Red

Sent April 28:

It's WAY hot. 43 celsius. Werd. You dig? I think you could use the accumulation of every Elders sweat to fill a swimming pool.. quite frankly i wouldnt be surprised if there wasnt an Elder to go swimming in it after.

Anyway, now that you have a semi vivid image of what my back looks like (delicious?) we can move on! Bee tee dubs, some animal spontaneously combusted in P-Loke (the furance) because the ground was so hot... HAH! Thats crayz. A train in Bangkok (in Don Muang) was derailed becaseue the bars heated and expanded. I dont think anyone was hurt, but i did see the crash.. gnarly. Two people died also. Thats weird. President Smith told us to tell every missionary that they need to drink 2 liters of water every morning before leaving the house. yeah... 2 liters. Im gonna get fat off of water... Elder Kambanat is a hose.. constantly in the bathroom.. we're both small bodies! We cant hold that much! Forget it.

Okay, family history is really starting to pick up coal in order to pick up steam (hahah, its slow alright!). Almost done with all the trainings in District Meetings and so far things have gone great! It feels good to see all the zone leaders being way passionate about it.. especially the ones that werent all for it at the beginning. Everyone is starting to catch the vision! We havent been able to open a class yet, but its happening this coming thursday! Im way stoked. Sister Tem, our new convert in that big family from last month, just received a calling as a Family history specialist! haha yes! Perfect timing. I think the members are a little nervous about it because we are putting a lot of the role on their shoulders (since they can use computers and we cant). We are going to type up a definitive agenda.. it looks good if i do say so myself. We're also worked out some role plays while up in Ubon yesterday.. and then i went out and tried it with Elder Hanni.. worked WAY well actually. The idea is kinda full of stuff, but when we actulaly tried it we felt the spirit. Something about looking at those pedigree charts stops a lot of people that would nromally say "no" say yes. We went and taught an investigator that Elder Chapman and i found in ubon the LAST time i was up there on exchanges. I remember him and remembered that he said "i dont have time" about 15 times in the first five minutes. This time, after showing him my pedigree chart and explaining why we do it, he just stared at it. FInally he said, "....... lemme ask my wife first". Hahah it was a baby step, but a step none the less. After that we went swimming.. jk, but really.. it just dumped on us yestreday.. i was freezing! A tree fell down too. Way crazy wind. Later on i took some pictures of an incredible view on the airplane.. like, crazy stuff.

For all of those investigators that we met last week.. well, its been pretty hard to get them to stick. One, being gone so much is a bummer, and two, they may not be that prepared. But, tonight we will be over by there and will contact a bunch of them.. see if we can get them to get in the path for real.

Sorry this one was way short, but i feel like im gonna pass out.. way tired right now haha. I love you guys, hope all is well in zion. I want to hear some more stories about our family.. what else you got? Especially your side mom.. i know nothing about them! Book of Mormon is true, this work is SO true. I love it.

Elder Gudmundsen

PS: Glad you arent fat anymore haha.. great work Dad