tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50940519749077363582024-03-13T20:24:28.150-07:00Elder Nicholas Liddell, California Long Beach Mission, Khmer SpeakingWhat a privilege—what a sacred privilege—to serve the Lord full time for two years with all your heart, might, mind, and strength.
Long Beach is home to the largest population of Cambodians outside southeast Asia.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-53982850139327325792015-04-27T13:10:00.000-07:002015-04-27T13:10:04.578-07:00Suar Sdei Chnam Thmei<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">This week was an awesome week for us! It was filled with a bunch of miracles. During the daytime this week we had meetings, and set up for Khmer New Year, so our proselyting time was limited. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Monday started off with a miracle.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"> W</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">e met a lady who is visiting from Cambodia. She invited us in, and we taught her the Restoration! She set up to meet multiple times in the week. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">The next day, I called one of our YSA Cambodian converts and asked if we could teach her niece. She said, "Yes." and so we drove down to McDonald's, inside Walmart, in downtown Long Beach. There's not many more ghetto places you can teach, but we had a really good lesson, and we were able to come back and teach them again on Thursday! O</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">n Friday, we got a referral from another missionary. We stopped by and taught her about repentance and Baptism. She loved it. We went back on Sunday and she set a Baptismal date for June 7th. I hope I can come back and see it! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">This week we went from having no investigators, to 4! It was awesome. I've never had an area doing so poorly when I got moved into it, but now we have found multiple less-active members, investigators, and are seeing real progress. I see God's hand in this work, and it is only because he loves us that he shows us these tender mercies!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things are great in Long Beach. I am surrounded by awesome people. I have come to truly appreciate my many blessings; my friends and family, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and especially the people I serve. The Cambodian members made my birthday so much fun, and cooked an awesome Thanksgiving feast for all of the Elders. Below are some photos of a day in the life of this humble missionary... I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!</span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-91010701241620526012014-10-05T16:59:00.000-07:002014-10-05T16:59:14.175-07:00I Can't Believe it's October!<div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-13554484623751870862014-08-04T19:23:00.001-07:002014-08-04T19:29:43.019-07:00A Leap of Faith<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So this week was pretty awesome. Something that is really hard for us is<br />finding SOLID people that will stick with us and progress. This is<br />especially hard in the car area because the church building is about 30<br />minutes away from everyone in North Long Beach. Well, I think we've started<br />to make things happen. The Stake Presidency asked us try to seek out Priesthood holders in the Park Ward if it is going to continue to be a ward. So, taking a leap of faith, I went through our ward list and higlighted every male with the Priesthood, or that is un-ordained and left it<br />at that. Well, as we went tracting, talking to everyone, etc. we started to<br />notice that we kept meeting males. Now this is strange because 80 percent<br />of the people I have taught on my mission have been females. But anyway, long<br />story short, we found a less active family who really wants to return to church-with 3<br />BOYS baptismal age, and a father who wants to come back. We also have found<br />2 more LA priesthood holders recently and have picked up many male<br />investigators. It's SO cool to see how when the Lord wants something done,<br />and there is a need, if we ask in faith an act, we will be the instruments<br />to get it done.<br />Elder Liddell</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-2613925410649541342014-07-28T20:22:00.000-07:002014-07-28T20:22:06.749-07:00Here's the latest from Cambodia Town.<br />
We are so lucky to have such great people to serve and serve with. Everything from awesome members like Seynin, going with us to teach, a sweet member named Sandy taking us out for sushi, countless meals from Sinuon, and so many other examples.<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Saturday the Stake held a big Pioneer picnic. It was awesome, and there was a lot of good food. That was the entirety of us celebrating the pioneers, they don't do too much of that here. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Sunday they asked me to play the piano for Primary. After opening exercises they pulled out their laptop and speakers, and kindly excused me to go to Priesthood. (I probably should try and practice more next time). Elder Clawson was laughing so hard when that happened. During the birthday song, I realized that I don't know how to play the ending, so there was no ending.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We met a awesome Cambodian named Weisee who is in a wheelchair, and works at a watch store. He is really nice and friends with some members in the ward. We think he'll get baptized.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Angelina and Vincent were sick, and had funerals two weeks in a row, so they haven't been confirmed yet! Yikes. Well, next week we can try again! Sometime things come up, but they are awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We went to Garden Grove BLVD and Beach BlVD on the south side of the street (Still in our mission boundaries) to contact a referral. We also have a potential in Seal Beach. We're really excited to get to go and teach somewhere new. New scenery is always good. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Things are going really well. I hope everyone's summer is going great! </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">It's really fun to perform different acts of service.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEG6Oimn2qw/U4pxUJ0ekAI/AAAAAAAAAaE/2tqonWEChlg/s1600/Avocado+hunter+Nick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EEG6Oimn2qw/U4pxUJ0ekAI/AAAAAAAAAaE/2tqonWEChlg/s1600/Avocado+hunter+Nick.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We started teaching her a few months ago, but it wasn't until recently she really wanted to get baptized. Her husband has a ton of cousins in Utah, who are all Mormon, so we are working really hard to get him baptized as well. He really likes church, and has a lot of friends here, and his wife just got baptized, so that should be enough force to influence him. He really likes church too, so it's just a matter of time! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I know I have included a lot of times in my letter that I am in the ghetto, but in this email home, I wanted to include a little more detail and show some evidence for the things that I sometimes see. To start of my list of ghetto things I saw this week I want to talk about the two people waiting at the bus stop. On second thought, you better not include that in the blog...anyone curious, ask my mom....she may not want to tell either! Next, we were in an apartment complex full of Cambodian people, and a bunch of little kids started to tease a kind of chubby, black, teenage boy. He walked away from the kids and asked us, "Do you know how to say knife in Cambodian?" "Kambut." And the Cambodian's all ran away really fast. We then drove to drop off our Ward Mission Leader at his house, only to find a mattress leaning against the apartment complex next to him. This wasn't any ordinary mattress though, this mattress had the word's "FREE HOOKER INSIDE" and an arrow pointing to their door spray painted in huge letters. </span><br />
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We then saw a Jaguar, which was pretty cool. It was a pretty nice car. The license plate though...only in the ghetto.</span></div>
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The next incident with poo actually just happened this morning. We woke up at 4 to get ready to go to the temple, only to find out that our shower wasn't draining very quickly, so we all took 3 minute showers. Then someone flushed the toilet, and water started coming up through the drain in the shower, very slowly. The water was pretty clear, and it stopped going up and we had to leave, so we went to the temple. When we came back, the water was the same, but the next time the toilet was flushed, strait sewer water started to rise. So we grabbed buckets and drained as much as we could... It eventually stopped rising, and the plumber was called. I hope by the time I get home it's fixed...</span></div>
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And that is why I am serving here! These people deserve and some really need the gospel of Jesus Christ BADLY. I know that the work here is inspired by God.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">So we are moving tomorrow, most likely all day. Because we are the last missionaries moving out of this apartment, we have to clean it, and get everything out... So that will be a HUGE job. That will be fun. So the way that transfers are going to work is I am going to be in another trio with Elder Clawson and Elder Tarter in the bike area, right in the middle of Cambodia town. They are downsizing it to just two areas because Elder Hicken is going home. Elder Low and Elder Fowler, are in the car area, which completely surrounds our area. It's kind of like a big donut. I am moving to an appartment on Walnut, which is a pretty interesting street. There are a lot of funny things that happen over at "The Walnut". We are moving super close to Cambodia town, which will be nice because we won't have to bike so far to get to our area. The only complaint is our appt. is on the 3rd floor, so we have to take our bikes up a few flights of stairs every day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week was an amazing experience for the Park Ward! We had a total of 6 baptisms, which was the most in the mission! Elder Clawson and I were able to have the opportunity to baptize a family, which is every missionary's dream! Elder Butler, who is a senior missionary baptized Jessica, the mom. Elder Clawson baptized Tharvee, and I baptized Somarly and Wannadee, as seen in the pictures. It was a fantastic service (a little long) that we had to hold in the chapel because of the number of people in attendance. The entire front row of the chapel was filled with people dressed in white, which was such a cool thing to see. It truely was a miracle. The mission president came, with his wife, to see such a miracle event. Our ward was excited, and is doing great missionary work right now. We found Jessica just over 3 weeks ago.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny story, when I baptized Wannadee her hair wasn't going down all the way, so when she was down almost under the water, I kind of had to shove her a little farther down, and she started squirming a little bit under the water. It worked! She was baptized, but the first thing she said after we changed was, "Were you trying to drown me??" I promptly explained the her hair was out of the water, and then she was okay with me holding her under the water, for a few seconds longer than she planned! I heard some giggles, and she had the biggest smile on her face that I've ever seen! The whole family was so excited, and now really want their dad to get work off on Sundays, so he can get baptized too! The Lord gave a miracle to Elder Clawson and I right before transfers. We are most likely ending our 6 month long companionship next Tuesday. We've learned a lot together, and are going to miss our area, and converts a lot!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it turns out today we went to the LA temple instead of the Newport Beach temple, but OH MY GOSH the new video in the temple is AMAZING and the LA temple is beautiful inside, so I had a really great experience. Seriously it was so good. Today was awesome because I really got my whole mind cleared up. I was able to really think, and feel the spirit. I'm so happy to be serving here! Afterwards we went and got hot dogs at PINK'S! The same place we just went as the family in 2012 I think it was? It was a weird to be somewhere that we had all been together. We drove by Paramount and the Beverly Hills hotel, and the Hollywood sign too. It was a really fun experience!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was awesome.The other morning, we heard squawking right outside of our door in the middle of personal study. The squawking was loud. Not like the usual pigeon or seagull. We opened our door, looked on the roof, and there were two full size green parrots on the roof! We were so surprised. I of course ran and got my camera, and noticed across the street about 20 more parrots, on the power lines! I have no idea how they got there, or where they were going, but it was definitely another random thing that happened in the Ghetto of Long Beach.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Great news this week, Elder Clawson and I found a family! Jessica, and her 3 kids, all are going to get baptized on February 9th! That's awesome because that was my new years resolution, and we're already accomplishing it! We are teaching them all a lot, and they love it. The senior couple in our ward, the Butlers, are helping to teach them as well. We also have a few other people, doing really well, and coming to church a lot, so we are excited for that. Transfers are on the 16th, and either me or Elder Clawson are going to get transfered out. Neither of us want to leave! Luckily all of the areas in the park ward are doing really well right now.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-29127380234026872472014-01-25T21:15:00.001-08:002014-01-25T21:15:48.334-08:00Elder Liddell has suffered a bike accident. He is out of the ER and is recovering after receiving stitches. The nurse said he will visit a dentist next week to look at a chipped tooth and bruised jaw. We would appreciate your good thoughts and prayers. We have no further information, but it sounds like he'll have a good story to tell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18003892649685962482noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094051974907736358.post-59163814074493694912014-01-20T15:26:00.000-08:002014-01-20T15:27:39.971-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: white;">WE HAD SOME GOOD LAUGHS WITH ELDER LIDDELL ON OUR BRIEF, 40 MINUTE PHONE CALL. NICK SKYPED FROM A MEMBERS HOME IN SEAL BEACH CALIFORNIA. WE LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! WE GOT TO MEET YEAY YEAY, A SWEET CAMBODIAN GRANDMOTHER</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">AND BRIEFLY SAY HELLO TO HIS COMPANION. NICK SOUNDED IN GOOD SPIRITS AND HE LOOKED HAPPY. MANY PEOPLE WELCOMED THEM INTO THEIR HOMES TODAY, FED THEM, AND GAVE THEM A PIECE OF HOME. WE WERE VERY, VERY, VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. BOY, DO WE MISS HIM THOUGH. IT WAS VERY HARD TO SAY GOODBYE.</span><br />
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