Because he's coming to Cambodia! We had zone conference this week with Elder Meurs of the asia area general presidency and it was announced that Elder Bednar, of the quorum of the 12 apostles that leads the church, will come next month, May, on the 21-23. We will have a mission conference, which hasn't happened in 3 years since Elder Holland visited, meaning that all the missionaries in the country will come together to hear him speak. I'm so excited! I will get to listen to a modern day apostle of God speak to me and my fellow missionaries on how we can more fully do the work of the Lord in Cambodia. I also think it's nifty how I quoted Elder Bednar in my farewell talk just before I left to serve my mission, then he visited the MTC while I was in there, and now he will be coming to my mission my last transfer! He's kind of the bookends to my mission experience. So stay tuned for more to come on that.
In other news in the work, we found, or rather the Lord led, 3 new investigators to us this week.
1 part member family, 1 English class student (who is also a pastor in another Christian church), and 1 street contact. All have a great desire to understand and find the truth. Very excited to continue to teach them!
For the part member family, the parents are members, but have been less-active for awhile and just started coming back to church. Their daughter is 10 and has never received baptism, so we will be working with them to teach and prepare her for baptism. Taught her the first time this week and she is a sharp girl.
The English class student found out about our English class from a flyer we handed out to him while he was on his moto. He has strong faith in Christ and sincere questions about the restoration and modern day prophets. I'm excited to continue to help him understand about the need of modern day prophets and how God has not stopped talking to us, but still leads and guides us today.
The street contact we actually contacted the first or second week in our area, but I can't remember talking to him, just had his name and number in my planner. I invited him to church last week and he didn't come, but this week he showed up! I was sitting in the back of the chapel waiting for people to come and he walked in, didn't recognize him but invited him to sit next to me. He then told me about how someone had called and invited him to church awhile ago, but that when he called them back to ask for help finding the church he didn't pick up. I thought it must have been the other elders, but checked my phone and it was me, whoops! (My phone was already on silent) Met with him after church and found out that he actually has many European Christian friends, and that the week we talked to him one of his friends had just told him that he needed to go to a Christian church that week, and then we invited him to come learn of Christ! The experience really struck him and he took it as a sign from God. I'm so happy that God led me to be in the right place at the right time so that I could help this man begin his journey coming unto Christ.
This past week we also did a successful split with some members (I go with one member and Elder Richards went with another) because we had more appointments than we could make Saturday night; first time I've ever had to do that on my mission. It was a bit stressful because one member help fell through and we had to find another last minute, but it all worked out. I just ended up having to bike about 4 hours. My area is a bit large, haha.
I also met with President Eng (stake president, ecclesiastical leader of the northern half of Phnom Penh city) on Sunday about the splitting of the Pochentong ward and he has given me another assignment to update the Google map I made this past week, such that he can use it in the deciding of the split. I'll be working closely with Elder Tuft and Bishop Mon over the next couple weeks to get that all set up; President Eng gave us a month deadline, but I think it will only take 2 weeks at most.
The work is going strong thanks to several miracle investigators of being in the right place at the right time. I'm excited to see how the Lord guides my path this coming week as well.
The work rolls on. Daniel 2:45 Doctrine & Covenants 65:2 https://www.lds.org/
- Elder Taylor
Letters will be joyously received at:
Elder Taylor
Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission
House 2B, st. 222 off Norodom
P.O. Box 165
Phnom Penh Cambodia
938 - Elder Richards loves burgers, and lucky for him there is a burger joint right by our house
941 - Biking
944 - Elder Richards found a pagoda
955 - Elder Meurs came for a mission tour and taught us at zone conference
958 - Khmer food.
959 - Our area is a bit dusty. They're working on paving the highway and they soak the dusty gravel in water to try and reduce dust, but it sure does increase mud.
964 - Food at church after ward conference
965 - cont.
966 - cont.
970 - Super fancy buy psych (rice and meat) from this morning. Cost me $1
6668 - Us with Rothea from a few weeks ago. Awesome member help, he helped us this past Saturday with our splits to teach two lessons at once.
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