Funny Stuff

So this week sounds pretty eventful for all of you eh? Mom hitting a car, Josh passing out while trying to relieve himself.. what movie did he make you miss haha? Seriously, what happened with that? Did you hit your head Josh or what? Everything ok?

K as for me.. I have a very short scripture of the week.. its in 1 (or maybe 2nd?) Nephi somewhere but i forgot to write it down. Basically it says, "Behold, thou art little." Well first of course, i thought of you Mom.. teehee. And laughed.. but then i thought.. yeah, thats pretty true. I think this was Lehi talking to Jacob and telling him to hearken unto Nephi's words... well, we are kinda like Jacob right? We are just little people who need to hearken unto the words of those smarter or more wise than us. Its funny and deep.. beeyah!

Ok so this week was kinda crazy. There was some big leadership conference for the whole mission for about 3 days.. every district and zone leader was there to be trained or whatever.. so we had 2 extra people stay in Don Muang on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.. apparently up in Pitsanulog, Elder King and Merrel were companions hahaha.. bet that was fun.. 2 missionaries who've been out for less than 3 months. In Don Muang we had 2 greenies.. Elder Thompson (Chucky, from May hall) and Elder Bitupon from the Manila MTC. Went on splits with them, me with Bitupon and Komgrid with Chucky. Fun stuff... for a short time we had 4 missionares Don Muang.. work was done! Basically Komgrid and Thompson taught lessons all day, and Bitupon and I invited.. all day. We've got a couple of new REALLY promising investigators.. Bii's neighbors really opened up to us last week, and most specifaclly the Mother of that Family.. she talked about how her lifes been pretty tough and her parents passed away when she was little, and she wants her kids life to be better. Her (names like the "au" sound in "taught"), her son Bon, her other son Nay, and their friend Nat, had the opportunity to go to Wisits house for FHE... all of them are opening up more and more, and they have all quit smoking.. a lot of that goes to Bii and his example.. awesome! They should be going again tonight. We have another woman who came out of nowhere.. her names Nud. She wants to be baptized already. We can meet with her so often, which is great, and she is really into it. We watched the Joseph Smith restoration vid, which by the way is hilariously horrible in thai, and i think it did work for her. Wud, the Laotion man, should have a better visa and we should be able to teach him this week, legally. He wants to be baptized and he came to Church yesterday without us asking.. oops.. maybe not the best sign cause that means we forgot to ask, but hey.. he still went. He gets back on Wednesday and we will start teaching him too. Fluk, the 17 year old baptist (oh wait! Hes 18 now.. birthday on Saturday), is way cool. He is kinda quiet sometimes but I (we) have been able to open him up more by being more than missionaries.. i guess technically being "less" tha missionaries and joking around with him.. depends on how you look at it i guess.. i say more :) Anyway, he has to leave this week, but we made some good progress with him and I like that he actually asks good questions.. like for instance, "why does God love us so much? More than himself?" Seriously.. thats a good question right? With my broken Thai i couldnt really answer it that well, but i tried to explain that thats just the way God is.. he wants us to be happy and if hes selfish, we probably wont be super happy. I said, "hey fluk... if i just go around telling everyone how great i am and dont do anything for anyone else, are people going to like me? No of course not. They wont feel my love, because im not showing it." We can say we love people, but unless we show it, no one will believe it. Love this kid. As far as Pat and Da... not too much progress.. we wanted to meet with them this weekend but its some big buddhist festival so they didnt go to Church. Pat was home one night when we thought we would only be teaching Da, and he expressed that he likes what we are teaching, who we are and what we do.. but "there is something blocking his thoughts." SATAN! Jk. But seriously. He wants to find out this is true, so we will keep pushing. As far as Bii goes.. hes still going. I think he will be ready for the 14th. Brother Pii should be starting up the lessons again cause he will be able to be baptized in November.. November will be a big month.. hopefully.
K i dont have much else this week cause i forgo to write things down as the week went on. Other things that happened.. we have to move haha. The Landlord came over to inspect the house, as requested from the office, and then said he was going to move back in with his family.. hah so we gotta house hunt. What else.. dunno. Gotta peace though. Love hearing from you guys this week.. josh try not to do that thing anymore.. thats not a good activity. Keep up the faith everyone! Saw you in the back of a picture Whitey.. you look nice and fat :) Church is true... datta datta dah, you know the drill.. haha, how irreverent i know but thats what it is. Love you all

Peace!

Elder G