Dear Family and Friends,
This week was so awesome! I have seen so many tender mercies from the Lord and have felt his love for me and for the Cambodian people in abundance!
First of all, the week started off on a great note. Last Monday night, I was informed that the Vietnamese sisters were being relocated and that the Sister Training Leader would be moving into our apartment with her companion. She is from Utah and we get along so well! It has been so great to be able to talk about some of the challenges American sisters face in coming to Cambodia and how those challenges can be overcome. I love her so much and it has been a blessing to have her live with us. My companion served with her previously and so she loves having her with us as well! I know it was inspired by the Lord!
This week, a lot of our lessons to Less Actives have been focused on the principle of hope and faith and how the two work together to uplift and inspire us. It was really a lesson that I needed myself! On Monday night, I testified to a less active about how even though I didn't know Cambodian and even though I was far from home, I can feel the Love of the Lord because of my faith and hope in the Savior Jesus Christ. The spirit was so strong and she came to church yesterday! YAY!
Tuesday was an interesting cultural day... haha. We were teaching our investigator, when out of no where her naked toddler (super common) just pooped on the floor right in front of us. I was a little bit shock, but I just laughed and tried to help clean it up... (my companion was a champ and did most of it). Right after that lesson, we were in a less actives house and right when we walked in the little boy peed on the floor haha. The grandma just grabbed a tshirt and mopped it up and then WE SAT RIGHT WHERE HE PEED! I am not going to lie... I had a hard time laughing about that, but its just another thing you have to accept about the culture here!
Another interesting thing I noticed is that EVERYONE is sick here. And the medicine that they use is not effective. The reason I know that is because it is normal for them to show us their medicine when we go visit them. That is actually one of the first things they do. Most of the things they use are random pain pills, but they also do this traditional burning method to heal themselves! Basically they take a metal lid and rub it back and forth all over their backs to "heal" them. It looks super painful, but they believe it works. I need to start sharing essential oils!
I have seen miracles in abundance this week, but I will just share a couple quick ones. First of all, after church on Sunday, an investigator that we thought we may have to drop, came up and told us she knew she should be baptized in two weeks. We were so excited and happy that she had received that confirmation. It was such a miracle!
Another miracle was the Sunday as a whole. When we went to get on our bikes to ride to church that morning we noticed that my companion had a popped tire. It was no problem because she just rode on the back of my bike. After church we rode super far to visit an investigator, but she wasnt home! I noticed it was getting harder and harder to ride my bike with my companion on the back and we saw that both my tires were also flat! We were about 4 or 5 miles from home! We had been praying for opportunities to contact and this turned into the golden opportunity! We contacted as we walked all the way home!! It was so fun and such a blessing. Sometimes the worst situations can turn into the greatest blessings!
Thanks for all the support and prayers! Keep the faith :)
Love, Sister Lindley
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