Hello Kha!
Yeah............ About that flooding. Apparently it's a bigger deal than we thought. We still have yet to see it but that doesn't change the fact that I am being flown up to Chiang Mai in the morning! hahaha It has been completely nuts this week!
So, here's how it all went down. On Wednesday night Sister Naegle and I had just barely finished planning. We got a call from the AP's and he told Sister Naegle to get ready to pack her bags (at this point she thought we were all being evacuated) "because you are joping (finishing your mission) on Saturday." It would be an understatement to say she was surprised. Let's just say we were all bummed that night. Sister Naegle was also on the phone with the assistants and President a bunch to figure out what she was going to do with her parents coming to pick her up.
On Thursday she was given permission to email her parents and have them call her about it all. So that day was disrupted a bit. We were able to get some teaching in. We didn't realize it would be our last day teaching our investigators though. During our last lesson we got a call from the assistants again saying to meet in Asoke at 4:00pm on Friday. So that night we were up late rushing to help her get packed.
On Friday the other sisters at our house got a call from the District leader saying they needed to go buy big garbage cans to fill with water in case our water was turned off. We already had like a months worth of food and a few weeks worth of drinking water stored. So while they were doing that I was helping Sister Naegle get ready to leave. She was able to eat lunch with her favorite members and then the four of us were off to Asoke to drop her off. Yes, the plan was for me to be in a three-some with the other sisters. We got to the hotel around 3:00 pm and we had to wait there to take another Sister to dinner with us while her companion ate with the jopers as well so we didn't get home until around 9:30 that night. It was a lot of waiting but I was glad to be able to say goodbye to Sister Naegle. We were both really sad that our time was cut short but her hope was that she'd be able to get back into Bangkok and come see us with her parents even though it wasn't a sure thing. It was a long day and I didn't feel very missionaryish sitting around the whole time but it just gets better.
Back home in our apartment, on Saturday,(side story: we had a huge bag of eggs sitting with our food storage and one must've cracked because it reaked. Sis. Tano went over to check it out and it was crawling with aunts and maggots, ugh! After one day! So gross!) we started off the day normally, studying, doing my training and such. It kind of felt like a switch off. It seemed like Sis. Naegle would come back in a day or so. Anyway, we were able to figure out a bit of a plan for combining our areas and then we went to teach investigators and the Saturday night scripture class. We were all excited to get things back to normal. We have a big group of daters and progressing investigators so we had a ton of work to do.
Sunday morning we were planning on going to Sii Nakerin for Stake Conference with two of my daters, Sis Meow and Sis. Fawng. We were still able to go with them but the Elders called right before and told us to pack our carry-ons, you're flying to Chiang Mai tonight, don't know exactly what time yet. Apparently President felt impressed to have us go up there even though there has been no problems in Saphan Sung yet. So when we got home from Stake Conference we got up to our room and guess what... The power and water were off. Poddii we got to pack in a sauna in the middle of the afternoon haha. It was pretty hot. But we got everything together and hauled it down our four flights of stairs (not fun) and walked it over to the church. So we hunkered down and waited for the word. Turns out we weren't leaving that night so we wish we'd known that so we could teach somebody. We worked on combining our area books a bit more but the problem was we had no lights, AC, or water in our apartment so going back would be rough but the Elders asked us to check if it had been turned on. So we walked back with our luggage, nope, still off (luckily we had not lugged our luggage back up!). So the assistants sent us to sleep at the Sister's in nearby Sii Nakerin (where, poddii, we had been that morning). This is probably about 9:30 at night and we got into Sii Nakerin around 10:15. The Sisters there were so nice though and made food for us and helped us get situated so we got a good night sleep.
This morning we left for the airport at 7:00 because apparently the reason we couldn't fly out on Sunday was because we had to be there in person. Also, only Sis. Yinn and I are going up to Chiang Mai and Sis. Tano will go to Ban Kaa with Sis. Knight and Sis. Lisch. A bunch of the Elders are off to the Isaan but our District leader is staying and taking care of our district and Ban Kaa is in Bangkok and Bang Na still has sisters as well. I don't know. It's crazy! But anyway, at the airport the earliest flight we could get to Chiang Mai was tomorrow so I will be up there for probably at least 2 weeks. I'm kind of excited! haha but I'm also really bummed to leave right now, right before these baptisms are supposed to happen. I was telling Sis. Meow that we were leaving and that we weren't sure when we'd be back and she asked if she was still getting baptized, she was way sad about it. I told her she was nanon (for sure) getting baptized. We would still plan for the 6th but the flood might affect it but I told her that she would get baptized no matter what. It was really sweet. I'll be super sad if I can't be there to see her baptized, mostly because she is my first, but it's the fact that she's getting baptized that matters, right. I just have to remind myself of that :)
So right now I am with Sis. Knight, Lisch, Tano, and Yinn in an internet cafe in Bangkapi (also in Bangkok). We came and cleaned out the Bangkapi house and moved everything to the upper floor and we're all sleeping in Ban Kaa tonight. Things are a little crazy over here as you can probably tell. It's okay though. All the missionaries are safe and President is going all over trying to get everything in order.
I heard our Nong thais from the MTC won't come in for at least a couple weeks as well so we'll be down in numbers for a bit over here.
I've got to finish up here. Sorry, not much missionary work in this email but hopefully I'll have some good experiences up north. I promise my testimony is growing everyday and that I still know this Church is true. Without a doubt. Love you all!
Sister King
Here's something funny, my maa (sis. Naegle) is hanging out up in Chiang Mai with the Sister there so I'll get to see her for another week or so. Way weird!
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