Dear Mom,
Thank you for your email. Sorry that mine has come late. This may be my last week in this area. It has also been a week full of a ton of miracles. I'll have to make this email a little shorter than normal because of all of the amazing sight-seeing we did for the last pday, but I'll make it up next week.
This past week has been full of visiting, teaching, serving, working, miracles, interesting experiences, surprises, the Lord's guidance, accidents, and new investigators.
To start out the list of interesting events, my companion had to go to the hospital to get stitches. He fell getting out of the shower and cut his arm. We luckily have very very awesome members who were willing to take us to the hospital and get him patched up.
I can summarize this week up by saying that in all things, we've been blessing by the Lord. Whether it be with the work, personal problems, finding new investigators, or strengthening new members or less active members, I can see numerous blessings that the Lord has given us. He has led us a lot this week, and I feel like it has helped me realize that he is always leading us, we just need to look a littler harder and we'll see it.
A huge miracle has been the arrival of the sister missionaries here. In everything they do, I can see the positive affect they have through there diligent work, obedience, and love for people. They have seen quick success and many miracles in just the 2-3 weeks that they have been here. It's been amazing to see and makes me want to seek this kind of conversion in my own life.
We've been able to work with a few specific investigators recently and meet with a few new investigators as well. This past week, I've also noticed the importance of diligence obedience/work combined with reliance on the Lord. Many times, we work hard and make plans, but for some reason plans fall through, people don't show up, or we don't get to meet with the people we plan to, but I've noticed that with every effect we make to work harder and more diligently, the Lord provides blessings in other ways. We've made many calls and set up appointments with new investigators, but several fell through. Despite this, we were still able to meet with other, unplanned new investigators that same day. We try to plan and work as hard as we can and do/say what the Lord would have us do/say and the Lord blesses us. We had zone training last Saturday and one thing has still stuck with me. When we show the Lord our willingness and dedication to work, He'll bless us. We may not see immediate results, but He sees our desires and efforts. Sometimes we invite and don't meet anyone interested, but the sincere effort we put in can create blessings in other ways.
Some other miracles are a few RC's we are working with .They have such great faith, a desire to help, and understanding of the Gospel - combined with a desire to share. We had a few of these help us teach, and they each were great fellowshippers and helpers. We've been teaching about the temple and family history a lot. We've helped several people start family history. We had a member who had just finished being a member for 1yr leave for the temple. We helped he complete her family history too. It is so exciting to talk about the temple and the blessings from the temple.
The Christmas spirit is beginning to grow and spread. It's awesome. Christ is the center of Christmas and the center of our lives as we choose to follow Him. He is the reason for the season.
We also had a fun biking activity here. Bike for Dad. It was the king's birthday. We got to bike around and invite.
We had so many people and so many investigators at church. All of the classes were nearly full! We had a lot of investigators finally have the opportunity to come to church.
We had the opportunity to take a lot of pictures today. We are the cutest, most awesome district ever!
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ขอแสดงความนับถือ, Sincerely,
เอ็ลเดอร์ ซัน Elder Sun
ผู้สอนศาสนา Missionary
ศาสนจักรของพระเยซูคริสต์แห่งวิสุทธิชนยุคสุดท้าย The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
คณะเผยแผ่ กรุงเทพฯ, ประเทศไทย Bangkok, Thailand Mission
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