ສະບາຍດີ​ປີໃໝ່​ - 4/19/19

Lao New Year with theYSA. We were the only people drinking Pepsi instead of beer. 

It was pretty crowded. 

Hey everybody!

This week's been pretty interesting. Starting on Sunday it was Lao New Year, which is a giant water festival where the entire town starts throwing water everywhere and parties as hard as they can. We didn't have English class this week because nobody would go due to being drunk or going to their home provinces. We're gonna start classes again on Monday, so that should be good. 

The New Year partying was pretty amusing. We saw so much random stuff haha. Lots of drunk people, lady boys, and water. Something that we did with a bunch of members was set up at a street corner with buckets and completely destroy any biker, walker, car with a massive wave of water from all of us at the same time. Watching how they would react was always a good time. Don't worry, it's what people do here, we're not just being hoodlums. 

We also had a sister missionary return home from her mission in Thailand, so that's neat. 

That was pretty much our entire week because the only people here who we could visit were celebrating, so our work consisted of celebrating with them. Pretty fun week. 

Sunday is Easter!!!! I hope all of you have a great Easter weekend and remember the purpose of the holiday. I'm so thankful for Christ and his Atonement in my life. 

I love and miss you all!
<3

Elder Ridd