អែលឌើរ ម៉ៃឃើល អាតុន (Elder Michael Acton)

 This last week was good! Starting a lot of good habits, but I'm still trying to get out of the funk of my sickness. I still had a stuffy nose this whole week but I feel my strength is back to normal. This last week was a little irregular because we had MLC (Mission Leadership Council). It was really good and all but it still takes 7 hours out of our schedule so that's a bit of a bummer. We had a lot of our people also cancel on us so we were just left biking to and from a lot, which is kind dukes. We met with Charlie again and he's still awesome, and so is Sak Seth (Set). I love both of them so much! I feel like one of my personality traits out here on a mission is I just share like my whole heart with people, which in return can hurt me back sometimes because when they don't accept the gospel, which is so very dear to me, it hurts. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I just want to say as a missionary you get a taste of what Jesus Christ might have felt like to ...

 Hello my beloved people haha this week was great but only because the Lord was able to fix my way of thinking, or my perspective I guess you could say. So let's start off by sharing why. This last week was kind of hard but I don't think I would've traded it. I got humbled this last week with some negative thinking and a stomach flu that lasted three days and now has turned into blocked sinuses and a headache for the last two days. The reason I say I wouldn't trade it is because I feel I was taking good health and other blessings the Lord gives me daily for granted! As I was sick to my stomach, I had time to ponder while resting and while riding my bike since I was doing that slower now that my whole body hurt. I just thought about how if satan could have things his way, we would be miserable all the time. Just like I was miserable right there and then. Every day, hour, minute, and second would be awful. I thought about the scripture that says something like. . .the nat...

 Alright fam and friends out there! It's yo boy Elder Acton and I'm here to promise that I'll get one of these out weekly for the rest of my mission. The reason why is because my mom sent me Joseph's, my younger brother, senior presentation video in which Coach Brem gave me a little chastisement for not being on top of these emails. So here I am, lol Updates: I can't remember if I've told peeps over there in the U.S already or not but I've decided to stay another three years!!!! Just kidding, the most they'll let me extend for is 1 transfer or 1.5 months extra. Since the MTC, I've kinda wanted to extend on my mission but I didn't know if they would let me so imagine my joy when I found out that I could! What's even a bigger miracle is that I extended originally til the 27th of August, but like one week after I did so the news came out that the temple dedication for Phnom Penh happens on the 30th. So I begged President to push my day back anot...