Sabai Sabai

Hello Family and Friends!
What a great week it has been! I can't believe it is November already! How crazy that a year from now I will be getting ready to come home. Don't worry, I am definitely not trunky. I'm loving every minute I have here! OK, so much to talk about! First off, I moved! President Smith didn't like us living right next to the Elders, so we moved into the cutest house ever!! It is quite a bit smaller than our last house, but it is brand new and SO nice! It's pretty standard for America, but for Thailand it is way way nice. Because of the weather all the houses I have ever been in have been... not dirty, but not, well... i dont know, it's not that bad, just not that good. But this house is brand new! and so cute! We aren't quite moved in yet, but when we are, I will for sure send pictures! We moved on Halloween and I was pretty bummed because I didn't see anyone celebrating it!! :( oh well. We were elders for halloween! haha. It was fun. We wore white shirts and black skirts and ties :) It was fun.

The real fun was the festival on Monday, I don't remember the name of it, and I couldn't spell it either... haha. It's a festival commemorating the end of the rainy season and everyone gets these really pretty little boats made out of leaves and flowers and floats them down rivers (or in our case the lake) and there are fireworks and food and ahh! it was so fun! AND! to make things all the better, the weather was amazing!! It was windy and at night, it was actually kind of, sort of a little bit COLD!! It totally feels like fall! Which is my favorite season! So yea, God really loves me because he gave me the fall I was missing at home! It's probably getting chilly in Sacramento by now huh? But yea, the weather has been very pleasant.

Sunday was SO amazing! We had 8 investigators come to church, 8!!! And two of them were William and Penapah!! (The two that live very far and can't make it to church or they would have been baptized already) They found a way to come for now, so we will see if they can get baptized. Oh boy am I praying for it!! :) 3 others were Em, who got the Holy Ghost this week, his wife and 2 girls who are doing really well and will be getting baptized when they learn all the lessons! :) Another was Mint who is 16 and can't get baptized only because her mom won't sign the papers yet. But we taught a way sweet lesson to her on Monday and she thinks she can get baptized on Christmas day!! What a great Christmas present!! I just hope I am still here!!! :) I should be. Waree was another investigator who is crazy! But in a good way. It's hard to discribe Waree, she is just so fun and enthusiastic about the gospel! I love her so much!! :) :) We are going to eat dinner at her house tomorrow. And lastly we had Khanna who is the cutest little almost 8 year old. We teach her every Saturday night, the cutest lessons! It's really preparing me for being a primary teacher! She has improved so so much! When we started teaching her she never wanted to go to church and wouldn't pray. Now she gladly prays and is very excited to get baptized on November 29th! We made a count-down for her, one with the links :) it's cute. the Sunday links are a different color to remind her that she needs to go to church and there is a special one for her birthday, but the nicest one is her baptismal date. :)

So basically the work is going great!! I am loving life! We had the greatest district meeting too on monday! Well, actually our district meetings are always amazing! Elder Lilly is an amazing teacher and we are always just so motivated to get out and work hard afterwards! We got to share our testimonies in this meeting and it just felt so good to share the very strongest testimony I have ever had that this church is true and this is the greatest work there is! :) ahh, life is so good. I miss you all tons, but am very happy.

Take care! Write me! :) PLEASE!

Love Always,
Mel

PS I cant believe I almost forgot! Today I held a huge boaconstricter!!! (snake) It was awesome, pics to come!! :)