Dear beloved family...
How
are you?? It was so great talking to you all last week, looks like you are
doing swell and Ethan now has a superstar smile!:) I love you mom and it was a
great Mother's Day! I am doing great here in Teuk Thla, and things are going
well here as well.
We have a lot of investigators with baptismal dates and many that are past their original baptismal date or are not going to make it for one reason or another. So we are going to try and get everyone really focused on their baptismal date goals.
Pu Mony and Ming Srey are really so very poor and it turns out that they are not married, but we were able to sit down with them and set a new goal for their baptismal date. They said that they think given a month they could save enough money to go to the province and get a marriage certificate and so they now have a baptismal date for June 30th!:)
They didn't come to church on Sunday and we felt we should go to visit them. When we got their we learned that Pu was really sick with terrible stomach cramps, diarrhea, and other and he looked really sick and that he was suffering. We offered to give him a blessing and taught briefly about the blessing and priesthood. We then gave him a blessing and the Spirit was there. Seeing how terrible Pu was feeling and how humble of settings they live in was really humbling and I felt very blessed to have had the opportunity to go there and be apart of giving a blessing. It really hit me how great a privilege it is to be a Priesthood holder and to be in the Lord's service, administering to those that need it.
I woke up earlier this week feeling really sick and I felt that I needed to ask Elder Fisher for a priesthood blessing during which he blessed me with some things that I really needed to hear and told me that the work would not be hindered because of my being ill. I felt a bit better right away, and later on we were going to get some lunch with Elder Khan who we were on an exchange with and I felt a specific prompting that I needed to take some Plan of Salvation pamphlets with us and we went to this place to get some fried rice by our house and as we were leaving I just felt like I needed to give the pamphlet away and so I just asked one of the workers if I could share it with him and I told them where our church is and that we have an English class and this older Ming was really excited and seemed interested in coming to learn English. Just another testimony strengthener of the promptings of the Spirit.
We have a lot of investigators with baptismal dates and many that are past their original baptismal date or are not going to make it for one reason or another. So we are going to try and get everyone really focused on their baptismal date goals.
Pu Mony and Ming Srey are really so very poor and it turns out that they are not married, but we were able to sit down with them and set a new goal for their baptismal date. They said that they think given a month they could save enough money to go to the province and get a marriage certificate and so they now have a baptismal date for June 30th!:)
They didn't come to church on Sunday and we felt we should go to visit them. When we got their we learned that Pu was really sick with terrible stomach cramps, diarrhea, and other and he looked really sick and that he was suffering. We offered to give him a blessing and taught briefly about the blessing and priesthood. We then gave him a blessing and the Spirit was there. Seeing how terrible Pu was feeling and how humble of settings they live in was really humbling and I felt very blessed to have had the opportunity to go there and be apart of giving a blessing. It really hit me how great a privilege it is to be a Priesthood holder and to be in the Lord's service, administering to those that need it.
I woke up earlier this week feeling really sick and I felt that I needed to ask Elder Fisher for a priesthood blessing during which he blessed me with some things that I really needed to hear and told me that the work would not be hindered because of my being ill. I felt a bit better right away, and later on we were going to get some lunch with Elder Khan who we were on an exchange with and I felt a specific prompting that I needed to take some Plan of Salvation pamphlets with us and we went to this place to get some fried rice by our house and as we were leaving I just felt like I needed to give the pamphlet away and so I just asked one of the workers if I could share it with him and I told them where our church is and that we have an English class and this older Ming was really excited and seemed interested in coming to learn English. Just another testimony strengthener of the promptings of the Spirit.
I am feeling like a million bucks
right now and life as a missionary is amazing! I was feeling a little ruffled
the other day and I was in a lesson or just before we started it and I felt the
prompting that I "just need to try my best to be like Jesus"(which is
something a great friend had written me encouraging me to do a while back) and
I really feel that that is really all we all need to do. When things are
stressful, when there seems like there is so many things to prioritize-we can
just try our best to be like Jesus, and focus on our relationships with
others. For showing love to others and lifting our loved ones is really
the most important thing to do.
I am grateful for the Holy Ghost and the many promptings, gifts, comfort love, and guidance that He brings to me daily. I am grateful for great family and friends, the best I could ask for. I am grateful for my mission, the Cambodian people, and most especially for our Savior and Great Exemplar, Jesus Christ. May we all try and do our best "to be like Jesus" and to love and serve others. What would Jesus Do?
I am grateful for the Holy Ghost and the many promptings, gifts, comfort love, and guidance that He brings to me daily. I am grateful for great family and friends, the best I could ask for. I am grateful for my mission, the Cambodian people, and most especially for our Savior and Great Exemplar, Jesus Christ. May we all try and do our best "to be like Jesus" and to love and serve others. What would Jesus Do?
I love you!
Love,
Elder Garlick
Love,
Elder Garlick
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