Well this morning I woke up FREEZING. It is 55 degrees outside and I
am so cold. My body has no idea what to feel. Happy because I'm not
dying of heat or feeling like I'm going to cry because it hurts. Not
sure. I'm grateful to be out of the sauna for
a little while though haha!
It was a crazy week though, lost lots of sleep but somehow my body
is still going! We went to Bangkok on Monday night and after a fun and
rocky train ride, we made it to Bangkok at 5 a.m. So we just went
straight to immigration which didn't open until
8. Great thing was that there was a bunch of other missionaries renewing
their visas! So I got to see Sister Rem and Sister Jo and a bunch of
other peeps! After a long bus ride back we made it back to Lampang at 10
p.m. Tuesday night. I was so tired haha. We
did have the most amazing Zone Conference though on Friday. We're
changing the way we teach, the way we do our missionary work so we can
have the spirit with us more. We're teaching repentance and baptizing
converts! I always love learning how I can be a better
and more effective missionary! A lot of things are changing for the
church in Thailand. We're working with the leadership and the members to
help bring them all together in the work. I love it! I realize it's
going to be a rocky start at first but I see amazing
things coming from this. We're looking for families! If Thailand is
going to have a temple, it needs people, families that are going to use
it. I think that the most inspiring thing I learned though was that we
were not planted on this earth by ourselves. We
were given a family and that's what all the members here in Thailand
need. To go to the temple with their families, not by themselves. I'm so
excited, This change is going to bless Thailand and bless the saints
here.
Life here in Lampang/Thailand is so great, it's one that I cherish a
lot. I have been blessed by the Lord! I feel I always have a lesson to
be taught by Him. There is no greater teacher than Him. Through patience
and love, He's taught me how to be a disciple,
how to be better! I know we all want to be better, Christ also
wants us to be better, to rise from our hiding places and caves and have
faith in Him. Last week I was thinking about this a lot and Elder Darby
happened to share this quote in district
meeting by C.S. Lewis that I thought summed it up beautifully.
“Imagine
yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At
first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the
drains right
and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs
needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts
knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not
seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The
explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one
you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor
there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going
to be made into a decent little cottage: but
He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
The Lord knows us. He knows who we are, our worries,our fears, our
weaknesses. But He also knows what we can become. And that is why I
respect, love and look to the Savior. Because He can make more out of me
than I ever can.
ด้วยความรัก
ซ. คาร์ริโย
That We Might “Not … Shrink” (D&C 19:18)
David A. Bednar
PS. I got my Death Date. It is August 25th. I will be home by August 27th! Exactly 7 months from today!
President and Sister Johnson came to visit Lampang again!
Our bus ride back to Lampang.
Pretty sure it was a party bus, it had some fun purple lights.
Got to see some of my old companions, miss these two!
The church in Chiang Mai, I have
been here so many times in the last 5 months!
Chiang Mai!!
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