King 🤴

 Elder Vaughn J Featherstone told a story about the son of a king who understood who he was, and how he should act. King Louis XVI of France had been taken from his throne and put in prison. His young son, the prince, was taken by those who had captured the king. Because the young prince was to be the next king, they wanted to destroy him morally. They knew that if they did, he would never be able to become the king of France.


These people took the prince to a faraway city, where they tempted the boy with every filthy thing they could. They tried to get him to partake of many harmful substances, they used terrible launguage around him all the time. They tried to get him to steal candy from a baby. They tried to get him to cheat at monopoly. They tried to get some trifling ladies to adulterate him, but instead the prince took them on a nice date to the ice cream parlor, paid, and had them home by 10pm. Anything they could do to try to get him to let go of his morals, they did it. 

After 6 months, he never gave in. They asked him why he never even tried to do these things. He replied, "I cannot do what you ask, for I was born to be a king"

TLDR: Satan will always try to drag us down to be less than we are. To ruin our potential.

"These are his spirit sons and daughters, they have limitless potential" - Elder Uchdorf 2023 april. 
You are royalty.


Special thanks to "Duties and Blessings of the Preistood" (Part A) for helping me write this email

I so was going to dramatically just stop there, but then the weekend happened and it was so exciting so I must continue

First of all it was khmer new year, which in my opinion, is way more lit than "rest of the world new year" 
Normal new year has the advantage that it occurs at the beginning of the year so it makes sense, but other than that, realistically you can stay up till 12 and try to kiss the person next to you whenever you want. The fireworks are nothing compared to 4th of july anyway.

For khmer new years its hype because it lasts 3 or 4 days (kind of a bummer for missionary work because nobody can meet with us) But pretty much everyone leaves the industrial sectors, and go party in the *suburbs*  
Its hot, so hot, and what do you do when its hot? Water. lots of water, sqirtguns, hoses, buckets, and lots of baby powder and touching faces. Everyone just parties in the middle of the road, busts out the speakers, and blasts it. Traffic is horrible, but also fun because whenever you stop, you get mobbed by people trying to get you wet and touch your face with baby powder.

This is the kind of city wide party that I feel would happen if we made my good ol' friends Ian Werner and Chase Powell the co-mayors, or I guess since we are in cambodia, the Co-supreme rulers of the department of partying. IFKYK, and if you dont know just imagine khmer new years here in the good town of បាតដំបង

The first night was kinda a lil bumpy because I was trying not to get wet or powdered, and then I lost my companion, my phone had 3 percent, and my front tire went completely flat. But then I MIRACULOUSLY found someone I knew, they fixed my tire and I found my comp again. And then after that I kinda just embraced the fact I was gonna get soaked because kmai new year.

Here's a visual to imagine- 
Im just biking down the road when all the sudden I get a thicc laminar flow water cannon blast from a level 99 Blastoise right in my face (big water), which simultaneosly inflicted me with the blinded and drowning status effects. I can't see and I'm choking so I pull over real quick, so as to not hit anybody in the traffic. It's already over at this point, I've been checkmated 3 turns ago. A khmer new year horde surrounds me and I've got 20 hands full of baby powder in my face and 6 more liters of water on me. I made it out after like 7 seconds but yeah that's basically just your average stop and frisk procedure on this holiday.

Also I found a dude from Fiji 🇫🇯 🙌 😍  he was quite delightful.

Secondly, I finally got to watch all of general conference this weekend! And it was lovely. This is the first conference ever that Ive taken notes and stayed awake the whole time (I was pretty narcoleptic in the mtc and on my home couch)
Sorry to everyone, but this conference was actually for me specifically. You could call it the april 2023 elder platt conference, And we will leave it at that. 

Peacemakers Needed

^^here is a talk from the 2023 elder platt conference, and it is the most important thing you could possibly consume today. Please do so.

Here's the photo album. I'll put some pictures of khmer new year.
Sorry it was a big read this week, Not sorry.😎🥸


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