Elder Taylor in Cambodia: Mission Log 33: Baptism, Big Bugs, and Bawn-t-haw =បន្ត

So Bawn-t-haw means to continue. Had transfer calls and Elder Tree and I get to do one more together! It's his last one, so in mission lingo I'll be killing him aka sending him home.

Here is the man himself with his pig lungs he just bought this morning.

Questions:

have you had any spiritual promptings that guided your efforts that you would like to share?

One cool experience I had this week was when we were teaching an investigator who seemed to have dropped us (didn't want to learn any more) after he failed his baptismal interview. We were teaching prayer, scripture study, and God, and when I bore my testimony and taught the words flowed out of my mouth like never before. It's the closest experience I've ever had to saying the Holy Ghost testified through me and I wasn't saying it.

Got my hair cut this morning. Quite the experience for $1.50. He spent forever fine tweaking it. Even trimmed my nose hairs. Kind of surprised me when he went for it. Sprayed my hair with gel stuff and blow dried it. Took some pictures with his phone too. I think he's an apprentice and he probably doesn't get many chances to cut white people's hair. He told me not to wear my helmet because it would mess my hair up, so I got a picture with him before we left. Thought it was funny he stood on his tip toes and I slouched so we were close to the same height.

This drink was made 2 days after I started my mission and will expire within a couple days of me finishing my mission.

Came downstairs this morning all blurry eyed and found this. One way to wake you up.

All natural mangoes I picked from the tree in my courtyard. They are sour right now, but I'll let them sit awhile and they'll soften up. Although they love to eat them sour with spicy salt and sugar here.

We had a baptism! He was married 3 months ago and his wife is a member. Really cool guy. He sells stuff, is a business man, and gave me some hex keys for free to use on my bike.

When your companion doesn't make the red light.

We have a road of eternal construction in our area, and it's a real bummer because we use it every day. Traffic gets way bad. Luckily bikes are small and fit in small areas.

Yes I'm white, and yes foreigners do love their bread. Although we do occasionally eat rice.

We played do you love your neighbor in english class. They didn't know what was going on half the time, but way fun.

So people write their numbers on their houses here so you can get a hold of them if you ever need to.

Did an exchange with Elder Wayne (younger group than me) and I lost my name tag biking to meet up with him because the extra bag I had strapped on my front popped it out of my pocket. So for the day I was Elder Wayne and he was also Elder Wayne (just written in Khmae)

Found the place for engineers!

I ate french toast and yogurt with chop sticks. I would say my skill with chopsticks has much improved since before my mission. Although the typical utensil use is a fork and a spoon here. (they don't use knives)