Phibunmangsahan is The Place To Be - 2/5/18

Just got off the plane 

Cool sun pic

On the plane

Us with Ut and a plate of bugs

Hey Everybody! 

Sorry to interrupt your Superbowl partying! This week was way solid! 

On Tuesday we were able to help out a potential investigator by doing a lot of service at his shop. We helped sweep around outside, because there were soooo many leaves, and we also helped clean up his bushes and stuff. We then hopped on a bus to Bangkok at about 7:00 PM and got there around 4:30 AM. We got to eat breakfast with one of Elder Larson's recent converts and then went and got Elder Larson's visa renewed. We weren't too sure if we wanted to take a bus or a plane back to Ubon, so we looked up the bus schedule. The buses only left at crazy times so we decided to take a plane back to Ubon. It was only about and hour and a half plane ride, but it was a strange experience. 

The rest of our week was pretty normal until Friday. On Friday we decided to go to Phibunmangsahan, which is another city in our area. I don't know why, but this place is way awesome. All the people are super friendly, and the city is really pretty as well. After we took a truck to Phibunmangsahan, we rode our bikes about an hour and a half away to find a less active member named Ut. We met with him, and he turned out to be amazing. He hasn't been to church in about 3 years, but his testimony is so strong. He has been a member for about 30+ years, and was our bishop's old young men's president. He says we're the first people to reach out to him in about 2 1/2 years and he really wants to come back. The only problem is that he lives about 2ish hours away from the church and his only mode of transportation is an old motorcycle. He talked about how good it would be to have a branch in Phibun. He says that he has a lot of friends who he wants us to try to teach. During our whole visit with him, the Spirit was extremely strong. We plan on going to visit him and his friends this upcoming week. He also gave us some bugs to eat and we did. They were very strange.

This week is also going to be zone conference on Friday and Saturday. It will be weird, because we will be getting Facebooks, haha.

Also - President and Sister Johnson finish their mission this July. The church just released the name of our new mission president: Todd Hammond. He is apparently the Stake President of a YSA stake in Idaho.

I hope you all have had good weeks! I love and miss you all!

<3

Elder Ridd :)

Photo credit: L. Srichanruen