Monday, December 31, 2018

Happy Holidayz - 12/29/18


Where Waldo communist edition
Christmas celebration decorations



Christmas party

Visiting Elder Phasay's village with the Hammond family
Mirror selfie feat. Katty
Hey Everybody!

Another busy week this past week. Zone conference was pretty solid. We had some great thoughts from President and Sister Hammond. We also did a white elephant gift exchange, which was pretty fun.

Saturday was the cultural celebration/Christmas party, and that was awesome. It was way bigger than I thought it would be and there were tons of tents and stuff set up. There were soooooo many people that went. That was pretty neat. There were a bunch of less active families that showed up, so it was way good to finally meet those people. 

Sunday was the dedication of the new church, so that was also an experience. It's the first church to be dedicated in Laos. Yay! We had a 70 in the Asia Area Presidency, Elder Homer, come out. He's a way cool guy and he had some cool insights about putting past transgressions, grudges, and feuds behind us. He also had a special meeting for us missionaries to just kind encourage us and talk to us about the special parts of us serving in such a unique place. He knows a lot about our situation because he's had to deal with the church in other severely restricted parts of the world. 

The rest of the week was pretty good as well. We had one of our English class certificate ceremonies where we give certificates to those that passed our class. Noice. 

For Christmas we went up to see some northern members that we haven't been able to visit for awhile. That was way sweet. We got to see a ton of members and we had a big lunch with them including like 4 of our recent converts out there.

I hope that you have all had a great Christmas! 

Keep being a great example to everyone around you! You're awesome. 

Love u guyz ;) <3
Comrade Ridd


Friday, December 21, 2018

Hey - This is a Small Email - 12/19/18


Cool sunset from the church

Eating with English students after the exam
The new church


Chilling with the zone in Udorn
Grandma Mii's baptism with her fam
Hey everybody!

This is a small email this week - sorry. 

My pday was unexpectedly changed to Wednesday this week so we could have a pday as a zone. 

The biggest things that happened are Grandma Mii got baptized and we are now in Thailand for two days. Grandma Mii's baptism was way good and her whole family was way excited.

We're now in Udorn again, and we went on like a 2 hour bus ride with our zone to see some rocks. Then we went back to the church after like 30 minutes hahaha. It was a good time to talk with some old friends though.

That’s about all that's happened the past few days. I'm really excited for Christmas! It'll be fun. This week on Saturday we are having a big cultural event thing to celebrate the new church her finally being done, and then it will be dedicated on Sunday. President and his family said they'll be there for it, so it'll be an interesting time.

I want to give a shout out to my rockstar mom. Today is her birthday and she's amazing. Thanks for all that you've done for me mama! Happy 42nd birthday 😉.

Also thankful for my amazing Grandpa who passed away this past week. He was a great, loving man, who always set an example in how to put others before yourself and how to remain happy in hard times.

I love and miss you all! Have good weeks.