Church is Canceled this Week due to Communism - 12/1/18

Some shots of the new chapel

Hey dudes.

Hopefully your weeks have been adequately enjoyable. This week was another wild ride. 

On Monday we taught English, as is tradition. Nothing too crazy there. 

Then on Tuesday, Elder Phasay and I got to go back down to the wonderful city of Bangkok. Wahooooo. At least this time we were able to fly for an hour instead of taking a 10 hour, extremely uncomfortable bus ride. So that was good. While in Bangkok, we stopped by one of Elder Phasay's old areas. We also got to stop by my first area, Thonburi, for a tiny bit so that was kinda neat.

On Wednesday we woke up at 4 in the morning and went to get our visas renewed. Good news, the office decided that we exist this time, so we were able to get it done! Now I don't have to worry about visa stuff ever again. Hopefully. We then caught a flight back to Udorn and had to stay the night there before busing over the bridge to Laos the next morning.

On Friday and today, we were able to participate in the final parts of the Seeing is Believing project, and got to go hand out glasses at the schools that we screened. It was way cool to see all of the kids finally able to see stuff. We also went to the village chief's office and gave out free reading glasses to anyone that showed up there. We had around a few hundred people show up for that part, so that was kool.

We also got to see the church building finally completed!!! It looks amaziiiiiing. It's probably the biggest/nicest church in the mission now.

Speaking of church, since tomorrow is Laos National Day, church was canceled in Laos. Laos National Day​ is a day that everyone in Laos takes pride in being communist, so they just get really drunk and party. They also enjoy imprisoning white people/church members for little to no reason, so the leaders decided to be safe and cancel church. Right now, the other Elders and I are on a bus going down to Udorn so we can attend church there tomorrow. I love traveling so much. Ha ha ha. We will stay in Udorn for both Sunday and Monday because Monday will also be our zone conference. I'm looking forward to it. 

Wellllllll, that about sums up this week! Just a lot of traveling and service for the most part!

Thanks everybody for being awesome, and I encourage you all to show service this December as Christ did - as a way to remember Him and His example.

I love and miss you all!

Your fav communist, 

<3

Comrade Hayden