This week my companion and I witnessed a miracle. Like a big one. Coolest thing ever. So last week I talked about that woman who got all of her stuff stolen by her daughter in law. So she had no money and borrowed about $150 bucks to buy a new machine and some coconuts to start making money again. Last week we met with her and after we gave her our lesson Elder Brewer said the closing prayer. He asked God if Ming Thoet could have a miracle in her life. We left and then came back a couple days ago. We rode our bikes to her little hammock place and she told us something that just blew my mind. She said the day after we prayed with her she was walking and just found a bag of money on the ground with like 200,000 rial (60 bucks)!!!! Which is an insane amount of money. Especially in Prae Choo. She already payed a lot of the money back before she found the bag so now she is almost done paying back all the money! Man, that experience just totally reminded me that God truly knows us. He cares about everyone-- even sugar cane juice ladies in the little town of Prae Choo. She shared the coolest testimony yesterday. SO SICK.
So right now we have about 6 investigators with baptismal dates,
but the other day we were visiting some of them and we found two of them
totally drunk or in the process of becoming drunk. I was so mad cause
we pulled up to Om june's house and he was sleeping,
or I thought he was. He was just so drunk he couldn't even sit up. He saw
us and then got up and started to yell all around to the other little
huts to come learn with us. Ha it was way funny cause he made no sense
but also way sad cuz he hadn't drank anything
for like 2 weeks and he was supposed to get baptized soon. So we have to
wait a while for him now. Alcohol is just so dumb. It literally ruins so
many lives here. Lots of dads just get super depressed because of how
hard their life is and just give up and drink.
I think it was on Wednesday, we started to wait on the rode to hop
on a car to get to our other area. We were walking down on the rode and
this lady with her toddler girl came up to us with some pretty desperate
faces and was asking for money. I opened
up my wallet and gave her 10,000 rial which isn't even 3 bucks and handed
it to her. Apparenly that is a ton of money to give a beggar here, but i
didn't know that. She looked at the bill and just started to cry. Like a
lot. She got on her knees and was just
saying thank you thank you ad crying. She got up picked up her child and
was on her way smiling still tearing up. That experience was just one of
those moments in your life where you just reevaluate everything. If 3
dollars can make someone that happy, I need
to change some stuff. I just, idk me feeling bad about myself not understanding anything didn't really seem that important anymore. Every day I'm
just realizing how truly blessed we are. Sometimes we just have no idea,
and I'm finally realizing it.
Funny story, the other day we were in a lesson and Elder Brewer
pulled out his scriptures and when he was passing them across the bamboo
table this purple goop fell from the banana leaves that were covering
us and landed on his scriptures. We looked up
and this semi big lizard was just staring at us. It totally pooped on
his scriptures and left a nasty stain! HA the little kids were dying. Oh
and another thing happened that was just weird. We were teaching like
this 60 year old woman (idk thats just how
old she looks) and in the middle of the lesson this little kid came up
on her lap and she just started breast feeding right in front of us with
not a care in the world. It was just one of those moments where you're like whoah is this actually happening?? And then that turned into when you can't stop smiling or laughing, and
it wasn't even funny but like I couldn't stop smiling and laughing. I just
did my best to bite my tongue and just stare at her face. We shared for a
little longer and then left. Way funny.
We had zone conference last week and let me tell ya President and
Sister Christensen are some of the coolest people ever. They are just so
passionate about making this mission amazing. I love it. President
Christensen talked about being an accidental disciple
and a deliberate disciple. He pretty much told us that most of us were
accidental disciples and how we all needed to transition to become a
deliberate disciple. He said its your choice to CHOOSE if you are going
to be someone who follows Jesus Christ because
you have to or because you truly want to because he is your Savior and
your older brother. I'm definitely butchering it, but man he killed it.
It was so awesome.
The mission is going good, I still barely understand anything but
I'm trying my best. The Church is true and I love how happy it can make
sad people. It truly gives people hope and a divine purpose here on
Earth. Love you all
The kids here are awesome
Ancient ruins
Rainy season
We got really lost and had to pull our bikes through a lot of mud.
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