Another good week in Bangkok

It was a good week here in Bangkok.  I'm flipping through my planner trying to remember everything that has happened and everything I've learned this week!

We've been working with several different people.  And it's cool to be able to see their faith grow and progress.  To see them learn more and then try to help them through challenges that they are facing.  Our investigator who walked into church is progressing so well. Wow she is awesome!  She definitely has an "easiness and a willingness to believe", and she is so ready to accept everything that we teach her.  She is buddhist, but when she first met us she told us that lately she seemed to go to a Catholic church more than she did Buddhist temples!  She really does have incredible faith, and she is one of many who God has prepared to accept the gospel.  Wow she is awesome!  

We have another awesome investigator who is so awesome!  At church a couple of weeks ago he received a Joseph Fielding Smith book for Sunday School!  He is so funny.  He's read several chapters from it, along with his Book of Mormon reading.  He is also one that is so easy to believe.  So ready to accept the teachings, and so willing to keep the commandments.  He is great!

Something that I've been thinking about this week is the Savior, true repentance, and the role of the Savior in all of that.  I've been thinking about repentance and baptism and becoming truly clean from our sins.  It's interesting to consider several different beliefs about "becoming clean from our sins," and how that happens.  I've been thinking about why repentance is the way it is.  And I think it's amazing how repentance really is more than "being clean,"  it's a process, through which we can gradually become more like the Savior!  Through the power of the Atonement we not only receive forgiveness for our sins, but we change and improve.  We become a saint, we become like a child, but that can only happen through the Atonement of Jesus Christ!  I had an interesting conversation with a man last night when I invited him to be baptized.  He told me he had a lot of sins, and it was cool to be able to confidently tell him that he could be come clean, and he could change.  It was something that I noticed in a lesson with a wonderful less active lady in our ward.  In several verses I saw the word for "change."  Have you experienced a change of heart?  Our hearts can be changed through the Savior's Atonement.  

It was good to hear from each of you today! :)  I hope that you have a wonderful week this week!

Love,

Sister Croft