Called to serve in Cambodia: Welcoming New Missionaries-Army of God

As these Elders and Sisters were coming down this entry to Cambodia, I felt such a strong feeling that they truly are the army of God. Sister Brunelle and Elder Scott are the front runners here. In the background are Sister Vom Lehn and Sister Solario along with Elder Bennion and Elder Workman.

Here is the whole group from the Provo MTC. Sisters Tschuida (from Japan), Brunelle, Solario, Vom Lehn and me. Back row: Elders Bennion, Scott, Gerrard, Workman, Sundstrom, and Trung (from Australia) and President Smedley.

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This transfer, Scott brought in a new Assistant, Elder Nelson. Elder Ott is now the older assistant! These are great young men and we appreciate all that they do.

It was raining so hard that we had to stay inside for our traditional welcome picture. Elder Scott,k Elder Bennion, Elder Workman (Vietnamse speaking), and Elder Sundstrom (Vietnamese speaking).

Elder Gerrard, Sister Solario, Elder Trung, and Sister Brunelle.

Sister Tschuida, Sister Chin, Sister Vom Lehn, and Sister Trong (Vietnamse speaking). Now the missionaries have come in from the Manila MTC and we took the pictures outside the next day and my camera lens kept fogging up because of the humidity.

Sister Yen, Sister Lam, Sister Ou, and Sister Roth.

Sister Roth, Elder Lam, Sister Kosal, and Elder Heng.

Elder Morn, and Elder Sem.

Here are all the trainers and trainees together in our orientation meeting for both.

This was a HUGE transfer and was so crowded. There was happy noise all around as those 23 new missionaries were heading out to work.

Luckily, no one forgot to pick up their shoes on the way out the door!

A bunch of new sisters with their trainers.

Sister Kosal is training Sister Our even though both are new. Sister Kosal served a mini mission for 3 weeks before going to the Manila MTC. They are both serving in Battambang and doing very well together.

Sister Chin is being trained by Sister Lim. Sister Lim (lam?) did a mini mission before going to the MTC Manila for one transfer, so she has the most experience. In their first week together in their assigned branch;, which I think is Teul Tom Pong, they had 10 people to church who hadn't gone in 6 years. Since we received all these new missionaries and we could have more missionaries in some branches, our attendance at Sacrament meeting has gone up to almost 2500. We were only 14 away from that one week ago! Maybe on the Sunday we leave, we will make our goal of 2500. We are almost half way with our baptismal goal and our reactivation goal is going very well too! Yeah for good missionaries!