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| N's baptism last week |
Hey Everybody!
I hope you
are doing well! This week
was pretty sweeeeeet. Let's see, we went to the zoo on Monday, and that was way
cool. They gave us a golf cart and we drove through the zoo. It's kind of like
a mini safari here, haha. We got to see a lot of cool stuff, but it was also
kinda fun to see the animals' surprise as a bunch of white people cruise by in
a golf cart.
This week
we had two switch offs. On Tuesday afternoon/all of Wednesday I was with Elder
Saydyk in Yasothon, while Elder Steele and Elder Larson were in Ubon. Yasothon
is a little over an hour away and is pretty rural. I liked it a lot. It turns
out that Elder Saydyk is from Kingswood, Texas! Which is crazy close to home (The
Woodlands, TX), so that was really neat. He is an awesome guy, and we saw a lot
of cool things happen on the switch off.
On
Thursday, my phone got a notification from the church app that I need to
restart it to get an important update. Without thinking I was like, “Okay, why
not?” and did it. When my phone started up again it asked me to enter my
password to get in, but I had apparently changed it to a very strange password
that I almost never use, so I forgot it. After about 15ish tries it locked me
out and it was pretty much just an expensive flashlight for a while. Amazingly,
right after my phone became a very pretty, high-tech brick, I remembered my
password at the least useful time. I then decided to do a factory reset on it
and I'm going to drop it off at the office in Asoke on Wednesday, because we
have to go to Bangkok to do visa stuff for Elder Larson. The office elders will
be able to upload all the church stuff onto it again for me and bring it to my
zone conference on the 9th, and then I'll be good to go. So I did lose a bunch
of photos and stuff, but at least my phone will be functional. I'm going to use
a password that I will actually remember this time. Lol.
On Friday
we had switch offs with the Zone Leaders in Roi Et. I was with Elder Rose, who
is awesome. Roi Et is a way cool city that's about 3 hours away.
We were
working on Saturday in Ubon like usual when Elder Larson and I both saw a
little bus going to a very rural place in our area called Trakan. We both had a
feeling we had to go there, so we threw our bikes on top of it and rode it for
about an hour until we were there. When we got there we started looking around
for some less active members in the area. We were asking around to find some of
the houses, but we didn't have any success. We were kind of questioning why we
felt the need to come all the way out here, when we decided to ask this couple
that we saw if they knew where to find the house. As we were talking to them,
they asked why we were looking for these people. We told them that we were from
a church and that we hadn't seen them in a while. They said that their son has
a friend who is a member of our church. We asked about who they are, and the
friend is apparently our ward mission leader, TM! He is an awesome guy. We asked
this couple if they’d be interested in learning more about the church and they
said sure! So we are going to try to find time to go back visit them! I'm
convinced that they are the reason we both felt inspired to go all the way out
to Trakan!
So yeah,
this week was really busy - haha. It was also really awesome. I know that the Spirit
will inspire and prompt us if we just stop and listen. It would have been
really easy to just say, "Trakan is far, and there's not point in going
right now." and ignore the prompting; but if we listen to the Spirit and
act on promptings, I know that we will be blessed and receive guidance from our
Heavenly Father.
I love
being a missionary. Thailand is such an amazing place. I'm so glad for the
opportunity to be serving.
Thank you
all for being so loving and supportive!
I love
and miss you all!
Elder
Ridd <3 :)
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