Be Prepared

Hello family! Sounds like you had a fun week gambling this week???? hahaha glad to know my fam is keeping up good standards :) haha But sounds like you all had a good time so that's good! Well things here are going so good! This week was a little different than normal... me and my companion are really trying to do things a little different and experiment with ways of doing missionary work, b/c the standard of what normally goes on we just feel like hasn't been very effective, especially for how sisters have been working in this area for a LONG time... So we are changing it up a bit! This week we worked on organizing a bunch of activities and focusing again on English class and focused on going and just serving the members in our branch. And we have been trying to just find those people who are truly prepared to hear the gospel. So, as we were doing all this work and kept praying to find someone prepared, we got hit with the most prepared person i think we could have ever met! Especially in Thailand! So we started this activity night on thursday nights, and after it was over this week one of the girls who came to English on Tuesday came to our activity night, her name is Praewa and she started talking to us in English tonight and she was SOOOO GOOODD at English (which is very rare here) and so we asked her where she learned, and she told us she went on an exchange program last year and lived in America for a year...and she then tells us she was with a Christian family.. we just figured cool, that's better than most thai people so we got excited... but then it gets better... she then tells us she was with and LDS family!!!! AHHH!!! Then goes on to say that while she was there she not only went to church every week, she went to mutual every week and to seminary every morning, oh and she went to girls camp... oh and on trek... oh and she went to Utah to General Conference!!! Heard the prophet in person... has been to the Salt Lake Temple.... she toured BYU and BYU-Idaho... pretty much she is just awesome!! and soooooo prepared!!! Oh and one more thing... she lives around the corner from the church here!??!?!?!! WHHHAAAATTT?!?!?! Me and my companion literally were soooo stumped as to what to do with her! hahaha But she is soooo great and we are just sooo excited to work with her! Although, despite doing all of these things her understanding of the gospel is still very little... so we are sooo excited to have the chance to teach her in her native language.. it will help so much! Anyways that was like the biggest highlight of our week! She is just going to be sooooo awesome!!! Heavenly Father truly does prepare people for the gospel! :) This week we also began helping teach english at Ratchatani University and we were able to meet a bunch of new people through that too! I am just sooo excited to see all of these little efforts come together! AHHH!!!! I feel like we are soooo close to just having an explosion of stuff happen here! I just can't wait!!! We are really working on our patience right now!! haha Well, I hope everything is great at home... James you need to cut your hair..... Love you all!! Love, Sister Itri PS does anyone have some good object lesson ideas or ideas for like FHE things??? it really helps to use them here to help them understand things better so if you have any please let me know!!! :)