So.. Word of the Day: "naakliad": translated this means "ugly." But directly translated it means "face hate." So when the dumb little noongthays tried to say "party" which is extremely close to naakliad, they actually said naakliad to OUR teacher, Brother Saakha's face, who was so confused, and THEIR teacher was panicking cause he knew what they said and couldnt believe it.. they were corrected.. lawl.
Scripture of the Week: John 20: 2-4. So im gonna paraphrase this one for speed. "Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved... Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter." So sounds pretty normal right? Any idea whos speaking here? JOHN! HAHA I thought it was so funny that he refers to himself as "the other disciple whom Jesus loved." Also, that "the other disciple outrunned Peter." Rofl. Maybe im going to hell for speaking light of the Savior's resurrection, but John should get a gold star so he feels better for being fitter than Peter.
Okay dokay.. so this week was quite full, but its going by fast. What sucks? Brother Duval leaves on Thursday.. yeah, i hate it. We are going to have a wheep-a-thon or 2 by my next emails time. So we should get our itineraries before our next p-day, probably on Monday! Woot woot! We got 20 days left holy nuts! To answer your question Mother, im way more stoked than nervous. To answer your question (kind of) i aint cocky about the language cause i kinda stopped worrying a while ago. Sister Hirschi was the best of the best of our phiithays and she is in thailand already.. she can understand 10 percent of thais and 70 percent of missionaries. So if she cant do it, then we cant either.. but im still trying my best so dont worry about that. Brother Saakha showed us some more pictures and it just looks absolutely amazing. Sure, im a little nervous about the hit and the possibility of falling in a kloong, but im gonna go over with the best attitude possible. Gonna be so cool. Brother Duval told us another story.. he was riding home at night, in the pouring rain (so awesome) and he sees some ominous black figure in front of him.. now at this point he was hauling buttocks and he realized at the last second... IT WAS AN ELEPHANT! Just chilling in the road.. he skidded out and around it and barely missed it.. hahaha he almost broad-sided an elephant. Dont care if im wet and hot, if i almost broad-side an elephant im gonna be laughing so hard.
So we have had our noongthays for about 2 weeks now.. sometimes i really just want to punch them right in the faces! Gah! Yeah, ive got some anger issues, what else is new hah! But seriously, they are so annoying some times! Honestly, if you are going to ask for help from me, and then correct me after i tell when you THINK im wrong, just stop! Gosh they ask for help and do just that.. "no i dont think thats right.." "Oh really well i dont think you should be alive!" I dont really say that, but i might be thinking it rather loudly sometimes.. hahah dont i sound like a missionary? I apologize. Not all of them are the bane of my existence.. just most of them hah!
So this week in the TRC is was our first lesson on the "pheen heng khwaam rood" or the plan of salvation. WOW... what a mish. So hard to explain all the concepts in thai for this lesson. We did alright considering, but it was super di duper hard. And our investigator DID NOT role-play along. He was supposed to be an investigator whose wife died and what not.. instead he told us that he just got married 2 weeks ago.. which was true! And he was also supposed to have a problem with the word of wisdom, like drowning his sorrows in "bia" (beer) cause he wife is dead.. yeah, didnt do that either. So we didnt have much to work on and when we tried to put the atonement into an easy to understand example... we didnt. It just got confusing and he ended up trying to teach us hahaha... We tried to use a speeding ticket fine as an example of sins.. instead of saying "fine" or something we only used "ticket" which is "tua" in thai. But for thai people, that literally means A TICKET for like the bus of something. So we basically talked about elect ahahah. Good thing we did that here and not to some thai person over there.
OW MY ABS HURT!
So how is everything? Josh you butt munch you didnt write me this week? Ill try to get some more pictures off this week, but dont expect a letter cause i got to write a lot of people today.. who ARENT my family whom i still love so much :) So some things... about money.. uhhnyuh. Josh knows what that means. I have 110 bucks in cash right now, but when i have to pull money out, like for that bike, should i do that out of the credit card? Cause it will be like 450 bucks i have to exchange for baad. Ill look more into to but im fine for now. So question... whens Aroc get home? Stoked for that. One of the Elders got a THAI CTR ring.. totally want one! I dont remember where people got it, but theres some ring store that does them. Ask the ward, we are all mormon haha. That'd be way cool. So people want to see my emo pic.. can i get that hahaha. Dont ask how we got on that subject but we did. I need a new flashlight.. mine broke some how. Micro beam is what it is.. with those sick LED's or whatever. Cool stuff. So im gonna send me ipod back so josh can love it up some more with whatever he pleases. Still gonna put a request in for some Josh Groban if possible! And that Hallelujah song? Its been stuck in our heads and its so good. K should be good. Saw the Joseph Smith movie for the first time.. love it, gotta have it when i get back. I cried. This work is true, and Joseph is true too. Have fun in SD! Say hi to everyone.. love you all!
Elder GUdmundsen
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