Swasdi Khrap!

The General Conference sounds so unreal! Thank you for sharing your thoughts about it with me. I have not been able to see it yet, because it takes about a week to translate it to Thai, but we will be able to see it this weekend. I think I'll be able to watch it in English, so I'll look for those specific talks you guys told me about then:) I really am super excited for it!

I'm am super grateful that Grandpa is recuperating. I'm glad he is doing better each day. I continue to pray for him and hope for the best in his situation. I also loved hearing about the Bryant's time in Bangkok. We had 4 foreigners in our church meetings yesterday from Australia. They originated from New Zealand and had the best accents I've heard haha. It was really cool to see them in their traditional skirt things that the men wear and stuff. And at the end, they gave us 1000 Baht (which is equivilant to about $40). As missionaries we aren't suppose to take money like that, but this man insisted that we take it to get something nice to eat. I'm thankful for him.

This week has been eventful. To start off, me and my companion locked ourselves out of our apartment not once, but twice! and both time my companion had to hoist me up so that I could climb on our balcony to climb my way up to the back door. It was so freaky, but I am thankful that we only live on the second floor haha. I also wanted to add something that I think Sean would get a kick out of. During our Correlation Meetings, we have a man named Bro. Wisat who is our Elder's Quorum President, and he has a lazy eye. And at first when we first met with him, me and my companion sat at opposite sides of each other in the bishops office and I could never tell who he was speaking to, because he can look at me on one end of the room and look at my companion at the other side of the room at the same time with his eyes haha. But he really is such a great man. He is organizing this American style barbeque to reactivate less actives and rejuvate the ward members. It's such a great idea. We also got word that our district is now Stake worthy!!! Meaning that when we submit papers, we will be able to become a stake! We are all happy about this, because you need about 3 stakes in a country to be eligible to get a Temple. And we already have 1 stake in Asoke. So we are that much closer to getting a temple:) Keeping praying for us, we are getting closer in other areas of the country as well to be getting additional stakes.

This weekend we had 2 more baptisms:) One was an investigator from the other branch named Sister Doughnut, and one of our investigators named Sister Ung. I don't know if you remember me talking about her, but she was the one who came to America and found Christianity there, and when she moved back, she prayed that Heavenly Father would lead her to the right church in Thailand for her. She was able to be baptized yesterday at 6:00 pm and what a special and spiritual time it was for all of us. Although she had to get rebaptized 3 times (the man baptising her was a very old man and couldn't get her down in the water all the way) she held on to faith in Jesus Christ and to his teachings. She believes with all her heart that she belongs to this church and she puts her whole trust in God. She's such an amazing person! I'm am so blessed to know her. The other day at a lesson with her, she brought a birthday cake for me and said that she felt bad that I couldn't celebrate it with family and that I didn't have a birthday cake on my birthday, so she bought me one. I'll send a picture. She is such a sweet heart and has such a pure spirit. She will be such an amazing addition to our branch. 

That's it for me here. We are seeing miracles everyday. I can't wait til we watch General Conference! Thanks for all your love and support. I really truly feel it everyday.

With much much love,

Elder Tanner