🔥Transfers🔥

 Whats up

Sorry i didnt have an email last week but we had transfers and i didnt have a lot of time to write an email.

Good News!! Im staying in Sakon Nakhon wooo. The members are great here and I'm super grateful have another transfer here. Elder Oldem (My old comp) is joping so i thought i would stay but i wasnt 100% sure. Alsooo, my new comp is Phillipino again!! He's can speak english and thai so what more could i ask for. Lots of missionaries here get like a 3rd or 4th transfer missionary for trainers cuz our missions really young so im glad i got an experienced trainer. I still need so much help haha

Overall best things from this past week

-เบ็นซ์(Benz)

-Transfers in Bangkok

Soo go back 2 sundays ago and we got a investigator who came to church. We met him through finding and I didn't even realize we had. He came to church tho and then we started meeting with him these past 2 weeks. Benz is the bestttt. He's 18 and is interested in learning more. He had a great experience with prayer after our first lesson and the next lesson he brought a friend to learn too. Last sunday he was able to attend a baptismal service sunday. And then monday we put him on date and he has a goal of being baptized February 9th. We've been to teach him and have dinner with multipe times and he's just soo elect. We taught him the word of wisdom and he said he's already been following it his whole life. He wasn't able to come to church this past week tho because he's been feeling sick and his familys been sick so keep him in your prayers.

Transfers were crazy. We got so much free food before Elder Oldem left cuz he's super loved and they wanted to give him stuff before he left. I think we had like Mugatoff(Unlimited cook ur own meat) or shabu(Unlimited boil ur own meat) for like 5 days in a row. Our transfer meeting was on friday but all the joping missionaries leave on thursday so we had to go in a day early. We took a night bus and then got there ready to start the day thursday 😊

Thursday was crazy tho, elder wingrove came in early to cuz his trainers also dying. We were talking about how fun it'd be to do splits in Bangkok or even do splits with each other and have no idea what were doing haha. But thennn Wingrove asked kinda jokingly, when sister ganyaphan asked what we wanted to do, if we could go finding. And she was like oh thats a great idea you can go finding, be back at 1:30 for lunch. So me, Elder wingrove, and Elder boon got to go finding in Bangkok for 3 hours!!! I havent had a lot of finding opportunities so this was soo fun. Bangkok is just so different then my little town in the Eassan haha. We got to go walk around tje outside of a university and go through a market. Bangkoks crazy, can't imagine how my comps leading his area there haha, there were so many people

The first finding was only half the crazy tho. Thennnn after lunch prolly around 4, the greenies finish their orientation and sister ganyaphan asks what we want to. Wingrove jokingly said me, him, and elder boon could each take two fresh greenies and go finding for an hour. And SHE SAID YESS. I'm super glad that i got the opportunity but i had no idea what was going to happen haha. I still am no where near understanding everything ppl say and im horrible at finding (I've only had a few opportunites to find last transfer)

So anyways i get Elder Dollar and Elder Vang and i decide we'll walk over to the market we were at earlier. We took a quick stop at 7-11so they could see what all the hype was about and then went over. The market had actually already started getting taken down but we got to talk to these two moms who were watching there kids do a dance class. I wouldn't say they were interested but they were really nice and the two greenies she new a lil english so that helped too. We got to give them some cards abt the temple and invited them to check it out if they were interested. At this point it was like 5:10 but i wanted to make sure we were back at 5:30cuz Elder Oldem was leaving at 6. We started walking back and i honestly didnt expect us to have a great chance to talk to someone else. Im not great at starting conversations in english haha so put me in the busy city with thai and i didnt really have too much of an expectation. As we were walking back i decided to say high to this older guy who was sitting in a wheel chair on the corner. I started asking how he was and he said good and responded by saying elder. I was so surprised cuz i didnt expect any of the people who know us. I was able to have a full conversation with him and he's catholic and has already been to our church before so i wouldnt say he's interested but he was super supportive of the missionaries. He was telling me how 90% of thailand is buddhist and all christian religions need to share the word of god here. He said he knew god would help me learn thai and id totally be able to speak when i just give it some time. He knew some english too so that helped even more. I was able to share a plan of salvation pamphlet with him and he was just waiting to be picked up so we headed back. God def put him there for us tho cuz idk how there ended up being someone i actually got a full conversation with. It really helped me realize i avtually have improved my thai a lil since getting here haha. 

Still not done with thursday tho cuz then we got to end off with the most banger testimony meeting ever. Basically we were chilling at the mission home. We were outside looking at the temple and i was saying that i wanted to get on top of one of the big buildings sooo bad. Then out of know where like 5 mintues later the APs come out and are like, we got something sick for tonight. WEE GOT TO GO ON TOP OF ONE😄😄 The senior missionaries live on the 37th floor of the apartmenrs next to the temple and we were able to go with thme and go to the top which is 44 floors. Theres a pool up there too (I might have to be a senior missionary one day cuz they said they swim in up there like 5 days a week). It was soo cool tho. It really put intk perspective for me howww bigg Bangkok is. Like its freakin massive. Oh and yea almost forgot we did get to do a testimony meeting after. Elder belnap our senior missionary, shared how he thinks of the how all the prophets go into the mountains to pray when were on a skyscraper like that. It was honestly a great spiritual moment, being up there jus like puts stuff into perspective more. Pretty crazy stuff

Funny thing

Todays Pday and we may have gone and played basketball and I may or may not have gotten absolutely smoked by this Thai basketball coach. He was prolly in his 30s or 40s but he actually cooked. He was like actually sooo quick. The last four points i tried to foul him so he wouldnt score but he still freakin made the layups somehow. AND THENN he freakin crossed me up, threw it between my legs, and still made the lay when i fouled him for the WINNN. So yea that was humbling haha

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