5 Days!

    Seriously What the freak? I leave on Monday? No stinking way! I gave all the details to mom so if you want to know when I go and such talk to her. Well, the rumors are true. I'm fat. I ripped my pants trying to get them on. I don't really know what to do now besides cry. Just kidding. I'm just fat. No big deal! Alright! Wait what this is my last week in America for 17 months say what?! So weird! I'm so ready to get out of here! I'm going a little crazy! But I still love it at the same time. It's the best! Also, I'm a star! I was on TV. Yes, I was on it. We have watched it a thousand times all our district pointing out our faces from the broadcast! It was so much fun! Ahhhh, I'm on the front picture of LDS.org! :) Check out my fat rolls.

    So yes! This week has been another eventful week in the MTC as well. I am telling you. Our disctrict/companionship just does not have a normal MTC experience.... Welp. Drum roll. BED BUGS. Remember I was telling you about my bug bites? Well I didn't explain how bad it was. It swelled up my leg and got infected and had to go to the health center a couple of times. Anyways. No worries. It's just a nasty scab/scar now. Don't freak out momma. But anyways. We had....bed bugs... The freaking worst ever..... All day on Monday, the two district of girls that got in on May 1st. Yeah. both of our rooms were infested. So we had to pack EVERYTHING up  and move rooms. It was the biggest pain. I was like, this would happen to us. Seriously though they treated us like lepers. We had to wash EVERYTHING. Spray all our stuff with bug killers and I just felt so unworthy. Haha. Just kidding but seriously. It was crazy and hilarious......We were like, this would happen our last week here. Actually you know what I felt like? Remember in Monsters Inc. when they found the sock on the fuzzy monster and freaked out and shaved all his hair? Yes that would be us.... We again, were treated like lepers.

You know you have been in the MTC too long when............

1) you get bed bugs

2) you find the Lord's sense of humor in everything that is funny. Come on.... "emu" Seriously.  Hilarious.

3) When Janice Kapp Perry comes again to speak.....ON THE SAME EXACT TALK SHE GAVE LAST TIME. Except this time was way more cool. She wrote new lyrics to the "EFY medley" for the boys, because remember she had already wrote it for the girls and it was all about missionary work.... pretty awesome. But yes. I heard the same exact talk twice.

4) When in Thai the word for "speak" is "Phuud" litterally sounds like the toilet waste pood. And when your companion starts to complain about something our teacher said and said, "Daa Brother Shipley Phuud." And the immaturity coimes out and everyone starts laughing.

5) Also the word in Thai is "oobuttyhead" Seriously. Who came up with that word. It's like saying lake titticaca without laughing. Every time I see elder proctor(roughly 50 times a day) That is our greeting to each other... Oh and it means "accident" Oh I was like hey, I'm an accident... Because. Lets get real. I was an accident:) Right parents? haha

6) I was also called a dinosaur in my lesson with one of our investigators.....Because I squack.... that genetic disorder where we gulf too my air or something. Yeah roughly happens 17 times a day to me hear.... I'm a true pteridactle. Sorry baby connor. I got this one....

7)When your companion has her tonsils taken out, time to recover and all that jazz.
I had more in my head this morning..... But oh well....

    So our sub, Brother Burges who is the other district teacher subbed our class and told us some freaking hilarious stories! In Thai obviously. He wanted some more milk from this shop. He was like "pour me some more milk." And that phrase in Thailand has a slang which really says, "Can you shake your breasts." And to his surprise, The old Viatnamese man serving him the milk started dancing for him. Haha he said his companion was rolling. Okay, I think those are the funniest ones.

    So crazy this week is you know, mission presidents, and no i didn't see President Smith. I saw him on Sunday but he was so far away... But yeah, so we are about to walk up to the front desk and they were like, oh wait hang on. Elder Holland is about to walk through these doors, can you move to the side and we can take you so you don't see him. Yeah we are that close to these men at all times. They put drapes in the main building so no one looks in....

     Well, I love the MTC. It's like...home...... It's slightly a mix between junior high school and a prison.... But I like it. I miss you guys like crazy..... I seriously do!!! Especially those little ones who are growing up way too fast. I just remember the night before I left I was like, Can I do this for 18 months? Haha. But yes. It's worth leaving my family for 18 months so my investigators can be with there families for eternity!

     From the devotional I have no idea what to think. It was honestly the most spiritually rewarding experience I've ever had in the MTC. Like I was so lucky to be sitting ten rows back from some of the 12. It was so cute. Elder Nelson is the CUTEST! Like every 10 minutes he would turn around and wave to us. Elder Bednar and Elder Scott did once as well. It was so cool. I was so close to them... But I love the words Elder Anderson spoke on. Just that if we do our best the Lord will not let us fail. The Lord leads us by thge hand and the miracles follow. I hope that devo had everyone pumped for missionary work! Seriously. You know that lady that shared her conversion story with elder Nelson, Sister Marriott? Yeah she spoke to us last week in Relief Society. It was awesome! I think it's SO cool how aware the Lord is of this generation. This mission will spread so far! AHHHHH. I'm so lucky to be a part of this historic time in the MTC when I was a first for everything!!!! So it was also funny in the broadcast, we saw the teleprompter the whole time. Haha. I had such a headache after! Oh and those videos of Elder Anderson in Thailand? Amazing. I cried haha. And when the Children sang those missionary medleys. Couldn't stop those tears. I miss kids so much and the Lord is SOOOO preparing his children while they are young for missionary work. I remember how much it wasn't pushed in primary. But now, the twins know I'm in Thailand. Ahhh. I just love this... It's the greatest. I have never had a strong passion to serve as I do right now!

    Talk to you on Monday! Also, tomorrow [Thursday] would be the last day to send me a dear elder because they don't do dear elders on weekends and such. So I will never get them. So thats about it! Love you all! Oh and Aunt Karen is the BOMB She sent me all the diet coke I would ever need and some goodies. Oh my gosh. I love her so much..... I needed that diet coke today. She knew. That is all.

Bed bugs.... Bio hazzard bags... We are the lepers..... mighty mighty lepers.

It was Elder Hill's birthday party..... (his actual bday is July 3) but as you can see, my hat was falling off....action shot

That was outside the temple this morning with our district girls. I love them so much. I'll miss them and the temple terribly

Sister Hughes pre-surgery :) So much fun... Also family. She is pretty much fully recovered. It was a good week this week. Lord has really blessed her..

Me and Hermana Moore:) I love her. I keep forgetting to tell you. I was her companion for a short while. She is so funny. She lost her companion, so I got permission from my DL to go with her to find her companion. And I see her a couple times a week. She is the only one i know here. Keeps me sane.

Oh you know... Me and the Sister Cole Slaugh hosting new missionaries last week.

Me and Elder Black in my zone. We have pandas. Hence the picture with panda bears.

This picture was sent to Jessica by her friend that works at the MTC who spotted Emilee on the run.

Can you find Emilee? (Hint: look for yellow). The broadcast itself had some incredible messages and big announcements as far as missionary work goes.  She was able to be a part of the MTC missionary choir that sang at the event. 

I miss pants

   I'm sorry in advanced. This letter will be much shorter than normal. We are hosting today and don't have a choice. It's a real slight bummer because there goes two of my Pdays in a row. But thats okay. I'm excited to be someones first experience in the MTC! Wooo. Anyways. A little bit of a rough week. Not too shabby at all, just difficult. Sister Hughes had her surgery! A week ago! I can't believe it. She has had a pretty normal recovery. Thank you for your prayers! We all are a little off our game this week, but some really great experiences!!!

   Mommy I'm so stoked you had a great time at camp. Makes me happy. Also can I say that it makes me happy that you freaked out that I almost had my tonsils taken out. Haha. Marie wrote me and I like died laughing. How did I know that was going to happen? Oh yeah. So I wrote letters last week but didn't send them out. I'm sorry about that to everyone. I honestly don't have time to write letters today either. It's kind of a large bummer I will not lie. But I'll try to send my last week letters this week. And yes there was a Father's Day letter. I'm the worst daughter in the world! My dad is the coolest, biggest example in my life and I couldn't even put a postage stamp on a stinking envelope! But it's coming Dad don't you worry! I just have had no time at all to breath this week! But it's all good. I'm a missionary. I think that's how it's supposed to be!

     I need to start by saying you will never see my cheetah shirt again on Sunday. We have to wear "classic" missionary attire. You know, ugly. haha. But really. We can't really wear anything. I'm a little nervous in what I will wear, but I'll let future Emilee deal with that!
    Ahh, so nothing funny or new this week! I really have fallen in love with two songs though. "Poor Wayfaring Man." Just an amazing background story, and "Lord dismiss us with thy blessing." Honestly its my life. "Lord dismiss us with thy blessing, oh refresh us, oh refresh us, traveling through this wilderness." Seriously. I have done nothing on my own here at the MTC and I'm postive the rest of my mission. As I have centered my whole world around learning this language and learning how to speak with the spirit I have really just given up on myself, and learned to trust in the Lord with every fiber of my being. I've had some great Personal Study this week about the atonement. And ONLY through Jesus Christ we can become "at one with God" I've never really considered too much on the fact that Christ was forordained to do this work. He was forordained to die for us before the earth was created and he was last of all forordained to LOVE us. That has been in my mind a lot lately and I try to focus my whole day around Christ. No more room for me. Not even today! AHHHH haha. But yes. Really just put some things into perspective!

    My new teacher Brother Thrap is freaking hilarious! I love him so much. Like I said, a little puppy dog and his Thai is exceptional so it's a lot easier learning from him! Thai is awesome! All you family don't even know how cool it is to experience learning how to read twice. I can't believe it. I have been given this amazing gift and talent of SPEAKING THAI. I can't get over it. I'm like, wow, Heavenly Father. This is way too cool that you are helping me learn this amazing language so quickly but to remember it for the rest of my life. True gift. What Up.

    So last week Sister Hughes was SOOO awesome when she woke up from anesthesia. Oh my gosh. I'm so lucky I was there. i couldn't stop laughing at her. She cried a lot, but it was so funny the things that came out of her mouth. She was like calling her dad Lester, when his name is David. She came out speaking FLUENT THAI! No Joke! I was impressed, The nurse came and got me directly after surgery because she needed me to translate for her. Hahaha, it was awesome. I'm glad I was there to secretely record her nonsense. Thats why she secretely brought me because I would break the rules and do that for her! She was like gagging herself with her stinking popsicle! Oh my gosh. I can't not laugh thinking about it. Okay. Maybe I'm just breathing a little bit harder thinking about it. I'm not actually laughing out loud. But yes. She is doing well, but she is having a rough time. I get up with her in the middle of the night every night to help her take her medicine and miraculously have enough energy to wake up the next morning at 6:30. Tender mercy from the Lord. I would never be bale to do that any other time. This morning we got up at 5 so we can get a headstart on the day when at 11 our PDay ends. Went to the temple and all that jazz.

    Okay so a funny story. We were on the 3rd story of our classroom building where the spanish missionaries are and it was hilarious. We overheard the teachers saying that whenever their missionaries get disscouraged they just want to take them to the Thai classroom so they will feel better about themselves. haha. Joke's on them. THAI IS AWESOME. Anyways. So, funny story... we had media and Salt Lake Times newspaper come to the MTC to interview about the surge of misisonaries and they were like get the hardest language so we can interview them....Thai.... haha. We were requested to be interviewed. Want to know something else? Mmm... Sister Stack's mother is the head of the journalism at Salt Lake Times... She came to the MTC. Sister Stack got to see her mom. It was crazy. Sister Stack was freaking out the whole time, like do I want to see her? But the MTC Mission president made her go see her mom. Oh because the head journalist was Sister Stack's mom they couldn't interview our distrcit. They interviewed the other Thai district. Brother Shipley was the teacher. They took pictures and such. So look for that article when it comes out! My family is in there!

    OKAY DRUM ROOOLLLL! I get my travel plans at the end of this week! Next time we talk I will know when I can call you from the airport!! How exciting!!!!! A week and a half left! I cannot wait to eat cafe rio... and I guess talk to you guys. I have a feeling I know how the conversation will go... "Hiya family" "Hey Emilee, Speak to us in Thai." "chingchangchongchingchangchong." Something like that :). Literally! I feel like my capacity to learn more Thai is gone because I leave in 1 week and a half! Remember at stake conference I said I had two and a half weeks left and how that time flew? I can't beleive it! Oh I forwarded you that email from the mission! Our first night we are staying in a hotel in Bangkok!!!! I can't wait! This is going to be the most exciting time ever! Did I tell you our Nung Thais came in? Crazy amounts. They are awesome and SOO much smarter than us I cannot believe how fast they are progressing. The teachers are really pushing them. I think it's awesome! Pretty soon here I'm going to be sending some things home. I will send home one of my "Urim and Thummins" so you can just see exactly what I deal with:) I love you all! Take care! Remember Christ!

Emilee and Miranda :)

This kid in our district emailed this picture to us. Brother Shipley- How we love and miss him

Hola!

    Yes, I'm speaking spanish. I hate myself too. Just kidding. Well everyone, I've learned here at the MTC that not everything goes as planned. Sometimes you don't know exactly what is going to happen next. As you can see it is about 7 o'clock in the morning here. I will be spending the rest of my PDay in the hospital getting my tonsils removed. There were like stones, and all week I went to a ear, nose, and throat doctor and they said that many tonsil stones aren't good for your tonsils so they decided to remove them. They said it's a two week recovery and I'll be on the plane to Thailand with the rest of my district. Oh oops. Sorry did I say me, it's actually my companion getting hers out:) Stop crying mom, I'm okay. Sister Hughes is getting her tonsils out today. I'm pretty excited for her I will not lie. I love surgery. It's a good thing I'm going to be a nurse. But she has one companion to take with her so she asked me to go help her. But yes, she is nervous. Has never had any sort of surgery. She is taking it well and knew as soon as the doctor told her she needed them out she was okay with it. Honestly one of the biggest examples. She is so in tune with the spirit I have no worries about her whatsoever. I'm acting excited for her so it's making her less nervous. But we decided to get up extra early this morning so she can relax before her surgery! Keep her recovery in your prayers. We were told the other day we are the most prayed for set of humans to walk on this planet. And obviously the prophet. But we were told to expect miracles. We have that right. So that is what we are doing. I think there is about 100,000,000 prayers that go to missionaries a day. I think each of us get like 100 prayers haha. We did the math. I think the Lord will send her some extra ones for luck:)

   Anyways like I said, You cannot excpect a thing in the MTC! The most same place in town. But holy cow. Haha. So I had my first ever break up this week. It was definitely tough. Our teacher, Brother Shipley, was you know just teaching us a lesson, when out of no where we asked him if he was teaching our nung Thais,which come in today, And he like didn't want to answer us. And he was grinding his teeth. Yeah. He left us, for the younger Thais. Typical male. Just kidding. It wasn't his choice, it was the bosses. He was pretty upset. But as soon as we got it out of him, all five girls in the room just start crying, softly because we didn't want to make it a big deal. And then he felt so like I don't know what to do now. And he was like, uhhh everyone go get a drink of water. So we all go out and all the girls just start hysterically balling. It was definitely rough news. I definitely wanted to curl up in a ball, eat some pop tarts, and watch the Jospeh Smith Movie..... get it? Because it was a religious breakup? Haha, cracked myself up... It sounds silly but I owe the beggining of my MTC experience to Brother Shipley. He started shaping who I am through his awesome words and testimonies. He is not human. The nung Thais are so lucky. And we slightly resent them for taking brother Shipley. But We get our co teacher who has been trainning, his name is Brother Thrap. Like a puppy dog. No joke, you just want to squish his always smiling cheeks. He looks like Lizzie Mcguires little brother. It's honestly crazy. And we have Brother Phan. But Brother Shipley, ugh, we said goodbye to him yesterday. It was hard. Even though he will be right down the hall. Just a dagger to the heart.

    Welp. What else? I see Korey Matthews all the time. And Meagan Hoyt! We all have the same dinner time pretty much so we are always running into each other. I also see the Patterson Twins on a daily basis. I think they are getting there reassignments soon! Crazy! I met someone the other day that entered the MTC last wednesday and GRADUATED on tuesday... Like honestly. How crazy is that. There are 2013 graduates. Blows my mind. I'm so old. Sick. Nasty.

    So I would like to share my TWO most embarrassing moments that happened my entire MTC Stay.  And you know me, it's hard to really get me embarrassed. So yeah, no big deal. Just walking around devo in the conference center. It's about to start, me and my comp are trying to find everyone else. When suddenly, a stair pops out of no where. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. My most ungraceful faceplant walking upstairs.
Flat.....
   
    I was pretty sure I broke my hand. But no, I just have a lovely bruise and a giant gash in my knee that wouldn't stop bleeding. Probably needed stiches. But hey, I get about a hundred prayers a day. Right?:) haha. But I'm fine now. It just hurt my soul a little when everyone was turned around to see the horror film taking place. Alright number two hurt my soul a little bit more. I was reciting "our purpose" in Thai in class and my hands were swinging. And I didn't notice brother Shipley bending over. Yeah. I accidently touched his bum. And everyone saw it. I was horrified. Borhter Shipley just laughed. But like, honestly. Horrifying....

    I cannot believe Tyler, Spencer, and Christian are home. It's so crazy. There is no way they have been gone for two years. So crazy! That's fun though. I'm sure they are happy to be home. Honestly though out in the mission field. Well, the MTC, Days go by so stinking slow and weeks go by fast. It's the honest truth. I love it here. But I can taste Thailand now, I just cannot wait! 2 and  half weeks and I'm out of here!

    So exciting news is that every tuesday from here on out we have devotional at the Marriot center. It's freaking crazy! So many missionaries. I can't describe it. So many missdionaries walking. Like you said mom, I'm sure they broacasted it. We have people getting out of their cars to take pictures! Like what the heck haha. Anyways, the broacast on the 23rd is with 1100 missionaries in the choir, 1100 members in provo who are professional singers and they put them together and we go to the marriot center and on the stage will be all the apostles and prophet and first presidency. Pretty awesome right?
   
    Anyways. It's like a tribute to misisonary work. I thought it might have been for like the mission presidents conference but it's not. Anyways. It's so fun. We are singing a legit version of Called To Serve. Which is so stinking high, then Hark All Ye Nations. So that will definitely be something I remember. I'm pretty lucky to be in the MTC at this time in life. We get about 900 new missionaries a week. The MTC slowy increases. The first week I was here I had no idea how many people this place could fit! Honestly I just don't understand or fathom it sometimes. Haha. So many people to bear our testimony in Thai to on campus (honestly one of my favorite activities). I'm just blown away by the spirit though on campus. It's truly like a temple here. Anyways.

    I don't have much else to say. We baptized our investigator Pthom. It was awesome! Such a good feeling. It's so wawesome to be able to say what I want to say in Thai now, It's not as frustrating in a lesson. Alright so one of my favorite Thai words is the pronoun for he, she, him, her, shim, all those good things... It's "Cow" We reference other people as "cow." Honestly, there is no better joy then calling someone a cow behind there back:) hahaha. I love Thai, honestly it's the most beautiful language, everyone of us are really picking up the language. For speaking it for a month and half, we can pretty much hold a gospel related conversation. It's a great feeling. Everyone envies the language. The boys in my  district always ask to pray at choir. I don't know why, but yeah, it's legit. Everyone is like oh my gosh, what is that. So we are pretty popular! Just kidding!

    We got our nung Thais and the rest of everyone in our zone! There are 22 Thais, 8 of them are girls! We are pretty excited, we have been just a little overwhelmed getting through this week with Sister Hughes and Brother Shipley. Anyways. Can't wait to see how overwhelmed they are with the Thai! They will do amazing though, I'm sure of it. If they have our teacher. Oh they will do amazing, if not better than us. In Thai we leanred that Tarzan song, "I want to know, can you show me, i want to something something" That one. It's awesome. We always sing it. Yesterday we had our first SYL day where we only spoke Thai. It was awesome! We did so well!

    One of the best things we do here is tell people our language is hebrew and we are going to Jerusalem. Some people poop their pants. Haha. Anyways.

    I've grown so much here. I've learned how to love pepole. I've grown to love Christ. I've grown to love reading the scriptures! I love that every unfair thing in life can be made fair through the atonement! I'm so happy for this opportuinity to be able to serve a mission, I don't deserve this! I just remember whenever I lose focus that my name isn't the only on on the name badge. Christ's name is there too. Got to make it right! I love you all! Keep it up. Pray for Sister Hughes! Be good. I'm sorry I don't have time to email anyone back! Loveeeee. I'm going to try to attach pictures, and I'm not sure when I'm going to write letters, depends on my day! Bye!

Seirously, TALL Time is our life (Language Study)

We love dinner... Seriously, what the heck is this trash? Cod Nuggets? FOUL

We escaped campus to get some medicine at BYU, what a glorious day.

You know I love me some language study time. Just FYI, a good night's rest in the MTC means everything.

We will miss Brother Shipley:( Sad!

Honestly this is the best picture that has happened in historty. We decided to do companionship hug when elder windsor wanted to snap some pictures. When we started. mmmm Whats the word, Falling? Yeah, We fell.

It was glasses day in our neck of the woods.

26 Days and Counting

I CAN TASTE THE THAILAND SWEAT ALREADY.

   I'm not kidding! It's so freaking crazy that I literally leave in that amount of time. We are the "veterans" of the MTC now!!! Like honestly how crazy. I'm blown away. I'm so ready to go though. Remember when I said I could serve my whole mission in the MTC? I was honestly kidding. Especially since I met someone who is literally serving their ENTIRE misison in the MTC. It's really sad actually. They are slightly disabled. It is so amazing that they came here to do the Lord's work just like us. They sit on computers all day long chatting with people that want to chat from Mormon.org..... They had 110 BAPTISMS last year from it. Isn't that so incredible?! Anyways I'm just amazed because I honestly don't believe I could do that. I've been here 5 weeks. I'm slightly going socially insane!!!

   
   Alright! I have good news and bad news! Which is first?? Good news. WHO WANTS TO SEE ME? Any takers? Oh well, that is okay, You can watch me on TV. :) So we are doing this choir thing for all of the mission presidents.....wait for it.....and the twelve apostles....wait for it.....AND THE FIRST PRESIDENCY. How freaking psychotic? I'm getting out of here. It's just in the Marriot Center. It's on June 23 and it's being broadcasted! I'm obviously going to wear my cheetah shirt so I'll stand out among the crowd! Alright more good news. Next week I go to the Marriot Center again! I'm not sure what this one is for. I forget.... But we are doing it. Maybe it's a practice. Who knows. Anyways, I have some more good news! On Sunday I rode in a car! A real one. It was glorious. Bad news is that it was to the health center in Provo. But hey, everyone has to make sacrifices. Including my health. It was definitely a bummer. I had like this flu.... It is actually a viral infection. They couldn't do anything for me besides tell me I needed to sleep. So that night I slept for 20 hours. Bless my companions hearts.... They are champer dampers.... I love them. Honestly though it really made me appreciate them! But I'm good today! Promise.... I also may have an infected bug bite. I'll get more to you on that later... Don't worry. I won't turn into Garret.

   Speaking of him, the spanish missionaries here are so stinking annoying. I mean, obviously some of it has to do with my southeast Asian pride. But honestly  They think they are so cool. They always like steal table at dinner. I'm like, okay. Woah....Missionaries. Calm it down. I'm not a hermana and don't point your spanish rice in my face. Let me eat my egg roll in peace. Just kidding they are fun sometimes. We have this rivaraly with them at kick ball. It's like at gym, "Okay guys, we need to go kick some spanish missionaries at kickball now." I think we all understand each other. Haha no, every missionary here is hilarious. The longer they've been here the more immature they are which means the more fun they are!!!

   Thai lesson anyone? So we learned the word for pirate... It's Jon Salad. Which literally translates to "Salad Thief." They go big in thailand when they steal... let me tell you:). Next is The word for easy.... it's the hardest word to say ever. I'm like, that is the most ironic word..... it's nguu nguu blaah blaah. Okay, how do you pronounce "ng" at the beggining of a word? You get made fun of by your teachers. Seriously...... It's the best. My teacher Brother Phan is such a nerd. He makes pokemon references to everthing we learn. It's honestly a great memory tool. We were working on tones the other day. Oh gosh. I've never seen Brother Phan laugh so stinking hard! I was struggling. So was everyone. But hey, I'm trying:) Thai is awesome. Honestly I think it could be a lot harder than it is. The sentence structuring is simple. There is no filler words like "the," and no congegations. Just tones. I feel like i'm going to take those words back as soon as I get to Thailand........ so the word for health in thai is "Sugabod" and it literally sounds like sugarpop. Sister Stack was in the middle of the lesson and just was like oh ya your "sugarpop" hahah. Most american, non-thai accent. So funny. Anyways.... 

   Sister Stack this week. Oh bless her little heart. She had an inflamed spleen so we all took turns so she could sleep. Anwyays after she was in pain for two days the doctor fianlly gave her some medicine. Hahaha. Oh gosh. She was straight up, uhhh I think high is the most innocent way I could put that. She was so quotable that night. It was literally her on this like anesthetic things. And oh my gosh. We were just in class. And every girl in our district is slightly in love with our teacher borther Shipley..... we all have it filed away in our brains... he is just not human. The things that come out of his mouth are just heaven and he knows exactly what to say everytime. He is definitely lead by the spirit. Anyways.... She was sitting there and Brother Shipley is just a little puppy, like how do I teach this woman? hahaha.... She was like "Brother shipley you are the most humble person I've ever met, you must have been born happy." Borther Shipley was dying. He could not contain himself and honestly he never laughs. But she sat at dinner, "What is water" "What is pizza" "What is ice." So serious. She was like obsessed with Enos from the Book of Mormon. No one knew why. And WE were sitting at the computers doing language study and she was like, "AHHHHH THE COMPUTER IS SPEAKING BOXES." Okay. Obviously. It's probably one of those you had to be there moments. But it was the best day of our lives. So that's why I had to share....

   I learned how to testify of bacon yesterday.... I bore my testimony of bacon in a letter to, wait for it.... yes it's marie. The only persoon that shares my love for bacon. I sent it to her in Thai. It's pretty legit. Everyone tells me I have good script handwriting. I take it as a compliment. I love writing it. And reading it.  I love reading Thai. I'm slightly obsessed. I can read anything. Understanding it is a different.... Have I told you the people of Thailand really don't have a bible. So we really aren't allowed to use things out of the bible. They don't have the King James version in Thai. Which is depressing because the New Testament is honestly my favorite.... Well between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Christ's love you can't get anywhere else....But yes. So we stick to the Book of Mormon, the keystone of our religion.

   This week we had district prayers which we did the $100 chair. Where everyone in the room says nice things about you! It's honestly the best feeling in the world. I will just mention a few of my favorites..." Sister Phelps, you are the coolest girl I've ever met, not only are you the only one that gets our dumb jokes, but you are making the dumb jokes..." Classic.... "You never wear out, just like your contacts."... Some cute ones as well. My testimony, being a very generous person, good friend. It's amazing. I really loved it. My district is so cool.

   So this week has been spiritually amazing too. I'm sorry I don't get to these things till towards the end. But a couple things. On Sunday when I was dying, well we sang "If you Could Hie to Kolob", and honestly probably the most powerful song of my entire life. I'm so blessed to be here. I don't deserve these things. I also realized this week that reading the scriptures for my personal self will never happen. It's slightly depressing. I stay up 5 minutes later than I'm supposed to so I can be "selfish" and read my scriptures. Seriously all of our time, energy, and spirit is focused on the investigators we have 6 now. This week I asked Brother Shipley if I ever would have time and he just shared with me how important my calling is and there is no room for me. He shared with me a scripture, obviously Ether 12:27. It was a different standpoint though on how I honestly just need to lose myself in this work. I cannot be selfish. There is no time for it. I've made the commitment as soon as I was set apart to forget my worries and I'm promised that as I do this work for the Lord, forgetting about my troubles and weaknesses, then will i be a successful missionary, and it's then that I will not focus on myself. If that made any sense whatsoever. I actually am out of time. But honestly  This week has really showed me who I am. I have come to find myself the more that I study for investigators... I dream in Thai. It's sick. I'm here for a reason. I'm going to Thailand for a reason. Heavenly Father knows, I'm not quite sure yet. But I'm ready for this adventure! Wish me luck!!

   **Hey mother tell dad thank you so much for the donuts.... I loved them. I eat them everyday, because I'm so fat....Seriously though. My jeans. I don't even know how they fit still.....And how about no more cookies or donuts for a while. Maybe something salty if you ever want to send something:) We eat so many sweets. We are like! Noooooooo whenever someone in our room gets sweets. We just have fat attacks. Maybe some lime hot cheetos.... and cup of soup? Mmmm..... That sounds good. We have a microwave right next to us... I dobn't need anything though. Just if you ever feel like it.....Also our family is hot from the wedding.! I love us........... I got to go bye!