Not All Who Wander Are Lost

     I always look forward to emailing. Always.

     Been another High-Low week. Many of the people we are teaching aren't picking up their phones, so that's been a little frustrating. 

     

     We invited some other members to our house for Family Home Evening. Again, we are probably the only house in our entire mission that's allowed to do that, since our area doesn't have a church. We all ate food together and taught them a brief lesson. 

     All the missionaries in Bangkok and us got to go to a mission conference, and a few church leaders came and spoke to us. It was really amazing, many shared stories and their great experiences on their missions as well. One of them served in South America, and I thought of my dad when he shared his stories.

     Two of the members, Brother Love and Brother Day (they go by nicknames) took the week off, and they have been hanging out with us the last week. We ate dinner with them one night, and we took them to help us search for people to teach. We went to a place called Miami, a big outdoor shopping place with a Ferris Wheel, and that didn't work out well since there was loud music and people didn't want to learn about the Gospel, or English Class. But, it was way fun though.

     I have noticed that Elder Duke has a gift with fending off dogs. The dogs in Thailand are really wimpy, and we often walk past a lot of strays, and they hardly even move. But this last week we have had some dogs try and get us, but Elder Duke just pretends to pick up a rock and they scatter. He has fended them off when I wasn't looking. Despite him being a lot smaller than me, he's like my guardian angel...

     There are two workers on a bus: One is the driver and the other is the "bus bag" where they collect money. I talked to a guy who collected money, and he said he's been working on a bus collecting money for 38 YEARS. 38 YEARS!!! Sheesh I would literally lose my mind if I ever had that job.

I found the International Academy of Magic. I found the sign but I don't know where the academy is.. 

     My companion and I took a bus about 4-5 miles north of our house, and we went into a neighborhood to find people. We got lost and we were out for like 3 hours. Then we finally found an exit to the neighborhood, and we were about a half of a mile south from our house. How did that happen?

     The other day at Church I was talking to a church member who lived in the same area where my mom served. Later she introduced me to some members that knew my mom. Small World after all. One of them was so excited she gave me a big bag of bananas. Church members are so giving. I love them. 

     I invited a bunch of missionaries and a few members to have a fun P day with us. Today we are exploring a small island, and going to the Crocodile farm. Should be way fun. 

Have a Great week,

Elder Brinkerhoff

P.S. The Redhead missionary is not my companion, he just happens to be in these pictures. He's awesome.