Sua sdie!
Last night we got transfer calls and I am staying in Toul Tom Pong and Sister Soem is leaving to Stung Mean Chey. I am so sad to be separating from her. She is literally the best, 10 out of 10, two thumbs up, would recommend to a friend. She has helped me learn and grow so much these past two transfers. Lucky for me, we will still be in the same zone so I can see her at zone training :) I am not too bummed about staying, I kind of had a feeling I would be here for a while longer. Sister Xiong is my new companion. I do not know much about her so will update you next week.
The youth in our ward were pretty upset that one of us is transferring. They even cried and have been very sentimental with us hahaha
As for the work, it is still the same. We have three progressing investigators right now who are all on track to receive baptism in June or early July. Thida, Sophaly, and Thanh. They all come to church each week and are keeping the commitments we give them. The only problem is that they don't quite read the BOM as often as they should be. We are still trying to figure out what to do about that.
This week, Sister Soem and I were waiting outside of the church for our investigator to show up for an appointment. A random moto pulled into the church and three American looking girls got off and came up to us to ask about the free piano class we teach. I was expecting them to speak English BUT THEY SPOKE FLUENT KHMER. Would you imagine that? A bunch of Americans speaking fluent Khmer! Turns out they are actually half Russian, half Khmer. But they don't look one bit Khmer. They showed up just half an hour early for piano class so we invited them to sit and wait for the other missionaries to show up to start teaching piano. But instead, they ended up sitting in on our lesson with our investigator, Sophaly. As we taught them all, the spirit was I N C R E D I B L E. Afterwards, we asked the oldest, Bong Srey if she wanted to learn more. She said she didn't want to bother us but we told her we were full-time missionaries and all we do is teach! Se was so happy and said she would love to learn about Jesus Christ. We were soooo excited but ends up she is in Comkarmon area, right on the border so she is going to be taught by the CKM sisters.
We didn't get to do much proselyting this week because the electrician came twice this week and stayed for five hours each day. It was frustrating because he told us he would come at 7:30 AM but didn't come until 10.
There was a HUGE Young Single Adult conference this past weekend for the all of the YSA in Cambodia. More than 500 people showed up. Some of them were definitely not old enough and most of them were definitely not "young". But it was way cool to see so many members gathered together to meet. The President of BYU-H came to talk to them about studying at BYU-H and the Us Ambassador of Cambodia even came to talk about getting visas. It was awesome to see them promoting the importance of getting a good education.
On Sunday, the elder's investigator, Vireak was baptized! His parents were very against him getting baptized and even threatened to kick him out of the house. His father even beats him sometimes as well. We told him he didn't have to rush into this decision. He prayed and thought he would put off baptism for a little while until he could find a steady job and place to live. He decided one Sunday to go to a different ward. Stung Mean Chey, just to get away from everything for a little bit. When he went, one of the Recent Converts of that ward got up and shared his testimony of the importance of baptism. And then afterwards, the SMC elders had a baptism. Vireak took this as an answer from Heavenly Father and came back the next day and told us he wanted to be baptized! I am still a little nervous for him. But we are definitely praying that he will be safe and be comforted and that his parents' hearts will be softened.
Not much else happened this week! Sister Sok is sick and we are very worried that it might be something neurological so if you guys could please pray for her, that would be awesome!
Ok! Have a fantastic week! I love you all so much and am so happy to be here in Cambodia doing the Lord's work and serving His children.
Love,
Sister Nguyen
P.S, ITS SO HOT OVER HERE
P.P.S IT'S STARTING TO RAIN/FLOOD. PLS PRAY FOR ME.
Picture 1 We went to eat K
orean food after district meeting. And now we have been craving kim chi ever since
Picture 2 Vireak's baptism! Here are a portion of the youth in our ward
Picture 3 Soem and I with our favorite grandmother
Picture 4 Sophia was choking me
