VASSUP!!

Hanloo everyone!

1 more Pday after today! So close and so weird. So...
Word of the Day: "Badger!" This is said whenever anyone rips a fart. Our 2 sister missionaries were the companions of a single one in a cambodian district and she would fart a lot.. every time she did she would say "badger" in a really funny way... we adopted it and ive said it countless times in class hahahah!
Scripture of the Week: Alma 60:24 Moroni's epistle to Pahoran "Except ye do repent of that which ye have done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men unto us... behold it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites until we have first CLEANSED our inward vessel, yea, even the great head of our government." In other words... until we kill you! Can you imagine if you were Pahoran? I would have crapped my loins! hah! Word of the Day: "Badger!" This is said whenever anyone rips a fart. Our 2 sister missionaries were the companions of a single one in a cambodian district and she would fart a lot.. every time she did she would say "badger" in a really funny way... we adopted it and ive said it countless times in class hahahah!
Scripture of the Week: Alma 60:24 Moroni's epistle to Pahoran "Except ye do repent of that which ye have done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men unto us... behold it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites until we have first CLEANSED our inward vessel, yea, even the great head of our government." In other words... until we kill you! Can you imagine if you were Pahoran? I would have crapped my loins! hah!

On to less important stuff.. hah! Jk. This week had a lot of ups and downs. It was all really awesome in the end, but lets just say there were a lot of tears last Thursday. Why? Cause it was Brother Duval's last day. We had him teaching us in the afternoon block so in the morning block we prepared a little something for him with Brother Saakha. We also got a nice 8 by 10 picture of us all lookin retarded cause the sun was so bright, and we signed it, and also signed a thailand shirt. In his last teaching block, he showed us a lot of pictures and stuff about thailand and also gave us last words of advice.. so good. He told us not to get trunky these last 3 weeks... because if we get trunky now, it will reflect the same in the last 3 weeks of our mission.. push through it all. These last 3 weeks prepare us best for thailand and the last 3 weeks of our mission prepare us for our last transfer home. That man is amazing. We then had Brother Saakha come in un-anounced around 4 p.m. to have a little devotional for him in the last 30 minutes. We all went around talking about him and it was really sweet. Elder Hess couldnt stop laughing because when Elder Merril cries... its kinda funny haha not gonna lie. But where I lost is was when Brother Saakha spoke. Earlier, Brother Duval has just said that thai people never show emotion. Brother Saakha started to cry and everyone lost it. What he was saying was just the surface of what he was feeling.. Brother Saakha gets sick a lot because he has a condition and his voice and words conveyed just a little bit of his eternal gratitude to Brother Duval, through apologetic tears. At this point, even Brother Duval almost lost it. I saw him hide a tear though. Then at the end, we sang God Be with you til we meet again... couldn't handle it. But the last line we all pushed through tears to sing powerfully. Brother Duval then said a beautiful Thai prayer and then we all took pics, met his wife and daughter, and saw him off. Was a bummer, but it was a real treat. It was one of the highest honors to be his last district.. 18 districts and almost 4 years later, we, the rowdiest district hes ever had, was his last. But he loved us. The teachers here at the MTC ARE AMAZING. With Brother Duval gone, Brother Saakha would have had to take over all the shifts.. which would be impossible for him. We have teachers from the noongthay district helping, and even the CAMBODIAN district helping.. all because they care about us. They are nervous to try and to take Brother Duval's place, but they do it anyway for us. Been quite amazing.

There was some other stuff, like the TRC where I wouldn't shut up! I spoke so much and finally i realized it and was like "Elder Hess im not shutting up, please take over." Oh well.. it was still a good learning experience. hmmm.. what else oh yeah.. said goodbye to Roach yesterday morning :(    Sad face. Dallas leaves on Monday and then me after! We should have our travel plans on thursday or friday. Ok what else..Oh Dad.. you said JK last letter.. if you want to say it in thai "laa len" with a high tone on the len. Its fun. Also, that photo album you sent me? Im filling it up and it broke! The plastic or whatever just broke! So last package so far:
-New photo album
-Vitamins. If you buy them there they are wicked expensive
-Back massager! Its nuts how stressed me back gets
-Pills.. for sleeping!
-NO food in the last package.. never thought id be saying it but the Bairds sent me a crazy package a little bit ago. By the way thanks Bairds! Ill send some love you way after this email!

Thats really all i got right now in addition to anything ive already said. I have to send a whole suit case home by next week so ill start packing that. I think thats about it for this week.. OH! You remember the Owens from Texas? Yeah Andrew owen is on my floor. Tell you more about that later. 1 minute left!

Love you all! Thanks for all your support. Anyone who hasnt written me.. if you want a response that doesnt take 6 weeks this is the last week to do it! You know who you are!!
Church is true ladadadada you know it is! K peace out!  

13 days!

Elder Gudmundsen