Sawadii!
Sorry last weeks email ended a little abruptly, I'm going to watch my time better.
So, after I emailed last week we went with some of the other Bangkok Sisters to play Muay Thai. Pretty fun, no? We went to the National Statium and were able to have like 2 hours with the National Team's head coach and some of the team for 300 baht. Don't worry, that's like 10 dollars haha. It was soooo much fun! We definitely got a workout though. We started with jump roping for 5 minutes and then we stretched and did across the floor excercises. I loved it because it was so similar to my dance classes. My teacher from this past Winter semester trained in martial arts over in China so we had a bunch of the moves from different styles of Asian fighting and it was nice to be sort of familiar with it. Brother Pet (the coach) said I was really good and wants me to come back and train haha. It was definitely a good preparation day though.
So we didn't get to go to the Relief Society Conference. We had planned to but you have to have an investigator or a new member to go with and our investigator woke up sick that morning so we couldn't. We were way bummed but at least we get to see Conference this week! I am way excited! Our Branch President is even getting it for us in English which you don't usually get in other areas. He's so great, hopefully it works out because I won't understand to much of it if it's in Thai. That's so great that there's going to be a temple in Star Valley!!! And another one in Provo?! Geez! Do we know when they'll be done?
Let's see, oh, we ate at a legit Italian restaurant right by our house the other afternoon before we started our fast. It was way yummy, but super expensive. It was almost 10 dollars a person! :) But they had a real pizza oven and we're pretty sure the owner was Italian. I don't know but I had lasagna and it was super yummy. Sister Naegle was drooling over the real cheese on everything. Apparently this is the land of no cheese. Even on dishes that do have cheese it's like bottled cheese. I don't think I have been in Thailand long enough to really appreciate how different that meal was but it was a fun outing :)
On our way to a lesson the other day, there was a dead dog in the middle of the road and it was pretty mangled. I couldn't look at it because it's was way sad. There are soooooooo many dogs here. Everywhere. They believe that dogs are the closest to being human when it comes to reincarnation so they don't ever kill dogs, no matter how sad or rabid they are. If they killed them they believe that person won't become human in the next life. It has to die naturally I guess. There are some pretty sad looking dogs. I would be scared to have a dog here because it would interact with the gross ones. I miss Lupin :( I did see someone with a Siberian Husky the other day though. I don't know how it lives in a humid place but it was really cute.
So as of today we have 3 daters. And they're are all set for November 6. I think that's a pretty good birthday present if I do say so myself! All of them are women. Nang is one and then we have Gib and Fawng. Nang is doing pretty well, she is working all the time and she's had some issues with her teeth so her mouth hurts all the time. But she really does want to be baptized so we're trying to make time to meet with her. At one of our lessons she asked us what she needed to do to be ready for baptism and she was really worried that she wouldn't be able to keep the commandments, that she wasn't good enough. She is so sweet. We went back and went more into depth with repentance and helped her to realize that she doesn't have to be perfect and that enduring to the end is really just sincerely repenting daily. She's doing well though.
Phii Gib is 20 something and has been learning with the missionaries for over a year. She is SO ready to be baptized. She would have been baptized earlier but her boyfriend is African and has to go back to Africa to get the papers to be able to get married and he won't be going for like another 3 months. Gib has been waiting but she finally wants baptism more and is moving out this month. She has such a strong testimony. She has been at church consistantly for the last year. It's so great to see her finally taking this step.
Phii Fawng is so cute. She's in her 20's as well. She was taught a short introduction lesson at English and we've only taught her one real lesson but she asked so many questions and was so interested in everything. We extended the baptismal commitment and she accepted. She even has an Uncle and friend that are interested in learning :)
We had a really good weak of finding and receiving new investigators. It was really encouraging. It's hard to realize that some of them might not end up accepting because they are all so great but at least the seed are being planted.
I love the hour of personal study we have everyday. It was nice in the MTC but it is so great here. It's a little time to yourself but it's also so cool to see the things Heavenly Father puts in front of you for your investigators. It's so much more obvious when you have the possibility of really using the things you learn to help others. The Book of Mormon is crazy powerful and so inspired. I can't get over it. My scriptures are getting really colorful. Sometimes it's hard to comprehend how true this gospel is. There is no other way. I just want all these people to get that!
Well, time is about up but I love and miss you all. Thanks for the emails, support, and prayers.
Sister King
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