Week 11 Samut Prakaan

Dear Family and Friends

This week was a really good week. Nothing to exciting happened. We were able to teach our new investigator AAron. He is way good as I told you before! He is a miracle I never saw coming! We taught him the restoration and when he heard what the prophet Joseph Smith about what happened when he prayed, AAron said that he got chills! Ha that was really cool! AAron is way good! He is praying and reading the scriptures! He is a really good guy. He is about 21 and can speak English. He is planning on going to New York in a year for school. Other than that I dont know a whole lot about him. We are also teaching his friend, Fang. So pray for him, because AAron and Fang have been best friends for a long time and I would like to see the both of them get baptized and share these experiences together. 

Other than that we taught our newly baptized sister, sister Peem. She is way good. She said that ever since she has gotten baptized her and her family have gotten along so much better. She also told us that since that happened her husband has started to drink less and that is great! She just has this glow about her! You can tell that the gospel has blessed her life. It is way cool to see. We also taught another newly baptized sister, sister Boo. She tells me every time I see her that I am getting better at speaking Thai. I guess I will take her word for it. We taught the Restoration and she is so good! She has questions about what she reads in the book of Mormon so that is great! We try and answer her questions the best we can. She also has son children that we will try to work with as well. Some people you can pray for are sister Nam, sister Booie, sister Peem, brother AAron, brother Fang, sister Soy, brother Way, brother Gong, brother Boy, brother Danny, brother Laap, sister Ice and sister Ing. 

So my Thanksgiving was um...good!! ha No it was really good. I am thankful for the season of giving, I will get to that in just a little bit. But we all gathered at our church. Which I have never said is a rented building if that makes a difference. Anyways members from the ward all brought something to eat. Before we ate we all had an opportunity to share our testimonies with one another. It was really good, but as you know sometimes testimonies will turn into a story time ha It was good though. After that was over we got to eat. You will never guess what I ate for my Thanksgiving dinner! Can you guess? Well I will tell you that I had my first chicken claw ha one of the members said that I had to eat it so I did. It was pretty good, considering it tasted like chicken. We also had a Thai salad which was pretty much col slaw and some rolls. When we were done we helped clean up and then we were about to leave when a member gave me half a chicken to take home and eat. I said thank you and went on our way. On our way home my other companions wanted to stop my a 7-11 to get some thanksgiving desserts ha Well on our way across the bridge that we took to go to the store I saw a homeless man just laying on the bridge. I looked at what I had, I thought about how much I have been given and about Jesus Christ. I gave this man the half chicken that I had received. Now I had asked this man to go to church before and he said no. But that is not the point. I still thought about how grateful I am to have food and give thanks to all that I have. I thought to myself, I will do what Jesus Christ would do. I felt happy for what I had done. This season is for giving not receiving. Thanksgiving here made me think of a lot of things I am thankful for and things that I miss. My family, friends, sports, my truck to name a few. I guess you dont really realize you miss people or things until they are gone. It made me think of all the people that sacrificed a lot for me while I was growing up. I am soo grateful for that! To my parents and to those others that helped me I am ever to grateful!! Thank you very much and I will not be to repay what you have done for me. Thank you!

Anyways that is about all for this week! Oh yeah before I forget to tell you... I rode an elephant this past Monday! Ha it was really fun!! I wonder what some of you are thinking! Ha I enjoyed it. Transfers is coming up so we have one more will until that is! Well until next week. I hope you all had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving! I encourage you all to read a great chapter out of the Book of Mormon that I read this past week. 2 Nephi 9, it was a great one!

Love Elder Hinckley

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I had a yummy chicken claw for my Thanksgiving meal.