💥My War🧨

 Que the frickin Attack on titan intro with the explosions. If you know you know. 

Basically this last week how a mini war started with Thailand and Cambodia. It started like last Thursday and since then. 2 areas of my mission have been evacuated and if it gets any worse. My area will be evacuated next. It's kind of crazy. Thailand says that Cambodia started it. And Thailand says that Cambodia started it, but they both been firing each other the past week. We had a bunch of refugees flee from the border. But yeah, there was a peace meeting today and they agreed to a i'm conditional ceasefire, so as long as things keep getting better as they seem now we should be chill. 

Other than that, my weeks been pretty mellow. Tuesday we had english class and we had a bunch of people pull up out of dollar made pizza. So that was super fun. We're already getting to the end of July which is crazy. I feel like I just got to this area and that was at the beginning of july so we're already gonna be coming up when the end of transfers here soon in about two weeks which is wild. 

 But as of right now, nothing too crazy planned for this week. We have the 2 outers from Surin at our apartment. Which is super chill? Might be doing some exchanges this week if they're not gonna be heading back soon. 

But yeah, aside from that, no crazy progressing investigators. We did have a lot of inactive members.Come to church this, so that was true. We did have a lot of inactive members come to church this Sunday though. So that was chill. .We did get the steak presidency here, which might have made a part of the difference, but we'll take that for sure. 

 Almost forgot. We also went to a school this last week which was really fun. I think that was Wednesday morning. We went and helped out with their English class outer. Dollar did some interviews with some students in English, and I helped a student that is going to be presenting a speech at a competition this week. So super glad we had the opportunity to go help them for about an hour, which was great.

But yeah, sorry. I don't really have much time. To write more, it's really late and I'm so grateful for all the emails you guys send me. I love hearing about how your week's go or any questions you have sorry if I don't respond this week. We're just gonna shower on time today, but I will make sure respond to all of you next week. And I love you all.

Call, call, call

 Whats up,

I'm in Buriram now. Right now, the work's great, we've got a lot of people to call so it's kind of like my area in Bangkok, but we're getting through them. Some highlights from these last 2 weeks were

-Exchanges

-Buriram Youth

-Sunday

-Zone Conference

- Pie

Alright already blessed in my first few weeks here to do exchanges, and I gotta do them with Elder Tamayao. For anyone that's read my emails all the way through he was my follow up trainer. We did exchanges in Buriram and it was fun to go around with him again when i speak a lil bit better.

Next thing, the youth here are freakin FIRE🔥🔥🔥. I hesitate to even call them youth cuz they're all 20+ but they are so great. They make us dinner Sunday nights and a few other nights a week. They even went finding with us my first Saturday night at this big market called the Walking Street. They're always down to help us teach and we basically have help from them at all times so its pretty littt. 

Our last Sunday was great. My first sunday here was good. We helped teach the primary and there was one mom with her daughter that hadn't come to church before. We had 2 other kids but, other than that though we didn't really many people. Then this week, we didn't have a ton, buttttt a Referral pulled up to church along with a Sister of a new member that's interested in learning so it was a pretty good Sunday for us. 

Yea I had zone conference already. We had to leave Sunday afternoon and we didn't get back til Wednesday morning because there were no buses that went to Buriram so we took the bus and stayed at the Surin house. Zone conference itself was soo fun tho, gotta play a bunch of basketball and do splits with Elder Tripoli for the finding activity. Thennn I got my ties, woooo. First batch finally made so its really nice to have those. Traded some already so my tie collection finally growing. 

Alright last little story. Yesterday we were finding and we were in this neighborhood that had a bunch of white people for some reason but they were not very interested but we came across this one house where this lady was making food so I asked her if we could help her make food because I'm not good at making Thai food and she said she was making white people food.  And she was making chicken pot pies, but with steak!!! and other meats in them and she's got like an industrial oven in her house and she makes a bunch of them and she wasn't super interested in the gospel, but she gave us gas steak mushroom pot pies. They were so good and we're definitely gonna have to find where she sends them because she makes them for stores in our city and in some other cities but they were so good.

Thats the major events from my first week in Buriram. I'm sending this in the middle of the week cuz we got a halfpday cuz we had zone conference. 

Love you all so much and I love hearing from. Sometimes don't have time to respond but l love hearing from u all.

❗️1 and Done❗️

 Whats up

This one might be a little shorter because I've been so busy. Basically we get transfer news Wednesday morning and Boom, I'm moving after 1 transfer in Kalasin. I'm at the bus station on my way to Buriram when I'm writing this. Sooo needless to say, I was pretty surprised when i get myself out of bed ready to see who my new comp is and my thing isn't in Kalasin. 

Overall we've had a pretty good last week though. We we're able to find 5 friends to try visiting last week and we had 2 this last monday so hopefully they'll see some progress with them.

I'm pretty fortunate this last week and I got shabu like 3 times. One day we did service at a school in the morning and helped teach English and then the Principal took us to shabu for dinner. Her family was nice and her sons super interested in coming to English Class. 

This Sunday was hype! Unfortunately we didn't see a bunch of our friends at church but one of our members brothers came and wanted to learn so that'll be a great member referral for them. Thennn Brother Non opened his mission call and he's going to Serra Leone, Africa (hopefully i spelled that right) for his mission. It's crazyyy. He will be speaking the English Language. 

My last day in Kalasin was filled with quick goodbyes to members and friends. Definitely was not expecting to say goodbye so soon, I really loved Kalasin and its a special place. I'm grateful that I at least got the chance to serve one transfer there 🙏

Kalasin 2 was also actually closed. So Elder Campbell and Elder Vang are comps now and me and Elder Jones are out. Elder Jones is going to Yasothorn. The nice thing is tho I'll still probably see them at zone conference. 

Thats basically been my transfers. Just one thing to the next back to back since i got transfer news. I guess I'm getting a lil bit better at packing up tho