Transfers and SongKran

 Whats up everyone

Yeah, sorry I haven't written in a while. There's just been a lot going on and I haven't had time the past 2 weeks. 

Main things that happened the last few weeks

-Songkran

-Transfers

-Got a new Comp

-Zone Conference

-Pday at Bathuigon and Top Golf

Alright, to start off with song Kron. It's basically the Thai New years. There's a massive 3 day water. Fight where everyone just goes crazy. We got 1 day to play in it and all of the days we had to be home before 6 because everyone goes crazy. It was super fun.  This was also the same week as transfers. So thankfully, we got like a day to play songkran and a day for pday, so that was super nice.

Transfers was pretty crazy with. I'm staying as I thought an elder bridge moved to Sisaket, it's out in the Eassan but it seems pretty cool and he gets to go ride a bike. I got a new comp and his name is elder Fowles. He's from sakon Nakhon, which is the same place that I left from last transfer. So pretty cool. I went and picked him up 2 Fridays ago and dropped off. Elder bridge and then we've had this first week to work.

First week has been great. It's been weird since I've had to remember which buses we're supposed to ride to get to places. Because usually I just sit back and let elder bridge tell me when to get off. But overall it seems to be pretty chill.

Alright, almost forgot. We also had zone conference this last week. Pretty good lowk tho first week zone conference is kind of buns but it's all right cause this transfer is not as long so it was still fun to see everyone and our zone is super fun now. I kinda hurt my leg a lil bit on Zone pday to so i didnt even get to play basketball for long on thats all thay really brings me joy for pdays😢😢

I had some good p days tho too. So the P Day before transfers. I got to go to a massive thrift store in Bangkapi that's in our area. We just walked around, but some guy that we usually play Thai chess with gave me a free thai chess set. So that was pretty cool. 

Then today we went to top. Golf and top golf is actually free from 9 to 10, so all we had to do was pay for the taxi over there. And then we got a play for an hour for free and walk around the mall over there, so it was fire.

Overall this last week or 2 has been great. I feel like this transfer is going to fly by since its only 5 weeks instead of 6 weeks but we'll see. 

Last thing i wanted to share was our success this last Sunday. We finally got some investigators that we've been calling to come to church and got to teach a for me after church for the first time. It was one of our best Sundays. Some of our works been paying off so hopefully we get a chance to teach a lot of these new friends.

Spiritual thought- 

I read the new testament this last transfer and this was my first time reading through some of the books after the gospel. Super great

I liked this scripture in James 1

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was

I especially like the first verse "be ye doers of the word" cuz if we gonna spend to time teach and listen to the word it doesnt have much benefit if we're not doing it ourselves.

Love you all and hope you have an amazing Heres some flics

1 decked out for Songkran

2 Last KFC run with Elder Bridge

3 Free Chess Set!!!!

4. NEW comp

5. Zone Conference goes hard

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 Hey everyone, 

Hope you all had an amazing week. I know your all dying to hear about my amazing adventures in thailand. 

I'm sending out my email today because we changed our pday to friday to go to the temple with the zone. Wooooo

Nothing too exciting really happened last week. We had a lot of calls And we sent out 15 book of mormons to different people through the mail. So that was great. We did that last Thursday and then this week, we sent out 7 more book of mormons in the mail so hopefully it will be able to follow-up with them in a week or 2 and see if they've had a chance to read it if they have any questions. hopefully we can get a few meetings and in. Last Saturday we had a songkran activity but it wasn't really. A songkran activity cause we didn't have water fighting or anything, but we had food and we had a investigator show up so that's always good and we also taught her after her name's p beer. She was super interested and wanted to be baptized as soon as possible so we'll see if we can make that happen in the next week or 2 if she doesnt have too much work. 

I've got to listen to some conference.That's been great. We're gonna be listening to it today and tomorrow. Cause that's when it gets translated into Thai. So hopefully this Sunday I'll be able to get some take away from the thai sessions cuz. My thais been getting a lot better but I don't know if it's that good yet so we'll see.

This week's gonna grind a crazy thing that happened this week is they have a draft here in Thailand and of our investigators who usually comes to church every week and comes to our activities in stuff. He's around 21, and that's when they have to do the draft. So this Wednesday he was going into the draft and it's basically a fifty-fifty either. He draws red, which means he doesn't have to be a soldier or he draws black, which means he has to be a soldier for 2 years, and then we're never gonna see him again or teach him.  At least I won't, so that was a little scary. But he got red. Yeahhhh. we sent him off Monday and ate with him and I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to see him again. Cause he's going back to his Hometown to do the draft. But thank goodness we still get to the teach and meet with him so that will be great.

And finally today. Today we got to go to asoke which is just where the temple is and we gotta see our zone which was super cool. We did an endowment session, which was also super good. Because this is a 7 week transfer I wasn't sure what the greenies from the M Tc were gonna do.  Because they are just like here a week early. But they basically are just gonna have temporary companions for a week and watch conference and play song Khan, so it sounds like it's gonna be sick for them. But we gotta meet them today at the temple. We have 3 sisters and a Filipino elder so super cool. Yeah, greenies are always great.

Thats about it for my week. We've been grinding out here for like 6 weeks straight now so I'm honestly just excited to have songkran, transfers, and conference. 

I don't have necessarily a spiritual thought this week, butttt i did finish Jesus the Christ this week. Its a great book that gives a very in depth analysis and breakdown of Jesus's life and miracles when he was on the Earth. Definitely worth the read if you really want to understand his life more and the context behind a lot of things that were going on during his teachings

 Very cool. I'm just gonna leave the First paragraph to get you guys hooked 🥰

It is a matter of history that, at or near the beginning of what has since come to be known as the Christian era, the Man Jesus, surnamed the Christ, was born in Bethlehem of Judea. The principal data as to his birth, life, and death are so well attested as to be reasonably indisputable; they are facts of record and are accepted as essentially authentic by the civilized world at large. True, there are diversities of deduction based on alleged discrepancies in the records of the past as to circumstantial details; but such differences are strictly minor importance, for none of them nor all taken together cast a shadow of rational doubt upon the historicity earthly existence of the Man known in literature as Jesus of Nazareth. 

Oh also, last thing. Forgot to say we also got the chance to donate blood this week. Shoutout to บราเดอร์ต้อง for making it happen. Super good to be able to do somw service this week and eat some gas food.

EARTHQUAKE🌎💥

 Hey everyone,

I know you were all wondering if I survived the Earthquake here in Thailand. There was a earthquake with a 7.7 epicenter in Miyamar (Burma) this last friday and we definitely felt it here in Thailand. Yess I was lucky enough not to be near the massive building that fell. That was basically the main damage here in bangkok. There was a massive skyscraper that was being built that fell from it. 

My experience, basically, we were next to these 2 big apartment buildings and we were calling referrals out on these benches and I'm sitting there. While elder bridge calls a referral and I'm like whoa, it feels like I'm drunk or something right now, like my soda must have been spiked. Or something and I totally thought it was just like my mind is playing tricks on me, but then he gets off the phone and he's like you know, you feel that and I was like yeah, that was crazy and then a bunch of people start rushing him out of the apartment building next to us. Dang, that was an earthquake that was wild.

Yea so pretty crazy stuff going on here in thailand. I think pretty much the whole country was hit so we basically talk about with anyone.

Other things from this week, we had a lot of refferals calls to do. Luckily we've got through most of them and have a list of people to send book of mormons to in the mail. Sometime this week we'll have to pack them over to the post office and send them out.

Also on Friday we were going to send out the BOMs but then we met this pregnant Thai lady that wanted to come pray at the church. Basically to summarize her story, her husband was African. His visa expired, they went to renew it and Thailand wasn't willing to let him renew it. So then he told her to go to our church which he went to once like months ago i guess. She had no phone, 100 baht, and they're actually not from Bangkok so she's not familiar with the area at all. Soooo we ended up helping her get back home to her province but that was an adventure. 

Oh and to quickly explain some of the other stuff we did. Randomly this week during finding this week we got the chance to play basketball. Shoutout to Peters mom for buying them KFC and getting us water.

Another thing, also happened on friday. We got Shabu with the Boyzzzz, it was litttt. Gotta go with Mark from English class, December, and Banana!!!

That pretty much sums up my week.

I'm super excited for conference this week and i think this is easily the most excited I've ever been for conference. 

I challenge everyone to try and listen to a session of conference on Saturday or Sunday. Definitely a positive message to uplift your week👍

Heres some flics

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