This week was super busy but super fun! We got to go to a zone conference in Myanmar and visit all the missionaries there! We have about 12 missionaries in Myanmar and it was so fun being with them. Myanmar is very different than Thailand. Everyone wears the skirt things and sandals so we got to wear those too! It was pretty cool! Mine kept coming untied so everyone was laughing at me. I felt like a new missionary because I didn't speak the language and I didn't know what was going on! It was humbling for sure. We also visited a member who is about 85 years old and she's been having severe back and chest pains but that didn't stop her from going to church! Her faith was amazing! We got to give her a blessing and she was so grateful!
We found a family this week who was interested in learning! Finding families here is a little difficult because not as many people get married here and when they are married they are usually very strong in Buddhism. We found a family who at first was a little stand-offish but they've slowly opened up! Yesterday we went to go teach them before church. When we showed up they said that they had cousins over and it wasn't convenient to talk. After talking to them for a second they kindly invited us inside and by the end of our conversation they were asking us questions about our church and why there are so many Christian denominations. Sometimes the best finding tool is just the Light of Christ that we carry!
Other fun things:
- drove the big mission van for the first time
- still teaching brother Boom and he's doing great! He loved the Plan of Salvation when we taught it to him!
- We're also teaching a man named Buen who is doing great! We taught the Plan of Salvation to him by drawing it all out on a whiteboard and afterwards he told us "It makes so much sense!" Then he took a picture of it and posted it on Facebook!
- another nan named Gon quit smoking before we even taught him the Word of Wisdom. He said he prayed and asked God to help him quit and then he just stopped! Miracles!
- Thai name of the week: Mom
This transfer we've really been focusing on teaching about Heavenly Father correctly and helping the people we teach really understand what He is like. It has been great trying to strengthen my testimony of our Father in Heaven and then teach it to others. When they truly understand our relationship with Him then prayer and the rest of the gospel makes so much more sense! I read a great talk from Elder Holland that he gave to Mission Presidents a few years ago. He said "If, as King Benjamin counseled, we truly know these Divine Beings whom we serve and make certain They are not strangers to us and are never far from the thoughts and intents of our heart (see Mosiah 5:13), then we might have the results King Benjamin had. And what were those? His people experienced “a mighty change,” had “no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually,” and were “willing to enter into a covenant … to do [God’s] will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he [should] command [them], all the remainder of [their] days.” I love how he said that we need to know the Godhead personally and then we can help others come to know them as well.
I love this work and I love my Father in heaven! I'm so grateful to be serving in Thailand. I love these people so much!
Shall we not go on in so great a cause?!
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