Letter Sent on November 19, 2012

Dear Family,

How is life? Excited for Thanksgiving?? I'll miss you eating with you all!:) Eat some extra pie for me. Things are going great here in Ta Khmao!
We had a great experience with a less active man and his family whom we met. We shared some things with them and then at the end of the lesson his daughter, who is in her 20s, wanted a blessing and the Dad said it was fine. She was like, "Well the Elders can give me one". We said that we would be happy to participate in it but insisted that her father give the blessing. At first he was reluctant and told us that he has never given on before. However, after some persuading we were able to console him into giving his daughter the blessing. The Spirit was definitely there and I really felt the Spirit very powerfully and knew that there was something special and powerful about a father giving his daughter a blessing. I know that he was happy that he did it as well and that it was a spiritual experience for them both. They both came to church on that next Sunday which was also a great blessing!
This week we were able to start meeting with a couple of referrals from members that we received and they are really cool.  We started meeting with a lady named Ming Leak and she had actually come to church a couple of weeks for the full 3 hours already. She has been praying and we talked to her yesterday and she said that she has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot too.
The other is a single mother named Ming Navii who has 4 children.  There are 3 of her kids that she wants to learn with us too.  She says she wants to become a member!  This is great!  She has learned about Christ before and really has great potential.
Right now we have 3 families we are teaching, which is another huge blessing, however, this past week it has been hard to meet with the families that we are teaching but we are hoping that this week it will be better with meeting them.  There have been some crazy things happening in their lives-one has a child in the hospital, another got kicked out of their house and had to move.  They are have a lot of trials which seems to always happen when they near baptism; however, we are praying for them and have faith that the Lord will take care of them.  I know that He is very much involved in this work, for it indeed is His Work.  I am so grateful for that.  I feel like Elder Sem and I am being so blessed and I am so grateful because it really is not from anything special or terrific that we are doing.  I am learning and growing a lot and am grateful for the opportunity to be serving at this time when the Lord is hastening His work. What an amazing time to be living and to be a member of His church!
Thank you for your prayers and for all that you do. I love you. Have a super week! Till next time.

Love,
Elder Garlick

Pics; Cambodia; This really good banana soup desert thing that Elder Sem and Elder An made; Old picture from last week; At an FHE! We played this card game called, "Gohawk" and if you got caught lying you got your face marked:), Members at the FHE: Om Davii, Om Tong, Ming Lekana; Cute baby.