Dear Fam,

Another week down in Thailand:) My oh my how time is really breezing by. I can't even believe it myself. It feels like I was just emailing you guys yesterday haha. Dad, thanks so much for your photos you sent. You look amazing in those! I'm going to keep those pictures the rest of my mission as a goal to be as good of missionary as you were. I'll show them to this sister and see what she says. I'm hoping she knows you! Mom, thank you so much for your email. It helped me so much, I especially loved the part about Paige. I think she is discouraged because Satan works the hardest on those who he knows will make the most difference. I bet she's an amazing missionary.

I can't believe Steven is going to Samoa!!!!!!! That is SO awesome! And what's even more crazy is that I remember him telling me specifically, "I have this weird thought that I am going to be called to Samoa." I remember him saying that! This is going to change his life forever and it will help his dad who is Samoan. The Lord really blesses us in such special ways. I have a testimony of that. And I'm excited for Will to go too. He leaves the 25th of September to Denmark!:) If you guys have time, I think he'd like it alot of you guys stopped by or went to his farewell. 

This week has zipped by! We are being blessed everyday. We just met with a lady who was a walk in at church named Sister Ung. She knows alot of English because she studied in Missouri and she is just a ball of energy, even though she is probably 50 or 60 years old. She is my absolute favorite. We met with her the first time and explained how she came to know of Christ. She said she was in Missouri when she learned that she had cancer. She was at Walmart one day wondering how she was going to work everything out in her life, when she met another Thai lady who was Christian. This lady invited Sister Ung over to her house to have dinner with her and her husband. Sister Ung told us that she felt like she needed to go, but she didn't know why, so she went. She later ended up living at their house while going through therapy for cancer and learned about Christ through this family. I don't think they were LDS, but they invited her to church and she just felt so much love from the people there and felt God's love. She then came back here and looked for a Christian church and she found us. She told us something very interesting as well. She kept telling us that she just wanted to repay our Heavenly Father. She told us she just wanted to clean his house or do something for him to show her love for Him. She truly was prepared by God. There is no other explanation for her. She has such great faith and soaks up everything that we teach her. We met with her 3 days in a row and taught her about the Restoration and about the Plan of Salvation. She is absolutely amazing, and I feel so humbled that Heavenly Father lead her to us. I remember one of her lessons, I was trying to explain about the purpose of this life, and why we came here and my Thai was so confusing and so disorganized and sounded so terrible, and I remember thinking, I am going to make her not want to meet with us. I'm going to mess this all up because I am saying things so confusing to her and she won't even be baptized and it'll be all my fault. But as the lesson went on, the Spirit took over. And soon we all could feel the sweet peace and humility that comes from learning about Christ. She is still learning with us. I need to get my own personal issues out of my brain. I just need to get out of the way for the Spirit so it can work it's magic. I now realize that I don't really have any part in this whole process. I don't really know anything about the gospel. It's all between Sister Ung and Heavenly Father. It's so amazing.

This really is the true gospel, through and through. It's true. It's true. It's true. No force both of this world or the unseen world can stop this work from progressing. The work will go forth with or without us, and I'd much rather be apart of it then not. I don't have the best mind, I don't have the best knowledge of the gospel, I can't form pretty and wonderful sentences, but I do know that Christ is our Savior and I love him with my whole heart. I know that Heavenly Father is constantly watching over us, and if we follow him til the end, our tears of this life will be returned a hundredfold with tears of joy from our Heavenly Father. I want to stay close to Him til the day I return to Him to give Him a big hug. I love you all. Thanks for all your support. Keep praying for us, and pray that the Lord will open up the hearts of men here. We are pushing so hard for a temple here. That's all our meetings and the talk is about here. With enough faith and hard work, we can do it:) May God continue to bless us all.

I love you all,

Elder Tanner