Sorry this is pretty vague and not much detail, but I'm out of time so apology in advance.
Mon: Saw Sada
Tue: Lunch with Sada. Cleaned webs in church.
Wed: Neegoal pranks us. Followed up with Sunmalean. Contacted at a bike wash, lots of PIs. Met Sophal at English class.
Thu: Ngite called us back, representatives of God. Contacted Pu Moneen. Taught Sophal. '
Fri: Service - painting at Dine's. Interview with President and Sister Christensen. Taught Ngite with Veechae.
Sat: Taught Pelot. Taugth Rotana and he is accepting all of God's commandments with great faith and progressing towards baptism on the 24th. Taught Pu Moneen. Taught Bora at Ming Samae's house and had FHE with him and Leanda, another new investigator. Got two calls from missionaries with Chinna and Taylee as referrals; called them and they said they'd come to church.
Sun: Chinna and Taylee did come to church! Bora passed his baptismal interview and is all set to be baptized next Sunday. We received a referral from a member and set up an appointment and met her, Sovanna, that day. She attended the baptismal service after church and when we met her she said she was excited for baptism. Taught Sarat, finally! Been trying to meet this guy since we got to Chom Chao (my current area). Taught Sophal again and set a date for baptism, the 15th of July. Met up with Sovann for the first time and had a good discussion about Buddhist and Christian beliefs.
- Elder Taylor
Here's what my companion said for some more information:
Week 9:
A cool little miracle that happened was English class this week. When Elder Taylor and I were preparing for the spiritual lesson, we thought to ourselves for a bit and we each made an individual list by ourselves what we think we should teach. When we started to talk to each other, we both had at the top of our list to teach about Baptism and then the Gift of the Holy Ghost! Very surprising! So we prepared the lesson and taught it after English class. What resulted was one of our investigators coming to us wanting to be baptized. Before, we had problems with getting him to make time to meet us and making time to come to church because he works and he has school. But when he told us he wanted to be baptized, he also said, "I'll make time, I'll meet, I'll come to church." It was amazing!
More happened in this week and I wish I could recount it all. It should suffice that the work continues with so many different experiences every day.
Week 10:
The work really progressed this week! Baptisms are lined up and we had a lot of new investigators that randomly came our way. We had a member bring a neighbor to church who wanted to be baptized. 5 people at our English class said they wanted to learn. A man straight telling us he wants to be a Christian. There are so many different ways to find people to teach.
This week we had a service project for a small family. It's always a blessing to help those in need, especially those struggling here.
A funny thing that happened this week was that we had an investigator named Nicole. We met him at our English class and he said he was interested to learn. So later we went to his home and started talking about our church. He started by saying he has never learned about Christianity. Then we started teaching about the Godhead and he began to start asking strange and off-topic questions. Elder Taylor and I knew something was up. SURPRISE! "I'm a pastor." he says. It really was surprising because in a country where almost everyone is Buddhist, I rarely meet Christians, let alone a pastor. He told us that we don't need to follow commandments to be saved, we just need faith. That's not entirely wrong but we tried to help him to understand by asking this question, "If you have Faith in Jesus Christ, what would that lead you to do?" We shared James 2:17-18 and John 10:14.
James:
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
John:
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
After he heard these things, we expected him to continue to argue and not agree. But instead he understood. He understood that if you had faith, you would follow God's commandments. He even accepted to read the Book of Mormon and find out for himself. He told us he is an honest seeker to find out what's right.
In order to apply this experience, I would say that you all who are reading should be applying these scriptures above to yourselves. Exercise Faith. Exercise Works. Here is your blessing:
A cool little miracle that happened was English class this week. When Elder Taylor and I were preparing for the spiritual lesson, we thought to ourselves for a bit and we each made an individual list by ourselves what we think we should teach. When we started to talk to each other, we both had at the top of our list to teach about Baptism and then the Gift of the Holy Ghost! Very surprising! So we prepared the lesson and taught it after English class. What resulted was one of our investigators coming to us wanting to be baptized. Before, we had problems with getting him to make time to meet us and making time to come to church because he works and he has school. But when he told us he wanted to be baptized, he also said, "I'll make time, I'll meet, I'll come to church." It was amazing!
On P-day I also went to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. It was a very sad experience but it was a well needed one to find more about the history of Cambodia.
More happened in this week and I wish I could recount it all. It should suffice that the work continues with so many different experiences every day.
Week 10:
The work really progressed this week! Baptisms are lined up and we had a lot of new investigators that randomly came our way. We had a member bring a neighbor to church who wanted to be baptized. 5 people at our English class said they wanted to learn. A man straight telling us he wants to be a Christian. There are so many different ways to find people to teach.
This week we had a service project for a small family. It's always a blessing to help those in need, especially those struggling here.
A funny thing that happened this week was that we had an investigator named Nicole. We met him at our English class and he said he was interested to learn. So later we went to his home and started talking about our church. He started by saying he has never learned about Christianity. Then we started teaching about the Godhead and he began to start asking strange and off-topic questions. Elder Taylor and I knew something was up. SURPRISE! "I'm a pastor." he says. It really was surprising because in a country where almost everyone is Buddhist, I rarely meet Christians, let alone a pastor. He told us that we don't need to follow commandments to be saved, we just need faith. That's not entirely wrong but we tried to help him to understand by asking this question, "If you have Faith in Jesus Christ, what would that lead you to do?" We shared James 2:17-18 and John 10:14.
James:
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
John:
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
After he heard these things, we expected him to continue to argue and not agree. But instead he understood. He understood that if you had faith, you would follow God's commandments. He even accepted to read the Book of Mormon and find out for himself. He told us he is an honest seeker to find out what's right.
In order to apply this experience, I would say that you all who are reading should be applying these scriptures above to yourselves. Exercise Faith. Exercise Works. Here is your blessing:
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Elder Richards
អ៊ែលឌើរ រីឆាដ្ស
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
71 Toul Sleng, Khmer Rouge Prison
83 Sada
90 Sky, Saat
92 Cool kids
93 cont.
95 Cleaning spider webs in the church
96 Potential investigator, military doctor guy knows good English
00 The IV on the moto, first time I've been able to get a picture
16 Painting
20 cont
21 cont
23 cont, there was a fire in their house, thus the painting
34 Nida got baptized!
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