Clint mission #46 12/7/98
Dear Family,
Well no mail today! I think it is due to Thanksgiving. I am glad that E-mail came through. Dad you’ve got the move pegged. ( Elder Brooking moved back to the house with all the water and power trouble and Clint, Johnson’s and companions live in the new place still. ) From day one of the move Elder Hoare and I have been working closely with our new companions. We went shopping for bikes together, orientation meetings, etc. Elder Walker, who came in the group before Elder Hoare and I, and just happens to be in the first group called officially to the Cambodian Phnom Penh Mission, before they were called to Thailand, is the new D.L. It is nice not to have to be D.L. and the trainer.
This has been Elder Badger’s first full week in the country. It has been a great one. He was asked, along with Elder Stewart, to bear his testimony in Church yesterday as a new arrival. The members perk up and get ready to giggle as the new Elders struggle with the language. They were disappointed. Elder’s Badger and Stewart have a good start. Working together this week Elder Badger and I committed Sophiap and his wife to baptism Jan. 3rd and a college student Naarith to baptism on Jan 10th. Some more contacts through members, inactive visits and meeting with new members. It was a very productive full week. Elder Badger is from St. John’s Arizona and is the middle child of 7. He is also the first in his family to serve a mission. He sleeps like a bear. We bought him an alarm clock today and picked the one with the loudest alarm. Like I say he is good with the language and the people understand as he teaches. He has the first discussion halfway memorized. He is good with the scriptures. He is struggling a bit with the traffic. It gets pretty crazy sometimes with motos, cars, people, bikes, handcarts, etc. all on the same road. He also reminds me to be careful.
Today Elder Hoare and I planned a P-day activity. We visited Toul Slang the school turned into a prison. It was fun because our whole District went: Elders Walker, Pruett, Hoare, Stewart, Badger and Rogers. However the things seen there are not fun and there is a bad feeling there. It is much like what happened to the Jews in the Regime of Hitler. Just like a concentration camp with the walls of pictures of those who died at the school.
This week has brought several experiences with other Christian Churches here in Cambodia. There are many. We met with some young people who were members in another church, they said that they wanted to study with us. Things started out great we gave them copies of the Book of Mormon and they just fizzled out. We have not seen them back since. How can you follow Christ and not believe in the Book of Mormon?
Thanks for taking care of me!
Love your Son, Brother, Missionary, Elder Rogers