Quick update because I guess people haven't been getting my emails🤷: I transferred out of Kumphawapi a few weeks ago. I am now in Lampang in northern Thailand. It is much bigger then Kumphawapi but still not to big luckily. I prefer the small towns. My new companion is Elder Rich and he is awesome, super funny and a hard worker.
Tuesday: I was even sicker. I had an ingrown toe nail that got infected and was hurting luke crazy and i also picked up a cold or something. We mostly tried to stay inside so we did online lessons but scrounged upthe strength to get to English class. We taught a killer lesson that was both Y2K and International (our new theme for english class).
Wednesday: I got even sicker, wasn't able to taste anything, took a covid test and tested negative, and did some more online lessons.
Thursday: Sick again but we had to teach english. We volunteer at a university here in Lampang and teach a group of 20ish women studying to become flight attendants. We teach every week at a fancy university, and its always fun, even if we are sick. After class we taught some gospel and such to different friends. Then we had game night at the church and had a blast playing the Thai version of Jacks.
Friday: We got some fred breakfast from some members that run a food cart, and that was awesome, especially cause funds were a little low after the expensive steak. We travelled all over town teaching all of our friends and then had English Class at the church, which has been renamed, by me, the Y2K International English Group. I also wrote an accompanying motto for our students to chant at the beginning of each class.
Saturday: We were pretty biking all over town teaching different friends. We also had to prep the baptismal font at the church by spraying down the court yard and cleaning it up so it looks nice for the baptism the next day. We talked to almost all of our interested friends so it was a pretty busy day.
Sunday: We had to be at church bright and early for a meeting. There is nothing I love more than sitting in an hour long meeting in a language i do not understand!🤗 Church ended at noon and then we all had lunch together. We had a baptism at 6pm that night, and everyone decided to just wait the six hours at the church. It is really cool how close everyone is in Thailand. Church really feels like family out here. I think we could do a better job of the in the States. Maybe we just need to serve food after? I know id stay longer.😏 While everyone else was waiting at 5he chirch we went to an elderly members house and brought him the sacrament. He is super funny snd speaks pretty good english, and he always tells us that we piss him off, dont know where he learned that phrase haha. We also visited our 17 year old friend anf got permission from his mom for him to be baptized next week, so we are super excited for him. On the way back to church for the baptism we passed by a skate park with a ton of little kids and i convinced Elder Rich to go off the big ramp into the pit... lets just say i am 45% percent responsible for his sprained wrist😬, thats what he gets for breaking mission rules🫣. The baptism was great and his family was so happy for him.
Monday: Pday was pretty chill and we had KFC and some waffles that were really good. After Pda6 ended there was a crazy storm, so we got soaked and weee dripping wet for all of our lessons...fun.
Craziest Experience: The toe infection was brutal, it hurt to walk for the past month and has been bloody and gooey and painful. I started taking antibiotics but nothing was helping it get better, and i was unable to get the ingrown toenail out. Finally i found this nail care kit i got from my parents for christmas, with a wide variety of tools. I decided i had enough and i performed surgery on myself. Ive already dislocated my shoulder on the mission and had to pop it back in myself, so i was pretty confident in my abilities. I went to town on my toe with a knife and tweezers and then used all these special nail tools to finally cut and pull the peice that was hirting me out. It felt so good to finally pull it out, and as i pulled out came a shard of toe nail the length of a penny that had been stuck in my toe. There was instant relief when it came out and i cut off the rest of the infected parts for good measure and my toe has healed up so quickly. It was a weirdly satisfying experience, but now i am missing a chunk of toe haha.
Spiritual Thought: My parents gave me this nail care kit 6 months ago, and i never really needed it till now. I gad never seen some of these tools before but they were just what i needed to fix my toe and start to feel better. This reminds me of some of the people we teach. We give them the book of mormon and help them learn how to feel God's love and how to be happy, but many of them lose interest and stop learning with us, this always makes us a little sad, but i like to think that we have given them the tools to feel love and learn truths about God, and that someday when they really need it they will know where to turn. I know this works because we are teaching someone that learned with the missionaries back in 2017, and the finally came to a place where they were ready to follow Christ and they knew they could talk to the missionaries to get help. If people stop learning with us, its not sad, they just aren't ready yet. All I can do is how them where to look to find happiness. Planting seeds and whatnot.
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