Road Trip

Sawatdii Kha Krabkrua!! (Hello Family) How was conference!??! I still haven't got to watch it yet so i have no clue!! We will watch it this weekend b/c it needs to be translated. But i heard some crazy stuff that now Elders can go when they are 18 and sisters when they are 19!?!?! WHHHAAATT?!?! That is sooooo craaazzyyy!!! But super exciting, b/c that means we will be getting lots more missionaries here pretty soon!!! AHH!!! But anyways, this week was sooo good!!!!! Right now in our mission we are focusing to doing LA work and getting members to return to church, so this week as a companionship we decided to really push for getting some LAs to return to church. We started off with just asking a member to help us figure out who they knew and who we could go visit. Well when we went to her she decided that she would go with us the next day to help us find some of these people. So we figured we would just go to like 2 houses of some LAs, well that was not the case. This member and her husband sacrificed their whole day to take us around and we were able to go visit about 6 LAs and 4 other members and just help strengthen our branch! It was sooo good!! It was really like a road trip! haha we had bathroom and snack breaks and just were in the car all day! hahaWe met them at 1 pm and then we were driving all around until 8 30 at night! They are so great!!! and on sunday we had 5 people who hadn't been to church in over a month+ show up! it was soooo amazing! Heavenly Father truly blessed us. And it wasn't even all the people we went and saw, some were ones that we had just talked about seeing, but didn't end up getting the chance too, but Heavenly Father prepared them to come back! It is truly amazing!!!!! Another thing we focused on a lot this week was on using the Book of Mormon in our teaching! We talked about the importance of it and how we need to apply it in our teaching and how important it is to stress the significance of the BoM to everyone we teach! It truly is an inspired book and can help us through any trials we have! One of the members in my last branch showed me this picture/quote thing that i really liked, it had a picture of a really old, marked up and used set of scriptures and then had a quote "A person who's Scriptures are falling apart, means their lives aren't." or something to that effect. That is soo true! We need to make sure we are studying the scripturesEVERYDAY!!! So that's my commitment to you... make sure you study everyday and get the most out of everything you read! Don't just read to read... read to understand!!! Ok!? Another thing that i did this week is i read the Special Edition Liahona/Ensign all about the Book of Mormon, so if you can get a copy of that you should read that too!! (i think it's like Oct 2010) but it is soo good! Something so adorable that also happened was with our 11 yr old investigator, Bombay, (we are teaching his mom too) But we were over in his neighborhood the other day and ended up inviting into one of his friends randomly, but then we went over to teach Bombay yesterday and he ran and got his friend and was like, "Sister, Sister! My friend wants to be Christian too!!!" AHHHHH!!!!! SOOOO CCUUUTTTEEE!!! So we immediately gave them another Book of Mormon and told them to start reading together! and they were both just soo excited to start reading!!! haha!!! I love it!!! So we got a referral from an 11 year old... SO AWESOME!! haha Other than that this week we pretty standard, I'm still settling in a little bit here in Ubon and trying to figure things out, but everything is soo good! I love missionary work!! I especially love doing work with LAs! It is soo great to see them come back and remember the reasons they were baptized in the first place, to follow Christ!! AHH its just so great! Love you all (even if you still don't write me :) ) Hope everything is going good still!!! Love, Sister Itri