We had an awesome week this week! Lots of success and miracles! One awesome miracle we saw was last p-day someone called us and was really interested in learning about the church. We got to meet with her on Tuesday and her name is Sister Yuwi. She told us she would drive by the church and always just felt like she wanted to be at the church. She felt good whenever she looked at it but her friend took her to another Christian church which talked about how wrong Mormons are and how bad our church is. She felt bad and jyst kind of forgot about the church. Few days later she was out jogging and one of our inviting cards with Jesus on the front was on the street and she picked it up and knew it was a sign from God. She called us and set up a meeting. She accepted everything so willingly including a baptismal date! She came to church and brought her husband too! They were both so awesome and are excited to keep developing their faith!We also been teaching Sister Nam. Her parents really don't want her to be baptized even though they live in Laos and don't see their daughter too often. Sister Nam always tells us she knows the church is true and is so excited to get baptized. She called and bore her testimony to her parents and she isn't worried about it anymore so that's good. She's great!This week we went and helped at IDC which is basically jail for illegal immigrants. We had to go through a clearance and everything. Once we got in we were all in a huge room with a fence with all the immigrants on one side, then about 4 feet of space, then another fence. Everyone is screaming at each other trying to communicate and it's strait chaos. A member of our ward made a great observation about it. Sometimes the world we live in feels like IDC. Everything is loud and it's really hard to focus on the still,small voice. I have found that quiet times of prayer and pondering are the times I feel the closest to the Spirit.We also got to visit a few families from our international ward! It's always so fun to teach in English and eat American food, but I'm a little scared it will hurt my Thai! We visited the ward mission leader and his family. He has 3 boys under the age of 7. I felt right at home! I felt like I was right back at Gray Gables with my little brothers! They were wrestling and playing the whole night, it was so awesome! It was awesome to share a message with them and feel of their pure faith in the Savior.This week I've been studying diligence. I read a great talk from Elder Eyring. It's called Act in All Diligence from the April 2010 conference. One quote I loved says: "When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give to myself this rallying cry: “Remember Him.” The Lord is our perfect example of diligence in priesthood service. He is our captain. He called us. He goes before us. He chose us to follow Him and to bring others with us." I love the part about remembering Christ. If we all would remember Christ more often we would have much better lives. I'm going to work on remembering Christ more in my daily work. I am so grateful for Him and for his example of selfless service.I love you all! Thanks for all your prayers! Have another great week!!-Elder Borg
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