9/2/12

Hey Mom and Dad,

ok so that place is call the Elephant village but not a lot of people know about this one.  It is actually a farm where they train the e;e[hants.  That are way awesome and you get to feed them and if the boss is not there you get a chance to ride them but the bosswas there so we didnt get to ride them.  The members will take us there when we come back to that place and they will take us for free.  I never thought that i would every be doing something like this when i first submited my papers to be a missionary.  MY kid was a lot more excited because it was the first time that he had ever seen an elephant.  I feel like when i go back i want to take one with me.  Just a small baby one and let it grow up.  Do you think that the horses would get a long with it?  hahahahahahahahahahaha.  The odd thing is that i am actually older than all of those elephants in that picture.  

This last week another family was baptized and they are so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Their kids will be baptized very soon!!  The work is going forward very fast all over thailand right now.  We are almost at a 100 baptisms a month mission wide and we are about the have 3 stakes and after that it wont be very long until we have a temple.  We are so close to getting a church building in this area!  We just need 15 more people at church and the church will then buy land for a church and once we have 80 people at chruch we will have a building.  I love this place so much and even though i had a cold for most of the week we worked very hard.  I figured that i could just lay at home and be miserable or just get to work and rally help other people and that was a much better option.  I love it so much more than just sitting down.  

My comp is doing really good now.  He is getting better and better at the language.  I love this work so much but a lot of people say that i will be a district leader after this transfer but i really have no idea about that.  My prophesy is to be a district leader for 1 transfer then become a zone leader in a place  up north called Chiang Mai and end my mission with Elder Richardson or Elder Stott.  That is our dream but the Lord might have something different in store for us.  

Yes Dad most of the area is like that.  I love this place so much!  It is so beautiful and the sunsets and sun rises are the most beautiful that i have ever seen.  I love this place so much and i cant wait for you all to see what i have been doing for the last two years.  The people you will meet are so specialto me and you will find out why.  

Dad That is a really good and i just started laughing really hard when you said that star wars quote. hahaha I love it so much but my comp does not like to watch star wars haha so that was what i needed hahaha.  Well I wanted to share one thing that i read in the scriptures in the van to the sports day.  I was reading in Alma 60:24 and this is one thing that you both have taught me since i was a little kid.  I have not been the bestat following there but thank you for teaching me.  It is talking about Moronis epistle to Pahoran.  And Moroni says "... begin to be up and doing..."  I just really loved that when i read it and that is the motto for this transfer.

I love you so much and have a good week.