Muangbaromasugakasem!

So this week was kind of slow... it just seemed like EVERYTHING went wrong! haha We had like everyone cancel our lessons, and half our investigators are out of town, so that was kind of a bummer.. We also went out proselyting but had 0 luck at all. We are claiming its b/c we are in a Book of Mormon shortage here and it's really hard to teach the restoration when we don't have any BoM's to hand out! Even at our English class we had 0 new investigators which we normally get at least 2-4 so that was a bummer! But oh well, hopefully we can get some BoM's soon so we can continue to teach!! But we did have some great lessons with Ooh and Biim this week! They are soooo great!! They are scheduled to be baptized October 6, however we think they will be ready before that! They just have a few more things they need to work out. They did mention that they may want to get married so who knows?! It was funny this week we were talking about the spirit world and paradise and prision and the word for paradise in thai is "muangbarmasugakasem" (say that 10 times fast) and when we said it they didn't recognize the word so we explained that it's basically heaven or "sawan" and Biim was like... "well why didn't you just say that then!" hahahaha But ya they are both still doing so great! Then we taught Guy's family again and they are all preparing to be baptized on Oct. 13th! We are super excited for them! they are such a great family and will really help the branch here i think! We were able to teach the plan of salvation with them and I think that really helped them realize what their purpose in life is and gave them a good goal to work for. We also have a new investigator that seems like he is going to progress great! His name is Daow, we've only met with him once but he seemed really excited to learn. He has previously been a monk but he felt like things were just super corrupt in the way Buddhism is set up so he is just looking for something that makes sense! So this week we are going to teach him the restoration and see where it goes from there! But he is so great! I have been soo impressed w/ how much these younger people are interested in religion and such.. he is like 21/22 or something like that and he just wants to know the truth! and most of our investigators are about 20-27 so it's been super interesting to see them grow and learn! I love it! Other than that, this week has really been slow, even with hours of proselyting and trying the best we can, just not a lot of luck :( Hopefully once we get some more BoM's to hand out things will pick up! By the way it is WAAAYYY hard to teach the Restoration w/o having one to hand out! hahaha We have been tempted to go make some pirated copies (there arent any copyright laws here) b/c we just don't know what to do! haha Committment: Be on time to all your appointments and don't cancel on anyone!!!!! :) and bring a friend to church while you're at it! Anyways, hope everything is going good at home! Love you! Love, S. Itri