អែលឌើរ ម៉ៃឃើល អាតុន (Elder Michael Acton)

I ran out of time today so this will just be a quick little update. Tuesday was kind of normal, that's our planning day because we usually go and teach lessons in the evenings on Monday. Most other missionaries here do their planning on Monday evenings but I don't like wasting night time because it is such a busy time for lessons, so we plan during the day on Tuesday when it's more of the open free time. Also Tuesday there was a party where a lot of our ward members went to the Kom buc sao, but we weren't allowed to go as missionaries so we had a little dinner party with those who weren't able to go either. It was just like 5 people; a family and then one of our other teaching friends. We sang some songs with them after dinner. Wednesday I did an exchange with Elder Madrid, who is our District Leader, in Kam Boul and that was fun, it was really good. We cooked some food at a member's house who is inactive whose husband is like 40 years older than her so that is ...

 Heyyooo everyone, hope y'all had an awesome Halloween!!! It's super interesting being on this side of the world for those type of holidays cause they hardly exist. . .so idk if its better or worse😆cause I don't get a ton of FOMO because I just forget about it😅but then I don't celebrate it a ton so it's just different I guess. They've got their own holidays and the one goin on right now is, um, "tuk." I don't know if I spelt that romanization right or not but basically it's like a "boys in the boat" holiday, haha. But with like 50+ people in one boat. If you want to see that you can go to my blog post from a year ago cause I was in Battambang and they do it on the river that we crossed every day so I got to see it which was super fun. Anyway, this week was a blast other than me getting a cold again. But no worries, the work goes on haha. We did lots of service like always. Also this Wednesday is when we learn if we're going to b...

 Heyyyoooo this week don't got a lot other than great news!!!!  I love my mission haha! It's amazing and I was so happy these last two weeks because we finally have time to work in our area without distractions, other than my bike being super silly and having a bunch of problems. So that's annoying but other than that it was great, oh and me cutting a coconut successfully but unsuccessful in the drinking part. You'll have to watch the video to know why. Satan is really trying to make me negative and quick to frustrating and it is a challenge but. . . I've got Christ on my side and I'm doing my best to turn every negative situation into at least a teaching moment, so I can learn. Also been having lots of opportunities to sacrifice what I want to do and in return do what the Lord wants me to do. Not much for this week cause I ran out time🙃but know that God loves you and always will listen to you when you pray. Elder Acton Oh. . . one more thing. We had Stake Conf...

 Hello everyone, this week has been literally such a crazy roller coaster. It has low key been happy and sad because I've been taken out of my area every single day this week but one of those days was for the temple OUR temple, so that was lit!! Okay so Tuesday We woke up right on time and got ready super quick for some service!!! Which is always so fun! Then at 9:15 we left, raced home and got in the shower at like 9:22 and then got all ready and made it to the church for district council at 9:30 but we were late 5 minutes so 9:35 but still we were pretty proud we biked a total of 5 kilometers, showered, and got ready in our shirt and tie in 20 minutes, haha. Anyway, after that we did our weekly planning and met some cool people and then went to Ming Sopheas younger sister's house, which is lit cause she wants to learn now. and after that we went and visited another lady and her son which was also lit. We did this with one of the young single adult men here too!! He hopped on ...