Off To กาฬสินธุ์ (Kalasin)

 Hey everyone, 

Not gonna lie, this last weeks been extremely busy. This last week has been transfer week and its been pretty crazy. Me and elder fowles have been going to work trying to help some our investigators progress and I think this last week was great.

It being transfer week, I'll start off with the exciting news, bumpbanaba, I Am MOVING!!

I'm writing this email as I'm taking a bus back out to the Eassan. We got the news Wednesday morning at 6:30, exciting right? To be honest I was kinda thinking I could be doing 3 in Bangkapi and I honestly thought that was gonna be chill. But I'm def okay to be going back out to the Eassan. 

The place that I'm moving to is a place called Kalasin. It's actually my old comps Elder fowles greenie area. Pretty chill. I will also be senior comp now. Thankfully its just one of my น้องไทย or just one of the missionaries 1 transfer below me. Haha we might still have to figure some stuff out but im pretty comfortable with it. 

This transfer was shorter with only 5 weeks, but me and elder fowles were fortunate enough to have a lot of lil miracles. We were able to see a lot more of our successes from calling and making appointments. To start the transfer we were around a lil more than 140 yellow dots or people that said they were interested in something with the gospel. By this last week we've got it down to under 30

Needless to say we had a lot of people to go through and see who was truly interested or just signed up on a whim. From those we had to 2 great investigators พี่ปัน(P Ban) and พี่โต๊ (P Doe). We put them both on date this last week and I really hope they'll be able to follow through this next month. Not to mention our English class has been picking up speed and we had another good turnout my final Tuesday. 

Bangkapi has been such a great area and I'm sad to leave for sure. I loved our church and building and amazing members but I'm excited to go see another area and get back on the bike. 

We did have an extremely sad thing happen this last week tho. Theres around 7 new members in Sakon Nakhon and a decent few of them are older ladies. We had a appointment scheduled with one of our new members Sister Yai (ยาย) at 3pm. Usually she calls beforehand to confirm our appointment but we didn't receive anything that morning. We called her around 12ish but she didnt respond. We didn't think too much of it tho and planned to go visit her at our original time 3 pm. Sadly though, when we pulled up to her apartments we were informed that she had passed away the day before. I wasn't quite sure if they were messing with us but they confirmed her floor and room and it was hers. Me and elder Fowles were truly stunned because thats not necessarily something we cover in the missionary 101 training. Sister Yai was around 73 years old. Older people really do have a limited amount of time tho. We called our bishop and let him know tho but we werent really able to help in any other way. We later learned that her relatives from a different province held a funeral there Sunday. We weren't able to go because it was too far. Please pray for our Sister Yai and her relatives this week. 

This was extremely sad as well because we finally had our ward temple trip this last Saturday. We were thankful to have 2 of our new members participate in Baptisms though, it being the first time for Sister Yada. 

Fast Forward to Yesterday. Lots of goodbyes and visits to members before i head out. I had to have everything packed last night because we had a plan already to go play pickleball with our Senior Missionaries at 9 a.m. Luckily I got my stuff away in time that we got to go play this morning and Omyyyy yeah I miss pickleball. Its sooo fun. The hour we had absolutrly flew by. This is prolly the last chance in a long time to play pickleball. Just maybe tho I'll get to play some pickleball or maybe Tennis in my new area 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Thats the most exciting stuff from our Pday. 

I love all of you and I hope your doing well. Sorry this one was a lil long but lowk I coulda packed even more stuff from my last week but these were def the major things. 

And yes I also will be sharing a scripture this week. Surprisingly enough I love my personal study and learn a lot. 

This week one I liked was from Elder Belleza's finishing Devotional

Alma 17:23

23 And Ammon said unto him: Yea, I desire to dwell among this people for a time; yea, and perhaps until the day I die

Honestly it is pretty crazy that Ammon had the mentality like that. I love Thailand but until the day that I die is a longggg freakin time.

Final Shoutout to My POPS, best Dad Ever แน่นอนๆๆๆๆๆ

He turned 49 so he'll be old in a lil bit

Thats about it, here some final photos

🌧Rain,Rain, GoAway

Whatss up,

This week has been great. We've actually got quite a bit of rain this week but I'm not gonna lie I actually love it. I'm so down to have a bunch of rain over the blazing heat.

Sorry I'm gonna keep this one kind of short because there wasn't anything super crazy that happened this week..

Saturday was the day we had the most rain. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon is had a bunch of rain come out of nowhere. Streets for Loki, like kinda like a river like we were little just like walk through a bunch of water. Everyone is getting doused but we went and visited the shop of one of our investigators and got ice cream but he wasn't there. I think his employees were a Lil surprised though. That was funny, but it was super fun so much rain.

We had a few miracles this week Tuesday. We had a lot of people at english class. So it was super fun and we were able to have a really good class.

Another miracle was we were finding at a park down by The Mall Bangkapi. We were talking to different people when we had a discussion with this Burmese kid, he's like 19 and moved here 9 months ago. He only speaks a lil Thai and English so it was hard to communicate but he was nice.

I'm bringing this up because the biggest thing we had this week was we had 9 investigators that church, which was such a great blessing. We did not really expect to have that money. So that was great, but the Burmese kid that we talked about came. We had a few people that came last week came again. And then we had about 5 new people come to church for another week. So lots of people showin up, super great.

Thats abt it to be honest.

Soo crazy how fast this transfers gone by because its 5 weeks. Next week is transfers so I'll let you all know in my next email if I'm moving or not

Love you all and thank you all for the Emails

Also Love u mom and Happy Mothers Day

Elder Hansen

BYU Ballroom Dance

 Heyyy,

Yea so I think I'm losing it. This week we got to do a few different things but one fun thing we got to do was go to the BYU Ballroom Dance performance in Asoke this last Thursday. 

Thing is I like actually loved it!! But i know for a fact if i was at home you would have ti force me to go watch it. Basically my standards of entertainment have completely dropped. Literally show me anything with flashy lights and imma love it. 

It was actually pretty cool though and we got to go with a few of our investigators. There was also like half of the West mission there and some missionaries from Bangkok zone in the East so it was great seeing everyone. 

Other than that we had some other cool things this week too. 

This week we've gone hard trying to organize our yellow dot problem. Basically we get a bajillion referrals every week and we already had a bunch of people so we really need to organize. Soooo, wednesday night me and elder fowles went through and made a event in the future with all 125plus yellow dots. Then we went to town: Thursday we called 24 ppl, Saturday we called 85 ppl, and Sunday we called 33 ppl. Not everyone answered but thankfully we cleared out around 35 to 40 ppl that aren't interested in learning which is a major jump to our organization soo wooooo

This last Friday we had an exchange in Ramkamheng that was super fun. I got to exchange with Elder Tripoli, we went hard and did finding walking around an area he wasnt familiar with from lunch til Sports Night at 6:30, then we played 5 on 5 basketball at their Sports Night and it was soo fun. I clocked in 32,000 steps tho and ya my leg from zone conference the other day was pretty sore.

Miracle time, this Sunday we got more referrals to show up to church. Woooo

We had 3 new referrals come to church which is so awesome cause we've lowk been on the calling grind and its kinda hard sometimes when a bunch of ppl say theyre going to church and then we still get no one. Super happy, i think something thats helped us it that we've started calling them before church and reminding them. 

Thennnn, Last but not least we went to Wat Arun (This massive Thai Buddhist Temple) for Pday with the GOAT brother ต้อง. Super fun, we rented and got dressed up in the fire thai fit. I was super happy to get this done cuz wearing the dope monklike outfit and hitting one of the wad's is a must here. Also some fabric from Chinatown so I can finally get in on the Thai tie trading game going on here.

That's about it tho

Spiritual Thought

Been reading in Jacob 5 The Allegory of the Olive Tree. I really liked verse 75

75. And it came to pass that when the Lord of the vineyard saw that his fruit was good, and that his vineyard was no more corrupt, he called up his servants, and said unto them: Behold, for this last time have we nourished my vineyard; and thou beholdest that I have done according to my will; and I have preserved the natural fruit, that it is good, even like as it was in the beginning. And blessed art thou; for because ye have been diligent in laboring with me in my vineyard, and have kept my commandments, and have brought unto me again the natural fruit, that my vineyard is no more corrupted, and the bad is cast away, behold ye shall have joy with me because of the fruit of my vineyard.

I definitely have noticed more blessings when I'm diligent in laboring. I also like that we will have Joy for our diligence and keeping the commandments. It doesn't say "And therefore, Whoso shall bring forth the most fruit shall have the most joy with me" hahah so yea I liked that

Here some flics