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
No comments:
Post a Comment