Jaren's Mission to Bangkok, Thailand

What this week has been honestly is just weird but super fun and hot and cold, its gotten cooler recently, so that was a blessing. Started out the week with district meeting, then our dater got interviewed and he passed! Yeah! I then taught a lesson by myself to an RC. Was a little scary. The next day we invited for three hours got four new invesrigators which is really good! Thursday was weekly planning :) and we invited. I have to talk to people more to be better at the language I think... I'm really good at meeting people but then I currently struggle with keeping  conversations going.  This week the ward was preparing a ton for the Christmas party that was on Saturday. It was way big we helped by inviting people to it and setting things up. We also sang a song in the show. Guys this thing was BIG. there was a ton of egg rolls and a huge stage ad ice cream. There was probably 150-200 people there. Elder Larsen was santa cuz hes big and white.  Sunday was amazing. Broth...

  Hey guys I had to wear a long sleeved shirt today because it was slightly nippy today. So I guess you could say Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas... Yeah my companion is always freezing and he says its cold a lot. But yeah its weird. just a couple quick updates on stuff... I finished the Book Of Mormon again so starting that over again. SO GOOD gotta love them scrips. Just read it for yourself all the way through and you will know what I am talking about. :) also our dater is going to be baptized this next Sunday and his interview is on Tuesday. He has a very sweet spirit and loves having to missionaries over. Ud is way good its just frustrating because she comes to church every Sunday, reads, and prays everyday. She says she just doesn't feel ready. She always talks about how we are sent from god. We serve her and her friends almost every other day like clearing fields and trees and stuff. We planted trees for her on Friday all morning. It was funny. I think were becomi...

Hello! So P-day is today. We had some fun at Christmas Zone conference from Saturday to Monday in Buriram this last week. It was a good time we got to interview, and play Christmas games with the whole zone! It was really fun and we were able to watch a movie. The best two years! Everyone had so much fun and I got to see Elder Ference! He is in my zone now. Also we have phones now and we received some training on that. Last week was full of biking, Inviting, and visiting sister อุด and helping her out. We are going to have a baptism this week for brother มู้อ he is fantastic he is mentally handicapped. His grandma is a member and helps him pray and read every day. He is fantastic. Sorry don't remember a ton. Its crazy there is water buffalo just walking around in the streets. This week has been great so far we taught English class. Its way fun the native missionaries are always talking us white people up when we invite. They say how skilled we are at teaching. Ummm yeah. So its pre...

From Mom: Hey so I wanted to write you and tell you about sacrament meeting last week. It was such a great meeting. I will always remember it. I had no idea it would be so good and the spirit would be so strong. It was fast and testimony meeting. It was the first church meeting after the prophet died. The people that got up and bore their testimony was our bishop, Bishop Barney bore his testimony, Brother goldsberry bore his testimony, who was the bishop of our ward before brother Barney. Brother Scott the patriarch also bore his testimony. Ann Dibb was there and she is president Monsons daughter that always came with him. Her testimony was amazing. One of the stories that brother Scott or goldsberry (I cant remember) said was that they were at a funeral of someone from the ward. They were both sitting up at the front and next to each other. The man who died was really well know for keeping everything in his house and around in perfect order and fixed everything perfectly. President Mo...

So! First week in an area is definitely a crazy thing. So on Thursday we got to the office in Bangkok early in the morning. And then what we usually do is just pick up our companions and go to our new area. I saw a lot of my group there. Saw Elder Ference, and it was really fun to talk to him and everyone there. Thailand is just a kinda a crazy place so everyone was swapping stories, was so good to see them. So Ubon is a four Elder house, and two of the Elders were going to be replaced. So then me and the elder coming in just did a switch off his name is Elder Larson. We then left the office and I said goodbye to my trainer. Sad day. So we promptly got on the bus to Ubon which is an eight hour bus ride away.  We got there late and then the next day me and elder Sukyone did yard work for this lady all morning. Was pretty hot as you can imagine. The lady we served is a cute older lady in her forties I think. Her name is อุด (uud) and she has been taught most of the lessons but she sa...