Wow! Week 2 felt just as long as week 1, but I'm pushing on! It kinda feels like we just relive the same day over and over again, but I'm learning a lot! We've had a few lessons with our investigator named "Faa". At least we thought she was an investigator. Turns out, she is one of our teachers which blew all of our minds. She was quite the actress!
Tell the Scheffners sorry, I wasn't able to be a host when Mike came in. I don't know how it works, but I never heard anything about it so, I wasn't able to help when Elder Scheffner got here. I’ll try to for the upcoming weeks.
Glasses are great, no problems. I've worn them around all day today and been fine. Yes, Elder English is in the other district and he's awesome! His room is right next to ours so I talk to him a lot. He's a great guy and will be a great missionary!
Yeah, we see the other Thai district at night and on Sundays for sacrament meetings. I got randomly called on to give a talk last week in sacrament meeting. Like they chose me during the meeting, so that was fun. It went well actually, and everyone told me I did great so that was good.
Yes, all the other district is going to Thailand too - 22 of us total!
Thai common core is coming along. We're transitioning to script, which is the actual symbols, so this week should be interesting.
Nope, our classroom is not in the new buildings and we are not super happy about it. We have a tiny classroom with 11 large elders squeezed inside plus a teacher. Maybe we'll get moved there soon, I'll keep you updated.
Some cool stuff has happened this week. We got to hear the MTC President and his wife speak to us. They talked about how they were both converts and baptized by missionaries. Awesome to see the effects of missionary work. Yesterday I got to help go through the tours of the MTC and that was fun. It was great to talk to people from "the outside world" and it was also cool to finally get to see all of the new buildings and see how the Lord is hastening His work.
The scripture that has helped me the most this week is Mark 9:24. "Yea Lord I believe, help thou mine unbelief." I kinda feel like the Lord is tearing me down in order to rebuild me into something else. These weeks have been hard but I trust the process and know that the Savior knows better than I do what's the best for me.
We do a small district scripture study every night and that has been awesome for a few reasons:
1. It's nice to read and talk about the gospel in English.
2. Great way to end the day.
3. Reminds me of scripture study at the Cox's house back home.
4. Brings us closer together as a district. There's some seriously amazing Elders out here and they're going to do some special things.
My companion organized a special musical number for our district to sing in sacrament which turned out awesome, or yiam jung looey in Thai. We sang "Brightly Beams our Fathers Mercy" and you know I killed the base part. :) Tell Uncle Steve that I finally got to sing it in sacrament meeting! We had been practicing that song in our Priest quorum for a few months but never sang it in sacrament like we had planned to.
My roommates looove all the packages. It's fun to get back and have a treat before we go to bed. They all say how much they love Sister Borg!
On Sunday we all watch church movies in the classrooms and all the rooms were full except for the Music and the Spoken Word: Canada Special so we enjoyed a half hour of Canadian music sung by MoTab. It reminded me of Mom and her stirring rendition of "O, Canada". I prefer her version over the original. ;)
Wow, the saying is true, "The weeks feel like days and the days feel like weeks" I'm plugging along and keeping my spirits up. I love hearing from all of you! Sorry if I don't reply. I only have a limited time to write e-mails. The DearElder thing is spectacular. I got 7 letters yesterday which was such a great boost! I smiled the whole time while reading them. The Borg trip to Yellowstone sounded awesome. Maybe we can go again in a few years!
I'm so excited to get to Thailand! I feel like horses at the start of a race, ready to burst out of the gate!
I miss you all every day! Thanks for all the support and prayers. I know I couldn't do this on my own.
Love you all!
-Elder Borg
District 7E at the Provo Temple
Learning the Thai tones. Thai flag, courtesy of Mom!
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