DANG

Whos that handsome man i see?! Is that you Colton! Dude you look like Seth with that due-over! And seth is a good looking guy! Good on ya!
This scripture is for you Colton: Alma 5:33 - Alma is verbally slapping the people as they are iniquitous and very naughty. Have way through he stops to say that the Lord is waiting for them to repent and return.. OR, as i like to say, He is waiting WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN! :) If any of you are confused.. ask Colton haha. But seriously.. good scripture.. we sin all the time but the Lord is always waiting for us to repent of our sins.

Ok so this week was pretty sweet.. also i spoke too soon! Its now very hot and i am very sticky. Anyway, we made some pretty good progress. Tripled our lessons with a member so that was nice and dandy. Met 2 people who already have baptismal dates. that was cool too. yeah this old guy whos like 70 and his grandson who is 17: Tongkam and Ut (yeah i dont know how to write his name in English haha). The old guy is both very professional, and also very UNprofessional.. its kinda funny. We had set an appointment to come back one day at 230 but at about 130 we were at the hospital on the other side of the city visiting an investigators daughter (and another dude that we know) so obviously we werent gonna make it back in time. I called him and told him 330 and he sounded a little annoyed.. but then we didnt even make it until 4 oclock. He grilled us for about 5 minutes straight about how we are missionaries but dont keep up our responsibility... he wouldnt shut up and we were apologizing but he kept going! Of course we both knew he was right but it was indeed annoying. Finally i cut him off and said, "okay. we said we are sorry many times now.. we feel wrong. do you want to continue telling us what we already know or do you want us to teach you like we said we would?" Then he finally shut up and said "ok its in the past.. lets learn." Since then we havent been late haha. Good learning experience though. They have a date for the 6th of March. Our other baptismal dater.. well he technically isnt one cause we had to change it but have yet to set it again. He has a small problem with the sabbath but hes golden everywhere else. We asked him last night if he wanted to get baptized now or wait until his daughter gets baptized to go together.. he didnt even think twice and said, "with my daughter for sure.. no doubt." Okay then! But, since we havent actually taught her at all yet, we dont know when it will be haha. She was sick last night so didnt get to teach her. But she has a lot of questions about karma and stuff like that.. but you can see it in her eyes.. she knows that that stuff isnt true. So remember Nay? I dont remember how i wrote it last time, but hes the really funny dude i told you about? This past week he made me cry in 2 different situations. First.. he was absolutely hysterical.. i couldnt contain myself and i was literally dying and crying of laughter. He still hasnt accepted a baptismal date, but he absolutely knows he needs to do it. He just doesnt want to get baptized and sin again haha. The first day we met he asked, "do we have to get baptized at Church? Can you just come to my house? Ill clean the pond out back and you can baptized me there! Can we?" "well, techincally we can, but we want it to be special and at the church." "Oh no problem! doesnt need to be special!" He is so serious about it haha.. but a member went and taught with us and got him to see why its important to do it at Church. Then, yesterday, we were teaching him and a mosquito landed on his face. He was in the middle of speaking so i didnt really want to interrupt him but didnt want the mosquito to bite him so i kinda pointed and he looked at me and was like "what is it Elder?!" (with a face super surprised and scared) "ahh, a mosquito Elder?..." WHHACK! He just smacked his face SUPER hard without hesitation! Yeah.. i was dying.. i seriously couldnt breathe. Right after he was like, "oo.. man that hurt! Hands of a soldier right?" Hes a way humble guy and wants to follow Christ the best he can. On a special note, he said one of the coolest things ive ever heard on my mission so far. We asked him one night how was prayers were going and he said, "Oh Elder so good! For some reason lately ive just been feeling warm, warmer, and warmest when i pray! I feel better in everything and its just great.Then when you guys come over its even better.. how do you call it? Its like you are.. Jesus Christs Disciples or something!" This is the second time i cried (actually according to time this event was first). Love this guy. He does have a problem with smoking and we asked, "how long would it take to quit smoking? "Oh Elder if i wanted to it would take 1 day.. ONE DAY. Just throw em away and thats it." "Can you start today?" "today?....... Not yet Elder!" Seriously you guys gotta meet this guy! English doesnt do justice the level of his hystericality (yeah thats a word).. in thai its really quick and just funnier.. man.

Ok so im pretty much done. Its hot and i want to eat pizza! And buy a scale cause i want to see how fat I am.. or how anorexic I am haha. We dont have one at the house. BTW was green hornet good? I saw a commercial for it yesterday and was like, what the heck is that? Looked ridiculous but kinda fun. Way to go Jake! Expecting a child already? Are you ready for that bro? Especially a girl? Oh boy. Hah! See what i did there? Ok so i gotta bail. Love ya all.. hope all is well. I Love and miss ya (a little) but the work is good. And true.. never forget that.

Elder Gudmundsen