This
week started with a very long bus ride to the city for MLC (Missionary
Leadership Council) on P-day, our MLC meeting Tuesday morning, and a
long bus ride back Tuesday night. It was pretty exhausting and lets just
say that riding a bike every day your entire mission makes your stomach
a little unsettled when riding a hot smelly bus.
On
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, we biked past Angkor Wot to
meet some members and investigators. The bike ride out there is about 40
minutes depending on how fast you go, and my skin may or may not have
gotten a little cooked. its ok though because now its a tan :)
On
Thursday night, we were companion studying outside at the main park in
Siem Reap, when all of a sudden a hundred bats start filling the sky and
one pooped on Sister Fa'atamali'i's arm. I was laughing then I felt
poop land right on my head and drip down behind my ear. Its probably one
of the grossest things that I have ever experienced.
On
Saturday night, I was unpleasantly surprised to see a wedding tent being
set up at our next door neighbors house, and the last two nights we
have tried to fall asleep to awful Khmer karaoke, and be woken up at 4
am to terrible shrilling Buddhist "singing"/chanting/screaming. I still
don't understand wedding culture here :)
We were able to
teach a lot of investigators and get three confirmations on Sunday! They
are all investigators of the Sisters before I got here, but I was still
so happy to see them choose to receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost and
become members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! I
love seeing how much the church is growing and is continuing to grow! I
love being a missionary! I love you all and will talk to you next week!!
Sister Bashford
ជំរាបសួរពីម៉ាក់
That’s supposed to say hello from mom. :) I still can’t believe you can read that.
I sent my letter for you and t-shirt for Kanika to Sister Snooks, I’m excited for you to see Alli, she’s super excited to see you too.
We were all going to go to CA this past weekend for Veteran’s Day, but only dad, Carson, Carson’s friend Christian, and Derek went. Hannah came home Saturday morning and we’ve been hanging out watching Hallmark Christmas movies. Me and Taryn like the movies and Hannah cracks very witty jokes about them the whole time, she says we get less and less intelligent every hallmark movie we watch. Lol
Nothing too exciting going on this this week. I hope you are doing great in Siem Reap and are able to communicate better with your companion. Soak it up!
Love mom <3
Hi mom :)
Yes
I can read that hahaha i actually read it before i saw what you said in
english and i was impressed with the google translation :)
Yesterday
i said the closing prayer in our gospel doctirne class and afterwards
all the members were like WOAH sister you know so much khmer youre khmer
is so clear and sounds beautiful and its so nice to listen to. hahaha i
think they may just be comparing me from a year ago when i didnt know
any khmer to now lol. its just the faster you speak and the more nasally
you sound, the clearer it is for them to hear and they think you are
amazing at the language.
I am way
excited to see Alli. All the members are way excited too. im kinda
intimidated by her husband, hes way hot haha. But im excited to get your
letter. let me know when/if you guys get my letter i sent.
MOM
i literally have only one month from today until i finish proselyting.
Its the 12th over here. technically the 11th is my last day because we
will be on a bus that whole day driving to the city. Im getting way
freaked out about ending my mission again. my coimpanion and i dont talk
about home or boys or music because she doesnt even know who justin
bieber is so shes way out of the loop of anything outside of our mission
so we just talk about that stuff if we ever talk at all. this week has
been so rough mom. i have never had a harder time getting along with a
companion in my entire mission. i would ask for sister Um back in a
heartbeat. but im also just trying to be super patient because i only
have a month left and i dont want it to be ruined by a difficult
companion.
kanika came up to
siem reap this week and we went to lunch with her, sister luke, and ed.
it was fun and its way weird being at church with her and ed too. shes
literally a member in my branch and i feel like it was yesterday that
she was my companion lol.
Aw im
excited to watch hallmark movies with you guys. those were always my
favorite. also hannah seemed to have a pretty awesome week with work and
her patriarchal blessing. im so excited for her. shes pretty much the
coolest person i know and i talk about her all the time to other
missionaries here. a lot of the elders want to email her hahaha.
Thursday
we take a bus to Battambang for my last Zone conference ever. i have a
lot of things i have to present and i am giving my dying testimony. its
so weird. ive watched dying missionaries give their final testimony my
whole mission and never thought the day would come when i would give
mine. im way scared that its actually happeneing lol. you are really
going to have to help me adjust to not being a missionary any more. im
not afraid of going home but im just sad that my mission is ending. but
ill talk to you about it more when i get home i guess :)
Love you so much mom!!
Sister Bashford
Darn
it, I’m sorry to hear about your difficult companion. Try not to let
her get under your skin. Nothing that happens will taint your mission,
you’ll end on a great note no matter what! It’s great to hear your Khmer
is do amazing. I still want a video clip of you talking!
Yes,
Hannah’s blessing was a very spiritual experience, I’m sure she told
you all about it. It was crazy how specific it was. Hannah is amazing,
just like her big sister. It makes my mom heart so happy that you guys
get along and love each other so much. You’re going to die when you see
Taryn. She was a little girl when you left, you’re going to come home to
a beautiful young woman.
Mom
Ya
its crazy she said it was so specific about certain things. its kinda
funny because mine is the exact opposite. so vague. sometimes i wish
mine was more specific because i have no idea what to do with my life. I
also cant sen you one because my SD card is jacked and i am not about
to buy my 9th SD card right before i go home. i can still take photos
and videos but they dont show up on my computer, so i have to wait until
i get home to show them to you and upload them to my laptop. do i still
have a laptop? or is someone else using it? also i just logged onto
myasu and school looks hard haha. I literally get freaked out every time
i see a picture of taryn now. the only pic ive been looking at the last
year and a half is the one of us before i left at the temple. she still
was a good 4 inches shorter than me and had braces. im scared to come
home to completely different people lol.
Kanika visited Maile in Siem Reap:
Kanika visited Maile in Siem Reap:
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