Parenthood

This week was SO BUSY.

Which is weird because we dropped like, 80% of our investigators. It's a really sad situation, but we're finding some new potentials and it's looking up! It's just way sad to see people that you've come to love choose not to change and have better lives. :(

Almost every day we're just rushing from appointment to appointment. I'm so glad that it's like this for Sister Downs. When we first got to Don Muang we had nooooooothing. But she arrived to so much work. It's awesome!!!

Our one investigator who's actually progressing (mostly) has a baptismal date for 2 weeks. Her name is Oom. She's awesome! Just needs to understand obedience and commandments. hahaha If she keeps reading the BoM and praying she'll get it. She's opening a karaoke shop. It's gonna be so awesome!!! She's way cute and sweet. We usually teach her at this giant park that surrounds a big fishing pond. She shows up in her exercise clothing. We teach for a half hour and then she goes running. Love her.

We also got a new investigator named Gai. It means chicken. :) haha She has some great potential! She's been coming to English class for the last couple months. One time we had them talk to each other about what's on their bucket lists and how if today was their last day on Earth, what they would do. It was kinda a morbid lesson. LOL But then at the end we talked about how God has a plan for families to be together forever and than through the Atonement we don't have to be afraid or regret anything. She wanted to learn more so now we're teaching her! 

Sis Downs and I pretty much like all the same stuff. We have to try hard to stay focused because we want to talk about the shows and books we both like! It's way hard. hahaha I've started praying for help to stay focused. It's a problem.

One day we were going to teach Oom at the park but it started to rain so she cancelled on us (typical of Thai people). So we ran into a library nearby and tried to teach some teenage boys, but they weren't interested. So we left in the rain and were gonna go find somewhere to eat dinner when I had a strong feeling that we needed to keep working, so we pulled into a neighborhood and walked around in the rain. We ended up teaching a lady how to pray, found another lady who wants to learn Christianity and another woman whose daughter goes to a Christian school and is open to learning more! I'm grateful for the rain and for the Spirit. :D

I really don't have much to say about this week! We taught a lot of people. Met a lot of people. Lost a lot of people. Worked hard. In about 2 weeks I'll be a third through my mission which is NUTS. Hooooow did that even happen??

It's weird to think about how it's almost Fall back in the states and that it'll start getting cooler. Thailand is the same alllllll year. I miss cold. :( And hills. It's way flat here. haha

Love y'all!

Sister Zaugg