I love Thailand.

This week was a good one!  I'm pretty sure several times while we were just biking around I just couldn't help but grin... Thailand is AWESOME! :)

This week.  Oh man... what all happened it's hard to remember.  Sorry that this email will probably be short and not very good!  Haha.  Well...Just for a fun fact.  We went to the hospital three times this week (hospital=doctors office here.) Once because my poor companion scratched her eye.  And twice to visit an investigator.

Another fun fact.  I have officially been "footed."  Eeek.  :) We had a kinda unique experience in the park this week... where someone really didn't like what we were doing!  So I've officially seen someone do the equivalent of "telling someone they're number one" in America! Ahhh :)

  

Also.  This week was Halloween! :) I hope that you had a thrilling time at home! :)  Haha... probably the usual hanging out at home and eating candy.  But I'm sure you could be wondering what Halloween is like in Thailand.  In Phitsanulok we had a Halloween activity, complete with donuts on a string (who knows where that even came from) toilet paper mummies, and other such Halloween festivities!  It was an activity planned by the youth... so it definitely had a lot of energy and excitement! :)  But it was awesome to see quite a few random people come (we invited tons of random people on the street!)  Sometimes... I think you just gotta know that entering the church isn't a scary experience!  We can have fun :) and the members are people too! :)  I'll attach a few pictures from the activity... unfortunately I only took a few.

I'm not sure what else to tell you about this week...we're still working hard with members and investigators, trying to help people come back to church, or even come to church for the first time!  With so many sometimes overwhelming concerns of both individuals and groups... this week my heart has turned again towards charity.  The words from "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go" pop into my head so often... "Perhaps today there are loving words which Jesus would have me speak."  I'm really trying to make that one of my biggest goals in visiting less actives and meeting with investigators, that they can feel my love for them, as well as our Heavenly Father's love for them as we meet with them and invite them to do things.  Everything that the Savior did was out of love.  So I'm trying to make that the driving force behind everything that I do as well! :)

Annnnd.  Just some thoughts from my personal study this morning.  As I was reading in Alma 5.  This phrase popped out at me.  "And now I say unto you, all you that are desirous to follow the voice of the good shepherd, come ye out from the wicked, and be ye separate..." I'm not sure why that stood out to me so much.  But.  It did :) so you get to hear about it I guess!!  Isn't it amazing sometimes to look around you and see that we literally are in the last days?  Wow.  It's crazy!  It seems like the faster time rolls onward, and the more the world gets polluted with the philosophies of men, and the temptations of Satan, the more we have to consciously decide to follow the voice of the good shepherd, and BE YE SEPARATE.  Sometimes that requires courage.  But because it's true :) it's worth it!  And Heavenly Father will strengthen us as we try to follow His voice, and respond to His call as our Shepherd.  

I love you all! :) I hope you have a Thairiffic week :)  The gospel is true.  No doubt about it!!!  It is worth every "sacrifice" and every effort.  

Love,

Sister Croft