August 1, 2016

Hey Everyone!!!!!!

So the Cambodian word of the week is Sok Sabay. I use this word all the time! it means Health and happiness or how are you doing? or like when I leave saying it and hoping they will be healthy and blessed I guess.... Well its hard to explain but its nice! so you pronounce it as Suck-Sue-bye.

HAHA well I sure have some interesting weeks being a Cambodian missionary... Like yesterday the Chaing Chin (sorry this is totally spelled wrong) and the family went to the beach and got clams and snails... well they cooked the snails and they all wanted me to eat one and I finally got up the courage to do it.... so they had me lick the outside that had all of the good flavored sauce and it was good... then with a toothpick trying to take this snail out and I finally got up the courage to eat it and it was like hard and the consistency was gross... so I couldn't chew it so I spit it out and tried again but it just wasn't going to work..... I was gagging a lot and they all laughed at me and Sophie said its okay and that that's how she is with American food... and later Sister Pen said that normally they taste better and that they normally aren't that hard so maybe I'll try another time when they are more professionally cooked.... and they are cooking me clams tonight mostly so I assume they can be entertained... but we will see how it goes!

So the stake that we are in put on Fiddler on the Roof and this effort is for missionary opportunity's and President Blatter said that it will be okay to watch it if we have investigators that have a baptismal date come and we did and so Saturday we had the Chin family come and Bong Roth a recent convert with her non member husband and 2 cute girls and then also Bong Chaing brought her friend and son as well and they loved it... in all we had 7 adults come with us and we only stayed for the first act because it was 9 pm by that point and anyhow the 2nd act is sad so it was good to leave when we did! but the acting was really good... and I loved how they did the dream song but I thought the dancing was boring and simple so I was disappointed with that but it was great!!!!! 

It is really awesome how many lessons we are able to teach each day it hasn't been like this for my whole mission and its good but its a lot of work!!! I love being a missionary and it really is the best 2 years! or 18 months of my life!!!!

Hope you have a great week!

Love Sister Beck

Pic 1 me with my snail... yum....

Pic 2 Sister Pen and I

Sorry not a lot of pics... the other sisters have more that I need to get from them to send to you guys...