It's only been a couple days but some fun things happened this week!! I was a really horrible journal writer this past week and now I'm regretting it aha.
Thailand is so so beautiful
Funnies:
One of the people we are teaching (she wants to get baptized so badly but we still need to work through some things) came to a baptism we had. After that she said she was getting really hot and had this weird feeling inside her (clearly feeling the spirit) so she ran out of the church building and said she doesn't want to get baptized because she's afraid of feeling like that haha.
At the Christmas party everyone volunteered all the missionaries to do an eating contest without our hands, and usually that stuff is with like pie or pudding or something... But no then did it with pasta with meat sauce!!! So difficult and really strange.
Random Tidbits:
Elder davis left us!! So sad but it was so cute to see all the members come together to come say goodbye to him and send him off! They are all so awesome!
We finally changed 3 out of the 5 lights in our apartment, so we officially have light!! I can't believe we've been living in this darkness for so long
We have light!!!!
we are going to start teaching English in another city and I'm super excited about it! It's going to make the 3hrs of travel time there feel a lot more productive
I had to use my mtc teachers advice for eating! Thai people love feeding the missionaries until they are going to explode but of you eat super slowly it always looks like your eating everytime they look over and then they are super happy. One lunch they brought out a meal which is usually the full meal so I filled up on that, and then they proceeded to bring out 2 other full meals!!! I was so full. Then for dinner after we helped paint the fence she fed us so so so much.
Classic us getting locked out of our apartment! (it was late and we were so exhausted lol)
Elders being elders aha
It has now gone back to being like 35-36 degrees everyday but the woman at church still wears her cute strawberry hat every week!
The work:
น้องนุ่น was baptized!! It was so special and so cute. She was so worried about sharing her testimony after her baptism so she has practiced and memorized what she was going to say for about 3 months now lol.
Our tuk tuk driver came to the Christmas party and then sat in a lesson the next day!!! HUGE MIRACLE. he has been driving around the missionaries for about a year now maybe and has refused any invitation for anything... But he is finally opening his heart! He's so awesome too.
Spiritual Thought:
Hard things happen in life. Hard things happen to people we love and to us and sometimes we just don't understand why. Why is this happening, what is the purpose? All we can do sometimes is just out our trust in God which is not easy, and may seem impossible. However if we just want to be able to trust in God because we feel like we can't right now that is enough. The saviour will never reject what we can offer him, what our best is that day. If we can offer him only a desire to trust in Him, He will work with that. He is our loving father in heaven and understands us perfectly. He is with us always as we continue to TRY and follow him.
I hope everyone has a great week and merry Christmas!!!!
Love,
Sister Clement
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