✊🏿LovestThouMe🫰

 Decided to switch it up today, if thou Lovest me feel free to hit me up in email.

Sorry I didn't get an email out last week. We were just a little busy for Pday so I didn't  get a chance to send one. We went to Mukdahan for last pday which was way chilll. We went with our investigator who was one date and we had a fun day. I was able to  get some fire fabrics for neckties so that's always fire.

This last week I was fortunate to exchange with the Goattttt,  Elder Tripoli. He's one of the few Filipinos left, and sadly he's going home this transfer so possibly one of my last times exchanging with a filipino. We had a pretty cool miracle as well. We decided to bike a few kilos out of nakhon phanom to go check out the University. Over at the University there's this crazy cool government building that I'll  put a photo of   later.  We decided to go and take a look at it. When we the top of the stairs one of the workers there was like "Hey Elders". Very confused we were like how do you know the elders. Turns out he was a Member in Sakon Nakhon before who moved to Nakhon Phanom for work a while back. We had a chance to exchange facebooks and pray with him before we go so hopefully we'll be seeing him again this next week.

Another cool thing is that for like the next 3 weeks there's a baptism scheduled in Nakhon Phanom and there was a lady of the other elders who got baptized this week. This area is truly soo blessed and I hope I have the opportunity to be here another transfer. We got transfers next week though so I'll guess we'll see.

Just want to end off with a lil Spiritual thought here

I'm not gonna write out the scriptures cuz I got to get to bed but this last week I've been reading about having Christ as our foundation.
Jesus's comparison of the wise man and the foolish man in 3 Nephi 14:24-28 (Or something like that) is of great importance for our lives. As Helaman answered in Helaman 5:12 We must build our foundations off of the Rock of our Redeemer who is Christ the Lord. One might wonder though how is it that we build our foundation upon Christ the Lord. I feel like there are a multiple of ways but one which stands out to me is from Alma 31:5. This verse highlights how the effect of the preaching of the word had more of an effect on the people than the sword. While there are many ways to receive the preaching of the word of God. One way we can start is through consistent, diligent study of the scriptures which are literally the word of God through prophets and Apostles.

"Do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way" "The way is prepared, and if we look we may live forever"

🍆Tortang Talong😋

 Hey everyone,

This week I had the opportunity to have a great dish called Tortang Talong from the Phillpines. a Filipino elder here made it and it's pretty good. Basically, you take an eggplant, boil it, and then put in some meat and vegetables and stuff. Then you fry it. I did not have the highest expectations as I have never had eggplant before, but it was honestly pretty good. 

This was pretty chill though. Not actually very cold even though it's supposed to be cold season, and we live right next to a river. This week was the first week we had church at our new building though. It was soo amazing. Our mission President, President Kanyaphan and his wife came out to be there for the opening of the building. Super blessed and miracle-filled Sunday. We ended up having 47 people in total, 13 of which were friends one of our 2 companionships are teaching. 

For this week I'm just to go through some of the people we had the chance to teach this last week. 

Our first amazing Poosonjai is P Gob. P Gob has a shop where he fixes devices. We've stopped by to teach him like every other day since I got here. We've recently got through all the lessons. Since he has started learning with the missionaries for the past month or so he has read up to Helaman in the BOM and he just finished reading Matthew in the Bible. He undesrtands so well and this we were blessed to help him have a goal to receive Baptism on February 1st. He is soo amazing and can't wait to see his faith grow more. 

Another person we've started teaching these last 2 weeks is named Yada. She's around 19 and she was one of the first referrals I called when I got to Nakhon Panom. We were able to take one of our new members who is 21 and they're now good friends. We've taught her online this past week as she lives around 30 minutes out of the city. She has read all the pamphlets we've given her, and has started reading the Book of Mormon. We were blessed this past Saturday tho because the Senior missionaries, Elder and Sister Stennet, have a car and were able to take us out to her house to visit this Saturday. We had a spiritually filled lesson. She shared how she felt we were an answer to her prayers, and then another miracle came when we found out she's thinking about trying to be a nurse. Sister Stennet used to be nurse and was able to share some insights and give her contact information if she needs help with anything. We were also to meet with Yada's family who is very Buddhist and not interested letting her come to church. However, they're fine with us teaching her. Please pray for Yada to be able to come to church in the future as it would be an amazing opportunity for her. 

We honestly have quite a few more people we're teaching who came to church, but I want to just finish off with 2 more.

One is named Ping Pong. He is a middle-aged English teacher and he's so lit. Both of his sisters have been baptized, one in the last month. He has been learning with the Missionaries for a lil bit now, and he has a testimony of prayer and other things he's seen. He's also on the last step where if he feels ready he could be baptized this month. We're hoping we can help him prioritize scripture study and feel ready to enter into his first covenant with God.

Our last guy I want to talk about is P Dthou. Saturday Night at almost 9 pm we were heading to our bikes after just finishing a lesson at the walking street. As we got to our bikes to head back I was about to hop on but I saw this guy walking down the stairs so I figured I would start talking with him first. I greeted him and just chatted with him a bit and he started asking a bunch of questions about what we're doing here. I was able to give a lil rundown of missionaries and asked him if he's free tomorrow morning. He said he didn't have anything in particular because he recently left his job. I invited him to church and after a little hesitation he said he might go and we exchanged Facebooks. I wasn't too sure if he was seriously gonna pull up, but then when we got home he had already messaged on the Facebook and asked for the Church location. Sure enough, the next morning a little after the meeting had started he pulled up. This was really just such a cool miracle for me, and double bonus was sister kanyaphan talking with him and helping us get him to agree to a follow up appointment this week. He also told us he will be coming to English Class.

I love Nakhon Panom and I love all the amazing opportunites I've had on my mission so far. I hope you all had an amazing Holiday Season and Thank You for all the amazing people that reach out to me. 

For my spiritual Thought I'm gonna share a scripture I think we could all abide by.

Jacob 6:12

12. O be wise; what can I say more?

Some flics