I love you guys a lot. And I love Thailand! And I love being a missionary.
This
week has been a really good one. Before I got Sister Herrmann we were
kind of struggling to find investigators, or the ones that we did have
were struggling to progress. But I feel like this week we've seen a lot
of progress with people, and we've also met a lot of new people. For
some reason we have a lot of investigators who are little girls right
now! It's fun :) they're really really cute.
A couple of them helped us fill up the font
yesterday. :) A couple of them are Brother Moo's cute little girls.
You can't imagine how thrilled I was when he walked into sacrament
meeting with these two little girls in dresses! :)
We actually went to Brother Moo's house on Saturday
to try to help him get his kids to church. His house was really far. A
sweet member took us in her car because it's so far... just don't a
couple of really long roads in the forest and behind the buddhist temple
and you're there. I think they were really nervous to see us
because... well... they're not used to strangers, especially not white
people strangers. :) We read some stories about Jesus from the Liahona
and taught them how to pray. They did not want to fold their arms :)
But eventually they all did. AND they came to church. Brother Moo was
so pleased and he wants us to go back there often. Oh man that makes
me so happy.
Um... what else... we have a lot of really cool
investigators right now. It's been a really good week. Also. My
companion is so awesome! :) She really is. Thai is a really difficult
language. I think I forgot just how hard it was until recently. But
Sister Herrmann is bold and willing to get out and talk to everyone.
She wants to do what's right, and I'm really proud of her! :)
Other fun things from this week. Oh... I don't even know. Sometimes I still get lost going places. :) That's fun! :)
Um...
kind of a fun thing that we did this week. Yesterday while we were
inviting at the Sunday night market there were a million people.
Usually there are a lot of people, but it's also usually not quite that
packed. We were having a hard time getting people to pay attention to
us. And so...after some discussion with Sister Herrmann I whipped out
my mini hymnbook and started to sing. It was such a funny and
interesting experience. It's amazing what power and influence music has
over us. There is such a difference between inviting with hymns in the
air, and inviting by a store that has loud crazy music pumping. I felt
an immediate difference, literally from the first note. You could feel
the spirit, and just the way people felt changed as soon as there were
hymns present. It was funny...we didn't find a million investigators
but when I looked up I could see people like... not being able to pull
away their gaze, wanting to stop to listen. They had to look at us,
instead of us fighting for their attention. Maybe they felt the spirit
too! And hopefully... we left them with a feeling of exquisite wonder.
:)
I love you guys so much. I really do love being
here. Thailand is incredible. And the work we do is too. I encourage
you all to take part in it, whether or not you're a full time
missionary! There is work to be done. And none more important than
this!
I love you! Have a Thairiffic week.
Sister Croft
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