Another great week! We got home late last night from zone conference in Bangkok. It was a great conference and I loved learning from President and Sister Hammond. I really loved singing Called to Serve as Sister Hammond ran around us motivating us to sing louder and louder! There was a definite special spirit there. The biggest thing I got out of zone conference is how truly lucky I am to be a missionary at this time at this place. The work is progressing well throughout the whole world but I feel especially grateful to be able to be in Thailand where a temple is on the way and where the prophet visited not too many months ago. The Lord is hastening His work and I'm just happy to be a part of it!
We saw a great miracle this last week. We were walking around a park talking to a bunch of people. As we were getting ready to head home for the night I got a call from the zone leaders. While I talked to them Elder Tu was talking to a man on a bench. After I hung up Elder Tu explained how the guy he was talking to was really interested and wanted to learn more! So we met with him the next day. His name is Nang. I had been looking for ways to be more bold in missionary work so we decided to commit him to be baptized right off the bat and he accepted! He is so prepared! He loves reading the scriptures and loves praying! He prayed and then got a new job after he didn't have one too! Miracles!
Well crazy story of the week. We biked out to a less active member's house and we felt like we should call a member who lives over there to see if we could visit them. We called him up (he is from America and he's engaged to a Thai woman) and he was in extreme distress. His boat had gotten washed up and stuck in a bunch of rocks. The boat had a large hole and was taking on water. So we hustled over there to help him out. Another member family from South Africa hurried over to help too because the same thing had happened to their boat a year ago. They were a big help because they knew how to handle the situation. We helped tie lines and transport stuff from the boat to the shore but after all was said and done the boat was pretty unsalvageable. The family from South Africa had actually been looking for a new boat so they boat the boat from the owner. But the boat was still stuck. So they decided to hire a crew of "Sea Gypsies" to take the boat away. (Sidenote: not really sure what a sea gypsy is and neither is anyone else but for some reason everyone was calling them that so it stuck) Slowly they lost contact with the "Sea Gypsies" so their next plan was to go to the "Sea Gypsy village" to try to track down the "Sea Gypsies" It was a crazy intense night full of boats and romors of "Sea Gypsies" but in the end they got the boat out safely. Also we only know this story because we got invited over for dinner the night this all went down so we had a front row seat. There were many small miracles that happened to help the boat get out safely so Heavenly Father for sure had His hand in that situation.
One thing I enjoyed while studying this week came from the parable of the Prodigal Son which is one of my favorite parables the Savior gives in His ministry. I absolutely love the part when the father runs out to meet the prodigal son when he was still a far way out. Sometimes I think of our Heavenly Father as a strict judge who is waiting to punish us for all the little mistakes we make but this is absolutely not true. While thinking about this parable it hit me so hard that our Father in heaven is going to run out to meet us when we are still a far way off. He will drop everything to come and rejoice with us even when we don't feel like we deserve it. I felt that very powerfully.
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