Hello everybody and Happy Easter!
Well, this was a great week! Songkran was sooooo much fun! I'm glad the ward posted pictures because I don't really have any. I didn't want to take my camera because it would probably get ruined. But it was way fun! During Songkran (Sunday-Tuesday) we had to be in by 7:00 for safety reasons, so we got a lot of cleaning, organizing, and calls done. It was good! After Monday we were so sunburned and so tired, but it was so worth it.
Falangs tend to come to Thailand during
Songkran because it's way fun. While we were walking to the bus station to head
back to Bangkapi on Monday I looked down in the Khlong (sewage canal that they
run boats on for transportation) and there was this blonde-haired falang lady
swimming in it. I think all of us missionaries were in shock and horror....
falling into the khlong is one of my worst fears and this lady was voluntarily
swimming in it! haha Not so sure that tourist knew what she was swimming in.
So two Fridays
ago I had a switch-off and went to Saphaan Suung with Sister Holmes and
Gittima! It was way fun. Everything fell through so we pretty much invited all
day long. It was pretty rainy, but we had a really fun time! Love those two!
Last Sunday was
just really cool. Sister Peterson and I had split up to teach people after
church. I got done first so I walked down the hall to find out which room she
was in and I noticed that every single one of us missionaries had split up.
There were so many people to teach that all 8 of us were teaching separately. It
was kind of a cool sight! Also, last year there were 29 baptisms
in Bangkapi. This year, as of this last Sunday, there have been 36! Amazing!
Heavenly Father is really blessing this area right now (and I think it's
freaking the members out a bit, too! haha) I think before long they're going to
be splitting the ward!
Okay, Mom, at
the Women's Conference that they had before General Conference, do you remember an
"I am a Child of God" medley with people from all over the world?
There are Thai people in it from the Jaengwattana church! We got to watch the
medley. So awesome! Not sure if you would have realized that or not, but it
might be fun to go see again.
So, this week
our Book of Mormon class went really well. We read 1 Nephi 16 about the Liahona
and breaking the bow. There was such good class discussion and everyone was so
involved. I just felt really happy after that class!
Okay, so
yesterday was
absolutely amazing because seven investigators of the elders were baptized
(four of them were a family- awesome!). One of our investigators was supposed
to be baptized, Chompu, but things fell through because of her testing
schedule. So, we were a little sad about that, but hopefully soon she'll be
baptized, too! However, we did have a save yesterday! Sister Noy is now active
again, and is even bringing us investigators (Grape and Mink's grandma/aunt).
Yesterday, she brought two new friends to church for us to teach, Ying and her
daughter Pow. After church and before the baptism I had the chance to go teach
them with sister Noy. The
lesson went well and they are very receptive to everything. Half way through
the lesson Noy got a call and it turns out they'd just received a huge amount
of money from their business in the South. So, those two were freaking out and
way excited and decided it was a blessing from God for coming to church. I
guess it might be... I just hope they don't expect that every time they come to
church! haha Anyway, Ying and Pow are awesome and they accepted a date for May
4th!
Basically, yesterday was amazing because 7 people were baptized, Sister Noy is
reactived, Heavenly Father blessed us with 3 new investigators, and we had a
good dose of humor, too!
I love you all
so much!
Love,
Liz :)
