited and said she wanted to learn as well. Ming Soknai just walked up to us wanting to learn. Ming Theary came to church last week and so we went and found her house to follow up and see if she was interested in learning more. We caught her right before she was about to go back to her hometown. Her older sister got hit by a car and passed away this week and so she was going to the funeral. We told her that she would have the opportunity to meet her sister again and bore testimony of the plan of salvation and she just got so excited and you could see this light in her eyes. She says "Wait what really? I just have goosebumps all over, are you serious?" She was so excited and we are looking forward to meeting her again this week when she gets home. Tola who we meet last week asked if she came to church 3 times if she could get baptized. It is so crazy to me how many people are wanting to learn here. 

The sad news of the week is Bong Borey. She is our investigator. She has a rare disease called myasthenia gravis and basically there isn't a cure. We don't know how much time she has left to live but she has so much faith. We went over (not knowing before of her disease) and planned to teach about the hope that comes through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. She just started crying and telling us how she is losing hope because she is too weak to hold and take care of her kids anymore and she can barely even walk around. Despite her weakness she came to church for the sacrament. My heart breaks for her and I hope she can find more hope as we continue to teach her about the amazing healing that comes from the gospel. Please pray for her and her cute family!

Phearom and Srei Pov and Chinda have baptismal dates and the work is really progressing over here. 

We had MLC this week and we taught about our next spiritual step. There are so many spiritual steps being made in the church with the changes to 2 hour church and ministering. There are some big steps we are trying to help make with our members here. We focused on the next spiritual step for our mission and specific zones and what we need to do. I shared in ether about the story of tightening the ship like unto a dish. And talked about some things we need to "tighten" in our mission and asked them to prayerfully consider things they need to "tighten" in their lives. 

I also was asked to speak in sacrament meeting and I decided to focus my remarks on alma 37:6 "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." I know that as we are focused on doing the small and simple things consistently and continuously we will see great things happen in each of our lives!

Love, 

Sister Stratford