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
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