I loved Elder Oaks’ talk. He talked about having Holy Habits
and Righteous Routines. He also did something that was wonderful. He kind of
finished a thought, and then paused and said, “I am going to bring up something
that might seem a little strange to you,” then continued, “but I feel impressed
to share this with you. We are a record-keeping people.” My jaw dropped. The
records here in Cambodia are very poor, and he went on about the importance of
keeping records here. Super awesome. Elder Oaks also talked about enduring
through hard trials and keeping your chins up through it all.
Monday morning we picked up the General Authorities at the
hotel, and took them to the church for the missionary meeting. There was a
wonderful Spirit there as we got to hear the General Authorities and their
wives speak and share their testimonies with us. Each missionary had the
opportunity to shake the hands of the General Authorities and their wives, and that
was wonderful to associate with them. At the end, I got to shake Elder Oaks’
hand, in a more formal setting, and he put his hands on my shoulders, and said,
“Elder Kuhn, thanks for all you are doing, keep up the good work.” What a neat
experience that was! I am so glad that I got the opportunity to be around him
and his wonderful Spirit. He truly is an Apostle of the Lord.
I do have
some pictures that I would like to share with you! This is a picture that I was
able to get with the Apostle! Pretty sweet! And then when we had transfers on
the 18th, this time I was able to get a picture of the van all
loaded up with 12 missionaries, 7 of which had luggage loaded up in the van. It
was super crowded! We had to sit 4 people on the front bench, and it was hard
to shift… ha ha! But it was really fun. It’s a good thing that we only had to
drive a short distance to the bus stop, because if we had to drive 6 hours to
Battambang crowded like that it would have been such a burden.
