I know of a place
Where you never get harmed
A maaagical place
With maaagical charms
Indoors!
Indoors!
I-INDOOOOORS!
One week of quarantine down. Here I am. Still alive. I was lucky enough to get to go to Bangkok this last week to do some visa work. But other than that, I got a chance to be pretty familiar with my apartment haha. We did some filming, some jamming, we even played Scrabble and only got into one argument!
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
We are now responsible to make all of our own food. That means we've had a lot of chicken and rice. Don't get me wrong, it's way tasty. But sometimes a guy just wants to go out and grab a KKK burger or some หมูปิ้ง. We've gotten pretty creative, though. We've also made Japanese Curry, and banana pancakes! Yesterday we went crazy and made ourselves some cookies to break our fast. Every now and then we order Grab to bring us some pizza factory, or KFC, but y'know that's whatever haha.
ONE NIGHT IN BANGKOK
We took an overnight bus from Ubon to Bangkok to do my visa work! It was way fun to meet up with my MTC group! They're all doing great and I knew that nothing had changed when the first thing Sister Aung did was dab haha. We got there at 5 AM and got out at about 11 AM. There were no buses to take us back to Ubon until late, so we went to the Pak Kret Elders' house and hung out there until we could go get on a bus. We even got to crash their district council video call (their district leader is my last companion, Elder Thorn!). We ate some Texas Chicken (Church's Chicken in the States), and partied all day haha. We took another overnight bus back home to Ubon and we got back home at 4:30 AM. We may or may not have slept in a tiny bit that morning haha.
THE APARTMENT
We were trying to think of ways to lift spirits and make people laugh across the mission, and we decided that we were going to make a spinoff of the TV show, "The Office", but make it mission based. We called it "The Apartment" and we filmed two episodes of it this week. We're planning on editing it up and sending it to our zone this week. If you're interested in seeing it too, let me know haha.
พระคัมภีร์มอรมอน (Book of Mormon)
This week, not a whole lot happened, so I really tried to focus really hard on my studies. I've been doing Come Follow Me and reading in the Book of Mormon daily, because I really wanted to work on my testimony of the Book of Mormon and help other people gain a stronger testimony of it too. The Book of Mormon was written for US. It was translated by the gift of God and brought to us for our benefit! I've learned so much about my Savior and my Father in Heaven from reading in it. And I've learned how to have a better life. That's for real too. I've found so much comfort from its pages. I've had so many answered prayers come from the Book of Mormon. I always love to say that prayer is how we speak to our Heavenly Father, and the Book of Mormon is how he speaks to us. I listened to President Ezra Taft Benson's talk: "The Book of Mormon--Keystone of Our Religion" from the October 1986 General Conference and he mentioned some missionaries who took the Book of Mormon too lightly and it brought not only themselves, but the entire church under condemnation. Do we read the Book of Mormon as often as we should? Do we really study it or do our eyes just move across the page while we calculate the odds of the Jazz winning the finals this year? I'm starting to realize the importance of the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. It's more than just some boring churchy stuff all put together into a book. And I know that it can get boring to read a book without any pictures. But please study in the Book of Mormon this week. Try to find what is missing in your life. Try to find how your loving Heavenly Father is reaching out to you. I know that the Book of Mormon is true, and as Joseph Smith once said, it is the most correct of any book on Earth, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. I know that all of this is true. I know it.
LAST THINGS LAST
-Shoutout to BYU basketball for being awesome. Y'all beat Gonzaga and are 17th in the country? Frick yeah man!
-Scrabble is way fun. We also bought knockoff Thai Monopoly that might actually be way more intense.
-I really love cola bottle gummy candy, but I love you more!
เอ็ลเดอร์ อยู่บ้านตลอดเวลา (Elder is at home all the time)
Elder Bear
Visas
Curry
Thai Memes
Battlestar Galactica
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