Our investigator was baptized yesterday. Sister Jan. OH MY GOSH........I love her...I can't describe this lady. She is from a christian church. The hope church. Which mumbles as loud as they can to express there love for God. We started teaching her. She has been an "eternal investigator" And she is about to marry the old branch president. Sister Her and I were so nervous to start teaching a christian lady because we have to change all of our lesson plans instead of introducing who God is, we straight away bear testimony of the book of mormon and jospeh smith. I'm assuming that's how it is in America. But anyway we were just nervous because we thought we would get a lot of questions in Thai that we weren't going to be able to answer because we don't know how to use the Thai bible. It's insane. haha. But we get into the lesson. Set our expectation of her getting baptized and bear our testimony. She looks at us she was like. I will get baptized. We set it for 2 weeks later and she was baptized yesterday. It was just crazy that she never had the expectation of baptism. It was an honest miracle. She prayed that night and told us the next day that this was the only true church. THE CHURCH IS TRUE.... She is such a strong member. I asked her if she had any friends we could teach and she pulls out a book of 12 people. She was like, I've already been sharing the gospel with these people. haha. It was awesome. The Lord prepared her......
Elder Wilko, who is my district leader wrote this to his family about sundays. Sundays are literally the most stressful thing as a missionary. Making sure your investigators go to all you classes haha. It's so funny. But this is what he wrote to his family. I support him. But I won't take his credit for this golden paragraph. This is what happened yesterday after our primary program sunday........ "Let me tell you how Sundays in Thailand work.... Well all the cattle gather together in the barn at around 1 pm (on a good day) for sacrament meeting then because the primary program gets done 25 minutes early they open the fence and all the cattle go runnin every which way. Some stay in the barn/go to class , some go outside to graze in the pasture/eat some grub, some high tail it out of dodge to take their second removed cousins grandson to school. Well around 2:20pm farmer Wilko and farmer Osborn wonder where oh where have the cattle all gone and then for the next hour and a half we play woody's round up and make sure all the animals get safely back to the barn."
So time for some fun stuff. This week I ate TWO all you can eat meat buffet. Oh my gosh. One of them was so high so. It had a convayer belt in front of us going around constantly and an all you can eat sushi bar. A little cooker in front of you. oh my gosh. I slept sooo well that night. It's called Oishi. If you want to look it up. Coolest food ever.......After that I went wtih some of my recent converts to eat another meat buffet. SO Good. I have pictures...... mmmmmm. I'm hoping sister Her wants to eat there for lunch. Way pricy. 350 baht. 1 hour and 15 minutes to eat all you can eat... Usually meals in thailand range from 30-60 baht..... 30 baht equals a dollar..... So freaking cheap here. Last monday all my district played sports at the church for pday. We got tonns of pizza. 6 huge boxes and it filled all 10 of us up so quick for 1000 baht. about 30 dollars for all ten of us to eat. So rediculous. It was was nice pizza too. It's like California pizza kitchen pizza. Nice pizza!
NICKNAMES KILL ME.... This week I was just falling in love with the dumb nicknames. This week we taught a girl her name is, "My mind" Literally.... That is her name. When we do accountibiltiy we are like. "How is my mind doing" "Oh my mind didn't accept baptism this week" "Oh darn, my mind just needs a little more motivation." Haha not really but stuff like that. It's funny. We also taught another girl. Her name is "nasty." These poor children! Hahaha. They don't even know..... I've met a cheetoh. And a donut. And a Talent. And a Farm. These names just kill me..... Arm, Some names in Thai are like bee(which means year in thai) I just don't get them. "Hey brother Cheetoh will you help me teach tonight." hahaha..... Oh jeez.. The funniest thing happens. When someone tells you there name is "bun" Because thats how the pronounced it. I'm like, how do you spell that? In English he was like. K-L-E.... We are like... What the crap? haha KLE does not say "bun".. It reminded me of Brian Reagan.. "Yeah just throw a q and a 7 in someones names and pronounce it John." Classic... Erika better understand that one......
The weather is so cold at night. It's like 60ish degrees. I start shivering! I'm sooooo spoiled! Haha. The cold season is miserable. Everyone is in mittens and scarfs. It's way hilarious. hahah That's like a good day in Utah..... but I guess I need to suffer a little.
Funny. Last week we played sports. And one of the dumb Utah elders that is so innocent, probably still hasn't realized it. But he kicked my poor companions butt. Literally. This isn't figuratively. Like he was laughing so hard from something she said and he just gave it a tap with his foot. ahhaha. We could not get over it this week! Utah Elders crack me up. The first week Sister Her was in Country the same elder saw a spider on her chest hahahahaha and totally goes to smack it off hahahahahahahahahah. I'm dying right now. He is currently sitting next to me. It's so freaking funny. Oh Utah.... Elders... Innocent.......
No worries..... I may be amongst the asians. But I found a beautiful son of God from brazil last night......very hot.... It was very refreshing to see a cocky smile. He plays soccer in thailand and asked us, "Haven't you ever seen me on TV." what a classic.....But... He obviously wanted baptism. It was SO hard speaking in english about the gospel. I was struggling not throwing in Thai in there. hahaha. Oh language....
That's all I have. The church is true! My pday is Christmas in Thailand in 2 weeks so don't expect emails on monday! LOVE YOOUUUUUUU
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| The cute old lady near death I talked about last week. I love her so much. Can't live my sundays with out her. Everything I say she just says "Amen Amen" Haha. Such a cutie old lady. |
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| Our investigator that got baptized yesterday! |
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