All these pictures are of a placed called Phnom Sompeu. I am not even going to try to sound it out because there is just no possible way it will work. Either way it is in my area. We rode a tuk tuk for about 45 minutes or so. There is a temple on the top of the mountain, with really awesome views, monkeys, natural nature stuff (vines) and skulls. Like I said last week, during the Pol Pot era, some of the workers and people would be marched up the mountain and then hit on the head with a rock or club and then they would be thrown into the cave from the very top. Now they collected all of the bones and they still have some of the clothes on site from the people that were killed. A lot of little kids were killed as well. Then as you continue up the mountain you see monkeys. They are all wild, but some of the people who live on the mountain (mostly monks) have them on leashes. The baby one crawled on me, and we were messing around with a big one that was not on a leash until one of the old monks yelled at us that that one will bite us. It was really fun, but quite honestly...I am terrified of monkeys. They are just so crazy. The view from the top and the temple was really cool. Just rice fields, trees and other mountains as far as you can see. So pretty. I love it there. We missed one of the coolest parts which is when tens of thousands of bats come out of the cave every night at 5:30ish to go and feed. It was too late and we had to start proselyting, but I have heard that it is really cool. It was a sweet P-day.
Monkeys - wild and chained. Really they are all wild though. Also, monkeys are really scary.
Viraneath was baptized, which was awesome. The highlight of the week was seeing Elder Chan baptize our investigator Viraneath. Viraneath has showed great faith. He already stopped working on Sunday from the day that we taught him about it and this past week we focused really hard on ways that the Holy Ghost will tell him that Joseph Smith is true. We talked about the feelings that he would have and reminded him that he would need to focus and try to feel the spirit while and after he prayed. Well, when we met him on Wednesday he told us that he knew that it all was true, because when he prayed he felt different than he ever had before and that it was "like something told me it was true." I was so grateful for the Holy Ghost at that moment and for the time that we had to teach him. Both of his parents are members and he has great support. It was so nice to go and see him last night after his confirmation and give him a tie as a gift. I was grateful for his faith as before he would have not been home because he would have been at work. I know that Lord will bless him. It is a lot easier to promise blessings to him and his family as I realized that the Lord has already promised them to us.
Garrett describes the view as ridiculously beautiful.
We had our investigator with the crazy husband call us on Friday night and tell us that her husband freaked out, took the moto, and threatened the family if she didn’t stop learning. It was pretty crazy stuff. So we went the next day and conveniently he was home, but would only yell at us and his wife from the house. We told him we were done teaching her and told them both we would not come back again. It was pretty sad as the woman has such strong faith. Well, we were more than surprised to see her at church that next week. Come to find out her husband drove her there. Well, she said that she laid down the law and told him that he would have to leave if she couldn’t learn. Well, our branch presidency went to go see him and talk to him, and they worked a miracle. Before coming here today I talked to our second counselor on the phone and was met with laughter and an apology from the crazy husband and a declaration that he wanted to learn. I am not really sure what has happened, but we are going to tomorrow to figure everything out. Either way, things are much better than before. Pretty crazy turn of events.
We came home from church yesterday and spotted a snake in our coconut tree. I moved the branch to get a better look, causing it to fall out and hit the ground. It was a big snake. Really weird coloring. It had a small rat halfway down its throat, which it spit out and then was up the tree almost immediately. It was pretty scary. I really do not like snakes.
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