From Zander Cook
Teaching in Cambodia
For the last couple of weeks, Vwnaa and his wife Ming Li and
their 4 kids – who are members in our branch – are always coming with us to
help teach lessons. (The youngest 2 daughters are the cutest things ever, especially
the baby girl who is, like, 4 or 5ish and has become my best buddy over in this
country).
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| Elder Cook with Vwnaa, Ming Li and family. Siem Reap, Cambodia |
As missionaries, we feel bad because Vwnaa “moto dopes” for
a living – which means that if he isn’t working, then he isn’t making money.
Moto dope means that you sit on the side of the road with your moto
(motorcycle) and if someone needs a ride, you put them right behind you and you
take them where ever they want to go. It is Cambodia’s version of taxis. So in
order to provide for his family, he drives people on his moto all day. A good
“moto doper” can make about 5 dollars a day and that is about what Vwnaa makes.
We always feel so bad when he is helping us because that means he isn’t out
working and making money to feed his family.
For the last 3 weeks or so, he has been helping us like
crazy. He calls us asking if we were going to teach Ming Sokom or other
investigators and if we are, he comes to help us. He always brings the whole
family (all on one moto of course). So the guy is super poor, but really
doesn’t care so much about working, but rather just serving the Lord. Well, the
Lord paid him back this week.
So on Wednesday while he was out “moto doping” he met some
white guy. The guy told Vwnaa to take him to a Tuk Tuk shop. When they got
there the man told him to get off his moto and then told Vwnaa to pick himself
out a tuk tuk that he liked. The guy then paid for it and then just
disappeared. Vwnaa said he didn’t know who he was or where he was from, just
that this guy dished out a thousand dollars to buy him a Tuk Tuk and then was
gone. I don’t know if we can comprehend how big of a miracle that is. A Tuk Tuk
driver can make 50 dollars a day driving people to see Angkor Wat. That is a
1000% increase in salary each month from a “moto doper”. Can you imagine what
you would feel like if you got a 1000% increase in salary???
So obviously Vwnaa was so stoked that he drove the thing
right to church to show off his blessing to the whole branch. It was super
cool. I am so happy for the guy. No one deserved something like that more than
he did. The guy is a stud and now he will have a changed life because of some
random white guy, who was obviously inspired by the Lord, blessed him. There
are miracles around us every day and the Lord rewards us all according to our
labors. I saw that first hand this week
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| Ming Li and her kids on the new Tuk Tuk |
