Hola! Angyanhasayo!

I dont know how to spell that in Korean/english.

Sup. Thomas i didnt think you could get any crazier.. apparently WE ALL were wrong. Glad to hear you immersed yourself COMPLETELY in the culture.. you have to bow, take you shoes off for everything, sit in the floor everywhere too?! I love ASIANS! Except sitting on the floor kills my back.

So this weeks phrase of the week is just so fantastic! Its the word "Boss" as frequently used in english to call someone is.. well, a boss. Not a leader of a firm. But a BOSS: "Loog Phii!" Im not exactly sure how it translates to boss, cause it means "child of someone older." Anyway, we say it to everyone as we are biking and they just bust up laughing. Mainly cause they think we are BOTH foreigners and wonder how we know that word. Seriously, everyone thinks that Elder Tom is not thai.

So this week was... interesting. First of all, our District leader went to a big leadership training meeting for 3 days. His companion was with us for 3 nights but we didnt want our side of town to be the other one with missionaries for 3 days and cancel all of their appointments. So we hired members! Had 3 days of members on exchanges with missionaries for the ENTIRE day. The first member we asked is like.. the sickest guy ever. He is always so stoked to help and when we pulled him aside to ask for help, he asked how long.. "uhh... all day." "Ubuuhhhh...." His face just changed completely and its impossible to describe in words but absolutely hysterical. His name is Brother Mu, and he isnt exactly all there.. but he is an amazing guy. Uploaded some pics on Picasa. When we met him to exchange, he was going with Elder Tom, and Elder Jenson and I would be together, he looked super happy and ready.... 9, 10 hours later when we met back home.. HAHAH he looked absolutely exhausted. By the way, hahaha check out the picture where Elder Tom is not smiling... just please tell me what josh says/does.. i can see it already haha!

After that i was with Brother Ice, the brother who brought my presents back! 5 minutes after leaving the house together... he ate the sidewalk haha! I was up front and there was a red light.. he was unaware that Elder Toms bike has a very sensitive front brake and when he pulled it... well, i heard a very girly scream behind me haha.. as i turned around it was like slow much and he just went flying over the front haha! It really wasnt that back cause he caught himself and he was laughing as he got up too. After that we invited and taught all day.. was way sweet. Speaking of investigators.. we pretty much have no one right now haha.. not really, im just being pessimistic. People here are so good at canceling appointments! Im looking at my planner and we had about 6 or 7 appointments each day and taught like, 2 or 3. The 2 people that we gave baptismal invites to last week dropped themselves.. no idea what had happened, but we finally talked to him yesterday and he said the same "i dont have time" line a thousand times. We got him to shut up and asked what it really was and he said he just cant changed religions. Oh well.. we will keep going back every now and then. We didnt meet with Brother Nay at all.. very busy. We have a new guy who is cool but he is always drinking when we come by, so we dont teach. We found a new family that was cool, but when we came back he was drinking too. Pretty much the only really good investigators we have are Somchay and different family that i may or may not have talked about already. Somchay is quite funny... he has so many questions! At church there was a sister receiving a calling and he looks at me and he just says, very matter-a-factly," uh... what is this?" Later on he asked if smoking was breaking commandments. I asked him, "do you really need to ask me?" He laughed and said, "probably not." About 2 minutes after that someone in the ward mentioned the word of wisdom and how smoking is against it. Somchay looked at me with a smile and had this look on his face like, "touche." Last night he called to ask if he could pray with a friend or if that was against the rules.. hahah. Hes kinda like a kid sometimes the way he is worried about breaking rules.

Ok so i am having a brain fart and cant remember everything hah. But i dont have 1 scripture to share. Alma 4:11- "alma saw the wickedness of the Church and the example of the Church began to lead those who were unbelievers on from one piece of iniquity to another." This is very extreme, but the point is that people not of our faith saw the bad example of the Church and obviously followed it, or didnt like it. This sunday the Elders Quorum reassigned Home teaching companions and it was.. well lets just say it wasnt the best experience, especially for investigators to be there. One asked, "why is everyone so serious and frustrated with each other right now?" We hear it all the time but ill say it again, we dont know whos watching. Theres a part member family here and the mother and father wont join because of the bad example of they saw of the members once... Just make sure investigators see us the way they should.

So, all i got for now. This week was... refreshing. We had interviews with President Smith and once again the promise of Moroni holds true "we shall know the truth of all things." That truth or answer we seek for doesnt always come through prayer (i mean a voice or something like that) but can come through people or scripture. I learned so much and he helped answer so many questions that confirmed once more that this stuff is true. I had the opportunity many times to recite Joseph Smiths first vision experience to many people..each time i did, i felt the spirit very strongly that confirmed its true. It. Is. True.

Elder Gudmundsen