Hola Khrccbkhrua!
Wow,
it was amazing to see your faces and talk with you last week! I agree,
best Christmas gift ever! You all look so great and I absolutely loved
that time to talk with you!
This week has been great! Not a ton has happened since Wednesday, but there are a few notable things!
So,
after Christmas P-day ended we had yet another ward Christmas party for
the singles. It was really fun. Someone read from Luke 2, they had a
fake fire playing on the TV, we sang Christmas songs, and then played
some games. It was a great Christmas, definitely one I'll remember! So
strange to be away from home and not have the whole big build up to
Christmas, but the celebrations we had were really special and I really
felt the Christmas spirit with the ward members here. And of course the
Skype chat!! Cannot top that!!
As far as investigators go: We have three that are progressing really well!
The
first is N. She is about 25 and was found off of a street contact
and is progressing so well! She's learned just about everything and she
really has a testimony. Unfortunately, her mom booked her a plane ticket
home for the 3rd of January to return for a couple months.She tried to
change the date of the ticket for later so that she could be baptized on
the fifth. However, her mom couldn't change it. So, she'll have to wait
until she returns (prob in February) to be baptized. There are no
churches down in the south where she's from. I'm sad she's leaving, but
we'll keep in good contact over the phone while she's gone. I think
she'll stay strong!
Our second investigator is NL. She has a baptismal date for the fifth and she is learning
well! She's already Christian and is already familiar with a lot of
things we teach. She's accepted everything well and is on schedule to be
baptized!
Our third investigator is named B. She's 20 years
old and attending college. Super cute! She has learned almost
everything and is excited to be baptized on the 5th as well!
It's really exciting! The elders also have an investigator ready to be baptized on the fifth so that will be an awesome day!
Also,
yesterday we had 4, yes FOUR, investigators at church! I was so happy that they all came and had a great experience.
I have never ever had four investigators at church! This was a miracle
for sure! Also, yesterday when we went inviting we were able to talk
with a lot of people and get a lot of numbers. Yesterday was just really
great! Oh, while we were inviting I saw a falang so I went to go talk
to him. He's this retired man from Texas who's lived here for a really
long time. I tried to tell him about our message, but I literally could
not do it! Every time I would start to explain something it would come
out in Thai. I'm pretty sure when I get home from my mission I'm not
going to be able to help the missionaries because I won't know what to
say in English! haha It's just funny- I never thought it would actually
be hard to teach in my own language. But I guess since we learn to be
missionaries in Thai it makes sense. But it made me laugh. He was not
interested, probably because he couldn't understand what on earth I was
talking about. However, he told me he has some great devout Mormon
friends in Salt Lake but has lost touch with them and wondered if I knew
them! haha The world of Mormonism is small, but I'm afraid it is not
that small! He told me they lived on Smiley street. Is anyone familiar
with Smiley street?
Anyway, I am really blessed to
be serving here in Bangkapi and I LOVE IT!!!!! I love the ward, I love
my companion, I love our investigators, and I love this work! I have
really felt the spirit a lot lately and it's really helped my testimony
grow!
I love you all so much!
Liz :)
p.s. This week Sister Sawangwong ran over a cat with her bike.
Cat was fine. I could not stop laughing, I've never seen that happen
before!
