Hello everyone!
So awesome/tender/miraculous
moments of this week!! 1. This past Sunday we had the primary program! I can guarantee you can't imagine anything cuter than ten cute little Cambodian children, dressed in their school uniforms, singing primary songs totally off key. So cute and precious. I loved it.
2. We made fresh
rolls a couple days ago. I think we have some competition to Sa-Wad-Dee.
Heaven!
3. This past Tuesday
it literally rained the whole day. The roads were flooded and so many houses
were flooded too. Our district attempted to help a less active member de-flood
his house. So we took buckets and made an assembly line and after 2 hours and
probably 400 buckets full of water later, there were 8 very tired and sore
missionaries and a small dent in the water. We also learned afterwards that
there were some sort of snakes found in the house too. ahh.
4. For me, Thanksgiving
was fun. Our whole zone went to the Thurston's house (Senior couple) in the
city and we ate pumpkin and pecan pie and colored (so fun by the way haha) and
played Thanksgiving bingo. So yes fun. I’m getting so excited for Christmas.
I'm starting to learn how to tell the Christmas story in Khmer. Also our
district is doing the whole service, lds.org
video things? You should do it too. I think it's on lds.org social media or something like that?
5. I raked rice
barefoot.
6. Once again, the
bucket toilet.
This week was way
good, way hard, way tiring and basically any emotion you could think of. That's
how every day is it seems. This week we had many sweet, uplifting, tender
moments.
On Friday night, we
returned home from Baku and had enough time to visit one more person. Sister
Kosal said, "Let’s go visit Ming Phuo." She is very sick. She has a
big tumor growing outside of her chest. She doesn't have much money. Her mom
(wrinkled, skinny, toothless 85 year old sweet lady) takes care of her. She
doesn't have money for much medical care so she drinks ground up bone and bark.
So we went to her house. We rubbed her back and legs so she could feel. We
ground up bark for her to drink. She was in so much pain. She asked me to pray.
The next morning we got a call that she had died the night before. So about 5
hours after we left, she passed away. I feel so honored to have been a part of
her last few moments and to have said maybe the last prayer she heard. Such a
tender experience.
Another Hand of God:
Sister Kosal and I were left planless. All of our backup plans and backup to
those backup plans fell through. So we prayed. And I thought of a potential
investigator, Bong Leak, we could go see. So we followed and she was just
sitting outside her house. And to be honest it was a little awkward. She is
very shy. As we were trying to think of questions or something to say, Sister
Kosal kicked my leg aka: say something. So I opened my mouth and just started
talking and I thought "well just tell her the truth". So I literally
told her the truth. I told her, we didn't know where to go so we decided to
pray and we thought about you. Then we taught her how to pray. I don't know
what came out of it. We are going to start teaching her next week and hopefully
she progresses. But I learned just to have courage. Follow the Spirit. It
doesn't have to be the best, but if we have the Spirit, it's enough. That's our
role as missionaries. Feel, recognize and follow the Spirit.
Missions are awesome
and great and wonderful and hard. But I guess the kind of hard that requires
heaven's help is the best kind. (Henry B Eyring quote on President Ahlquist’s
laminated missionary paper thing). God's hand is forever in my life and yours
too.
Anyways that was my
week. I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and a happy almost
December! Much love to you all! Love you big big. (Sister Kosal always adds big
big)
Sister Mortell
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| These pictures are of last week's service project. The missionaries cleaned up a public area on the banks of the Mekong river for the Water Festival holiday. (Photos from Mormon newsroom) |
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