Well Lucy is out there taking model pictures and I struggle to keep my clothes clean for more than ten minutes outside my house, haha, but we really are out here!!!
When I first got here we just focused on finding, finding and finding, but now all those people are getting close to getting Baptism! The Lord really is amazing and has helped me and Elder Herrera out so much. Good news: So the guy (Puu Sophal) that I messed up his Priesthood Blessing asked me to baptize him this coming Saturday! He is the bomb and I cannot wait for Saturday. His family will all be together in the restored gospel!
One miracle that happened this week: a kid we are teaching named Benhya (rough guess) before we even started the lesson asked "So when can I get baptized?" He said that he used to have a Christian neighbor that always invited him to church when he was younger. As he and his mom were pondering what they could do to make his life better, they both pictured that same Christian man in their head, that told them to go to church. He said that he knew that because he saw that man he needed to become Christian.
Pretty much just another fun and exciting week in Cambodia! I have come to really enjoy lists out here in the field so here is another list about interesting stuff that happened this week:
- One of our investigators owns cats, but she puts them in these basket cages haha and there are like 5 cats just chilling in these basket cages. We asked her why she puts her dang cats in these sketchy cages and she replied simply, saying "If I don't then the neighbors will eat them" WHAT THE!
- Sometimes I shower with lizards, but it is all good because they keep the bugs out!
- I ate 240 mentos this last week and I have gained 25 pounds since I entered the MTC. Yeah... I know....
- I went to my first FHE last Monday and I was putting some curry on my rice and I accidentally scooped out the chicken foot.... but I put it back smooth without anyone noticing!!
Today I am going to close with a little thought I had this week because it is Thanksgiving on Thursday! One investigator we have asked us this week "Why were you guys born in America with so many opportunities, and I was born in Cambodia with such a hard life?" What a question to consider.!! I just want to say how very grateful I have become for the little things that you don't notice back home like, air conditioning, toilet paper, couches, clean water and so many other blessings!
I have a challenge that goes with Thanksgiving. Go read the talk "Oh Remember, Remember" by President Eyring in the October 2007 General Conference. Every single day we need to do our best to recognize God's hand in our life. One day for me it was when we were moving dirt for another service project and right when I felt like I couldn't sweat anymore or else I would die, I felt a nice cool breeze of air. It is those little things that we should be grateful for.
Mosiah 2:20 reads, “I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another.”
We should thank God every day for the living breath that he gives us. We have so much to be thankful for! One other verse…
Alma 7:23, “And now I would that ye should be humble, and be submissive and gentle; easy to be entreated; full of patience and long-suffering; being temperate in all things; being diligent in keeping the commandments of God at all times; asking for whatsoever things ye stand in need, both spiritual and temporal; always returning thanks unto God for whatsoever things ye do receive.”
It doesn't say that we should thank God only when things are good and moving along smoothly. We should thank our Father in Heaven for EVERYTHING we receive. The good and the bad. Especially the bad and the hard, because that is the best time for us to grow and become better.
In closing I just want to say please be thankful this week and take my challenge!! You will notice a difference in your life. Thank you for all the love and support. I have so much GRATITUDE this week for all of you and for the chance I have to be a missionary. I have so much gratitude for the heat, the hard times, and the trials that we have in this life. Eat some Turkey for me!!!!
A servant of the Lord,
Elder Gochnour
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