Greenie days are over

 Whatss up,

Been like a week and a half now since I've had P-day. This has been a crazy last week.

For everyone who just reads my first paragraph. 

Transfer News, I'm MOVING. We got our transfer board this last tuesday and I'm heading to Bangkok, Bangkapi. Its about Bangkok as you can get so I'm going from the outskirts of Thailand right back to heart. 

I'll run through the last week leading up to transfers right now.

Sooo last Tuesday i had to head to Bangkok for my visa work. Basically its what i have to do to extend my visa for a year. Luckily i didn't get deported, wooooo. It was great tho cuz i got to see all the east missionaries from the MTC and basically just sit around for a few hours and talk. It was fire too cuz we figured we'd all most likely be back for transfers so we get to see each other this week. Only sucky part was heading back. We left sakon nakhon tuesday night at 6 p.m. to arrive in Bangkok at 4 a.m. Then we left 10 p.m. wednesday night to get to Sakon nakhon at like 6-6:30 in the morning, ready to start the day hahah. It honestly made like the week feel like a time skip tho cuz we missed english class, missed all of wednesday and then thursday and fridays already the end of the week.

Sunday was great thoo. We've been telling everyone how it will prolly be my last Sunday so 3 of our friends from English class came. I still dont think they're super interested in the gospel but they came to church 🥰

Sunday night was our last dinner at sister จิน's. She has us over for dinner like every Sunday and its always Firree.

Then we had sunday Devo, elder Watts and sister Watts gave theyre departing devotionals. And then, BOOM, president and sister ganyaphan drop the bombshell that we will be going directly to our areas if were moving. Our transfer meeting will be held in zoom and only the fresh greenies and trainers will go through the temple. 😭😭

Super sad cuz I won't get to meet up with all the other missionaries. They won't us to keep momentum tho so we'll see how it goes.  Then Monday sister ตุน took us to pizza company. The pizza was so good. Only problem was it was a lil too good haha. I may have eaten a lil too much and totally threw up my last 2 or 3 slices back on to the plate. 

Don't even worry tho, I just ate some ice cream and i felt a lot better. 

Tuesday was the awaited day. We had in person district council. 

My guesses for what was gonna happen:

Elder Gibson would leave Nong Kai and Elder Lowry would stay. 

Elder Saunders would leave Sakon Nakhon and Elder Tupou would stay. 

I would leave and Elder Tamayao would leave. 

Only one i got right was myself hahah. Elder Gibsons staying in Nongkai, staying as DL, and training a fresh greenie. Keep in mind he's only two transfers ahead of me and this is transfer 4 in Nong Kai. Elder Lowry got moved to Khon Kaen. Thennnnn Elder Saunders and Elder Tupou both stayed. To be honest this was the last thing i thought was gonna happen and i def didnt think id be the only one leaving Sakon Nakhon. 

Basically what i learned, 

Nothing is guaranteed at transfers and theres no way u can guess whats gonna happen.

Sakon Nakhon has been such a nice place to start as a missionary. I hear about how my sister had to start with like 5 people in her ward and I'm so glad I had a bunch members and friends help me get used to Thailand. The Sakon Nakhon branch has been so kind to me and hopefully i'll get to come back at some point. I've been so lucky to have a bunch of great members and dope investigstors 😘

Spiritual Thought

1 Nephi 3

5 And now, behold thy brothers murmur, saying it is a hard thing which I have required of them; but behold I have not required it of them, but it is a commandment of the Lord. 

6 Therefore go, my son, and thou shalt be favored of the Lord, because thou hast not murmured.

Lowk mission kinda hard. Surprise, surprise i know. It does have its challenges but I know like this scripture says we'll be favored of the lord when we dont complain. I feel like my Dad and this one but Positive Mindsets are a thing and totally help a ton. 

Thats why I'm positively sure im gonna be absolutely lost in Bangkok hahah. Fkr real tho, i really like this scripture and even if we struggle to have a good attitude, when we press forwars with faith the lord will bless us.

Alirght thatss all i got. Love u all, thank you everyone who sends emails. You know who u are, even if i dont (jkjk I read all the emails and im so grateful, i try and respond to everyone). 

Heres some photos

Haircut🔥🔥

 Hey everyone

Dont gotta lot of time this week so its gonna be really short with a few photos. Basically we had in-person district council this week and we had a valentines day activity on the friday. It was a pretty good week. I got a haircut today from a member for free. Its short and idk how i feel about it but it'll be nice for hot season for sure. I might need to get it trimmed up a bit again tho in a week or two.
Next weeks transfers tho so i won't have one of these next monday. It might not be until the monday after that i have time to send one so try and have a good week without one of my emails 😘
Crazy that i'm finishing my second transfer in the field. I'm def not ready to not be a greenie anymore. I'll probably be moving but we'll see, never know until transfers. Ill know next tuesday so ill give a lil thing for sure next thursday saying if i moved or not. If i do move tho i wont know where im going til friday.
Love u all, thank u so much if u sent me emails. I mean to respond to them but i didnt quite have time this P-day
Have a great week🤗

การประชุมโซน

 Whats up

This week was zone conference. Soooo fun. Thats what the การประชุมโซน translates to. We had zone pday last thursday tho so i didnt have a chance to right an email.

First wanted to shout out my friends Cole and Jack. They both just got their mission calls in month. Jack's going to Washington, Vancouver and Cole's going to frickin Japan, Fukoku. I love Thailand, but Japan is the dream call so super happy for him. He's def gonna have to take me there after the mish ans be my translator haha. Both of them will do great tho and i can't wait tk see their mission experiences.

Now for my week

Zone conference was sooo lit. Thursday was zone pday so we went down to Udon. After a lil bit of studies we got to play a bunch of basketball. And had pizza for lunch in between. After lunch we got to play more basketball and do a lil chair soccer which was fun. I'd never played it before but its 100percent better than normal soccer. 

Then at 6 we got the chance to do finding with a temporary companion. And booom i got to do exchanges with the one of the zl's. They must know i need extra help or something haha. I got to go with Elder Rassavong, he's super wise cuz he's only got 2 transfers left haha. I learned a lot tho and we got to talk to a few people who were interested. And then to finish off the dsy we got Mcdonalds😋😋 Its pretty similar to Mcdonals in america but it tastes a lot better when i havent had a burger in a while. After that we grabbed ice cream cones to go but then Elder Rassavong remembered that we were eating sundaes at the chudch soo double ice cream🍦🍦

Next day was zone conference and it was nice seeing what a typical zone conference is like, last time we were at a zoo. 

Sad news this week, we were going to do a basketball tournament saturdau with a member and some investigators and meet people but we found out that the winner gets 10,000 baht so bit of a no go for missionaries. We still showed up for a sec tho and we got some fire jerseys so honestly worth it. 

Then yesterday and today we've just been getting fire food. Last night we went over to Brother Chai's house for steak. Mmmm it was soo good. Then today after we played basketball in the morning we got some pizza and ice cream at robinsons. We got Pizza Company and Swensens so it was like american food. I did the Earthquake challenge and it was a lot of ice cream. it did taste good tho.

Spiritual thought

Helaman 5:12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

This is a great scripture. I thought about it during zone conference and figured I'd share.

Oh and I forgot Chinese New years was the before last week. We got to do some firree finding.

Here's some photos

the ice cream is the before and after. Elder Saunders managed to finish his in 10minutes somehow🤮