I wanted to make the title of this email the name of my new area but I realized how much English sucks. You can’t make the same sounds using the English alphabet. It just can’t happen. Trying to sound out the name of my area it would be Jom Gaa mon. Lol. It looks so dumb. I don't even know. Khmae is way weird.
Friends 4 eva:
It was hard to leave Stung Mean Chey. I love that place with all my heart. Leaving was like a bad break up. The relationships I made there were so strong. The gospel brings people together so tightly. But now it’s on to the new new. New experiences, new challenges, new friends.
View from my new apartment:
My new area is way cool. Its really big. We have both sides of the Bassac River which feeds into the Mekong River about a mile north of our area. Cambodia is so cool. We cross over the river about 4 times a day on this really big bridge.
My new companion, Elder Olson, is the champion of the bridge:
Elder Olson is straight out of Orem, Utah. He likes to party. He also likes computers and robots. He is a Pokemon master. I'm super excited to be serving with him. We're going to do work together. We don't have very many investigators right now but we will very soon. Elder Brewer was the champion at contacting and he taught me all the tricks of how to find new investigators.
Olson:
I've learned a lot about sacrifice on my mission. My farewell talk was on sacrifice. If I could go back and do it again it would be completely different. A couple of nights ago Elder Olson took me to go see some members. They are an old Chinese couple that moved to Cambodia a long time ago. They live out in the middle of nowhere where there is no electricity. They live in a tiny shack and they both collect trash for a living. Their situation is the most humble I've seen so far. To share a verse about prayer we had to light a candle. They didn't know what day it was so when we told them it was Saturday they were excited to still have to opportunity to go to church the next day. Even though it is an hour-long bike ride and time they could be using to make a little more money, they came to church. They know the importance of sacrifice.
I don’t know why this picture reminds me of Morgan Freeman...
I love Cambodia.
Love,
Elder Osborne