MAHA SARAKHAM

 Hello everyone,

My week has been pretty chill. 

Basically we had a lotta service this week and I gotta do exchanges in Maha Sarakham. (For perspective on Maha Sarakham, both my trainer and follow up trainer came to Sakon Nakhon from Maha and talked about it a bunch so I've been waiting to see it)

Alright, Tuesday was In-Person District council so we went to Maha. It was super fun to be with the whole district in person. Then after that we had a district service project where we took down some grass and trees for a member on their property. After that all we had time for when we got back was English Class. 

Thursday was the Exchange back to Maha. Sooo fun, I gotta exchange with Elder Elliot who's actually just an absolutely goated Elder. We had a bunch of lessons and got to teach a lot of different visits with members and investigators. Then we ended off for some pizza for dinner with a member.

Thennn, Friday we went and helped the other elder's new members with some service. We took out a lot of weeds and plants in their yard so they can plant some more trees. Then we had to hurry back for game night.

Sunday was a good day, we didn't get many friends at church but we did get to teach one of our kid investigators. Then the Taylors made some absolutely delicious brownie Earthquake cookies that i gotts get the recipe for. They were freakin scrumptous, its been so long since I've had cookies like that. 

And todayyyy, we had a pretty chill pday. We did some fishing and some DIY pickleball in the morning with the senior missionaries. Pretty lit I will say.

It is honestly so crazy how fast this transfer has gone by. We'll have to lock in our finding for this last week and see if we can up our friends at church 🥰🥰 

Love you all a bunch

Halfway🏃‍♂️💨

 Hello Everyone,

"Days Never Finished" If you guys know what I mean. We've been out here working and I guess somehow that made transfer go by faster because were like techbically over halfway right now I think. 

This hasn't been the most exciting week, but we've had a lot of service which has been good and I love doing service out here in Thailand so can't really complain. 

Quick summary of the week Tuesday. So we had zone conference and then rushed back to go to english class, which was great.

Wednesday was a really good day for us. So I'll go in to more explanation on Wednesday. Start off the day by visiting two members that work at a school cafeteria. They set us up with free lunch (Theyre soooo nice) and then gave us a new investigator too. We like just finished eating and then the member was like "Theres someone who wants to learn with you" Literally just feeding us and setting us up with friends. Then, We went to go visit one of our finds from last week. This old lady that lives by herself and she was gone. So we visited her neighbors and they were great. They're maybe not the most interested in the gospel, but they said we could stop by again when we come to visit her.  And they were interested in english class and were willing to take our pamphlets and then after that, we kept finding through that same neighborhood and we met this other family and started talking to them, and they invited us to come eat with them. And so we didn't really have anything planned for dinner, so we just went and ate with them as well and they were super great. They super interested in english class as well said they'll be coming this week.  They were also willing to learn about our religion too. So we'll see if that comes of anything. And then after that, as we're just biking after this, just biking on this random street, this never happens. This random guy bikes up next to me and I start talking to him and he's super interested in like having us come visit and all of our different activities and stuff I was telling him about of him. So we make a lil pit stop and get his information and then we go to go visit our member who works at a grocery store and as we're on our way to go visit her.  Another person says elders and I stopped cause. I'm like what who knows the elders. And this person from I guess a decent time ago. Just moved back to Kalasin and they met with elders before and have gone to church. But they haven't seen the others again since they've been out of Kalasin. But this is like their first week back. So hopefully we'll be. Able to get him to church again and?  Meet with him again. So basically, just Wednesday was just following blessings for finding cause. That is, by far the most success we've had out of any day in the transfer so far. Really great day, even if a lot of these people don't pan out I was really grateful to see a lil more success then usual. 

Thursday we did some service and cut down some trees. That was the most interesting thing we did.

Friday my companion was sick so we were in the house. Most of the day, I was doing some calling and that was about it. We couldn't really go out and work because he was bedridden.

 Saturday. We took a trek out to visit one of our finds from Wednesday. And he's got like 60 plus guitars. So that was cool. Gotta talk to him about a little bit of religion too. So hopefully, after a little lesson we gave him, he'll be more willing to try coming to church possibly.

And then today P Day, I guess we had Sunday too Sunday. The other 2 elders had 2 baptisms. So that was really cool. Cool to see that, but not our investigators. So not as exciting for us personally. Today was a very chill p Day we really didn't do anything. We went to this cafe. It's literally out in the middle of nowhere. But it's really cool and I'll put some photos. 

That's about it for my week. Sorry for the more boring email. But it's more of an average week.

🔥Spiritual Thought🔥

Helaman 5:8

8 And now my sons, behold I have somewhat more to desire of you, which desire is, that ye may not do these things that ye may boast, but that ye may do these things to lay up for yourselves a treasure in heaven, yea, which is eternal, and which fadeth not away; yea, that ye may have that precious gift of eternal life, which we have reason to suppose hath been given to our fathers

Love you all. Stay Humble🥰

🔥Dinosaur🦕

What's up yall,

 Sorry for the delay. I've been super busy the past few P-days. And I haven't got a chance to send out an email. Yea I didn't mean to wait for 2 P days, but I just didn't get the chance to write. Kalasin is soooo lit though. So I'm gonna try and summarize these past few weeks. We got zone conference this week so thats pretty neat. Super excited, we get to combine with Ubon too so we'll have a lot of fun. 

 Alright, first thing you need to know about Kalasin is that there's a dinosaur park. Got these massive dinosaur statues and they have a bunch of different parks too. So definitely have to check them all out. I'll get a picture of me riding a dinosaur one of these days when I get the chance. But super hype

Right next thing is the members here are goaded. Super Great branch President and we got a lot of members support for the missionary work. So it helps out a lot. Our area doesn't have a lot of investigators, so we're definitely gonna be doing a lot of finding this transfer.

 I'll also go through summarize the past 2 P days that I missed out on talking about. The first thing I should mention, we have bikes in this area which is super nice. So it's great to be able to bike around again. But 1st P Day we went to Roy at super cool place. I gotta see elder Saunders again. From my first area which is hype and they have a massive tower there. It was so cool but also so sad. Because we couldn't go up it. They said that it was raining too hard or rain too hard the night before, so we weren't allowed to go up the tower.

I've heard its got a good view tho and they have a cool like window thingy you could stand on and there's no other tall building anywhere around here. I don't know why they built just this massive tower there but its lit. so that was 1st day. 

Alright and the next p day was also super exciting. A member invited us over to make Pork waterfall and sticky rice mango so good. It was so good and then after that, we gotta head back to the house. Place some card games with the other elders. And then we went and played badminton . So overall, Just a great P Day, but hopefully the rest of them will turn out equally as fun. I should also mention. We got to join a member's family for family. Hope meeting and they had some really good dinner for us. So that was also amazing.  

Alright, and then, for this last week before his own conference, we've been on the finding grind so I'll have to keep that up trying getting a little bit more. The members are super great here. Though super helpful, it's also crazy. My branch President is so good at ping. Pong finally met a Thai person that is really good at ping pong. So super fun to play with him and we.  Also.

Have a game tonight which is also amazAlright, and then, for this last week before his own conference, we've been on the finding grind so I'll have to keep that up trying getting a little bit more. The members are super great here. Though super helpful, it's also crazy. My branch President is so good at ping. Pong finally met a Thai person that is really good at ping pong. So super fun to play with him and we. Also, Have a games night, which is amazing. 

Today for zone p.Day we played a bunch of basketball and a few other card games.I played secret Hitler for the first time.That games pretty fun.Then we did the finding activity.And I gotta pair up with older mirror he's a goat , he is two transfers behind me , but his ties are really good and wToday for zone p. Day we played a bunch of basketball and a few other card games. I played secret Hitler for the first time. That games pretty fun. Then we did the finding activity. And I gotta pair up with Elder Muir, he's a goat, he is 2 transfers behind me, but his thais already really good. He actually is one of the elders in Roi Et too so I got lucky we got bikes. We gotta go around to bunch of finding it was great.

If you stayed to the end you're a G. I'll try and keep up on writing my emails but this place is great. I love from hearing from all of you and I'll try my best to respond. love you all 

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