Me and my old companion, Sister Peterson, got to go back to an old area to see the baptism of Jack Nith! She is so prepared! It's amazing seeing how the work continues without you and it's even more of a blessing getting to see the fruits of your labors (in combination with other missionaries' labors.) She is so excited to serve a mission, too! SHE'S AMAZING.

Me and Sister Peterson walked into the church for the baptism to see an awesome surprise. Our RC's daughter was there and she was getting baptized the following week! Me and Sister Peterson tried contacting her but she was so busy with work and couldn't start learning with us.

Lo and Behold she just got baptized! We didn't even know she had started meeting with the sisters! It was a wonderful surprise. Seeds really do grow after all!

We got smartphones now!  Having smartphones in this mission is going to be an absolute GAME CHANGER. All future missionaries who get to serve their whole mission with smartphones will never know the Nokia life. But Alas, many missionaries are starting to get their phones and it's so awesome! I, unfortunately, am not going to be getting one because I'm too old in the mission. Sigh. It's okay.

In order to receive a smart phone, all of us have to do a ton of training about all the new rules that involve smart phones and how to deal with all the temptations that come with it. Which means everyone has to watch a video that I filmed for the church 4 years ago! I've gotten many texts and phone calls and it's way funny. I play a waitress that serves a set of elders that come into a restaurant. :)

Facebook

All the members say, "Sister you're famous!"

I give them a confused look and they say, "I saw your facebook video!"

I made ANOTHER video explaining an English idiom in Khmer for the English Class Facebook page and the senior couple in charge of English Class liked it and promoted it so it appeared everywhereee! English class is one of our many ways we are able to find people who want to know more about Jesus Christ. So many prepared people find us through english class. So I was super honored I was able to help the Facebook page out so we can continue to be blessed with new students. But boy, all the members come up to me and say, "WOULDN'T BE CAUGHT DEAD!" (That's the idiom I taught)

We were doing companion study at a donut shop (because the power was out which means we had to find a place that had a generator and AC) when all of a sudden we get a call from the Senior Sister Training Leaders.

"Are you free in 30 minutes?" They asked.

"Um...we can make ourselves free," we replied.

"Cool, because there's a government official coming to tour the church and they want us to sing to him."

WHAT.   We rush home to look good and to grab the sheet music for Sister Saunders. We were singing a song in Khmer but she doesn't know how to read Khmer yet so she has her own version of "Come Unto Christ" with all the khmer words written in Vietnamese letters #LooksCanBeDeceiving :)

We get to the Church sweaty and gross and start practicing. There's 6 of us Sisters and thankfully all of them already knew this song.

AND THEN IT WAS SHOWTIME.

They come into the chapel and we greet the government official. One of the Sisters says, "Hello, Bong!" Bong is a word used for people who around your age/Not old enough to be parent.

IMMEDIATELY after she said, "bong" one of the church officials walks up to us and says, "You can't used the word, 'bong' because he's technically considered royalty, so you have to say. "asdkjf;" <--Some word I don't know  BECAUSE YOUR HOMEGIRL IS NEVER AROUND ROYALTY.

Anyway, Mr. Royalty was way chill that we accidentally used the wrong word for him and was super nice. We sang for them in the chapel and we made a Senior Sister cry! Mission accomplished.