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Cambodia is a country populated by marvelous minds, full of people who are very resourceful. I am learning more and more in how the humble souls here use their ingenuity and engineering endeavors to live day by day. It is exactly that, to live life day by day and tomorrow will happen when the sun rises the next day. A wonderful speaker at church once said, "one must not leave poverty, but one must be the agent to let poverty leave them, instead". This saying continues to have an influential effect in how I look at the lives around me, and even in my own life! I able to connect the puzzles in what he says to the experiences I have each day.
On one morning, my companion and I went to ask a member to help out in one of our lessons. As we peeked our heads in the house, we saw her whole entire frame shaking and shivering by the corner of her walls. We rushed to help her out and saw her husband standing right by her. She had been so sick with an illness we couldn't identify. The husband gave us a list of medications she had been talking and I felt clueless in what those medicines were doing to that poor woman. We spent some times sitting by her and listening to her husband begging for help. The hardest part to take in was the fact that this man is drawing his last amount of money to pay tithing, but he has no more to pay for his wife's medical bill. The image, now imagining back to it, brings me to a greater depth of humility. I mean this man, sitting by his wife, who is sickly shivering, was sobbing and asking the Lord to help him. He bore a powerful testimony that as long as he obeys the Lord's commandments, his life, and along with his family's, will be in the Lord's hands. It is such a comforting assurance that this man truly " is the agent in which he changed the circumstance he is in and has changed his destitute circumstance, or in other words, the agent to change his poverty, his poor state", all through the enabling power of the Lord, Jesus Christ. We may choose to leave a place when we are in the poorest of states and move or we can choose to face the challenges and be the agent to change them, all in the journey of changing our nature!
With Love and Gratitude,
Sister Sok
Some are pictures of our proselyting areas. We received permission from our mission pres, for a day to take pictures while proselyting. A group of photographers from Salt Lake came in and took pictures of us while teaching, that felt really awkward. But hah, it's all good. The pictures are of an investigator and the areas we are serving in. The area is called "Trash Mountain". It is really cool to teach in that house on top of the trash mountain, though!
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