Jaren's Mission to Bangkok, Thailand

Hello you guys... Well Im getting my mind blown by time right now, it all goes so fast. #ALWAYSAGREENIE this last tuesday we had Christmas. That was fantastic. Got to say whaddup to my lil bros Jaycie and Jameson and my Lil sis Avery. They are so old. But my parents still look young as ever! 😉  So on monday we went to the Golden Triangle. The Border between Laos, Thailand and Burma. Pretty cool. I wish I brought my camera. And then we came back and helped with a huge Christmas party that was way lit.  The rest of this week was pretty cool found some new people: มุม, อาระ, and ลัดดา. มุม is a painter and she is actually pretty cool. อาระ is a stay at home mom who is part of one of the hill tribes here in Chiang Rai, shes akha. ลัดดา is a hotel worker. The thing that I think I have taught the most times on my mission is prayer: 1. You call upon God by saying: Heavenly Father 2. You speak from your heart 3. You close by saying "In the name of Jesus Christ, amen I feel very lucky...

Well we have been having a great time out here. Its great to be busy. I think that that is the true cure to any unhappiness or depression. Is staying busy and working towards goals that are worthwhile. Thats something that I will always be taking with me throughout my life. I will always be busy. This week we found some cool people on this super fire street by the convenience store here. Two of them namfon and pam. They are cool. We have been doing this really cool thing where we set up as many appointments with members as we can and then we meet with them for 15-20 minutes tops and "practice" the restoration lesson with them. It pumps them up and it helps us have a good restoration lesson. And I noticed that when your preaching the restoration you feel the spirit so much more. I have felt an increase of the spirit in our lessons since then. And at the end we ask them how the restoration has influenced their life for good and ask them who else could benefit from this message....

1. Does Thailand have Christmas?  Yeah they kinda like half celebrate it. So its not like super legit, but they celebrate it because they like western culture haha 2. If they do, what is their Christmas like?  For us we work. And for them its not super different its just 3. Do you have any investigators? What are their names?  Right now we have a lot of people but its been getting a little rough with trying to get them all to progress to baptism... -Jack -deng -lah -deng -thay -at 4. Do you have a calling in your ward?  My ward is holladay 9th boyzzz!! But her in Chiang rai I might be something like the young mens president. Idk. 5. Where do you meet for church?  At a rented out place, in the city, its pretty nice 6. How big is your branch/ward?  Like 40 people show up every sunday 7. Is there someone in this area you really connect with or have come to love? Why?  Brother vii is like this guy whos gonna be a missionary and hes the second counselor in ...

Weekly Letter to Mission President- 12 Dec 2018: Ello this week was way good. Thank you for letting us stay up here another transfer. Very happy our district can be together. This week and in past weeks we have been really trying to get our investigators to church more regularly so we are thinking that we need more members in our lessons. We will see if it helps at all this sunday. Were teaching a chinese investigator who is doing fantastic and is in 2 nephi 31... hes great. Hopefully we can help him be baptized this transfer. Anyways no concerns with the district or the area. Thanks for all you do.  President Hammond: I'm praying for that man from China. Keep up the great work up north!

 

Weekly Letter to Mission President - 03 Dec 2018: Hello President so first things first our area is doing well we are just working on helping our investigators progress towards baptism. There is people who are progressing and we are finding new people pretty ok but there are a lot of people struggling with keeping commitments namely church. 2nd of all, I need to be interviewed before the 15 of December for my application to BYU. If its possible thats great. It might be a longshot but I wanted to check with you and see if that was possible. Maybe if we come down for transfers... but yeah thanks so much for everything! Maybe we could do a video call one day. Just whatever works with your schedule.  President Hammond: Give me a call tonight and we can do a quick interview.