Madeline in Cambodia: Slow but Sweet Situations in Kampong Cham

Hello!

I don't really know what to say in this email. Nothing much happened this week. But things are good. The work is a little slow right now but we are trying our best. What counts is that we really try! This week we started teaching Pia. She is Tian's girlfriend. Tian is the older brother of Ceriya (11 year old girl that just got baptized). So that's been interesting. She's way cool, a little shy. We've had some good lessons with her. We taught about the Book of Mormon and prayer. We promised her that she could know for herself. She didn't have to rely on Tian, us or anyone else. But she could ask God. It's such a blessing that all of us can gain this testimony no matter where or who we are. God will tell us.

A cool experience: so I don't know if any other missions do this but since Cambodia doesn't have maps or LDS tools and stuff like that this is how we gather information. For years the missionaries have gathered all of this information about members with their house, maps, children all this stuff. Now our mission is in the process of trying to have the members visit one another. It’s been a big change in our mission. A tough one and a good one. Anyways so we have all these papers so Sister Dy and I decided to find some houses because we didn't know what to do. We prayed that as we tried to find these houses we would find people. Because usually these maps are way hard to find. So we contacted on the road and asked people, "Do you know this person?" and they were like, "No, why?" great contacting opportunity. Anyways as we were trying to find this house, sweet little Sister Dy turned back and said, "That lady said hello to us." So we turned back and met this sweet little om who is way Buddhist but willing to listen. And she started crying. She has been sick for a while and we were there to comfort. It’s funny, it’s like people somehow know we are different. Like Ming Sroan she just confided in us and told us about losing her husband. And Om Leng she trusted us and told us of her struggles. It’s like they know we are different that the name on our plaques can help them. And Christ can. It’s a blessing to introduce people to their Savior. So we will see if she will progress. God has faith in everyone so I will too.

We went on exchanges this week. And Sister Dy did get her patriarchal blessing. Woohoo. Exchanges were great. It was my last exchange #hallelujah I love/hate exchanges haha. We had a way fun time and learned a lot. Also super blessed I never served in the city city. I was always in the outskirt city areas or khets.

Much luck to all of you. If you're not reading the Book of Mormon you probably should. Also family history is way cool even if you disagree you know you are wrong. Also God really does love us and Christ does too.

Also I spoke in both branch 2 and 3 yesterday and played the piano.

Love always,

Sister Mortell