Greetings from Sister Phelps

Mom called the mission office to let them know of Grandma Phelps's passing. She wrote this special email in response:


Greetings from Sister Phelps:)

I just got a call from President Senior about 5 minutes ago and he let me hear the news. I was expecting it today for some reason...i'm not sure why.. Cried a little. But it's fine....Mom wanted to talk to me is what president said:) Silly woman. It's way okay. I am way happy for grandma that she made it this long and she is a stud for living alone for so long and being way totally happy. The only thing that makes me sad is I have a postcard written out to her on my desk that I've had for a couple weeks that I have yet to send:( Some awesome memories float to my head.. I remember going to her house for mutual and doing puzzles with her every week. Or getting my first ipod from her...swimming at her house...And I can't tell you. She has been the most faithful writer on my mission with the best pictures in the world. haha. They kill me. Some with me and dad way back in the day... Just funny...I'm way stoked that she is with Grandpa again and I know she is killing it with missionary work beyond the veil while I'm killing it here. I'm way positive that her and grandpa are my angels and are helping me every step of the way. Love you too. Send everyone at the funeral and stuff my love for them. There is an end to everything... I've thought a lot about the end of my mission. And how sad I'm going to be when it's over and President just reminds me to no matter how good something is. There is always an end. And also a begging to something else...I'm probably sure grandma wanted to stay 20 years more. But there is always a good ending. She was surrounded by all her kids and probably just way happy. I know that there is life beyond the veil. Her and grandpa probably had the best Reunion. NO DOUBT.

I love you both so much. Promise. I'll pray for you and the family. Have a great week. Don't be down. Because we can just go do some Buddhist ceremonies to feel closer to grandma. Oops. Wait we aren't Buddhist. We'll see her in a few years:)

Haha. Love you both. Don't worry about writing me on Monday if you're busy with stuff. I'll write a nice long letter. Lot's to tell this week and you know I'm really good at talking about myself:) 

“I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up” D&C 84:88

Woof No Time

Woof. No time.

I'm sorry. My whole time was taken up by this survey that had to be done took like an hour.

Lot's happened this last week! Went to sizzler. Ate some great food. I went to Sisagate and did a switch off when I found out I had to be in Bangkok the next morning for a training with President Senior. Ahh that meant no work in our area for like 4 days straight because Saturday we went to yassoton with a district training with President senior. Saw him twice in two days. Lucky.

But it gets better. Friday we stayed in Pakkret with the sisters there. Sister Packard and I had a meeting for STL's but our comps stayed behind. And next we were stuck in traffic for about an hour. Then as we are getting out of the taxi we were in the right lane. Tell him we just want to get out right then so he pulls in the left lane. Stuck in traffic and he stops the meter. We are pretty much right by the curve. We give him the money. We say thank you. Sister Packard opens her door. BAM a motorcyle is FLYING down the imaginary lane in between the curb and the car and nails the door. I start laughing because apparently thats what i do when I'm stressed and she starts balling. His knee is hurt and so is his hand. The people are yelling at us because we are white and don't understand bangkok traffic. Totally not our fault. The taxi dude pulled over to let us out. Totally his or the motorcyles fault. Anyways. We had the elders running to our rescue and everyone was arguing whose fault it was. We were late for the meeting so they tell us to go and so we did. Later on we get a call telling us to go to the police station to give our witness. We get there with a native thai and he told us to only speak english and let him just converse in thai. We can understand it all. They don't ask our witness. Told them because we are white and have more money that we have to pay. Thankfully the church steps in for that. President senior calmed us both telling us it's fine. They just want money. They took a bribe of 4000 baht over us taking the taxis car getting it fixed with a reciept and then putting our names on a police record. So dumb. In the end. White people can always fix the problem with money. The church is true. Thank goodness for tithing and for our savior (literally this situation helped us understand the atonement so well of feeling stressed for making a mistake and presidents senior just steps in and relieves our debts) just incredible. Sorry if it didn't make sense. Don't have much time to explain else wise.

Love my area now. It's still hard. The lord blessed us at church yesterday for not working in our area forever this last week. That blue book. It's way true. So is the church.

I love you all.

Feel better Grammy. Love you.

Sister Phelps

NO pictures sorrrry

Whatttts Up

Definitely the longest week of my life! Haha. Let me explain...

Last monday: Zoo. saw a zebra. saw a giraffe. Held a falcon. Cool.

Last Tuesday: Happy mother's day (Thai style) Started off with an exciting activity with the branch. Then Sister Sumitra was able to talk to her mother when her mother cried. Told her she promises that she is going to start going to church when she gets off her mission (another year man) But she has been so stoked off of life. Being the only member in her family with no support has been so hard for her. But just getting that extra sweet push from her mother really motivated her and it was just a sweet miracle....

I don't know why i'm getting impatient emailing haha. 

Okay wednesday: Contacted all day. Got legit investies to go to church. Thursday: Same thing.

Thursday night.... food poisoning. Pretty bad this time. Worst I've ever had. In the bathroom like 30 times that night. The next morning we were supposed to do a switch off with the sisters in Surin... But i canclled. Haha i thought I was going to die. So after about 6 hours I finally let my comp take me to the hospital. There they told me my stomach was in a little bit of shock from throwing everything up and my fever was spiking so they made me stay at the hospital. Haha. I was a mess. My poor district leader calls me and I just am crying so hard haha. Poor elder astle...  He probably felt so akward. Sister Senior calls me tries to calm me down. My sweet little comp is just holding my hand. So much love.... Finally they take me to an area to get a shot for my stomach. He tried at first to give the shot in my bum. And sister Sumitra and I just start laughing and then I tell him no way and he gives it to me in the arm. It was too exciting. Anyways. Went through some more tests. gave me an IV. I felt so sick haha. THen they finally got me to the room where I slept and slept and doctors came and gave me medicine and I slept. THen all my elders and the members came to visit me that night. It was sweet. THen I slept and slept then the next morning I woke up. Then slept some more. Felt so much better. They release me at like 4pm. I'm just so grateful for my companion. SHe made things so much better and laughable... Haha

Anyways. After that traumatic experience we worked and had 12 people for sure going to church...Got to churhc. ONE showed up. hhaah. It was depressing. But that means this next week we have to work harder! Going to surin and sisagate to do switch off's :) Super stoked! Love my cute khon thai comp. My health is way better. Even though this area has the best food I definitely need to watch out for sicknessess. 

I love my mission:) Loveeee it!!!! This area is a bit hard. But hey. no worries... THe Lords timing is whats important. We will get it I'm sure... Got to figure out how to work with the members in this area. THey don't really like the missionaries at all. So a little struggle with that. But at the same time we could be doing a lot more:)

Last night we had a bonfire with our district. Every one is biting dust with investigators at church. So rough. But we'll find those goldies. :) But yes. Last night was awesome. Two of the elders made us spaggethtti. I suck at spelling haha. But it was sooo sweet. I love my district. The Lord really blessed me with a great distrcit!!!! Love them.!

Sister Phelps

Hospital fun.

Zoo Fun...me and my comp

Falcon

My delicious feet tan lines :) Missionary life.

Yup.

TRANSFERS!. Holy cow. New comp. New area. New calling. Guess where I am? Fine I won't leave you hanging..... I'm in UBON Yup... EAST(Asean) baby. Where all the good food is. No i'm not back in Udon in my greenie area. But UBON. It reminds me exactly like Udon.... Seriously..... It's a way bigger area than Chiang Rai that is for sure. But for sure Asean like... The people here aren't as beautiful as up in the North but it's still a fun one thats for sure....

COMPANION MAN! Sister... Summitra! ANother Thai companion!!! holy crap. I'm just too happy with that. haha She has been out for about 6 ish months now. Still pretty young in the mission and she hates talking on the phone haha. I thought that was just a white person thing. So pretty much i'm the one talking on the phone... in my second language hahah.... She is SO freaking adorable though....She is going to make me FAT. holy crap. She looks exactly like me when i was in 6th grade. Skin and Bones and short. But she eats like a fat person. For example. For breakfast we are eating cake. right now. Shoot me. Fat Fat Fat. I don't know what happened to 6 months to sexy... it's more like 6 days to sexy.... Crud. 

But yes. Very lucky to have a thai companion again. THey are rare. In Ubon there has been some problems with white sisters so the've only had Thai sisters here for a bit now and now I just moved in... And I'm pretty much pure white. So that's exciting. NEW CALLING.... Yup.. Sister Training leader now... It's pretty fun. Just have to watch over two other companionships in the zone and my companion. Pretty easy. One of the sisters is training so thats fun to follow up with a brand new greenie haha.

OH I'M A GRANDMA!!!! SISTER HER IS TRAINING.... I'm such a proud mother. And sister Ellis my second daughter is training too... I'm such a proud mother....

Ubon is an exciting area... Sisters are in here and taken out of here all the time. The branch reminds me of Pakkret a bit actually. A little different to work with. Yesterday we had one drunk investigator at church. We gave him to the Elders for obvious reasons... But you know. It's definitely not a chiang rai haha. But I'm really in love with this area. Contacting is so easy. We can go 6 hours a day and not even realize it. So many great places to contact. But a little tougher than most. BUT hey. it's still a dream to be in thailand....

OH DON"T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON MY DISTRICT... I literally love the crap out of them! Such a change from my last couple areas! Saeriously. Elder ASTLE is my district leader. MTC first DL also. haha it's amazing. Laugh with that kid all the time. we have 10 people in our district. 3 companion ships of elders in our area. Us. Then we have 2 elders in Yassoton which is about an hour away. It's fun. Seriously so much fun. Really though. This branch in UBON is about to split so thats why we have 4 sets of missionaries. 

UBON is going to see some miracles! We are excited... Yesterday with all for of us we had about 10 investigators at church...crazy because in CHiang rai we would get that much just our companionship haha. Just a totally different area. We just got here friday... which we took a train here. Holy trash. Most beautiful drive in the world.... Just green.... We get to make that drive quite often for Mission Leadership Training. Exciting....

Love my comp. love my district. Love my area. And I'm a mormon hahaha. Just kidding. But seriously. Crazy stuff happening here. Pray for this area....

MY COMP!

I'm a grandma! plus the family tree. my granddaughter is a babe except i forgot her name

Train ride view from bangkok to ubon... 12 hour drive. sleeeper trains. <3 Okay... way awkward. 2 elders and two sister shared this like space sort of thing. Just an open door between our two spaces and in the morning i heard an elder get up and make some noise and i turn the covers of my head and he was staring at us hahaha. And I just say to him hello good morning and he just shakes his head out of a trance and he felt so awkward too haha. oh my freak sooo awkward. and at night apparently when the lights were off the other elder was sitting up in his bed staring for like an hour of into space and sister Summitra felt so awkward too hahaha. So freaking awkward

Ubon and me. 

Transfers

Well it's pretty dumb.... Chiang Rai is a dream.... and it's transfers... I'm not ready to leave but with me having only 12 weeks left I can see president moving me to one more area... Or I'll just die here. All is well. 

Why is Chiang Rai a dream? Remember our miracle Jerlene? Motorcycle man? Baptized his daughter? Well his other daughter was baptized... in Chiang mai.... The completes the family.... MIRACLE.... he is definitely the warmest to my heart. I can't wait for you guys to meet him. Such a humble guy. And a great dad.... 

We also had a baptism yesterday...an adorable 17 year old girl... I'll hug her twice. We have 2 for sure's getting baptized next week. Like passed interview as well. I'm a little bummed if we will miss it. But wherever the Lord calls.

One girl I met at central... she is adorable. She has really satanic dreams though. It's pretty scary. So we just tried to give her some good tools to help her in her life. She is way adorable. Loves reading and wants all the material to study from in the library. We had this impression to share Joseph Smith's "real" experience while he was in the grove with the whole satanic feelings that came upon him before he actually had God and Jesus christ appear to him. She was really touched by that. and ultimately knew the church was true as soon as we read it. She is a stud. We told her we were going to teach the plan of salvation next time and while we were with her she was like. No i have to know now. And we taught it to her once simply like you are supposed to. And then she still had questions so we taught the REAL plan of salvation with the first estate and the war in heaven. She was BLOWN away hahaha. It was soooo cute. her face the whole time killed me. It was sooo funny. Made my day yesterday..

But Chiang Rai is legit. Transfers are this week. I"m nervous to be the oldest in the mission. I don't want a leadership position haha. Too much responsibility Anyways... thats all i have! love you!!!! :) Pray that i'm not stressed outta my mind. Also.. i had a weird sickness last week... Couldn't keep anything down.... Pretty much in most of the time... probably a bug. But hey.. i'm better. Thats also a miracle:) LOVEEEE

Sister Phelps

Meeting in chiang mai with the sisters in the north zone!!!!! yes..... me and sister holmes are completely companions... stripes and polka dots? Thats us for you

Picture of Jerlene's daughter baptism. 

I'm fat

Baptism yesterday

I made myself some scripture cases. be jealous.