Dear family!
It
was fun to hear about all of your weeks! Woohoo for thanksgiving! :)
Just a quick thought about thanksgiving. We did have a "thanksgiving
party" here in phitsanulok! This one sister in our ward made turkey,
pie, vegetables, and mashed potatoes! Sister Peterson also made a
pumpkin pie... but she had to like... physicalyl grind up the spices to
make it! It turned out WAY good though! I was really impressed! We
also got to do a Thanksgiving activity on Tuesday
for our English class. I'm the "English class leader," so I got to do
a little bit of fun prep for that... we had a thanksgiving tree,
thanksgiving bingo, we played that game we play at Christmas (the
Left/right pass the gift or treat or whatever it may be story) annnnnd
it was good! :) Oh. Haha... also our district at Pizza together for
lunch on Thanksgiving day. That was fun!
In terms of other things that happened this week...
:) This week was the conclusion of Bovember (Baptism November) in the
Thailand Bangkok Mission! It's amazing how many people were baptized in
Thailand this month! Hooray! :) It was over 100, miracles were seen
and people really worked together and prayed for each other! We had a
baptism planned... but... right now it's been pushed back toward a
future date! It was a little bit sad to have to cancel, but I'm happy
about the changes that I've seen in this investigator, and that changes
that will continue to happen! We may not have had a baptism in
November, but... I am confident that our investigator will be baptized
in the future! Which makes me very happy indeed!
Yesterday I had a cool experience contacting... it
was our new method of contacting "Do you know what this is? It's
baptism! Or the way that we can become clean from our sins! Do you
want to be baptized?" In general a lot of people just answer no.
Sometimes people just pretend you aren't there! :D It can be kind of a
funny time. Buuuut. I met a woman yesterday who was sincerely
interested in becoming clean from her sins. She read the pass along
card and then told me that she had a lot of sins, I could tell by the
look on her face that she wasn't sure if she could be forgiven. But I
was happy to be the person that got to tell her that she can be forgiven
and she can change! Unfortunately... she has my number and I don't
have hers... but I'm praying that she'll call us so that she really can
learn about the reality of the Atonement. She really can experience the
cleansing power. And she really can receive forgiveness from God.
Man, I feel so blessed to get to be the bearer of that message!
Another cool experience. Last night we got to
meet with a man in our ward who has cancer, I felt so bad, he was in a
lot of pain because the medicine he's taking makes all of his bones
ache. We planned to share a message about the priesthood, which was
perfect because we asked him if he would like a priesthood blessing from
the Elders... who happened to be at the church! Elder Keller, who has
been in Thailand as long as I have gave the blessing. Every time I have
a chance to witness a priesthood blessing I'm so amazed by the reality
of Priesthood power! IT really is the power of God on the Earth. And
Heavenly Father really does know us individually, He literally has the
power to do all things. And sometimes the instrument is someone who has
only been learning Thai for awhile... but the power of God is still
manifest! This really is the way, and the power of God to perform
covenants that bind us to God, really is on the earth! What an
incredible truth!
I love you all so much! I'm glad Thanksgiving was
good :) I hope that THIS week is a good one! How is it December!?
What a scary scary thought! Haha... which reminds me... people are
starting to wear jackets and say it's cold sometimes. It's STILL Hot.
Actually... sometimes when they wear jackets... it's just that perfect
temperature, maybe bordering on hot :) It makes me laugh so much! If
they were in Utah... I'm afraid of what might happen! :)
Have a really great week this week!
Love,
Sister Croft
P.S. Pictures... that's me and Sister Sararat. We both wore dresses yesterday... so we took a picture. I dunno :)
And just a little bit of thanksgiving activity! I dunno!
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