Baptism. Legit

So whats the only thing thats better than Kraken blinking in and ulting, bring the entire team over behind the tower, followed by tempest blinking in and ulting to keep them all from moving, followed by Behemoth blinking in, ulting- twice- and destroying the whole entire team?!

BAPTISM!!!

Yeah, Got got baptized. One of the best experiences ive had in a while.... all the work we've been doing in Buriram is really paying off now.. of course it always was (baptism is not the only thing that measures success of course) but now its just shooting up. It's amazing what one baptism can do.. and fasting.. yeah, he totally fasted on saturday (hes so legit). There were a total of 16 visitors at church yesterday.. yeah thats a ton. When we asked Got who he invited to his baptism he simply responded: "Everyone!". Although the only person that was actually there for his baptism was his father, he was happy; he did his part and "whether they come or not, im committed.". The entire day yesterday was just filled with joyous splendors.. yes i am speaking very elequant.. you like? Anyway, bottom line is, everyone had a great experience.. and the magician family made it! Its amazing how the Lord prepares people to meet the missionaries sometimes.. like, the mother. who is name Plaw, said some things that i have NEVER heard from anyone, let alone someone who has learned as little as she has: "Is there an age limit on baptizing children? I want my little guy to get baptized too" Yeah so within that statement there are couple things that should make you "astonished exceedingly".. the first of course being that she straight up said she WANTS to get baptized. The second is the age limit?! When have you ever heard anyone understand doctrince so sound like that?! I just love talking about babies with people because anyone that thinks that babies have sin are just.. well, i wont say anything else, but you get the point. Then she started talking about wanting to go to the temples and wanting to have an eternal family and wanting to have a temple in thailand and wanting to get married legally cause up until this point her and her husband havent... it just goes on! I was just exceedingly astonished this whole entire time. But hey! D&C says it: "In the ordiances of the priesthood the power of godliness is manifest". She was in the ordiances of the priesthood and was looking for answers.. so she got them. She accepted the baptismal soft committment but we will have that entire family having a date by the end of this week. Pretty sweet too because they live right by the branch president. Anyway, back to Got... he did such a good job. He was so excited and he was seriously wrought upon by the Spirit.. as he got out of the water, he was just overflowing with happiness. By the way did i mention that he finished the Book of Mormon already? Yeah he finished it last week on monday haha. So crazy... put me to shame.. here i am with my 19-and-a-half-years to finish the book of mormon.. embarassing. He was stoked to start working towards his mission too.. get this: "My mom was going to buy me a car after this year but im just going to tell her to not and just give me the money so i can use it for my mission.." WHAT?! Oh man i almost died right there lemme tell you that much. He wants to get into his mission as fast as possible.. so yeah.. thats kinda legit.
So who else saw the baptism.. well we had our Australian friend there as well.. his name is Craig. Hes a way nice guy and hes starting to see differences between us and Catholics.. not like its hard, but hes committed to reading and praying about the Joseph Smith story. Amphon was there as well.. she seemed really stressed out yesterday and so we havent gotten the opportunity to talk her yet.. but we will meet her tonight. We had to move her date because she is not showing signifcant and sufficient signs of committed... ness. No worries.. all people are different and we always ahve to go with them according to their needs.. hers take a little more time than others. She really loves us and enjoys talking.. we are just trying to get her to trust God more and just to know that as long as she keeps the comandments nothing bad with happen. She says shes not afraid buuuttt... yeah. Shes way sweet.

Okay so what else is up.. uh we had zone conference.. pretty sweet. Waking up at 245 in the morning? Although im a fan of feeling like im going to die, it was a little too much. The zone leaders, elder Furr and Elder Pimpsuwan were peeing their pants all week.. it was their first zone conferences ever! For both of them! So they were just freaking out that something would go wrong. it actually went pretty smoothly and everyone was edified. I got stuck with translating duties.. im sick of all these duties! Just kidding, it was fun. Plus i get to whisper funny things in peoples ears every now and then. Word of advice? Go to the bathroom before an important meeting. I thought i was honestly about to wet my pants as a semi-grown immature young adult. Although it would have ruined my pants, someone (everyone) would have gotten a nice laugh.. for about 5 minutes. Anyway, that was all good and fun. Interviews with President Smith- straight forward and to the point.. i like em.

These past few weeks have been awesome weeks for studying.. Elder Revelli and I have both found and received seriously awesome piece of revelation throughout our personal studies... like, seriously... to the "gushing of many tears because of the goodness of God.". Yes. that Good. Sometimes we just get overwhelming experiences as we study because we realize how SIMPLE everything really is.. God is. He loves us. Christ is. He loves us. They both Restored the truth to a 14 year old boy in a grove of trees. Done. Grasp that much and tell me it doesnt make you happy. I know its true. Thanks for you constant support and raising me in the right path to know of the truth. Love you guys. All is well in Zion and we are having a great time. Elder Revelli had a nice struggle with the language last week: D and C section 4.. memorized! He got it and President Smith praised him for how good his tones were.. *chest bump* thats my boy!

aight im oves it. Peace

Elder Gudmundsen