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November 14:

So greetings from Bangkok.. all around us its flooding but right where we're at, its dry! Woot. Also its the cool season! And its been pretty nice lemme tell you.. like, way nice. Dont get me wrong, its nothing comparied to home San Diego, but it aint bad that fo sho!

Hokay.. lets get into it shall we? 2 more daters! Yay! This family that i met back in my solo project (haha.. sound like a rock band) accepted a date to be baptized on the 25 of December.. thats pretty sweet. The father is named Tam and the Mother is Nog (bird). They have 2 ADORABLE kids.. loud as crap, but adorable none the less.. the little guy just sits in his fathers lap all day ur day and just stares at us, and then the other sister loves to play with him and really only ever upsets him haha.. Its been hard to teach sometimes and stay focused, but how can you complain against that? They are kids and they are in a family thats accepting the gospel.. like, cant be a better Christmas gift than that. Tam is suuuupppppppeeeeerrrr prepared by the Lord.. not sure if i put the super long enough, but he is SO prepared. Basically when we extended the hard commitment to be baptized he just said, very calmly, "well yeah, like i said at the beginning i feel like this is where i should be going, so why would i say no?". NOw, that for sure was way sweet, but what came after was pretty astonishing. As Elder Furr and i were talking about it, we knew that Tam had a lot of colleagues who were Christian and had been talking to him already about Christ. We had some fears that some people would try to kick him off the path that the Lord put him on with anti-mormon propoganda. Well, we were right about one thing: THey did TRY to kick him off the path, but we were wrong about the other... you cant stop the TRAIN (if you play GoW you will get that)! They did show him anti mormon stuff and did try to kick him off, but like all people who try to tear us down, they really tear their own rameumptum down. Tam listened for sure, just cause hes too nice to not listen, but after just felt pretty bored and said to himself, "wait.. arent you Christian too? Arent you supposed to love people instead of bashing on other religions?" Oh how right you are Tam! Its funny how when sharing the gospel, we dont have to do anything really.. preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words right? So anyway, the next appointment he told us about what had happened and then continued to say that he wasnt going to stop because he believes that God has put him on this path and hes going to stay on it. Yes please! Remember, "by their works (and words) ye shall know them". Couldnt have said it better. They went to Church yesterday (way dressed up too.. including the babies), and had a great time. The kids? Wow, never seen em quieter. Nog will really like that part. We told him to go to church with a question in his head and that he would get an answer from the speakers.. every time we looked back during sacrament meeting he was paying attention and listening way focused (does that make sense.. okay sure it does). Anyway.. they are legit.. 2 legit to quit!

Nong is still doing good.. hes trying really hard to get friends to church and to english and to family home evening, but has not had much success thus far. Hes good. lazy. But good.

We had a lot of time to go inviting and find some new investigators and man did we work it. Havent had invigorating exerpiences like this in a long time. So we found this family close by where Nog and Tam are and when we invited them, we found out that they didnt have a dude home and her husband was gone. They seemed pretty interested for us to sit down, if but a little confused at first, and so we made it our mission for the next 20 minutes to find a dude that would sit down with us. We called Nong.. no answer. "Hey well be right back we are gonna go grab a friend who lives close by..''.... *walking, walking.... dangit! Hes not home. Walk down the stairs, "hey buddy.. are name is Elder. Whats yours? Sweet, will you come sit in a random house with us while we teach this family? We need a dude to sit with.. . okay see ya later!.... dangit". We were talking to every person around... "hey waht about this guy? Is he old enough? uhnnyuh... hey kid how old are you? 15?!.. Cya!... nope... AH this guy! Hey sorry this is gonna sound really weird but will you come sit with us in this other persons house for 5 minutes? We need a man to sit in with us because of rules.. promise it will be only 5 minutes... you will? Rock on, lets go!" So yeah.. we grabbed this random guy on the stairs and brought him over to that families house.. everyone got along pretty nicely and they family was way receptive to the message too. When we brought him back they asked, "oh is this your friend?" "Yeah, something like" "Do you have a clue what these two young men are doing" "Not at all mam..". Eh.. no worries. Hit 2 birds with one stone right? So epic. Pretty exilerating and we got a return appointment too! It gets crazier.. so we went back to teach them and before that we made the appointment to bring 2 people with us. I was thinking of the family and which member could go good with the daughter.. i noticed that the daughter wore those stupid "big eye" contact lenses, and that another member wears them too.. what?1 I thought it would be funny! But thats really why i called the member and wanted to bring her with us.. little did i know what awaited. We walked into the room first when we went back and then the other member followed.. "AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAH!" ... hit the deck! So much screaming.. loud noises! Turns out, the member worked with the mother and an office job 2 years ago and studied with the mothers daughter.. coincidence? Yeah right. No way. So all in all, that was a pretty sweet expereience.. the family didnt make it to Church because of family coming in unexpectedly, but they are excited to learn.

In other things, Elder Furr and i are stoked on life.. having a blast and finding out more and more every day that we are seriously the same person.. like, i know people say that all the time, but when i tell you what we are about to go buy from the store and why, you will laugh.. garunteed. Here you go: Ocean Spray, canned, jellied CRANBERRY SAUCE! I think you might actually cry if you heard our conversation last night about how much we love cranberry sauce. Not even joking. We gonna eat cranberry sauce for thanksgiving this year. By the can! Theres many other things, but thats the gyst of it.
As far as teaching, we are doing really well. We do have slightly different styles, but were way open and willing to listen to each other and make our teaching exactly how the Lord wants and needs it to be. Stoked. Hes way diligent and focused and we are hoping we get more than 1 transfer.

Everything else is good.. i know this gospel is so true.. live it, love it, and share it. Dont ever forget whose name we represent. Get out there and make it know!

Elder Gudmundsen