Transfers to Bang Kapi!!!....Wait.. No Transfers

Sister Noon's baptism !! Isn't she just the cutest?! 

March 18, 2020

Just out here livin' it up in Udorn.... Oh wait... Our apartment is Udorn!! It's been so fun though. this week à lot has happened!!

1. Hit my 6 month mark!! So crazy that it has gone my so fast! And sister jensen suprised me with all my favourite chocolate and ice cream! And we ordered a dairy queen ice cream cake to celebrate my 6 months and sister jensens 1 year! 

Love sister jensen

2. we only went à little bit crazy !

Again sister jensen and I the dream team

Jammie time!

Iconic duo 

Sister jensen is the cutest companion!

3. We made a singing video (sister jensen and I both hate singing so we don't really know why we did it) and it got so many views and we were able to talk to so many people from it!! So amazing

4. Sister Noon got baptized! It seemed like everything was against her but she has overcome everything and changed her entire life to follow Christ so it all worked out. We ended up having to fill up the font with buckets of water bc we were running out of time. It was perfectly imperfect! And she is so happy now and ahhh it was the best ever. I am so proud of her (I will write her conversion story in another email for those who want to read it) 

Sister noons baptism!! Sister Wan is soooo cute she's the one in the front who is like 4ft tall!!( mom wants to know where the social distancing is!!!) 

Sister Noon!

5. We got transfer calls last night and I was supposed to be moving to Bang Kapi! We were a little sad bc I love sister jensen so much and we are so tight but I was excited for the new adventure even in the quarantine aha. As I was packing we got a message saying transfers were postponed!! We jumped up and down bc we were so excited. This iconic duo isn't broken up quite yet  God really does answer prayers haha. Anyway I put everything back in like a minute and now it's back to business as usual!

when they thought it was their last day together

6. We also that night found a massive cockroach in our apartment and proceeded to spend the next hour and a half trying to get it. We went to bed veryyy late yesterday night oh myyy. 

Finally caught the cockroach ewwwww

7. We are also indefinitely quarantined... We will hit our month mark on Saturday!!! So wild. We've been able to still see a lot of miracles though and we really know God's work is not stopping.

Quarantine be like (we tried to separate ourselves for like 5 min but it didn't work lol)

I hope this time will help turn all of us to Christ. To the source of real joy and peace. Sometimes that's all we have, and I promise it's enough. The love of our Heavenly Parents and Brother Jesus Christ can carry us through anything.

I love you all and sorry this was a bit of a weird email today! It's been a bit of a weird day too!

Love, 

ซิสเตอร์​ เค็มเม็น

 

2nd Coronaversary!

Love my คู้

That's right we hit the 2 week mark!! With the news that they are extending it a week.... Yay! In all honesty it hasn't been horrible, we've had a pretty fun time and we are starting to get the hang of this whole quarantine thing. The first week was by far the hardest, now we are just slowly getting crazier every day, while still seeing miracles and being productive!

Funnies:

Sister jensen and I just have a problem with laughing... At everything.... Things that just really are not even funny... I've even started laughing in my sleep....

After dinner time is the time that just does not need to be remembered. That is our craziest time of day, weird things happen idek. 

Corona quarantine be like...

Sometimes we really feel like this

We tried peel off facemasks for the first time and it caused a lot of pain lol... Don't know if it was worth it

We've started scaring each other somehow in our tiny little apartment and it's really fun. I've gotten sister jensen so good 3 times.

Random tidbits:

The elders in ubon made a parody of the office called the apartment and it is the best thing ever. We've watched it 3 times.

We ate some really good food again this week

This is Thailand lol, idk why Thai people buy them but that's in the grocery store 

Our dance is coming along really really well 

We have come up with a theory called concentrated craziness that keeps the crazy at bay until at least after dinner! Every hour we have an alarm set with an exercise and we just go nuts doing that exercise for 2 minutes. It has helped us focus so so much. That's been our biggest problem so far is focusing long enough to get things done and be productive! So we are glad we have found this tactic.

It rained and poured for my first time in Thailand and we just stood on the balcony during the storm and had the deepest chat ever. It was sweet 

Most chill district council ever

First skirt ripped by the bike

The work:

We have really seen everyone come together these past two weeks to help the work move forward. We are learning how to work more efficiently and the things we are learning here will be soooo useful once we get out. By doing video calls we save so much time and are able to reach out to so many more people!! It's been awesome to get to know the members more and see how much more they are helping us teach and love the people that are learning. Our miracle board is on the second page now so nothing is stopping us!!

Spiritual Thought:

Everyone has a place. Everyone has talents to bring to the table and when we all work together we really do see miracles happen. God has promised everyone spiritual gifts that can be used to help others around us. God really is a God of love. Everything He does is to help us grow, in all areas but especially love for Him, and Love for our brothers and sisters. So I challenge you this week to pray about and find one gift or talent that you have and pray how to use and develop it in order to help others around you!

You are all so amazing and I love you all!

Love, 

Sister Clement

😊🙄🤣😁😑😒😝🤔😢😂-my emotions this week

March 2, 2020

CHURCHHHH

What a week!! So many emotions were felt, miracles were seen, talents were developed!

Random tidbits:

First my trip to Bangkok was WILD! they would let us get on our flight there, so we had to scramble to still make it there for 5:30am the next day. Our tuk tuk driver drove as fast as possible, faster than other cars on the road to get us to the bus station we had 15 minutes to spare and got a bus that would get us there on time! It was also a bus that looked like a plane on the inside so pretty much the same as flying! Except 9 hrs instead of 1 but what can ya do! I also didn't sleep bc I had a guy that took up half of my seat too sitting next to me lol. We got there on Time, and my visa stuff was done at 9 but sister phetsayam wasn't done until 30 min until our flight home! We sprinted out of the visa office at 14:15 and got a taxi and then ended up sprinting out of the taxi on the highway to the airport haha, it was crazy but we made our flight on time!!

The sisters made us a really nice meal and surprised us when we got home from Bangkok after not sleeping for so long! They are so cute!

We have made some DELICIOUS food this week. We go ham for meals now bc we have so much time and so much food in our house. Usually when you open our fridge you see some water in a jug and that's about it but ohhh how the times have changed!! 

panang curry

Developing my talents left and right 

Our sanctuary, we are so lucky it's on our floor and that pool is so cold so no one is ever out there

The weekly haul aha. Oh yeah we bought a blender!! Best decision ever

We found out only 4 days into the quarantine that every missionary who would have gone home before may 31st was going home early, all the senior missionaries went home too, and a couple people got reassigned!! We heard the news and they were all home within a matter of 2 days.... We were shook. 

Eating ice cream after the news that so many people were going home. (sister jensen was literally shoving spoonfuls in her mouth to try and cope ) 

Sometimes we are doing serious things and then one of us starts laughing and we can't stop laughing for the next like 30 min... We aren't going crazy at all!! 

Our music video that no one will see is coming along slowly but surely. We plan a bit of it every night haha!! 

We tried durian popsicles.... Would not recommend, they were the most disgusting things I've ever tasted in my life... No joke, and I've eaten rat and maggots my friends. (mom's note- description of Durian - “its odor is best described as… turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.” )

the dreaded fruit Durian:(

The work:

We can now video call anyone! Friends or family anytime of the week if they have questions or want to learn more about what we teach here. 

Church was the highlight of the week! We felt like we were in thailand again and we took 10 min to ride to church instead of the usual 5 in order to soak it all in! A member gave us donuts from dunkin donuts for HER birthday... Gotta love Thai people! 

We experienced so many miracles this week. One of the people we are teaching has progressed more this week that we've been in our apartments than she has in the 4 months I've been here! Seeing her life change because of her love for God and for the scriptures has been amazing! The members are also helping us soo much too. We love them a lot!

Watching the missionary broadcast from the comfort of our own home!! 

Spiritual Thought:

God loves and knows each and everyone of his children. No matter what is going on in the world he always provides a way for us to feel at peace, to come closer to him, and to feel of his love. His work never stops, he just loves us way too much!! If you want to learn more or have any questions about why I postponed university, left my friends and family, learned Thai and worked hard all of my teenage years to pay for this mission (I'm not payed, it is completely volunteer), all to come to Thailand to share a message about Jesus Christ with people, let me know, and we can chat about it 

This week our emotions have been completely all over the place. It's hard to be in your apartment for this long trying to stay productive. We really are trying our best to fill our days with meaningfull and fun activities that still help the work progress here in Thailand! I chose to come and serve my Father in Heaven and this is just part of it! I will do whatever his will is no matter what that means. Hopefully I will have a little more information next week about what is going to happen to us :) please keep us and the people of southeast Asia in your prayers, we need all the help we can get!!

I love you all :)

Sister Clement

chatting with my mom.

Mom's note: a few hours after sending me this email, she messaged saying that Corona is now in Udorn, where she is living.   Precautions are a good idea!