Short Email. Sorry! 3/5/18

Photo Credit: P. Sorphapmixaiy

Elder Pastores drew the parable of the prodigal son

Ward sports night

Hey Everybody! 

Hopefully you've all had good weeks! This week was pretty good! We were able to find some new people who look like they are pretty interested to learn. Sister MW is still awesome and should make her baptismal date for this Sunday. Today I'm only going to be writing a short email because I don't have too much time. We went to DreamWorld this week. It was my second time there,  because I went when I was in Thonburi. It was way fun. I got to see some people that I haven't seen in awhile, so that was a good experience.

Zone conference is coming up soon, so that is going to be really good! I'm excited to see what President Johnson has planned. Also, next month on April 20, we will have a devotional by President Nelson and Elder Holland! I am so excited to be able to hear the living prophet and an apostle speak to us!

I hope you all have great weeks this week!

Love and miss you all!

Elder Ridd <3

Bangkapi Life - 2/26/18

Moving stuff with Elder Julander!

Dragon fruit is tasty

Hey Everybody! 

I hope you all had goooooood weeks. This week has been pretty solid! It's so weird to be back in Bangkok! When we first got here, all we had was our address and keys to our house - haha. It's been an interesting few days. We've been making random phone calls to contacts that we've found in the area book, but there weren't really too many investigators for us. We've been able to meet with a lot of the ward leaders here in order to find some members and less active people that we can go visit though, so that was way solid. We now have a good amount of names to track down! 

We do have one really solid investigator though! Her name is Sister MW. She is about 65ish and she loves Jesus. She has a baptismal date for the 11th of March. She's got no major problems, so she should be able to easily make the date! She is so amazing. 

We were able to help a member move to another area in Bangkok as well! We threw a bunch of very heavy furniture in the back of a large vehicle and sat with it. It all went very smoothly. 

Elder Julander is an awesome guy! He has been out almost 2 months longer than I have. He's way nice, and he has done computer programming since he was 12. That's pretty neat.

I hope you all have wonderful week! Stay crispy!

Love and miss you all!

Elder Ridd <3 :))

Elder Decker and Elder Julander

Back to Bangkok - 2/21/18

Visiting our friend, PO

The snake and I

Wat in Phibun

Hello my dudes. How's it going?

I hope that you all had solid weeks. This week was transfers which was really weird! There were some unexpected results! I am leaving Ubon already and will be serving in part of east Bangkok called Bangkapi. I will be "whitewashing" the area with Elder Julander. I'm excited to start working there! 

This week was a really good week! We had a lot of great experiences for my last week here. We visited a really cool recent convert named PO. He is an amazing guy. He is about 93 years old, but he got a PhD about 2 or 3 years ago. He's really sharp and has a good testimony. He's such a cute old guy.  

All the people in Phibun are still way good! We didn't go out there too much this week, but all the people there are amazing. I love the small town feeling that it has. 

Something really fun that happened this week is that one of our English students brought her pet snake to class, so we all got to play with it. It was a way cool snake, and I even got to bike over to a restaurant with it on my shoulders, which was a pretty fun experience. 

Even though it's been a long week, I don't know what else to talk about! Most of the days is just work like usual, haha. 

I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to come serve here in Ubon! I've loved it here so much! The people are amazing, the city and surrounding area are gorgeous, and the love from the members is so strong! I'm sad to leave, but I know that I'll be able to go help out the people of Bangkok some more! 

Have a great week this week!

Shout out to Lukas Ridd! He just got back from his mission today. He's an awesome brother and example. I love him so much! <3 

I love and miss you all!

Elder Ridd

:))