MERRY JULY

December 30, 2018

I LOVE CAMBODIA!

This week was the best. We had a Christmas Eve lunch at the mission home, went to Kirirom with the zone on Christmas and it just still is July out here so it didn't feel like Christmas at all. Way fun though. 

Jetra and E and Peak all accepted baptismal dates this week!! So we have 7 baptismal dates and they are all progressing towards their dates. Tola is getting baptized this week, and then Yay Suen, Yay Bon, Ming Theary are just the cutest and will get baptized soon here!!! The work here in SMC is just exploding and we are so so busy trying to keep up with everyone. We have got a waiting list going for some investigators we don't have time to meet. Everyone just wants to meet at 6:30 pm so its a little tricky but we love being busy - not a bad problem to have.

We have been struggling to make time to meet our recent converts often but this week I felt inspired to make time for Sok Him and Srei Noic. After we finished teaching Sok Him she came up to me and said she was feeling so sad because she hasn't been able to go to church for 2 weeks because her kid was sick and she had been praying that we would come and visit her and how she got her prayer answered, we walked in the door right after she finished praying. Also Srei Noic has not been coming to church for a few months now so we went there to teach her. We walked up to start teaching her and she just started crying and said "Sisters I have been praying that you would come visit me this is a miracle, God answered my prayer."

The cool part of these stories is this week I have been praying really hard every morning to be able to be the answer to someone's prayer each day. Not only were we able to be the answer to their prayers but also in the process I found answers to my prayers. God is so good! Reminded me of a scripture in Doctrine and Covenants 98:2 "Waiting patiently on the Lord, for your prayers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, and are recorded with this seal and testament - the Lord hath sworn and decreed that they shall be granted." I know that God hears and answers our prayers!

Love Sister Stratford