Our investigator told us this past week that the reason his wife could not come to church is because they need someone to stay home and take care of the cows. Well, Elder Chan had a great idea to cut grass and give it to them the day before so that they would have no excuse. Well, Saturday we cut grass. Not regular grass, but really tall grass that we filled in two 50 kg rice sacks. It was a lot of grass. Then we strapped them to our bikes and got it to the church and then afterwards got it up to their house. (Notice the picture above.) Guess what! They both came to church! I was really excited about that and the wife seemed really happy at church. Hopefully, we can get them to progress a little bit faster now.
Car Stuck in the mud. We tried to help push it out.
I spent a lot of time working with Elder and Sister Yates, the senior couple up here. He really has no one to translate for him now that one of the counselors in the district presidency moved to Phnom Penh. So I had to do some translating and help him. They are trying to purchase land to start a cemetery up here. It is a concern among a lot of the members that when they die they have nowhere for their body to go because the Buddhists just go to the Wat and are cremated. Well, Elder Yates, the District President, and I got in his car and went to go look at some land for sale. We saw some amazing views! We were in the middle of rice fields and driving up close to some hills. It was really pretty.
Internet shop with all the kids playing games.
I will start by
telling you that today and the past week or so has been a national holiday
called Pchun Bun. Pajum Bun is how it sounds. Really only 3 days
are the important ones. A lot of people are out of town because most
people go to their birthplaces or homelands. Today was very hard to find
an email place. Everything is closed! It will be difficult to find
a place open for lunch. Most of the hard core Buddhists go to the Wats
and give food to their deceased ancestors. It seems really quiet here.
We actually had a good day at church despite the holiday which was not expected. We will listen to General Conference (the biannual event when the Prophet and Apostles teach and council the church) next week which is something I cannot wait for. I am super excited.
The following pictures are of a typical treat for the festival they just had. They take rice, but they do not cook it. They just get the raw rice and wrap it up and put banana or pork or other stuff inside. then the wrap it in banana leaves and boil it. Then they eat it. It tastes pretty good.
Manually aerating the ground for a member.
Crazy story. So, I contacted a lady and committed her to learn. She is now the sister missionaries’ investigator. Well, she was eating in her house at 9 PM, and a robber was running from the cops in front of her house. Because he had nowhere to go, he tried to get into her house. Well, the police and the robber started shooting at each other, and he was killed. It left her door pretty much ruined with bullet holes. Also, the blood came into her house, which she had to clean up herself. It was impressive that she that still came to church. I tried to go to her house to give her a priesthood blessing, but she was away yesterday. Her house is in a very populated main road area too. We are always safe though; we are always home by 8 at night.
Viraneath is still doing well. When I was studying one day, I felt that we really needed to teach him about the Sabbath day even though we were not even finished with lesson 2. Well, we had a really good lesson with him - full of promised blessings and such. He committed to talking to his boss. He is showing a lot of promise as well.
A scorpion outside of our house.
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