Sara enjoying her time

     It snowed today! Actually just enough to give a few things a white color to it, but it snowed! It's fun to see and remember that it's now December, but I am glad we don't get inches of it. And even then I can't complain much because we have a car, so I'm pretty happy with the warmer weather dispersed with a little sprinkling of snow.

Thanksgiving was so much fun! We went to two different houses (though I wasn't smart enough to leave room for the second after the first so I really couldn't eat much) and since we're in one of the two zones closest to the President's house, we got to go over to play games and sing. SO much fun! Not only did I get to sing and play at the piano with other missionaries, but somehow we played Catch Phrase with everyone. About 60 people were packed into that living room with missionaries sitting on the floor even, so we made as much of a circular pattern as possible and based teams according to who sat in chairs vs the floor.

I was a little bummed the other day because the other week we were dropped by a family where we'd started teaching the kids; Tommy and Jenny. The kids were taking it all in, but the parents were Buddhist and although they said they were fine with us coming back, they completely looked out the window and turned out the lights when we knocked on their door for the next appointment. Then there's a different family from week one we've been trying to contact but every time we go over there the mom's not home so we end up calling to make another appointment. One day we finally decided just to drop by and who did we see but Tommy from the other family at the window with all the other children! He ran to the door and I thought "Cool, we might actually get to teach them tonight!" until over the commotion of children's voices we hear the click of the door lock and see his shadow leave. We waited a few minutes anyway just to make sure they weren't coming, but apparently the Cambodians here are very connected and we just didn't get to them soon enough.

But the other night we went to go check a contact and although I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, we met the sweetest mother of four children who let us in from the cold to share our message and took a preahkompii moomoon (Book of Mormon in Khmae). She reminded me so much of Hian, the mother of the first family we trying to get a hold of, but I hope we get to her before any other connections do and that it turns out differently from the first. It's hard not to get discouraged when we don't have any set investigators, but I'm learning to enjoy moments like that when people do accept our message, even if just for that one visit. We planted a seed, whether or not they are ready to accept the gospel, and that's part of our calling. :)

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving week!

- Sister Dunster

 Me and Sister Walker with Sister McQuivey's recent converts; Toni and Erin Baker. (I promise I have not gained as much weight as it looks like in this picture.)

                    Thanksgiving Eve with coordinated outfits; me, Sister Walker, & Sister McQuivey

                                                     first snow with me and Sister Walker