អែលឌើរ ម៉ៃឃើល អាតុន (Elder Michael Acton)

 okay fellas, these last two weeks have been a grind. I'm, getting into the Thma Koul groove though so that's good. Lots of biking, service, and lessons too. There's a lot of member work that needs to be done here which is a little different than the last two areas I've been in. Which, accumulatively, has been like 10 months. Sihanoukville needed member work but the part of the town I was in only had like 1 or 2 and the other area had all the others (like 8 max). Then in Pochentong the members for the most part were just super hype so we were able to just focus on our nekreans(teaching friends), but here it's different. Which is difficult because it's harder to see your progress when working with inactive or even active members. But we will continue to press onward!!! This last week we saw some pretty cool miracles, especially on one day that my comp was super sick and I had diarrhea (I got very acquainted with the toiletless squatty that Khmers use (used it 10 ...

 okay this week was great! This area is still a very hard one but we're starting to figure it out and maybe getting into the rhythm. I'm not going to do it by day this week because I did a bad job at remembering, lol But anyways I think every single day this week we did some kind of service for someone. We helped pack plastic bottles for recycling (very dirty) and then sewed up the big bags as well. Then we lifted this super heavy machine they use for irrigation; they pump up from a near swamp. Then we did a bunch of putting husked rice in bags that end up being 225 lbs where we then lifted and put into a pile that reached over our heads, haha. There was this ripped lok pu (40ish year old dude) who was grabbing the bags with me and we were tossing them up onto this pile. so we did that one day for like 3 hours then ate lunch then biked 17-20 kilometers to a teaching friend's house and then did 2 ish hours of the same thing haha. And then biked super fast home another 20ish ...

 Alrighty, this week was a busy one! Monday we were still in Battambang and we went and played volleyball which was fun and then bought some shoes which was also fun. But not much else happened this day to be honest. Oh, except for eating at La Pizza, which was super good and yummy in our tummies. Tuesday we had District Council there in Battambang and also mooched off of the other district's cake and cookies and goodies haha. Anyway, after D.C. we were able to go back to our area which is super nice. It's good to finally be back and preaching the gospel in our assigned area and helping the nek reans and members in Thma Koul. Wednesday was super good too, we went to a far area and taught some people which was good as well. Lowkey here in this little village there's not a whole lot of nek reans,  but that's gonna change soon because we are going to do some amazing work here!! Thursday we went to a different far area and taught some people there but mainly did service to ...