Like I said last week,
President Nelson and Elder Holland came to Thailand. The members who went have
been happy and their testimonies are burning a little more bright!
Monkeys: Our District leader serves in Lopburi. In Lopburi there are an
excess of monkeys at this particular ancient Buddhist Wat by the train station.
These monkeys are savage. Elder Abbott had just bought snacks from 7/11. Elder
Abbott was not smart and was eating his snacks past the monkeys. One monkey had
a crazy look in it's eye and hopped on Elder Abbott's bag of snacks and he tried
to shake it off and started to swing his bag around with the monkey on it as
the monkey is tearing it to shreds. Anyways, the monkey stole his snacks. He
was pretty sad. In other news the other Elder got hit by an old lady on a
motorcycle. Elders... *Face palm
Hospital: Sister Pimsuwan got Bronchitis 2 days before leaving to go to
the MTC. Poor thing. We went to the hospital, got permission for her to take a
nap. She woke up and said in her 'lost voice' voice "I'm ready, let’s go
back to work!" What a missionary.
Airport: We got to the mission office to drop Sister Pimsuwan off to go
to the Phillipines MTC. When we got to the office, we found out that me and
Sister Smith would actually be the ones taking Sister Pim and the other two
Thai Elders to the Airport (usually President and Sister Johnson do that).
After we went on the Sky train (Air Port Link), got their luggage checked out
and tickets. Then we sent them off. I really miss Sister Pim! She's all grown up
now and going to the MTC! After that, Sister Smith and I found ourselves
stranded clear on the other side of Bangkok. After navigating through one of
the biggest cities using 5 different modes of transportation, to try to get
back to my area (Ayutthaya, which is about an hour outside of northern Bangkok)
I feel like I can navigate anything now! Lol not really.
Rain: it has been raining lately! Everyone here is afraid of rain and
wear plastic bags on their heads. Yesterday, Sister Smith and I were trying really
hard to find more people to teach and talk with and these people wave us over
and ask us why we're out in the pouring rain, and then they gave us plastic
bags to put on our heads. So we put the bags on our heads and put our helmets
over top (tried giving them the opportunity to learn the Gospel) after that we
were on our way running with our bikes through the rain because my tire was
flat with plastic bags over our heads.
Members: We have some investigators who haven't been coming to church in
a few weeks, and the members were asking about them. After church we asked some
members to help us go visit them, and before we knew it we had a group of 13
people piled into 2 vehicles and we just showed up at their house. I wasn't
sure how they would respond to all these people just showing up so I was a
little scared. But when we showed up and all the people were coming out of the
vehicles, our investigators had the biggest smiles on their faces! The members
just said "Hey! We've missed you at church!" That really built my
testimony of the importance of members. Everyone back home: Go do something to
either help the missionaries or help someone know the gospel!
I know that God loves
all of us. I know that we all need Jesus Christ, and we all need to lean on Him
more.
Love, ซิสเตอร์ พีเตอร์สัน
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