Eating Whatever they "Pho" at Us....Kidding! It's Always good. Except...

This week has been awesome!  Our area is exploding!  We are doing great work.  Last transfer was hard.  We didn't know the area, we didn't know the people, and everything was brand new.  This transfer though, we've figured it out.  We have a lot of people with datesand teach a lot of lessons every week.  I am really enjoying it...except for the driving.  We've gone to Seal Beach a few times for referrals and even Garden Grove.  We'll be down to 3 missionaries again this week....but we'll make the most of it!

  Happy Summer everyone!

Brother and Sister Butler

 Delicious Chicken Pho

 Durian Fruit.....

Oniony, celery...

Look at this meal Sister Sinuon Prel made....she's the bomb!

Missionary work is so awesome.  We meet the best people.  I am so grateful to be serving here!

Epic Week for a Little Fun!

This week was an adventurous week, that's for sure! Last P-Day was even better than the one before, and trust me, extreme nerf wars are hard to beat.

Our P-Day started at the restaurant Rosco's Chicken and Waffles.  We had a delicious meal, one of the best on my mission I would say, of homemade waffles, fried chicken, and house syrup. One of the Elders that Elder Clawson and I went with was wearing his Compton shirt, and you can bet that he got a lot of looks to say the least. I got the Obama special, because it was the best deal (trust me, that is the only reason I would ever buy Obama food) and it was like heaven in my mouth. I don't know what they did to the syrup, but I wouldn't doubt there are hard drugs in there... haha, I'm kidding mom.

Well after our delicious meal, we headed up to, well, Compton. Mom, you may be thinking right now, why did you go up to Compton? Is that even allowed? Did you get shot? Compton is in our mission, it is safe...ish, and I did not get shot. We went golfing! There is a 7 dollar, 3 par course up in Compton, so we decided to check it out! It was really fun to say the least. It was the worst kept golf course I've ever been to, but I met a nice man working there, and we all laughed a lot. We took some  pictures, and headed home, about a 20 minute drive from home.

Well I thought those were all of my adventures that I would write about for the week, but this morning we had an serious

battle with a fierce animal. This one's for you Aunt Cookie! After doing laundry, as usual, we left the door open to let some cool air in. Well I sat down to eat breakfast, while Elder Clawson was about to get in the shower, and noticed a ferocious beast, in our living room! Well after our epic battle, we gave it some carrots, and it left us alone, and we made a new friend. So now we are safely shutting the door, and opening windows instead.

Love, Elder Liddell

SERVICE COMES IN DIFFERENT FORMS

It's really fun to perform different acts of service.

So many avocados, we couldn't let them go to waste.

Chicken feet...enough said!

 Climbing trees like a bunch of monkeys....

Check out these beauties!

Being 6'4" comes in handy sometimes!

A relaxing lunch after a day of painting and picking avocados

PICTURES WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

THE FANTASTIC PARK WARD AND KHMER NEW YEAR

HAPPY CAMBODIAN NEW YEAR!!!

Khmer New Year was awesome! 

We had a booth at El Dorado Park for one of the biggest celebrations outside of Cambodia. We Painted a giant Cambodian Book of Mormon, made posters, and woke up at 4:30 to set up.

During the day we proselyted from 9 AM to 5 PM. We handed out over 1000 pamphlets and cards. It was a really successful day for our church!  We did a little shopping and had some really great Khmer food.  This is what I have learned... In the Cambodian culture you can basically say anything obvious about someone and they don't care. You could call someone ugly and it'd be a normal thing. 
Last week I was probably the most tired I've been in a LONG time. Earlier in the week, I had to wake up really early 3 other times which makes for really long days. We woke up at 4 to go to the LA temple, 6 to exercise for longer, and then we also woke up at 5:30 to get to zone conference on time, which was all the way in Whittier. SO, I'm tired.

Yea, I know...I don't like my haircut too much, but it's easy, and I don't ever have to worry about it. I'm probably going to let it grow long again.

Elder Low and Elder Fowler are leaving a week from tomorrow (pictured here on the right), so it will be the three of us for awhile. I'll probably go back to the apartment on Walnut. 

Ganya got baptized yesterday and it was a great service.

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! 

HUMOR FOR THE WEEK...

THIS IS THE LOCAL ICE CREAM TRUCK.  YOU THINK ICE CREAM TRUCKS ARE SAFE FOR CHILDREN....UM...

News: there are now two stakes in CAMBODIA! Which is huge! We're not the only Cambodian ward in the world anymore! It's so awesome. The church is spreading fast there!

 http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/country/cambodia

PS  It is safest to continue to send all mail/packages to the mission home address:  6500 E Atherton St., Long Beach, CA 90815.

Sending good thoughts and love to you all!

Nick