អែលឌើរ ម៉ៃឃើល អាតុន (Elder Michael Acton)

 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...

 Okay y'all it's been a while since I shared a weekly so I'm sorry. Just know that I'm doing great and I absolutely love it here! If people ever ask about me, you can tell them that this has been so far the most life changing and eye opening experience I've ever had in my life. It is so interesting to have this new perspective on life and it is also so refreshing to know that I don't need movies or relax time or games or other entertainment things in my life to feely happy. Truly, everlasting happiness is found in and through Jesus Christ and no one or nothing else. I've been the most busy here on the mission than anywhere else and I've also had the most joyous times in my life out here on my mission. To tell you the truth, I don't really want to go back to regular life. The absolute comfort of knowing my one goal or purpose in life as a missionary is to bring others closer to Christ is so fulfilling that it makes it difficult to want to go back and ...

 Monday- was great, bought some fabric to have a lady make sick ties and then we had MLC Tuesday- on a bus to the Phnom Penh city for a training for the leaders Wednesday- was the training and then we came back to Battambang Thursday- my comp was sick but still thugged it out and we biked 20 miles or so and did service for peeps as well. Friday- we woke up at 6:00 like usual but at 6:30 we were already helping a family take down stuff for a wedding. Hopefully the people who got married will want to learn! Then we went and got vaccines for dengue fever in Battambang and such Saturday biked a ton as well and had some good lessons, invited a ton of people to church Sunday We had a baptism and so did the sisters and I was blessed to baptize both! I love both of them so much and they're already great examples to those around them.  We also went to a wedding Monday went to market, called my fam, and also watched a ton of Easter videos and then pretended to play the guitar. Had a mee...