Well this was a way fun week! We had zone conference in Roi-Et, we met a crazy grandma who took us on a safari to her house, I gave a blessing in Thai (frick yeah man!), and may or may not have taught some members about the Church of the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster.
QUIET ROI-ET
We had zone conference this week! We woke up early to catch our bus and still almost missed it haha. When we got to the church over there, the whole zone played volleyball. It was so so fun and I didn't even spike it into anyone's face this time! We had way too much pizza and not enough mango sticky rice for dinner. The actual conference was pretty typical, but still way fun! We took a party bus home with Sisakate again and I went way hard to "Say Yes". I don't know if that song is just way good, or if I'm super music deprived. On the way home, we stopped for the bathroom and I got to do my business in an outdoor bathroom. I had never felt so exposed in my life.
YOU SPEAK A THAILAND SO GOOD
Y'all. Let me tell you. Thai is starting to sound like a less foreign language. Except for Esan, that's still impossible. We had some lessons where I understood all of it. Even when Nae-Nae asked us about Moses being translated. It's really hard to keep concentrating on what people are saying when in your head there are party poppers and fireworks going off, but I'm doing my very best haha. The gift of tongues is way real, you guys. More on that later.
WAIT A MINUTE... WHO ARE YOU?
We went to go meet Sister เงี่ยม but she wasn't there. So we sat down with this family who lived right next to them (my criss cross applesauce skills are leveling up). After we ate their apples, pear apples, and bamboo (it's actuall way tasty!), we headed home. We came to a fork in the road where either path would take us home, and I asked Elder Scott which one he was feeling. He said left so we went for it. On our way back, we saw these two people walking away from the road on this gravel/dirt path. We stopped and started talking to them. One of them was the mom and the other was her son, and they invited us to come with them into their house. This hunched-over old lady using a long walking stick led us through the jungle and into her garden and then her house. Apparently, she had met with some Jehovah's Witnesses from Japan and she was way interested in becoming a christian. She basically told us that she would believe anything that we told her. Which may be blind faith, but it's faith haha. We're definitely gonna check in on them really soon!
CATCH US IN WARINE, HOW BOUT THAT?
Saturday and Sunday, we went freaking HARD. We met with so many people. When it was our time to be out and about, we met with everyone we possibly could. We found members that we hadn't met before, we met with some people who may be less strong in the faith, but we'll help them come around, and some really strong members, specifically Brother หัส, who made us some mocktails with pickled lemon and peppermint and it was wayyy good. All this biking is definitely helping us get in plenty of exercise, hopefully I can prevent the rice cheeks as long as possible. Also, quick side note, Thailand is way hot. Did you know that? Yesterday, the weather app said it felt like 100, and we haven't even hit the hot season yet. Sent prayers that I don't dry up and die, ok? I'm pretty sure I was sweating every second I was outside the last few days haha. "I'm a sympathetic sweater." "That's really gross."
SHE'S KINDA HOT THO
This is the story of how I died... Sunday night, we got home without any members giving us dinner. I know, way sad. I can hear you playing a sad song on the world's smallest violin. But when we got home, I was a hungry boy. We had all of the ingredients to make some papaya salad, except with cucumbers because papayas are way expensive. I put in 5 peppers and I thought to myself, "are you a man, or are you gonna be satisfied with 5 peppers?" I am a man, at least my age says so, so I threw in 2 more. And then I looked at my bowl, and then I looked into my soul and I said, "you can do it. One more." I grabbed that last pepper and I put that sucker in there. When I smashed those peppers, I smashed those things. You could just smell it. Oh man... this is gonna be hot. I was right, I'm a genius. Tell you what, I get the heat sweats pretty bad. As soon as any Thai spice gets into my mouth, I start sweating on my cheeks. This time, however, I started sweating everywhere. It was so hot. It felt like my entire body lost circulation and had the sensation of being asleep. It was way hot. My mouth was on fire I felt like a dragon. Meanwhile Elder Scott said, "That was just 8 peppers, right?" One day, I hope to be up there with the greats, and not stuck down here with the eights.
LAST THINGS LAST
-The secret ingredient to the secret ingredient soup is MSG.
-Everyone thinks that Elder Scott is a greenie because of his baby face.
-We used the hoses from outside the church and put them through a window to fill up the baptismal font because the water wasn't working. We ended up having to cancel the baptism anyway haha.
-Thai television is hilarious, but for none of the right reasons.
-Turns out I'm still bad at chess.
-Seeing as last week was Valentine's day, I would say that all of you are my valentine this week. But none of you wished me a happy half birthday, so I guess I'll just leave it at I love you all. Stay amazing, and share the gospel!
เอ็ลเดอร์ ไทยเผ็ด (Elder Thai Spicy)
Elder Bear
Also!! Shoutout to Elder Haymond, who got his mission call to Mexico, Puebla North Mission, and Sister Skinner, who got called to Vietnam, Hanoi!
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