It was another good week! It started off with President and Sister
Johnson coming to visit Lampang last Monday and Tuesday. We did a FHE
activity at the church with the members which they loved. They were so
excited for President and Sister Johnson to come,
they were all there about an hour early (which is super surprising). We
got to teach some of our investigators with Sister Johnson as well,
which was super fun! On Tuesday morning we got to do our studies with
her as well. She's such a spiritual giant, I had
so much fun talking to her about the things we'd studied. There's so
much to learn from each other! We had our district meeting with the
Johnson's and then they took us out for some somtam. It's funny, no
matter if you like Thai food or not, most white people
love somtam! It's so good! President Johnson interviewed us before they
left for Chiang Mai. I'm so grateful for my mission president! I feel
like he says exactly all the things that I need to hear.
So we've been teaching these two guys, Joe and Ken, for the past
couple of weeks. So how I met Joe is a funny story. My skirt got caught
in my bike, me and Sister Rem were on the side of the street trying to
yank it out and then these khon Thais come over
and help us. The other guy leaves and this guy stays to make sure it's
ok and he's right there so I invite him. He says no and that was kinda
the end of it. A week later, we're at Central and we're suppose to be at
the church soon for FHE but we decide to go
look at this photography gallery that they're having really quick. So we
go down there and that guy is there too! He comes up to us and starts
talking to us, I ask if we can meet with him the next day and he says
sure. So he comes the next day and brings his
friend Ken with him, who's super interested in learning about Christ.
And so yeah, we've been teaching them for the past couple weeks. They're
both such interesting people. Ken is actually really good and
understands really well and Joe just looks really confused
all the time. I actually have a hard time not laughing when I teach him
because he just looks at us like we're insane. But he keeps coming back!
They still both have yet to come to church! They're both really busy. I
just thought of how funny it probably is
to khon Thais that these white people are coming up to them and asking
them if they want to learn about Christ and then calling them all the
time and trying to get them to go to church. Yesterday one of the elders
investigators that came to the church for the
first time asked the elders why they cared so much that he came to church and why
they called him so much. It's just funny, they really don't understand.
We didn't get a chance to teach Alfred last week though :( but the
awesome news is that Sister Miaw got baptized!
We've literally been working with her for 2 months now. It was a great
day, she was ready! Her testimony was pretty awesome too, she talked
about how she used to be a total party girl and just went out and drank
all the time and now she's just a church going
girl. People ask her to go and party with them and she'd just rather go
to the church and hang out with members. She said she finally came to
realize that she wanted to get baptized when she was at one of the other
baptisms and it just felt right. But she didn't
tell us that until the next week! She's funny like that. And then she
said that while she was in the water, about to be baptized, it was cold
but she felt good inside and then asked herself why she had ever waited
so long to do this. I love Sister Miaw, she's
going to be such a great member. I'm so glad that I had the opportunity
to teach her. In the process she taught me so much as well. It was such a
great day!
Everyone likes to be in the picture! :)
Sister Meow (Brother Santi's wife, we finally figured out
how to spell her name), was going to get baptized
but got really sick. So next week! We want to teach their kids this week
so that they can all get baptized together! This transfer me and Sister
Rem prayed about the number of baptisms we felt was right. And we both
got the number four! So somehow, one way
or the other, we're going to get 3 baptisms this Sunday. I have total
faith in that! We're going to get 3! We met our goal of bringing back 6
LA's as well! Our district at the beginning of the transfer made a goal
of getting 75 people to church (Lampang has
the lowest number of people in sacrament meeting). We've been working so
hard, working with LA's and RC's and inviting like crazy and having
parties to help make the branch closer and stronger. We've been doing
all we can to help the church stronger here! And
yesterday we had a miracle happen, we had exactly 75 people in sacrament
meeting. It was so amazing! Really though, it was all by the hand of
the Lord. I just look at all those miracles and know that it was completely by Him. We're the pencil but He's the one
doing the writing!
So we had our Halloween party! I don't think the members had ever
really had one, but they went all out for it! Brought lots of food, we
had some people dress up! It was fun! We had them do the donut on a
string and bobbing for apples. It was so funny!
And just played games. I think everyone had a fun time, we had a good
turn out! It was definitely different than Halloween at home but it's a
Halloween I'll never forget!
I got new glasses! haha!
The members did a really good job decorating.
Playing the donut game!
These two (Sister Miaw and Sister C-game)
went all out for the party!
Well I hope you guys have a good week! Love you all!
-ซ. คาร์ริโย
Proverbs 3:5-9
P.s. If you haven't, you should watch the new Mormon Message, Reflections. It's my favorite!
"Shall we not all go on in such great a cause?"
Helping a member get this interesting
fruit down from the tree with a stick. Yay for service!
I decided that if Rapunzel was Buddhist,
this would be her wat!
Me and Sister Rem saw this wat while we were out biking
and stopped to take a picture by it. It was a super pretty one!
I just took this while we were in a
neighborhood because it looked cool
Inviting at the park, always gotta take a picture while inviting!
We were out inviting at the market and
this lady was making tortilla's
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