Companion: Elder Omer
May 26, 2013
Love you too! How are things! This branch up here is so
awesome! I love it here so much the people are so beautiful and gentle and
funny! The leaders are strong; there are many activities going on! It’s so nice
to be in the mountains again. I didn’t realize how much I had missed them until
I saw them again. The skies here are clearer too you can see more of the stars
the trees are huge and so cool looking. It is so beautiful not rain foresty but
gorgeous Thai style. The weather here is so much cooler it can still be hot
mid-day but nothing like Bangkok and sometimes at night it’s really nice and
cool like the cool season back in Warin I can’t imagine the cool season up here
it might even get cold. I hear there are places where you see frost in the
morning. haha khon thais freak out about that! It’s been raining every other
day up here. One day it just straight poured while we were on our bikes we got
soaked and when we got home and the roof troughs were like a waterfall so I ran
over and stood under it backpack and all haha that rain cover for the backpack
works way good!
We run the mutual on Friday night and this week we brought
the scriptures to life. We split the youth in groups and gave them a scripture
story like Nephi and the plates or Ammon and had them act it out, it was way
fun. We gave them a demo to from Ether. The kid doing drunk Laban was
absolutely hilarious! And there is a kid named Bird who I actually met as a
greenie with Elder Siperly he was down in Bangkok on a school trip we went and
picked him up from a big convention center and took him to church and then it
turns out I moved to his branch. He was Nephi trying to woo the daughters of Ishmael,
sooooo funny, he was like whats up you want to go out with me she’s like where?
In the wilderness duh! Oh well what will I get if I go with you? Without
skipping a beat he replies pork kababs and sticky rice 5 baht! haha we were
laughing so hard! haha I don’t know if that was funny for you but in Thai it
was hilarious!
We also play sports every Saturday night with the branch and
for both sports and mutual we had a bunch of investigators come too! After
sports night we go pass out English cards for our class at this way sweet night
market. It’s a market that happens only once a week on Saturday night and I
swear all of Chiang Rai goes. We passed out 800 cards in like not even 20 mins!
And people like wanted the cards! Everywhere else I go nobody wants to take
them and passing out 200 cards a person would take like an hour but here it’s
incredible! The English class here is doing way good too there are like 30
people coming. This past week our two investigators Bo and Nuun got confirmed
and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. It was so wonderful, and they brought
their cousin and grandma to see it too! Bo's siblings and cousins are way cute
there is this one girl Pay she is 6 and way fun her hair is always way wild and
thick and black, reminds me of my sisters that and she is always beating up her
brothers, and she’s not afraid of the big farangs either she will take us on!
haha but she’s not mean just cute we are buddies :) So it turns out Elder Omer
is a Tae Kwon Do master that’s how he paid for his mission as a Tae Kwon Do
instructor he is way good, so for exercise in the morning we either go play 2
on 2 basketball or he teaches me taekwondo and we spar. Soo much fun I have
never been so excited to work out in the mornings!
Elder Omer is the 3rd of 5 kids he is from Lehi Utah and he
is a stud! Way humble and together we are working hard he is helping me get
better at talking to absolutely everyone even when we are just stopped at the
light! He is way good and is teaching me a lot! This week we had a ton of
lessons fall through but all of our back-ups were recent converts and
less-actives so we got to teach a lot of them this week which was way good.
Last P-day we went to the white wat it is waay cool kinda
weird but really cool on the inside there were these way cool murals that had
like star wars and spiderman, superman, batman, jack sparrow, ben 10, the twin
towers it was way cool but the weirdest thing to see in a wat. I think that
Uncle Devin and Uncle Trent would really dig it. It was pretty groovy, amazing
sculptures and murals it was way sweet. Today we are going to trek into the
jungle . . . on top of elephants!! It’s going to be way sweet!
I love you guys heaps and bunches and I will get on those
pictures for sure!
Elder Cahoon
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| Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai, Thailand |
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| Just a couple of gents at the loo (yep thats a bathroom) |
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