Asian. Like Always!

    HEYYYYY I'm Asian again!!!! YESTERDAY WAS THE COOOOOLEST DAY. Has this week already gone by? Holy cow. Anyways yesterday! It was my kid's birthday. She turned 22 years old. Man I'm a young mother. But wait for it...... just think of the movie tangled for a second. Do you remember what happened everyday on her birthday? think.... think..... think a little longer. LANTERN FESTIVAL FOOL! I'm totally a part of society now. That was the sickest thing I've ever been apart of. I've heard the meaning floating off the lanterns. It's like leaving away all your bad feelings. You usually do it with your wife or husband. We just sat with the elders and watched everyone in love. I turned to one of the elders and was like. Hey want to get married? Just kidding. That totally did NOT happen haha. But the lanterns was WAY cool. I'm way jealous of passed Emilee. I wish that was every night. Oh so beautiful. I never felt so at peace! Also it was pretty cool to see some of them catch on fire and burn to the ground! Oh man

    Yesterday we had district conference. President senior came and spoke. He is a boss. I love him. He told every one the new way we are doing contacting and really is just a man with a lot of faith. I respect him so much. We had an asia area authority come speak also. At the end of the conference he grabbed me and took me around having me be his personal translator. It was pretty intense. Especially when I didn't know the word for Iron. Haha. classic. But yes. Lot's of good information. I won't bore you with it. It was a ton about temples getting people pumped. We have an investigator who got so pumped of it. I was excited for her. She is getting baptized as soon as she realizes that this is the ONLY true church. That silly girl. 

    We had a companion exchange this last week. Sister Painter was my companion. She is adorable....

    Anyways. I have not much more time and I want to send pics and try to send videos! I love my life. I love food. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAILYN. Happy birthday ALI SCOTT! Happy birthday Taylor(late whoops). MERRY CHIRSTMAS! I love my mission. I'm seriously getting so many friends of a lifetime. My district is seriously the best role model and the best of friends. Yesterday I had a reunion with Elder Astle and ELder Proctor from the MTC. We were like little school girls. We were so excited. Man the lord just pours his blessings on me. Can't beleive it! MISS YOU BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME..... 

see you in a year. 

What up

Sister Phelps

I know it's way rough to see this but my comp and i at a wat with laterns

the chocolate bars are awesome. 

I love my new camera and the cool fetures

My companion and I got matching ugly watches. 

Giant ducks. Can't get any better.

Horray for asian skirts...

and reunions with your MTC Group! I miss Elder astle so much. It was just a party yesterday

also..... A member did my hair like a heart on my head. Don't remember me that way haha. I love my comp 

Lanterns

 my little girl on her birthday

What is uppppp in hereee

Hey everyone! 

    Some awesome news is that I'm alive. I may have worms but I'm alive:) Haha. Some more great news is that my mission has totally changed around this last week. Some more cool news is Loas Elders are bombs and they teach english every night there because they aren't allowed to proselyte at all so their english program blew up to where they had registration day where they would only accept the first 150 people that stood in line to register. They had like 400 people show up or something. The first lady of Loas walked right to the front of the line and signed up her daughter. They had police come and tell them that if they were going to make that big of a scene they need 24 hour security at the church. Haha. It's way awesome.... 

    Our mission..... How do I say this. IS LEGIT. This last week our mission is so focused on baptisms. The higher our numbers the closer we are to a temple. This week we received a brand new training from president senior that had us all in tears. A new way of contacting. Sounds crazy but this last week we had 5 baptisms from this new way of contacting. Next week we have five. And the week after that we have 5 baptisms and it's just going up. We literally go to a crazy busy place, ask if they are familiar with baptism and ask if they want to get baptized in two weeks. I have daters from this. It's way uncomfortable and way crazy and as a trainer I have to set that example for sister Her and it's wayyyy intense. It is a fast way of sifting and then if they have 5 minutes you drag them to the church and teach them a lesson. I've had 2 of those lessons in the last 3 days and they are soooo instensly scary ahhaha. But we have seen CRAZY miracles from it.... Also our numbers this last week were through the roof. It was a serious witness to everyone in the mission that we are serious about getting Thailand a temple..... I know they used the analogy if 2 people get baptized and 1 falls away is it better than 10 people getting baptized and 8 falls away? No it's not. Because those ten people have the opportunity to go to the celestial kingdom again.......... with out the water and the spirit you can't enter the kingdom of heaven. Those 8 that fell away still can enter heaven if they repent. It's a wayyyy weird shallow explanation but I've cared more about the salvation of others than I've ever in my whole mission...... It's way exciting. The Lord literally said in D&C "I will hasten my work in it's time." That time has totally come. The prophets have said it. We are pushing it and are crazy focused! 

    I love my misson. It's special. Precious. All of the above. I would be lying if I said I didn't miss seeing my crazy nephews turn 4 this week. Or Cailyn turning 10. Or Mckay turning 3....... Or miss going and running after crazy homeless people (Dad) haha. I really do miss home. But. This next year is totally not my year. So I'll just give it all. Don't need to worry about me... I'm fat that means I'm eating well. I'll send pictures this week. Mormon prom sounds legit. Miss you all!!!!! <3 Keep praying for missionary opportunities. The missionaries aren't the only people that have to bring people closer to Christ..... 

-Sister Phelps

Yummy omelet!

yummy street food. Literally we are totally on the street. Don't remember me this way.

I found hot cheetos!!!!! :)

that guy.... his name is dat.... he is a soccer stud. He is our awesome miracle investigator that the elders found and we taught him and got him baptized!

our awesome baptisms

I love my district

I'm still in Thailand...How great is life?

Hey family and friends:)

    I've learned a few things this week. 1) don't ride my bike with my mouth open...... There are lots of. uh bugs. 2) Baptism is important 3) When you have an asian companion, don't expect anyone to talk to the white girl. Because everyone will think the asian greenie speaks thai..... it's pretty great actually.... Then people really get surprised when I speak to them.

    What a week. Definitely a hard week..... definitely a hard week. Our numbers really struggled this week and I couldn't tell if it was me being a new trainer or if the thai people just really aren't coming unto christ. Haha. The school break is over and everyone is all of a sudden crazy busy..... Enough to where I made like hundreds of phone calls and 5 people answered and said they couldn't meet! AHHHH Sooo frustrating. President Senior has a goal for November that every companionship gets a baptism. And it's intense. And I'm trying my best. Sister Her is trying her best. But we haven't seen much of anything. The zone leaders the night before our baptism with Yim asked us to wait till the next week to get her baptized so we could make our goal. I was so mad haha. I was like NO. Oh I probably should have done it haha:) But Yim was soooo excited I couldn't tell her no one more week so I can make my goal. But yes.! Keep praying for a baptism for Sister Her and I this month. WE NEED A MIRACLE.....

    With that note:) Last night I went inviting at the park with the zone leaders and we have a new way of contacting where we share a couple sentences about baptism and ask them to get baptized on a specific date on the spot and if they say no, we move on to the next person. It's pretty stinking bold I won't lie. I'm always like. Uhhhhh.. hey whats up. But Yesterday. It was totally cool. I totally had 2 out of 7 people that I talked to commit to be baptized on the 24th..... Sooooo yes:) Hopefully thats our miracle! 

    One of my favorite things to do this week is to stand on a corner and read 2 nephi 31 haha. Such a classic. Call repentance to everyone. It's pretty effective in the fact that a white girl can read thai..... Everyone wants to know why. And my companion can just explain about baptism..... SNEAKY:)

    My companion and I are getting along soooo well. Oh man. I love her so much. She is so cool and solid and we really get along. She is totally motivated and we are just doing everything we can to help Zion build... Also, We finally had the poop talk. The other day she comes in my room and is like. Uhhh. I have a question." So I've pretty much since I've gotten here.." I was like "Yes, Sister Her Diarrhea is completely normal. You will never have a solid for the next 16 months of your life:)" Haha. So classic. We are the best of friends nooooow. 

    FOOOD. I love having an asian companion. We have been doing this thing where we just go read the menu. Whatever I can pronounce/read, I order it. Or if there are pictures we point to the pictures and the make it for us.... MAN We are rocking the system. Some things I'm like, oh that tastes like sewer. But I have eaten some super delicious food from it! Ha

    Halloween! I'm sooooo jealous! I forgot it was halloween the day I woke up... But all in all it was a good day. Our ward had a halloween party and literally every single person dressed up as a ghost. Oh my gosh. I died. It was hilarious..... The missionaries had a room with games..... It got intense. Bobbing for apples. How disgusting that game is haha. grooooosss! But anyways it was fun.! I love my nieces and nephews. They are seriosuly sooooo adorable...........! Next year baby...... I'll play with them for days on days. I'll never get married, but I'll just be a permanent nanny. That sounds good. :)

    I've really have come to understand the gist of really giving yourself fully to the Lord's work. I'm totally on the Lord's time. I get so frustrated sometimes that you probably don't even know about but I always try to make myself get over it as fast as possible because I still have to follow the plans for the day. I can't just go to the beach. Lay in the sun. Hit my snooze button. Eat Chilli's chips and salsa. Watch youtube. Go on wikapedia. No everything is just the Lord's will. It was a hard concept to swallow but I feel totally happy to give this next year of my life to him. These 18 months may be some of the hardest times of my life. I may not like some months or some days. But these 18 months are the best thing FOR my life. I realize that now. Totally grateful for prophets. WoOOp 1 year left. I'm nervous!!  Really nervous! 

That's all I have for this week:) Keep praying! Love you!

Sister Phelps