Subject Line: Guess who's on Facebook again
That's right, the missionaries of the Thailand Bangkok Mission are on Facebook. It's weird. Really really really weird. Facebook has changed. We also have rules about the Facebook usage so sorry but I cannot befriend any of you on Facebook. We can only be friends with President, his wife, the APs, and members and investigators from areas that we have actually served in. It's so we can strengthen our RCs faster. And we can share multimedia stuff and talks and good stuff like that. Beforehand we were supposed to write letters but because there are just so many baptisms, that would be an insane about of RC letters to write. Hence, Facebook. We also can only go on Facebook Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday and for a max of 1 hour on those days. It also has to be after studies but before 1pm. So yeah, good stuff. Facebook. It's super weird yo.
In other news, I
got a really depressing letter this week. It was from the mission
office. It's my death papers or, as I like to call them, my "I Will Not
Be Trunkie" papers. It talked all about finishing the race and enduring
to the end and all that good stuff. Olympic runners have to run at a
good fast pace the entire race and at the end run even faster. The
letter said it a lot better but as everyone already knows, my English is
degrading at an alarmingly quick rate. Let's just say my companion and I
have some really good laughs about it every day. But yeah. Death
papers. We have to make goals (mission-related and personal) for what we
want to achieve in our remaining months. Also, I still die on Halloween in
case anyone was curious. I think I am going to be a missionary again
this year. :)
Other news...hm. The twins are adorable! :)
God likes working miracles. This is part of my letter to President Senior:
"Literally
Bangna is the city of miracles. I think my lesson that I learned this
week is that God loves performing miracles as long as we have faith and
work our butts off.
"Miracle
#1: Baptism of Brother George. We started last week having no idea who
would get baptized that Sunday. We had some potential daters but no one
really solid and none of the other church-goers seemed super promising
either. But, we had faith that someone was getting baptized this Sunday
so we called and tried to meet with every investigator that had gone to
church. We started going through formers too. The miracle was that one
of our church-goers was actually really really prepared from God.
Brother George knows his Bible really really well.
"Miracle #2: We tried calling
everyone everyday and contacting all the time but when Saturday came, I
had no idea who to expect at church. No one seemed promising expect for
the person getting baptized and one other investigator. Sunday came and
as always, miracles happened. At English class, we invited three
Pakistan families to come to church and they all did. 14 people. And
Brother George brought 5 of his friends and his son to his baptism (they
stayed all 4 hours). And then we also had some of our actual
investigators show up, each with their own miracle of how they were
actual able to go to church. In total, 23 people at church. Granted,
about 19 of them were non-Thai speakers but still. God truly does work
miracles.
"There were a lot of other miracles too but that would require a
novel to record them all. Moral of the story: God can truly do seemingly
impossible things. It's great. :)"
More
on George. He is from Nigeria. He has been Christian his entire life
but hasn't been able to find the "truth". He is amazingly well-studied
in the Bible. Our lessons with him (we only had two) were basically us
saying a statement and then him supporting it with tons of scriptures
from the Bible. And then he would ask a question (citing again, tons of
scriptures of the Bible) and we would answer with a scripture from the
Book of Mormon and from the Bible. When teaching him, we had to support
everything we said with scriptures, otherwise he wouldn't believe us. He
told us that he has gone to many different churches but has never found
one that he believed was completely true. There was also some doctrine
missing or not being kept according to the Bible, etc. Two days before
we met him he was praying to know where he should be baptized and where
is the true church. Then he meets us and we are on a street holding
these mini baptism pictures. God truly does answer prayers. Also, there was another miracle with him being baptized. At the end of the first lesson
(which was on the Wednesday after he came to church for the first time),
we invited George to be baptized that coming Sunday. He was soooo
happy. He said that in other churches that he visited, they either never
invited to be baptized or they said it would take him months to be able
to do so. He quoted in the Bible when Christ was sending his disciples
to preach the word. He told them to baptize those who believed. George
was always confused on why he had to wait. Wait no longer George. Enter
into the cleansing waters of baptism.
I love you all sooooo very much!!! :) Sorry I don't have any time left. Love you!!!! =D
