Kamlang theiw nay Roi Et!

Sawatdii Kha!

For all of you who don't read Thai, which is all of you, I am currently staying in Roi-et, a little town about 3 hours east of Korat. I love it!! We are doing switch offs right now with the Sisters and I had the most amazing experience last night! I got to switch off with Sister Widchatra (she is thai) and she is amazing!!! She has so much power with the people we teach, first because she can speak with them in their own language, and second because she is just amazing! I learned so much from her in the little time we got to be companions.

So yesterday we had our Zone Lesson in Mahaa Sarakham in the morning and then came to Roi-et in the afternoon. Sister Brad went with Sister Lifferth and I went with Sister Widchadtra. She went to BYU Hawaii before her mission so she speaks good english. She is so cute!! She is like my hero now... haha ok. So we had lots of appointments and since Roi-et is so much smaller than Korat, we could do appointments every hour. Our first appointment was with a member and it was amazing because I could really understand what was being said almost the whole time! My language is improving every day, but I just felt like it was extra good last night. So I was way confident in myself. Our next appointment was an investigator. The spirit was SO strong in the lesson and I participated a lot in the teaching. I always participate, but I just felt really good about the things I was saying. Sister Widchadtra is so good, she was commiting her with boldness! We left the appointment glowing! Sister W. said she was impressed with how much I contributed! :) Our next appointment was just as amazing. The lady we taught, Wiphon, told me in english that Thai's feel lucky when they get to practice their english with foreigners. So keeping that in mind, I bore a simple but powerful testimony in english about how much the gospel blessed my family. It was powerful. Her son was there and she wants him to be a member so he can have more friends, she is worried about him. I said the things the spirit told me to say, and then Sister W. clarified, because the boy didn't understand everything. But he felt it! It was so good. I love it.

Things in Korat are going great too. Uncle Gary sent me an awesome letter talking about how the gospel blesses family. If every ward had a mission leader like Uncle Gary, the work would be doubling! He is so good!! Those missionaries are very lucky to have him!! Sister Brad and I studied what he wrote, talked about it, and translated it and have been teaching very powerful lessons about how the gospel blesses families. The best lesson for sure was to Phon, oh man I LOVE her!! She is getting baptized, I just know it! We are still just introducing right now, but she loves praying and for sure believes in God. We had an awesome teaching appointment with her in her new home she just had build in the outskirts of Korat, her house is WAY beautiful! She came to church on Sunday and really felt the spirit. Church was AWESOME on Sunday too!! We normally have about 60 people at church, this week we had close to 90!!! the chapel was full. We need to get 120 regularly attending to get a new, bigger church. That's the goal!! The youth just had a seminary activity with the region and they went up and bore their testimonies, it was so sweet! Phon loved it!! :) AAAAND the elders have a baptism this Sunday! YAY! my first baptism! His name is M and he is awesome! Now we are teaching his wife and daughters, who are way sweet and hope to be baptizing them soon too! Once M gets baptized and gets the priesthood, he can do it. Ah, i love the gospel!! :)

As for our other investigators, we have William and Penapah, who will hopefully have the money to come to church soon and get baptized, Mae- who will get baptized once she works out marriage issues. Fern, who is in the same boat. Som, who is just great, she is 18 and very inquisitive. Were hoping she will want to be baptized soon too. And On and Jo, who are related to one of the members. Great things are happening in Korat! The work is going forward!!! :)

OK, well time is coming to a close :( Happy Belated Birthday Aunt Terry! AND Happy, Happy Birthday to Mike today! And Lyndsay and Larissa on Friday!! :) I love you guys!

Well life is just good. And I am so so happy!!!

I love you all!
Melissa