My last P day, I got to go to Bangkok and go bowling with Elder and Sister Larson, and a bunch of other missionaries. Loads of fun. 

     I got to do switch-offs with some of the missionaries in Bangkok. It rained. A lot. And we had to go see a church member in an apartment, and since the irrigation system in Bangkok is so awful, we had to take off our shoes, and wade through the water up to our ankles, to get to their apartment. I just hope I don't contract any disease. 

     Elder Fukino and I were walking past the Monkey Buddhist temple where most of the monkeys hang out, and where all the tourists go to when a tour bus pulled up, and a group of tourists came out. It was the most stereotypical group of tourists I have ever seen. All middle-aged, all had cameras, all of that. When the monkeys came out, all of them pulled out their cameras and took photos. 

     The four of us missionaries and some members ate at a Shabu Buffet together, and then Elder Tone (the Burmese missionary) said, "Man, I am getting fat! I need to go running!" Those words were music to my ears. Elder Tone usually sleeps during exercise time, and he never told me that he likes to go running. So now, we are running every morning. I'm happy that we get to do it, but now the problem is that my endurance is pretty much gone. 

     Elder Fukino and I were going to visit a church member, and she wasn't at her house. It was the middle of the afternoon, and very hot and humid out and we were sweating bullets. We decided to walk through some neighborhoods, and find people interested in hearing the gospel message. We turned into a random street, and ran into a man and started talking to him. He then told us that someone gave him some red colored Christian book a few years back. Books of Mormon (Is that grammatically correct?) are blue, so I thought it was another church that gave him a Christian book. Later he took us to his house, and he pulled out an old blue-colored Book of Mormon. He said that some missionaries gave him that book 10 years ago. He said that he enjoys reading some of the stories in that book, and would like to know more about the book.  Not a coincidence, a miracle. 

Shoutout to my good friend Preston Seymour to getting his mission call to Peru.

-Elder Brinkerhoff