Hey people!
Things are going awesome. This week we had to split the area and pick up our companions from the bus station and send our other companion off to Phnom Penh. I will miss Elder Baird and Elder Miller, we had some fun times. I finally had the chance to do some regular missionary work in a regular companionship and just give it our all. It felt great to be back with no distractions and just being able to focus on the work. Like I said, my new companion is Elder Moore and he is a champion! He is going to play football at BYU after his mission and he went to Lehi High School, so we have a lot to talk about. We get along great and have been hitting the streets hard.
Here are some things that have been happening:
- We did service for a family and moved dirt for 2 hours straight! Just like every other service project in Cambodia haha. They really need some tractors in this country.
- When Elder Moore and I got back to regular work on Friday we had no new investigators for the week and hardly any potentials and then God just prepared the way. We walked into some guy that had learned before and he said that he has been having some hard times out here, with a few young kids and no job to provide for them. What better way to help them than by teaching him how to pray! It is amazing to see the miracles while sitting on the front row. Grab your popcorn.
- We had a birthday party for an Elder and ate some good cake! It was green and purple.
The highlight of all was the baptism of Somnang! He is the young kid that I talked about last week!
It was nothing short of an adventure getting him baptized, to say the least. We show up to church on Sunday and realize that the church has no water. Not for drinking, not for flushing toilets, and definitely not for filling up a baptismal font. So this is Cambodia, right? So why not just bring the hose through the window of the church and fill the font? Yeah, so that is what happened. If I am being honest, it wasn't the clearest or cleanest baptism water or [any water for that matter] that I have ever seen, but it did the job. That was only half of the battle.
The other half started when they got into the water. The grandfather had practiced saying the baptismal prayer probably 20 plus times with us before. He had it down. But the lights came on and the cameras came out and he choked haha. He could not say it correctly and on top of that, he is pretty much deaf. So we are trying to yell him the baptismal prayer, but he still can't hear it. Somnang is just in the water shivering because he is so cold from the hose water, and everyone is just dying laughing. He takes a break and puts in his hearing aids and STILL could not get it down. Our last resort was me hanging over the banister holding the white handbook in front of his face while he read from it! Legendary hahah. A day that I will never forget. They went in wearing white and left wearing brown. The most important thing is that he is baptized! After the baptism, Somnang spoke about how he has been washed and cleaned from his sins! Amazing! He might not be physically clean after the yellow water, but he was clean spiritually.
Lastly, I would like to share one scripture that really stuck out to me this week in my personal study.
From Ether 12:41 And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen.
All God asks us to do is to seek after Him and we will find! If you feel lost or far from Him, all you have to do is do your best to find Him and He will find you.
Please also read in Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
I love you all!
Elder Gochnour
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