I finally made it. Said goodbye to the mtc this tuesday night, it was fun but I'm glad to be in thailand. Worst part was def saying goodbye to my teachers and district, kinda weird spending like everyday with them for 2 months and then now we're off to Thailand. Other than that tho it was great. We had to be at the travel office of the MTC at 3:30 am Wednesday so aint no way was I gonna sleep. Plus I knew we were gonna have a 11 hour plane ride of Seattle to Seoul so I wanted to sleep on that for as long as possible, and honestly I think it was worth it. I was a lil tired on the bus ride over to the airport, but it ended up working out great. I slept the flight from Salt lake to Seattle, and then I slept 8 hours of the flight from Seattle to Seoul aside from when I woke up to eat a few times. So basically staying up was totally the move. Side note: I love korean airlines. Idk abt all the other missionaries who have to fly international, but korean airlines had some gas food. Maybe it's cuz I was really tired and hungry, but they had some spicy sauce I put on my beef and rice and it was delicious. But yea we made it to Thailand late thursday night and that's where we had to split off from our West elders and sisters. We slept in the East mission home and they were in the west one. I didn't realize it til I woke up the next morning but I had a crazy view of the temple. Def the best thing to wake up to in the morning. I technically only got 5 hours of sleep but i felt great.
Friday was hectic and boring at the same time. We woke up and had a little orientation about some general info. Then we got breakfast which was mu bping, some fruit, and then some other stuff I can't remember. It was soo good tho. There's not a great mu bping place in sakon nakon apparently so I'll have to get some when I go on an exchange or something. After that tho we had a meeting with all the east missionaries and we find out our comps. I didnt realize that it was happneing in this meeting tho so i was surprised. Im with Elder oldem, hes super funny and hes cracked at thai so its great. After that we had a few more meetings and then everyone chills at the mission home until ur bus or whatever is ready to take u to ur area. Only thing is ours was at 9 and it was a night bus so we were there for while. Anddd when it took 11 hours to get to our area so after sleeping on the bus we got here at 6:30, ready to stay the day haha.
Saturday was good tho, biggest thing was we went took like a 45 minute drive to have lunch and a lesson with some investigators. The wife is from laos tho and my areas like as eassan as it gets so i didnt understand much (eassans jus like thai the east dialect so they say some words dif or like lao.
Sunday was crazy too. I got the chance to play piano during sacrament, but i also had to give my testimony and i honestly forgot like half the things i wanted to say haha. We had some meetings after church and ate so that was nice. Then we finished at like 2:30and went caroling with the members. Christmas is honestly bigger here then i thought, bjt i guess it prolly helps that i interact with mostly church members.
Today was alsoo so fun. I haven't got the chance to get a smoothie yet but the foods been great. I forget that i basically jumped into the future coming to thailand so you'll all be getting this in the morning. We went with the other pair of elders in sakon nakon and a member and saw a cave today for pday tho and it was sick. Then we got shabu which is basically jus like all u can eat cook ur own meat and it comes around on a conveyor belt. I didn't get a Pic of it tho so ill get one next time we go. Then we balled with the other elders for like a good hour or two and then we had to prep a bunch of stuff for english class tmrw. Days have been kinda filled but its so fun. Ur a real one if u made it this far, i love all of u and thanks for all the emails and support.
Heres some flics
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Saying goodbye to the room
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