it's sad when i have to read over my sent emails to make sure that i don't re-send a joke...
so i won't be telling joke number one. (i can't have you all thinking i'm getting boring by repeating a joke about the number of 7-elevens we have here...)
but we frequently visit the 7s. and the worst part... the water is THROUGH all of the treats. sometimes... i do not like how smart these marketing people are. i just hear them and their wicked laughs - MUAHAHAHAHAHA! as they watch me struggle to make it past the oreos, fun-os, dewberrys... not to mention the multitude of candy-like treats... it's a dangerous thing. but... at the risk of suffering heat stroke... we push our way forward to the back of the store. i swear it's magnetic... they just find their way to my fingers before i make it out of the store! then what do you do - "I swear - I don't know how these 3 bags of candy made it into the bag with my water. guess i'll HAVE to eat it."
you know how i said it was hot last week?
it got hotter.
according to an investigator... it gets hotter before it will rain. you also feel like you are swimming while you are walking around outside. agh. i think humidity has become my worst foe. but... on a positive note - it doesn't effect my hair the way i was fearing. ;)
and sweat starts running down my face like a faucet... and we just stepped out the front door!
say hello to the handy dandy sweat rag. it's the best.
and yes. sweat. rag. it's a thing.
a very cute thing too.
and an absolutely necessary thing.
so. more miracles.
that's about all i have to report this week (other than the opressive heat.) there isn't much to do here in kamphaengphet... we went and "toured" Big C (the local wal*mart equivalent...) for pday with the elders. yes. that's what we do for fun here. that... and watch mormon messages. i can't tell you how many times we've watched expressions of love, living up to your privileges, and earthly father heavenly father. it's to the point now where we can tell exactly what one we are watching before it even starts. and we have favorite quotes from them all.
"i'm stayin"
"not a spoonful... but a ladle-full of love. every. day."
"i'm awake"
"eat the cracker"
ok. enough of that silliness.
it rained this morning! :)
now. back to miracles.
last week we met shrimp. remember him? in thai it sounds like "goong" but your voice has to walk up and back down a mountain (aka mountain tone)
he had just lost his job and was moping at the park when we met him. we saw him the next day and taught him how to pray. gave him a date. he prayed, and called us later saying that he had found a job! god works fast. he came to church last week... but the job. is now taking over. so... we are trying to get him to realize the importance of showing god how grateful he is for his job... by NOT working on sundays. it's... rough. that darned agency!
i realized this week that satan works just as hard as we do. if it was just up to us... we would fail. there is a lot of wicked and distracting influence in the world today (see mormon message: voice of the spirit) BUT we aren't in this alone. we will win because we have God on our side. and his side always wins. (see 2 kings 6:16)
another miracle. i gave a talk in church.
ME. that's right.
for all 10-something-odd minutes. about trials.
i don't know if it was more of a trial for them to listen to me... or for me to have to speak... but it worked! :) and it actually wasn't as bad as i thought. good thing they all have testimonies too. ;) i don't want to be held responsible if any of them go inactive......
oh. and the super drunk guy we met last week. told us he was christian. is actually a VERY nice man that wants to get baptized. AND he brought his girlfriend/wife to church. and their baby. they ARE going to get married. pretty awesome.
other things...
our investigator broke the chair during our lesson. i was laughing so hard... it was slow motion the whole way down....... just watching all the legs of the chair spread out ever. so. slowly... the finally one leg just giving out and flying across the room.
the guy that called 7 times between 2 and 4 in the morning. and i slept through it all.... sorry sister mullen.
contacting outside of a concert (i'm sure the biggest thing to hit khamphaengphet since bananas...) elder standing inside of a shopping cart bellowing "do you want to wash away your sins?"
"yaag lang baab mie?"
ate an earthquake.
8 scoops of ice cream from swensons. in 10 minutes.
should i be proud of this? probably not.
they have a "food challenge" here in the mission. it includes: a large pizza from the pizza company. and earthquake. and slamming a whole sleeve of tim tams. in an hour.
we've been committed to the challenge at the end of the transfer for "district unity"..........
i just had to practice.
;)
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| before the unhealthy amount of ice cream... |
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| after the unhealthy amount of ice cream. |
pros to khamphaengphet:
quiet.
it won't be long til everyone knows who we are.
cucumber sumtam. arrrrrrroooooooooooooy! (delicious!)
bananas.
mango sticky rice.
found the cutest shirt.
will get to play songkran here. woot woot!
cons to khamphaengphet:
ants. everywhere.
even in my muesli.
:(
no bugs on the 8th floor. lots of bugs on the 2nd floor.
will not get a tv in the church until we become a branch. (means we need 3 MP holders. we have 1. and 2 AP.) gotta wait 6 more months for a tv. blast.
other than that - life is GOOD!
it always is.
love you all to bits and pieces!
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