Can I Get a Woot Woot

Ok this week was a little crazy, but first i just want to say I'm sad to hear the Terry's dad passed away. I hope the family is doing well. How's his mom doing? Anything I can do!? As for everything here, it is going GREAT! I love being a missionary! We had one of our investigators, B. Art get interviewed for baptism and he passed so this week he will be baptized on Saturday!!! YAY!!! He is soooo great!! We have only been teaching him for about a month now but he is just understanding everything soooo well (which is very unusual in thailand b/c of all the Buddhist background) And he is just so ready to be baptized!! Which brings be to a question he asked... so he was reading in Jacob 5 and asked why is there in olive tree in a vinyard? (in thai in translates to grape garden, which makes it a bit more confusing) So that is my question... why is there an olive tree in a grape garden??? haha But he is so great! he has such a strong testimony already and we are hopefully going to be able to teach his family here soon! he told us he wants us to, they just live about an hour and a half away, so we just have to work that out as to when we can get out there (b/c that is still our area technically) haha it's funny we were talking about our area boarders and figured out that basically our area is all of central thailand... YAY! But we are so excited that he wants to share the gospel with his family too b/c that tends to be a VERY sensitive subject here. Then we have Ooh and Biim who are just as adorable as ever, except we have been forbidden to teach Biim by our zone leaders b/c we haven't gotten specific permission from her mom (who she hasn't spoken to in over a year +) so we are still trying to figure out that, she is trying to reach her step dad and work that way, so hopefully that will happen really soon! But they are still so great! they came to our activity this week and were at church yesterday.. which we were a little nervous that they wouldn't b/c we also sprung the law of chastity on them... but it all went really good! They are so cute! This week they also planted a little garden along the street we live, which about a couple months ago was a DUMP that the senior missionaries cleaned up a little bit ago and have been planting flowers and stuff, and so our cute investigators wanted to help out and plant some too!! HOW GREAT ARE THEY?!?! And now we have a new dater!! It is Gap! The cute 16 yr old boy (who reminds me eerily of James)! He is soooo great!! We gave mom a date too, but she is still struggling with the idea of coming to church on sunday.. and we were going to give the girls one too but they weren't there when we were teaching (b/c when we called Gap answered and said we could come w/o making sure the rest of the family would be there....hahaha) But ya we are so excited for him... and guess where he is in his reading.. oh ya he is in 2 Nephi 31.. and further now b/c that was on saturday.... WHAAAATT!?!? We just gave him a book of mormon like 2 or 3 weeks ago!!!! He is so great! and the rest of the family is reading together and just doing so great!! They were at church yesterday and they just fit in so well and they love coming! I am just soo excited for them!! And hopefully this week we will be able to date the rest of the family and get mom to come to church... We are hoping they can all get baptized on Oct. 13! But ya they are awesome! Ok so now can i get a Whoot Whoot?! This week was SUUUPPPERR confusing... so we have been teaching this guy Whoot, that was referred to us: the one who was baptized and not confirmed right? Then this week in District Meeting we were asked to show some of the less active work we were doing, so we brought the records and we were going through them and there was a record for Whoot... and a picture and it was the same Whoot we were teaching but it said he had been baptized like 4 years ago and had the priesthood, so we were SUPER confused thinking well did he get picked up again by missionaries last november with out them realizing he was already a member and they just baptized him again!? Like how on earth did things get that apostate right?! and the teaching record even said something to the effect of, we met whoot while inviting and it was super weird b/c he let us right in and was suupper accepting of the message and willing to keep all the commitments... and it was strange how easily he accepted it... So then we were thinking, well ya apparently he is already a member!!!?!?!? WHAT?!? and then to add to the confusion in one of our lessons w/ Whoot we had a member with us and he said he remembered baptizing Whoot so we called him and he said that that was just under a year ago that he did that! but in the picture we had it looked like it was an Elder that baptized him b/c they were both in all white. AHHHH!!! So trying to figure this all out, to make sure we didn't baptize the same Whoot twice we had to call in some help from S. Mink and we got it all straightened out.... there are TWO Whoots with almost exactly identical stories of why they went inactive and were avoiding calls from missionaries and such, and we were in fact teaching the LA Whoot thinking he was the "investigator" Whoot! AH! But now that we have straightened it out we are looking for the real investigator Whoot and will hopefully be able to teach him real soon here! hahaha So that was a bit of our craziness here in Phitsanulok for the week! I love being a missionary and i feel SOOO lucky to have such AMAZING investigators that are sooo ready to here the gospel... this week between us and the elders we had 17 investigators and church!!! YAY!!!!!! That is a new record I believe! So We are really excited to get the work to keep moving here! We were actually overflowing during sacrament and had some people in the hall and others in this little back room it was nuts!! Pray for us to get a church building here b/c we desperately need one!!!! But ya other than that things are awesome! My commitment for you this week is to be as awesome as all our investigators here... :) Love you all! Hope everyone is doing good! Love, S. Itri