The past week and a half have been so great. Last Thursday was the Baptism!! It was so cool. I got to the church and got ready, then Sister Best came and we all just got so excited, but it was a reverent excitement. The baptismal service was great. I baptized her in Thai - which the hardest part is just remembering their whole Thai name. But I had spent the last two days making sure I knew it. It did take two tries; the first wasn't quite full submersion. But she didn't mind. She knew it was my first baptism in Thailand. The next day I went on companion exchanges with Elder Butnon. He is such a good missionary! He is Thai and has been out for 11 months. We did a lot of biking! Which was fun because it was different then walking or riding in a sawng tao or taxi. It was also terrifying. If anyone from the Young Mens back at home reads this.. Yes, the mountain biking for the Young Mens Stake Encampment was training for your mission. If you thought that was hard, try keeping up with a Thai person through Bangkok. Lots of weaving between people, cars, motorcycles, dogs, cats, and poles, on the most uneven pavement. We also rode our bikes on this 2-2.5 ft. broken windy cement path over a river. It was honestly so fun though. This week we had 3 people we are teaching come to church. One of them was our taxi driver แขก!! We were so glad he came!! He is super busy and we have a hard time meeting with him but he is still awesome. We also found this lady named Sister ทอง. She is way awesome. She was already Christian, she had just moved to Bangkok and opened a small restaurant. She came to church, has given us two referrals, and has given a Book of Mormon to her friend. We visited, taught, and ate at her ร้าน a lot this week. She is concerned about not working on Sunday, which everyone always is. But she has a ton of faith. She also makes really good food. I was ordering and someone else was eating something that looked good so I asked her what it was called and asked for that. I ate it and it was really good. She was like, wow you eat thai food really well. I thought she just meant how spicy it was. Then she was like falangs (white people) don't usually like liver. So I guess I like liver because that's twice I've ate it and thought it was beef. This week we also gave a baptismal date to an 18 year old named ดัง. We found this 20 year old and his gf who are friends with someone Elder Robinson and Elder Butnon are teaching. He came and ate with us and then came to English class. They said they will come to church. We also had this guy I invited the first or second week call us and said he wanted to meet. We had dropped him because he wouldn't answer our calls and when he did he said he wasn't interested. So that was way cool. On Monday we ate at the Bishops house to talk about the ward - which was awesome. He went to BYU Hawaii and his wife went to BYU Provo as a nonmember and got baptized there. So they have a nice house and fed us so well. They fed us a falang dinner: Spaghetti, alfredo chicken, salad, and ribs, and ice cream :) they also gave us Christmas presents of assorted Oreos and Tim Tams!! Yesterday we did a ton of service for Red Cross making care packages. We filled an entire semi to the brim. That was way fun. Transfers are tomorrow. Elder Robinson who is only one transfer ahead if me is going to the onlyy area in the south which is an island with two Elders and his companion there is only one transfer ahead of him. We will be getting two new missionaries in my district which will be funny to see who because I was with them for 4 weeks in the MTC.
Well hope you guys are all doing well. I pray for you and feel your prayers จริงฯ.
Elder Shill
Mango Sticky Rice!! Traffic, Spicy fruit salad... with tomatoes, A much needed gift after a long bike ride (coke), Night time, A clementine that is ripe green, Christmas gifts of Oreo's and Tim Tam's, bumper to bumper traffic with lots of motorcycles in-between the cars and a taxi completely horizontal in the middle of the road, Sitting on how many transfers we have left.
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