Learning Every Day

We had our p-day switched this week.  The District Leader (my companion) and the Zone Leader, Elder Ballard (He lives in the house with me, and his companion is Elder Hall) left yesterday afternoon to go to Phnom Penh for some leadership training. Usually on Thursday mornings, we do weekly planning, and get ready for the next week; it's a super important couple of hours that needs to be done with your companion, so we switched our weekly planning day and our p-day. So, Elder Hall has been my companion since yesterday afternoon. We also had to take our companions to the bus stop... what a sight we were with our companions riding on the back of our bikes! Ha ha! It was pretty difficult to ride my bike with my companion sat on the little platform on the back of my bike, but there were quite a few people staring at us, and I was pretty much laughing the whole way!. Ha ha, it's great that Elder Hall is my companion because he was in the MTC with me, so you have two brand new missionaries out proselyting... we are doing pretty good! Yesterday went really well, and I can tell you that we were definitely being watched over and helped by the Spirit. I would say it is a miracle that we both understood about 90% of what was said!

So, what a week it has been! Pretty busy! Last week on Wednesday, we went and did some service, stoonging (planting rice). Ha ha, yup, I got to work in a rice field! Man, that was an adventure! Ha ha! We dressed up in our non-proselyting clothes and took our shoes off, and stepped into the flooded and super muddy rice patty. It was teeming with little crabs, frogs, spiders, and who knows what else, but it was way cool and fun!  The missionary work is going wonderfully. If all goes well, by the end of August, we should have 4 baptisms. Obviously people that were being taught before I got here, but I am glad that I get to be a part of the instruction.