This was quite an exciting week with lots of adventures so I'll get right to it! I didn't have school at all this week due to the Khmer New Year. Unfortunately though it's not much of a break because I have exams in about 2 weeks, so I did a lot of studying. However, mom, dad, and I enjoyed a fun little trip to the mountains/jungle of Cambodia on Monday and Tuesday. We decided to go see some waterfalls called Chambok. When we got to Kirirom (the province) we first went to our resort. It was a fun little place where the rooms were bungalows. Dad had supposedly booked a "deluxe bungalow", but we decided their idea of "deluxe" is very different from ours. The bungalow smelled and looked like it hadn't been used or cleaned in quite a while. It was musty with cobwebs, etc. It was also very dark which made me even more apprehensive. Being the wimp that I am I was very frightened of the bathroom (I couldn't see in the dark so I couldn't see what bugs were there). I finally braved it (I felt like I was on the houseboat all over again) and just as I was leaving I see 3 large things move on the wall. I ran out of the room yelling that there were mice! Mom and dad assured me that they were just geckos. I was still very jumpy the rest of the trip :). Just a funny little side note!
We then walked around the resort grounds a little bit. It was kind of sad there were 2 long-abandoned and ignored gardens, a pretty little lake, a mini-zoo, and an "amusement" park with a couple disney statues and water things. We decided that the resort had a lot of potential to be a really amazing, beautiful place, but had obviously not gotten sufficient business. After eating lunch at the only eating place there, we tried to find some waterfalls. We spent most of the day driving around on very bumpy roads trying to not get lost among the maze of red dirt roads. By the end of the day we were definitely "bumped-out"! We did find a couple of waterfalls that were more like fast water going over rocks. To get to one of them we had to cross a "bridge" that was more like criss-crossed beams (they weren't even nailed down!). There are few times that I've been so scared crossing a bridge. Mind you this was quite long and the bottom rocky. Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm probably exaggerating slightly :). But it was definitely high adventure! We crossed and then trekked for a little while in the real jungle. Here I am not exaggerating-this was pure, Cambodian, tropical jungle! It was so cool! There was a little pipe showing the trail, but other that we just climbed, hopped, leaped (some of them were literally leaps of faith!). We even saw a snake! After a little while we decided to turn back. I think if mom and dad were not in charge of the mission we would have kept going, but it would not be good to be getting lost or hurt in the jungle. So, we turned back. It was really fun though!
In the morning we found the real Chambok waterfall that we had been trying to find. We took a little cow cart for a ways and then we hiked for a ways to get to the waterfall. The waterfall was so beautiful! It was about 40 meters high with HUGE boulders at the bottom. I decided waterfalls are one of my very favorite creations of God. They are so gracefully majestic!! After that we headed home. It was a very fun, very adventurous escape into the nature. It was so nice to breath clean, fresh, jungle air instead of car exhaust.
Like I said the rest of this week was pretty typical. I invited some of my friends from school to conference over facebook, but unfortunately none of them came. I absolutely LOVED conference!!! I received so many answers to my questions. I usually don't feel like all of the talks apply to me or answer my questions, but this time it was so different. I don't know if I was more prepared or what, but it definitely strengthened my testimony that Heavenly Father is very much aware of each one of us personally and He knows our problems. It also strengthened my testimony of personal revelation. From the very first talk until the end I felt such an overwhelming outpouring of personal revelation. Very neat. Conference is such a great thing!
I love you! Have a great week! Remember: "Oh what a glorious morning"!
Love,
Kenzie
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