Dear Familia,

I am absolutely grateful for your emails this week because it is exactly what I needed to hear. I really enjoyed the messages about peace that you guys shared. I think sometimes I get wrapped up in the logistics and numbers of a mission and I need to slow down and think about the REAL reason for which we are serving these people. I loved what President Monson said, "simply drop the last syllable and you have the 'spirit of Christ'". How much I need and long for the Spirit of Christ in my life. I also appreciated the scriptures from Mom's email. I am going to study those too this week! Niall sounds like he really understands the scriptures and that's something I want in my life as well. Thank you thank you for your messages. Thank you also for those two packages that you shipped. I really have a great family. I will tell you when I recieve them in the upcoming weeks.

It's crazy that their is snow in Utah now! Here in Thailand it is still one tempreture - HOT haha. But I love it! I used to not like the warm weather, but when it gets down to 22 degrees Celsius, It's super cold to me! Crazy how our bodies adjust to the climate. 

This week we have just been blessed to the point of overflowing. We have seen miracle after miracle as the humble in heart have come back to church and brought family with them to be baptized. We have been working with this woman named Sister Pen who was baptized about a year ago and hasn't lived in Sakhon Nakon since her baptism. She has tried to come to church but hasn't really had many chances. We met with her and her daughter, Sister Fan about 16 years old, and she told us that she just didn't feel right. She wanted to repent and make things right again, and have her daughter receive baptism as well. How merciful and loving is Jesus Christ. We talked about repentance and the fact that Jesus Christ is more than willing to forgive those who are humble in heart. I love that part about the gospel the most I think. Great things will come of this sweet lady and her daughter.

This week we also had an interesting situation happen. We had met with an investigator of ours, an elderly man in his mid 70's one time. A couple days passed and we heard that he was in the hospital. We felt that we should go visit him in the hospital with a member friend of his. He could not speak and he could not talk to us, but he had his eyes open and I remember my companion showing him the picture of Jesus Christ and telling him to remember this picture because we weren't sure if he was going to recover from his illness or not. Yesterday, we received word from our member friend that he had slipped out of this world and into the spirit world. It was interesting for us because the next lesson we were planning on teaching him would have been the Plan of Salvation. We had given him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet before he went in to the hospital, but we weren't sure if he read it. I'm not really sure how I feel about the whole situation, but I am grateful for a plan to help him receive baptism and eventually inherit the kingdom of heaven if he chooses to accept. I hope with all my heart that he will meet great missionaries on the other side of the veil to help him progress further.

Thank you so much for everything that you guys are doing. I really could not be doing this without you all and without the help of our Savior Jesus Christ. I love you all so much!

With much much love,

Elder Tanner

PS - If you could sometime make a Skype account for me and send me the username and password, that would be awesome. I can't remember my old one for when we Skype on Christmas:) Thank you!