Sawadii!
Yes, I just got back from riding elephants! Pretty awesome I must say. Yes, this week is Thanksgiving. Being in Chiang Mai we will probably just go out to dinner at the place where you can get milk and cheese. They have a full-fledged Thanksgiving dinner so we're pretty excited, though there is no way it will be as good as at home. I will miss Grandma's pie for sure! We are for sure going to be in Chiang Mai until Thursday but the water is gone from our house in Saphaan Sung. If we get back by Saturday evening we might get another Thanksgiving dinner by a foreign member in Bangkok. She apparently has a huge dinner for the missionaries every year so lots of Elders and Sisters will be there. Hopefully we will get to go, especially if we have the ability to work in Saphaan Sung.
This week was great! Starting off with a wonderful Zone Conference. It was way fun and the Spirit was super strong. It was fun to have the family connection to the Gong's as well. We were lucky to have a smaller meeting than most areas. There are only around 15 missionaries in the Zone up here and apparently they combined Bangkok so we would've been in a huge group if we'd been at home.
On Saturday our Nongs finally came. Sister Sorge is going to be Sister Knutson's trainer so now we just have two companionships working in one area. It's really fun. It's crazy to see Sister Knutson again and hear about her life at the MTC. They ended up having about 4 more apostles come after we left haha, of course. It is beyond weird to realize how much I've learned in the last 2 and a half months. Things I've started to take for granted are so new to her. I'm starting to feel like I can really understand conversation. If it has nothing to do with the gospel it's still pretty hard but it's cool to be able to see the progress and realize how much I can do with help from Heavenly Father.
We had a really great Sunday this week. I finally got to see a baptism of someone I've taught! It was way exciting. Sister Meow and Sister Gib did get baptized on their dates, by the way. This week Sister Ann got baptized. I think I mentioned her before. She learned last year for awhile when she was pregnant but she got super sick so they stopped teaching her and then they lost track of her. About six months ago the missionaries went to go find a former and poddii they had moved away but Ann and her husband had moved in. She'd had her baby so they started teaching her again and here we are. She has been ready for baptism for a little while but she was waiting on her husband Jack to see if they could get baptized together. On Sunday he came for the entire 4 hours of church and her baptism. It was so great! He has work around 10:30 but he just didn't go. He's a super sweet dad and dotes on their little boy Nursery. We took pictures with their family and Ann looks incredibly happy in them. That day she was just ridiculously smily and talkative. She is normally really quiet and the difference on Sunday was so obvious. Funny thing is, the 3 of them were up the entire night with food poisoning and were still running back and forth to the bathroom at church. They always have a hard time getting to church on time because of the baby and they were a tiny bit late on Sunday but we had mentioned to Ann that she might see more obstacles right before and right after her baptism and I think someone was working pretty hard to stop her baptism from happening. We know Jack will follow soon. He is planning on having us continue to teach him.
Sister Yinn and I also had a really great hour of inviting in the afternoon after church. We were pretty close to the church and we met this man and a woman who worked with him and asked if we could talk to them for a little bit. We ended up talking with him for about 45 minutes and his wife and son came home about half way through. They were just a really cool family and they were super interested in prayer and asked about coming to church and were really excited to have met us. It was a cool experience. Especially since inviting is not my favorite thing, by any means. But it was a definite testimony that Heavenly Father puts people in your path when you are looking for an opportunity. This man was standing to the side of a little food stand and usually we don't invite people who are working so we almost kept on going up the street. Lot's of people were out that night. But we said Sawaddii and for some reason I did a double take as we walked by and poked Sister Yinn. "Are we going to give him something?" "Sure" and that is the only reason we stopped. I'm excited to see what happens with them. I hope we can help them have the experiences they need to know the truth.
Maybe I'll even want to go inviting next time :)
Love you all!
Sister King
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