I am super excited to tell everyone about this week!!!
Saturday, we had a few houses to visit in West Oakland, then we had a lesson with Puu Dee, and he and his wife ended up Giving us dinner! It was great! after that we had correlation with Poamrong, then went to Siphals again to teach prim!
Sunday, we had the usual church block, and there are these two 8 year old twin girls whose family we have been visiting, and they both asked their mom to take them to church!! Their mom hasn't been to church in 20+ years, and it was really cool seeing them sitting together in Sacrament meeting. Prim came too, we were pretty happy! After church, we didn't have anything planned, so we called a recent convert named Sierra that we haven't met with in a long time, and asked if we could meet, and she said yes and that she wants us to teach her boyfriend, who is Samoan. He is Enormous. He's 6'3 and probably around 260, and he is super cool. he said he would be interested in learning more about the church, because his cousins in Alaska are Mormon! Right after that lesson, we went to a potential named Vanny that we met last transfer, and she let us teach her, and the more we taught, the more interested she became! It was so awesome!! She said the closing prayer and thanked heavenly father for sending people to help her become closer to him, it was awesome. Her family also has a pet rooster named Jeremy Stuart that acts like a person, it is hilarious. I took a picture with him.
I love being trusted by Heavenly Father to go and find all these people that he has been preparing, what an incredible and deep trust he gives to his servants. I am so thankful to be a missionary, and I am so grateful for the examples of righteous service I am given. There are people every where that the Lord has prepared to learn and receive the gospel, and he has entrusted us to take the gospel to them. Go and DO!!! I love you!
Monday we had a really cool Khmer dinner at Sister Sally sin's house with her son Sean, and Poamrong! After that we went out to visit a few less actives in the area!
Tuesday was the usual district meeting, then we went to Taco Bell! We got to in touch with Bunthai, all he said is that he is homeless and thinking of God, so hopefully that means he will actually meet with us again soon! We went and talked with some Cambodians that live by us then went over to Prims house!
Wednesday was good too, We met Samey at the Visitors center for a lesson! After that we went to see Sokunthea and Saruath! and at five we went to Siphal's for dinner and Prim and his daughter came over!
Thursday, we had service that morning, then we went to eat lunch with Yiay Sokham Plek, she was so happy to see us, and we got to talk to her about her daughter for a long time, it was fun! after that we had a lesson with Ming Sambath, she is so nice, she talked alot about her trip to Cambodia to see her husband (He got deported...) and we shared some scriptures with her. After that we drove to Castro Valley to go eat dinner with the Yim family, it was alot of fun, and we talked to their Dad about coming to Church, he isn't a member. It was a good night!
Friday, we had studies, meals, weekly planning, and Dance Practices. So not much happened all day, but we taught Jonathan, and he went through the bible and found things he had learned about prophesies that told about the Book of Mormon, it was cool to see how much the gospel is staring to mean to him!!
Saturday, we had a few houses to visit in West Oakland, then we had a lesson with Puu Dee, and he and his wife ended up Giving us dinner! It was great! after that we had correlation with Poamrong, then went to Siphals again to teach prim!
Sunday, we had the usual church block, and there are these two 8 year old twin girls whose family we have been visiting, and they both asked their mom to take them to church!! Their mom hasn't been to church in 20+ years, and it was really cool seeing them sitting together in Sacrament meeting. Prim came too, we were pretty happy! After church, we didn't have anything planned, so we called a recent convert named Sierra that we haven't met with in a long time, and asked if we could meet, and she said yes and that she wants us to teach her boyfriend, who is Samoan. He is Enormous. He's 6'3 and probably around 260, and he is super cool. he said he would be interested in learning more about the church, because his cousins in Alaska are Mormon! Right after that lesson, we went to a potential named Vanny that we met last transfer, and she let us teach her, and the more we taught, the more interested she became! It was so awesome!! She said the closing prayer and thanked heavenly father for sending people to help her become closer to him, it was awesome. Her family also has a pet rooster named Jeremy Stuart that acts like a person, it is hilarious. I took a picture with him.
I love being trusted by Heavenly Father to go and find all these people that he has been preparing, what an incredible and deep trust he gives to his servants. I am so thankful to be a missionary, and I am so grateful for the examples of righteous service I am given. There are people every where that the Lord has prepared to learn and receive the gospel, and he has entrusted us to take the gospel to them. Go and DO!!! I love you!
Love,
Elder Cameron Tolman
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