💥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 

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 

Here's some pictures

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