Dear Family,
Things are going good here in Ta Khmau nowadays! This past week we had a leadership training which was very very good. It was really fun to go and to meet with lots of my mission buddies and learn about how we can become better missionaries and better leaders. I learned a lot and more than that was just inspired to be a better missionary and to be a better and more Christ like leader. I want to be more loving and try and think of those I am serving more.
This past week we were very busy with various meetings. A lot of our investigators have been out of town and very busy so it was difficult to meet them a lot. The King of Cambodia's father passed away a little while ago and the past few days have been a holiday of sorts and today is the day they are going to cremate his remains. It is cool to see the love and respect the Cambodian people have for their old king. We were able to get some good work done with some of our recent converts and less actives we're working with.
We have been trying for so long to help this recent convert family-a mom, Ming Vong, and her two daughters, Daneik and Dariya-come to church. They always say that they are going to come to church and then when Sunday comes around they don't make it there; the mom had said that she was going to be quitting her job so then she wouldn't have to work on Sundays. We had a super good lesson with them a couple weeks ago talking about their experiences with becoming members, the blessings they've received and the importance of partaking of the sacrament, and then finally yesterday we came to church and were delighted to see the three of them there! It was so great to see them there. I think that it was the first time since I have been in this area that the mom has come. She has great friendships with a lot of the members and there have been members visiting her and it was so great to see her come back to church. This was a very happy experience that we had this past week.
We also had a great lesson with another less active recent convert mother and we talked about families. She usually doesn't seem super interested in meeting with us but yesterday we had a great lesson with her and a couple of members, and she opened up some and shared with us about her own family and she said a great prayer at the end. We are going to keep doing our best to help her and continue to get members involved.
This past week we also had a really good BM Coordination Meeting which has now been happening every week which is great. We had a discussion about the challenges that Branch Missionaries have; some of which are time and feeling unprepared and nervous in what they should say or what we want them to say. The BM leader, Seiha, wants us Elders to teach a Preach My Gospel class and we all thought that this would be a good solution and will help strengthen our BMs and also help them prepare them for missions. I believe it will be a great success and that as we spend time trying to help our branch missionaries then they will be that much more willing and better prepared to meet with members and investigators themselves.
Things are going really good here and I really like my District. I get to teach District Meeting tomorrow which should be fun :)
Anywho, I hope that all is going well back at home. I am thankful for you and I love you! Very much. God be with you till we meet again. Till next time.
Love,
Elder Garlick
1. Service as a District :)
2.Independence Monument-super pretty monument they've got next to a big wat in the city
3. Ditto
4. A cow.
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