Getting into the Groove

 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 times at least). Anyway, I told Elder Gubler that the Lord must have some big miracles to give us because man, were we feeling the whirlwinds and pressures of satan beating us down. But low and behold after I said that we biked to a market and the husband of the girl we were going to teach was the cashier instead of his wife, like usual. After talking for a bit we found out that he actually learned with Elders in like 1998 when he was a kid. So that was cool! He wasn't interested to learn but we know the Lord will work on him. Anyway, after that we rode our bikes, while hurting, 15 more kilometers to another place where our teaching friend introduced us to his niece and her family and she is already Christian and wants to learn so much. Super amazing and I'm so excited for the opportunities that are coming into our lives. I'm just praying I don't screw them up!

Long story short, the Lord knows us and our trials and loves us dearly as well.

I love all of you and please don't forget your strength who is Jesus Christ!

~Elder Acton