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Whats up. Crowley moved.. WOW! Ive had to step up a little more cause ive had to know where everything is.. guess what, that thing you said i always had Mom.. what is it called... memory? yeah, serves me well in thailand too. We havent gotten lost once yet.. oh yeah my new companion is thai! Fastest thai speaker ive ever heard. He is about 22 and a 2 year old member. Elder Komgrid. Speaks pretty good english.. loves to say a few words that im not sure he knows hes not supposed to say.. kinda funny. Great guy.. just kinda charges everything. So last Thursday was epic.. we have moves meeting and pretty much the entire mission was there. Our whole district was there too from the MTC so i got to see Elder Merril and King too... the mission was completely changed.. districts expanded, zones changed, moved and dissolved, and missionaries who have been in thailand for only 6 or 7 months are trainers already.. my phii thay got put with his phiithay, and another phiithay of mine is with someone from their district.. crazy stuff. Elder Wagstaff and i got thai elders.. yeeah! Got to see our nongs too... they speak way good already too.


Okay so i actually dont have a phrase or word of the week.. but i do have scriptures. K get out your D and C's everyone! Gonna do some flipping... K so lets start at D and C 1 verse 38.. "whether by mine own voice or the voice of my servants, it is the same." K we all know this one.. head to D and C 29 verse 7: "And ye are called to gather mine elect [who] hear my voice and harden not their hearts." So.. the elect hear the Lords voice and listen intentely. D and C 68 verse 4: "whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy ghost shall be scripture.. shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord... shall be the VOICE of the Lord." So.. when you speak to anyone.. member or non member, and you have been doing what you are always supposed to be, it is SCRIPTURE. Yesterday was evidence of this.. in sacrament meeting we had 7 investigators there.. i said the opening prayer and asked to bless the speakers to help those who will listen (although whether me or someone else it would have been the same had they invited the spirit). Every speaker spoke about something that i wanted our investigators to hear.. and then some. President Wisan spoke about why we dont have crosses on our churches or around our necks.. yesterday night we met with Phat and Da and Phat said, "i went to church and wanted to ask why you dont have crosses.. wisan answered it already for me." So, remember, when you get up to speak in Church, or open your mouth to a friend, and testify with the Spirit, it is scripture, and it WILL help someone.

So.. speaking of investigators.. Bii had more trouble with smoking.. this was a nice experience this week. We told him about fasting a priesthood blessings.. asked if he understood both of them.. then we asked if he wanted to do a special fast on sunday. He immediately accepted, and also wanted a priesthood blessing from Wisan after church on sunday. Fasting was hard as usual.. but it was for a good cause. But the real deal was the blessing.. this was the first ive given since.. well, you Josh.. and i felt the power of the priesthood flowing through me once more.. it was surreal again! And Wisan has a way sick voice too.. especially when he does prayers.. like normally, his voice is hilarious cause he speaks so fast.. but when he does special things, its epic. It was once again, a privelege to be able to perform this blessing... in thai. Brother Bii says he feels much better and even uplifted.. and lets just hope and pray that he prepares himself for the 14th of november. Bii is our only dater.

So this week we have 8 new investigators.. next to Bii is a family with 2 kids.. a couple days ago we were early to Bii, so we went over to talk to these 2 kids, 14 and 17, smoking outside their house (then another one of their friends came over too.. hes the one who tells me to go to Hollywood). We were just talking with them and made friends with them and asked if we could come back and share the message with them.. also to help them quit smoking cause they said they want to.. kind of. Simple enough we said, "just stop.. its not hard." They said we could come back... it was actually pretty funny.. 2 of the kids said yes, and their friend said no cause he was Islam.. I was about to say, "so what, they're buddhist" but the other 2 kids got to it first.. one of them hit him and was like, "what a dumb excuse! we're both buddhist!" I laughed. the kid still didnt accept, but he will.. cause the other 2 are into it and went to Church. By the way.. way to go Bii! We met with him after them and asked him to help them get to Church on Sunday.. sure enough, Bii pulled through.. he took them on his bike! Awesome. The 2 kids mom made sure we came back too, cause she wants them both to be better people.. haha. She is sort of interested too.. going to Wisats FHE tonight. Mom im emphasizing FHE more because of your story.. thanks for that. So that should be a good experience. Their names are OO (mom) Nat (14 year old) and Bon (17 year old). Who else.. we got Fluk (prounce the "U") who also has some problems.. not with doing what we ask.. but family wise.. his dad is like.. a playboy.. he has 3 wives.. so he missed Church yesterday cause his Dad isnt around usually, but he was yesterday. We went by their house to see if he was there, but he was out with his dad, but his Mom was there to tell us so much.. about how he was going to die when he was born, and hes a very reserved kid.. didnt really see that that much. Also, she has to go to school with him for some reason.. dunno. She was way cool. She said she would go to Church with him.. BEEYAH!

So phat and Da... gosh.. finally met with them last night.. went a little over time.. an hour and a half. Phat knows these things are important, but not enough.. he knows enough where he said, "i dont have a lot of time, and i know you cant come over if im not here, but i still want to ask you to teach my family even if im not here.. because i am the only one the works and i HAVE to provide for them.. can you still teach them and maybe teach me once a week?" For now weve accepted that.. last night we made big strides.. corrected a bunch of wrong ideas and answered so many questions.. and hey! i explained the need for a restoration by myself.. WOOH! So yeah.. we plan to meet with them at least once a week (phat anyway) and then meet with the rest of the family as much as we can. We got the baptismal comittment out there, but it isnt solid.. next time we meet we willl stress the need for more time, and that the Lord will provide as he makes sacrifices to meet with us.. cause the Lord will provide for sure.

Okay well i think this is it for now.. Can you make sure this gets to Brother Atkinson? My seminary teacher? He served here.. i want to know where you served! Anyone i may be able to visit? lemme know. One more thing from Elder Crowley.. it was about 3 am one night and i woke up for whatever reason.. think i had to pee or something.. i get back in bed and Elder Crowley ripped the biggest fart ive heard him do.. so epic. remember the movie Holes? like the first night stanley is trying to sleep and he cant, and that one kid is sleeping and just rips a nice one? Exactly like that. So loud. Crowley woke himself up from it.. cause he was actually asleep. Good times. K thats it for now.. ill try to think of more stuff that i need, but dont worry bout it. Sorry if i missed anything.. to Encinitas... give the missionaries referrals! Just find people for them to teach! And open your mouths to your friends.. whoever. Love you all, the Church is true for sheezy! Another week in Thailand goes by.. Peace!

Elder กุดมันต์เซ็น


(Wow that was hard to write)