Trains, Buses, taxi's, mafia and more!

Ok so this week was a little crazy! TRANSFER WEEK!!! AHH!!! And since this was my companion's last transfer it wasn't really a normal week b/c here on our last week we can switch our P-day to the day before transfers and go basically explore bangkok for the day and such so that's what we did! It was fun! we just went around to all the little shops and then explored some malls and such. Now for the story of getting to bangkok! It was AWFUL! So first we had tickets to go down by train... we got to the train station at about 11 at night and they told us our train was going to be 4 hours late!! So then a member ran to the bus station and said we could get on a bus so we returned our train tickets to get on a bus in the middle of the night for a 6 hour bus ride to Bangkok! Then when we get there we had to get a taxi to take us to one of the sister's houses in bangkok so we get to this area w/ all the taxi's and they were trying to charge us 1,000 baht to get to this house (which is SUUUPPPERR expensive for a taxi ride, normally and hour taxi ride is about 2-300 baht) But at this point we were exhausted and we could only get them down to 900 baht and they wouldn't turn on the meter and they were the only taxis we saw and we had a bunch of luggage and stuff so it was a mess! So my companion and i just said whatever and got in... then as we were driving, our driver apologized saying that he couldn't lower his price anymore b/c his boss was part of the thai mafia!!!! AHHHHH!!!! later i found out from some other sisters that apparently that area is really sketch and especially in the middle of the night and such... so lesson learned! hahaha Anyways that was our craziness of travelling! But the rest of the week was really good! We had a lot of goodbyes with my comp. S. Maxwell and then i got my new companion S. King!! She is really great and i think we are going to be able to do some awesome work together! I am way excited! And also mom you may or may not have served with her mom in philadelphia?! Her maiden name is Gee... so did you ever serve w/ a Sister Gee?? It sounds like she would have been there around the same time as you! Anyways super random when we found out that! Ok now for some investigators! B. Oh is doing soooo great!!!! He is right on track to have his baptisimal interview this friday and be baptized next saturday! YAY! He is so great and just so ready for the gospel in his life... this week he shared an experience with us of how he had come to our english class like a year or 2 ago and wasn't really impressed and what not but then a few months ago he just had God and religion and stuff on his mind and he was saying how he jsut wanted to know if God was real and stuff, so he would just repeat over and over in his mind God, God, God, etc etc. And then he decided to come try english class again and that's where we met him and have been teaching him ever since!! It's seriously been sooooo amazing to see him progress and just completely change his life around and i am sooo excited to see him continue to progress! He is AWESOME! This week we also began teaching this kid Jack... We met him about a month ago from teaching english at this College close to us that we were asked to help and so we have seen him a bunch but this week he came to our english class that we teach at the church and said he was interested to learn more about the church too! I am suuupppperrr excited b/c from the 1st week we taught english at his school I have wanted to teach him b/c he is just so adorable! But I think he is going to be great! He knows B. Art our recent convert (they go to school together) So having his testimony will be awesome! I can't wait to see him progress as well! Other than that, this week has been just kind of random trying to show my new companion around and just kind of getting used to how she teaches and such.. but i am officially done w/ training!! WHOO! Even though i still feel like I need another 6 months with this crazy language before i will be confident with it! haha but i am no longer a greenie! haha But that was my week! Love you all and thanks for all the letters this week! Sounds like things have been pretty crazy w/ kyle getting home and i guess kent leaving?? (no one told me he got his mission call.......) but ya that is super excited! hope things are going well for everyone!! Love, S. Itri Ps... sounds like you haven't been able to get my pictures so i guess i will try and fix that! sorry