HELLO FAMILY!!!!
Don't have a ton of time, but I'll write as fast as I can. I asked Melissa
for prints of the Jared photos she sent-- if somebody who loves me could
actually do that, I would be on cloud 9. Of course his best pictures come AFTER
I'm gone. I only want the ones she emailed me please!!!!! Whoever gets me those
prints before I leave the MTC gets whatever they want from Bangkok. Remember
that.
So as for big news: I sang in an MTC choir that will be featured between
conference sessions (I believe on the saturday)-- they're doing a big thing
about how life at the MTC has escalated, so we're singing a song for it that
they had commissioned for us to sing. I'm at the end of a row in my grey striped
sweater. If you think you see me, you did! So watch for me on TV!
It got cold again this week and it snowed. So it's time for the warmy-warms
of Thailand. Seriously.
Thank Molly and her girls, Grandma Zoma, and Aunt Melanie for all the love
I got this week! I will never run out of popcorn now. They are so wonderful!! I
cut open a box of peeps and they hardened to perfection.
We got new thai's last week: 2 elders and 3 sisters (one sister dropped out
to get married or we would've have 4)-- and they are cute! I sent a pic of the
girls. I don't know the thai elders at all.
This week I ran into Parker Rasmussen! Aka, this morning. I'll send the
photo in a second. I also saw Blake Randall, Kalisha Walters from BYU, and my
friend Adam Sierra who works here. :)
The other district of Thai elders are crazy. Flat out weird. They have a
game called: "GAME". (Clever) in which they have cards of dares, and they are
all bizarre, and they do them. So this week, all the Elders in the other
district removed their mattresses and slept on the metal frames. It was called:
"metal bed night" and it was miserable for all of them. But totally totally
hilarious. Those Elders have the best stupid stories. Ever. Hahahaha
We played District volleyball (all of us together vs.) and it was SO FUN.
Although, I don't have a ton of skill, it was still fun. 4 square is definitely
also a favorite here.
I decided that you seriously can't know what a mission is like, or what it
entails, until you actually have done it for yourself. I listened to Jared's
mission for the entire time, but I never have fully understood until I actually
got here and tried it. Its going to get harder in the field, so my respect for
missionaries everywhere has escalated by 326 times.
This week I told the Cambodians (in our zone) about dad and how we took a
trip to the east coast for the Viper, because Elder Brittain was from
Rochester, NY. I successfully earned the respect of the Cambodians.
Bro. Burgess, my teacher, decided it would be amazing if we put a big chair
in the middle of the room and put someone in it, called it "the love chair" and
told that person everything we sincerely loved about them. I got to be in the
love chair this week once, and oh my gosh, I almost cried. Do me a favor, go
tell someone what you love about them this week. People need to know that
stuff.
We actually got a new elder this week. Sounds crazy, but we did. He got to
come back to the MTC from last year and now he's leaving with us-- he is such a
kind soul. So glad he made it back. Way proud of him.
I'm itching to get to Thailand now, I think the walls are closing in. But I
admit I am very inadequate at the language. But you know what? At this moment
that is the least important thing. I will be going in to Thailand able to bear a
solid testimony and pray. So with the testimony that I have, and the heart that
I've got now, I'm ready to be humbled with the language in an attempt to find
somebody willing to try to understand my broken Thai. The most important thing
is that the message I will so badly deliver, is true.
Anyway, almost done here. On the last stretch and trying to finish this MTC
experience with no regrets! Trying to memorize the first vision in Thai before I
go so that I have something to take with me to Thailand that will inspire and
uplift. Tones are hard. Haha.
LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH! I leave April 8th. You're amazing. Thanks for writing
me and helping me feel loved and supporter. I love you all!!!!!
Sister Painter!
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