I Hate Spiders

Hello Family! Ok well the thing most recently on my mind is spiders b/c this morning as i was getting ready i walked out of the bathroom and there sitting on the floor right under my bed was a HUGE spider!! AHHHHH!!! it was about the size of my hand and it was gross... So naturally I screamed, my companion came running and we got some bug spray, sprayed it and then trapped it under a bowl where it is currently still under b/c neither of us want to touch it/ deal with it... so there might be a fun game of rock paper scissors later today! haha But as for the rest of the week it was awesome!! We found out that our dater Art can move up his date! We originally had him set for November b/c we thought he would be in school on sundays until then so he wouldn't be able to come to church, but this week our great member, S. Mink apparently had talked to him about Sabbath day w/o us knowing (we hadn't quite gotten there yet) and so he had already switched his schedule so he now doesn't have anthing on sundays anymore! Now his scheduled baptism is the 21st of this month!! YAY!!! We are so excited for him! It was way funny when we were talking about it b/c he basically called us out and was like why on earth did you set my baptism for november, especially when you know that S. Maxwell will be going home in 6 weeks?! haha he is so cute! But ya so we moved his date up, but that puts pressure on us, b/c we have only been meeting w/ him for 3 weeks so we have to hurry and fly through the rest of the lessons with him.. but he understands everything so well so we aren't worried! But ya we are SO excited for him!! Then we have our cute family of Guy, Gap, Gik and Goy! They are soooo great!!! The kids were all at church again this week, sadly we still have to figure out what we are going to do about mom b/c she wants to come to church, but as is one of our biggest challenges in Thailand is the Sabbath Day, same goes for her and she "can't" not work, so hopefully we can build her faith up some more and get her to church, b/c with everything else she is progressing so well! But the kids are also so great! They even brought us a friend as a referral that really wants to learn! They are all just so excited to be at church and it's so great! Gap was awesome in church too, he came to the investigator class and was taking notes and such and i was so impressed! He's only 16 but has such a desire to learn! And last night we taught them the restoration and after we talked about the Book of Mormon he just was like OHHHH, now it makes sense what elder davies said in Sunday school. E. Davies made the analogy that we need food this live right? if we don't eat we starve... Well the Book of Mormon is the food for our spirits, and we need to feed our spirits by reading every day! So when we talked about how we got the book of mormon and that it is a sacred book and stuff he just got so excited and understood that we need it to help our spirits grow! But ya he is great and he is already to 1 Nephi 22!! how great is that!?! we just gave him a Book of Mormon last week, so we are super impressed at least! Then we have our cute couple Oo and Biim. We still don't know what to do about them, b/c Biim is only 16 but we found out that she is living with Oo and his family b/c her and her mom don't get along and they have had some major problems, So we need to figure out how to go about this b/c technically she is a minor so we need her parents permission to teach her but ya its an interesting situation but hopefully we can get that figured out b/c she is SOOO great and just wants to be happy and is so willing to just trust in Christ and stuff! I just want them both to be happy! So hopefully we can figure that out pretty soon here. This week was also transfer week! AHH the madness! 1st one with our new mission president. We didn't go to the meeting b/c neither of us are moving so we stayed here. I guess i should explain how we do moves here too cuz i hear it's a little different other places.. Here we get a phone call to tell us if we are moving areas, and if we are we trek down to Bangkok of the day of moves, sit in a big room where then the mission president will proceed to announce who is going where (and is sounds like w/ P. Senior he made a little slide show for it w/ pictures of you, and your companion and your new area, sounds pretty cool! ha) But ya so basically we don't know where we are going or who our new companion will be until that time. So i will tell ya how that goes next transfer when i do have to go! haha... PS has it seriously already been 6 weeks since i got in country!?? I still cannot believe that! I feel like i just got off the plane yesterday!!! AHH! But anyways this week we lost our district leader, E. Stott and our new district leader is E. King, and he seems like he will be great! (Losing E. Stott was also the reason Art found out S. Maxwell was leaving and why he was so distraught of the thought of her leaving and not getting to be at his baptism) Oh ya last Pday we went to one of the waterfalls around here... it wasn't the prettiest b/c it has been raining a lot here so it was brown, but S. Mink was cute and said it was like a big thing of Ovaltine! She's great we love her! But the best part of the day was the ride home! AHHH!! So we were waiting for the bus to come back, and it just wasn't coming and then this little old man pulls up in his truck and offers us a ride and we were like sure why not.. he was super nice, retired military whatever so we start going and then he starts FLYIIINNGG!! we were going around curves and passing cars and oh my heavens was it scary! And he kept making jokes about how well if we crash we just instantly die!! AHH!! So ya it was an interesting ride, the guys was super nice though and we were super grateful for the ride, but man was it scary... we got out and were like were you praying that entire time b/c i sure was!! hahaha The best part about it was he said he was driving cautiously b/c it's rainy season!!! I can't even imagine what he drives like normally if that was cautiously!! haha But anyways we're all safe and no harm done, and don't freak out over this but it was a fun little story so i thought i would share.. but for now i will stick to my bike and the tuk tuks (which are basically little "taxi" things here...) ha Anyways here are some pictures 1: Our district (missing our senior couple) but E. Stott is the shorter one but now he's gone then the other elder is E. Davies and then S. Maxwell and me 2: We love thaiglish here... slipper when wet! 3: Waterfall w/ my comp and S. Mink 4: me and S. Mink 5: nice little diving board right?? 6: Thought we'd go for a little tubing excursion too! 7: What I can't read that sign that says Danger Do not play in the water.. I'm a stupid Farang who can't read thai! haha Anyways Things are great here! I love being here and being a missionary! The people are all so amazing!! And for a commitment I want you all to fellowship people in your ward.. this week we had to coach people on how to do that so try and make sure everyone feels welcome! Love you!!! Love, S. Itri