We moved p-day back so we could celebrate it Thanksgiving with our branch! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I'm grateful for all of you and love you all so much! I haven't written in a while so I have a lot of stuff to write about!
-Miracles! So we had 2 golden investigators who just randomly disappeared one day. They both had a baptismal date and they both missed it. One night we where home and I decided to call them. I wasn't too hopeful though because we had called north of 20 times and they had't answered. On one of the last rings the sister answered! I was so surprised that I kinda froze for a second! But we got to talk to her and got a follow-up appointment (which she didn't come to) but it was still really cool.Then I figured my luck was running high might as well call the other investigator and he answered too! His dad had passed away a few days before so we shared a scripture with him and told him about the Plan of Salvation. Hopefully we will get to teach him soon!
-Miracle #2 We were out inviting in a neighborhood and we decided to pray because a member had told us to pray so we did. As soon as we finished praying I noticed a lady watching us so we went over to talk to her. She was very nice and we told her who we were. She told us she had a book about Jesus and went inside to get it. When she came back out she had a really old copy of the Book of Mormon! She had all the old pamphlets and everything! It was so cool.She said we could come visit her again so hopefully she is ready to get baptized this time!
-Scripture from this week that I liked is from Helaman 5:6. Helaman is talking to his sons about their names. He teaches his sons to remember their fathers and their good works and try to represent them well. It is awesome to be representing my family with my nametag every day. I think of the missionaries who have gone before me and their great example. I also think of the Savior and how I have taken His name upon me and I wear it on my chest every day. I am striving to remember the Savior and His works and try to emulate that in the ways I serve. I want people to recognize me as a representative of the Savior and want to learn more how they can feel of His love!
-There's a member here who is studying English and wants to be a missionary so we practice English with him a lot and this week I taught him "What's cooking good looking?" "Square up" and that gum is actually called "Floogle" in America! He's awesome and helps us teach so many people!
-The past few weeks has been the elephant festival in Surin. Surin is the Elephant central in Thailand and tons of tourists come in to watch it! (One member told us a million people come which was not true but it was a lot of people) On our p-day last week we went walking around the big elephant market and actually found a new investigator! Brother Low who knows a ton about Christianity so it's been cool to have Gospel discussions with him. Everyone was pointing at us but we get that a lot anyway.They seriously love white people here. A few days later a member invited us to go to the elephant parade with her. They set up this huge long table of fruit and you can feed the elephants for free! We did that but we could hardly move because all these students were asking us questions for their English homework. We passed out a ton of English cards. After that we had to go to an appointment but we were stuck right in the middle of the parade. We got on our bikes and rode right through the parade, smiling and waving to people! It was way fun! We were right next to the elephants too!
-At our usual lunch place the guy making our food was wearing a Utah Jazz shirt!!! It was crazy. I should've taken a picture but I forgot. Still way cool. He said his friend had given it to him from America.
-The Larson's are Senior couple missionaries who used to serve in Surin. They helped organize a free eye clinic in Surin and we got to help with that. A bunch of eye doctors came over from Arizona and they were all members. It was crazy to see white members in Surin! They gave us all their 7-11 stamps which then paid for my study snacks for the next few days. Tender mercies! ;) It was really neat helping at the eye clinic and helping people be able to see. They were giving out thousands of free glasses and setting up free surgeries for people who needed them. It was amazing to give people their glasses and after they could see they were so grateful! It was awesome!
-My favorite thing to eat is Kaupaht with Kayjiiow (It's hard to spell those in English) It's fried rice with an egg omelette on top and it's wonderful. I'll really eat anything though. I've had frog, pig skin, chicken feet, and pig liver! Also they don't take bones out of their meat and they all eat the bones so I've eaten lots of bones too.
-My favorite drink is either chocolate milk or the fruit smoothies we buy!
-I'm for sure closest to Brother Tom. He always tells me how he will cry when I leave, then he calls me fat and eats my food. (He's the one I taught that gum is called "Floogle")
-Funny Thai name from the week: Bam Bam
-Elder Wilcox has been sick most of this week so I've had to take the lead in some of our lessons and they actually went pretty good. The gift of tongues is real. Everyone is always so amazed when we say we've been learning Thai for less than a year! We always say it's through God then they usually accept an invitation to come to English class!
Love you all so much! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving! Eat some mashed potatoes for me! ;) I'm so grateful for all of you and your love and prayers!
-Elder บอร์ก
Thanksgiving feast with Surin members, with Elder Ignacio and Elder Rawle, with a cat at the church, the number of chairs we are sitting on represents the number of transfers we have left, elephant festival, more with the Surin members and the elders from Buriram
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