JEN'S NEW ADDRESS

1645/6 New Petchaburi Road Makkasan, Ratchathewi Bangkok 10400 THAILAND

BUSY

Hello Family!!! Well this week was AMAZING!! Super busy but so good!!! We had a "Sisters Conference" this week for Valentines day so we had all the sisters from all over Thailand come to Bangkok and had some speakers and then ate lunch together and just basically had a fun day with our mission president and his wife. So that was awesome! Then we had a baptism!!! YAY!! S. Fresh got baptized on saturday and we couldn't be more excited!! She is going to be awesome!!! She has such a great testimony and she just told us yesterday that she wants to be a missionary next year!!! YAY!!! There is nothing better than having an convert say they want to be a missionary!! AHHH!!! I don't even know how to explain how happy i am right now! There are so many miracles here and i love every second of it! I feel so blessed to be a part of the Lord's work and see peoples lives change through being baptized and coming unto the Lord! I hope you are all doing well! Love you all!!! love, S. Itri

interviews

Hello Family! This week was another amazing week! We had our investigator, Fresh get interviewed to get baptized... it was kind of funny b/c she had to have 3 interviews so this week was all about interviews! haha She had her first interview and our district leader asked her to go home and pray about a few things and then he would interview her again... and then after that she needed one more. but for the 3rd one we had to go to the mission office to meet with the person who was going to interview her, and we ended up running into some of the other sisters there and it's just always fun to go to the office! haha But 3rd times the charm right? she passed! and she will be getting baptized this saturday! I am soo excited for her! she has a good testimony and will help this branch a lot! So that was basically our focus for the week was making sure that Fresh was ready to get baptized and that we could prepare her for this change in her life! She is so great and i am so excited for her! This week I also have been working on my Laotian... i now have a BoM in Laotian and my companion is teaching me how to read! It is very similar to Thai, but it's still hard! But it is so fun to learn! I love having a Laotian companion! She is so cute, and i think that i have talked more with her than any of my other companions! hahaha She LOOVVESS to talk! It's great! it's really helping me with my thai too! I love this work! I know it is the work of God! I am so lucky to be here and love every second of it! -Love, S. Itri

miracles, Miracles, MIRACLES!!!!

Hello family! So i know every week i say there are miracles... but there truly are!! And this week is even more so that usual!!! So this week was transfer meeting right... well this week they invited the WHOLE mission to come down to bangkok for this meeting! We weren't sure why, but after we were all told who our new companions were, our mission president got up and started going through some history of our mission... until he told us that for the first time in our missions history we will be sending the first young missionaries to Laos!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! So this does not mean that the door is open to Laos yet though, so don't go telling people Laos is open to proselyting, b/c it is not there yet, but our mission president gave this analogy, "The door is not yet opened, but we've turned the doorknob a bit!" AHHH!!! So the 4 elders that have gone will only be able to teach english and do service and what not, but it is such a huge step! I am sooooo beyond excited!!! What an amazing miracle this week right?!?!?!? Ok and now to make it even more exciting... my new companion's name is Sister Vanna, and guess what?! She's from LAOS!! So It makes this announcement even better!!! She is so great! and i am so excited to work with her. She keeps telling me how excited, but nervous she is for the elders in Laos but can't wait to be able to go help them when she is finished being a missionary! But she is so great and i know this transfer is going to be awesome!! And she's even going to try and teach me some Laotion!!! WOOO!!! I am sooo stoked! Anyways that is definitely the highlight of this past week and i don't even know what else to say b/c i am just so excited!!! And tonight we have one of our investigators, S. Fresh getting interviewed so that is also so exciting! She will hopefully be getting baptized next Sat. the 16th! Yay! I know this is truly the work of God and I am so blessed to be here at this time and see all these miracles come forth! This gospel is true! Love you all! Love, Sister Itri

Miracles!!

Hello Family! Well, this week was absolutely incredible!! It started off with our Recent convert telling us about his amazing story of faith and prayer... He was on this committee to organize a group of 600 people to go to some activity and they had less than a week to get people, and already a bunch of people backed out and they only had 8 people going at that point. So in the middle of his meeting he told everyone to be quiet, he knelt down in the middle of the room and prayed (very loudly he said) and after his prayer, his phone rang and it was someone saying they had 100 people to go on the trip.. and from there everyone else's phone started to ring until they had reached their goal of 600 people! SO amazing! He has so much faith, and all of the other people there saw and and kept asking him what he did and he was able to testify! He is such a great example! And he was so excited to share this experience with us. He has so much faith that the Lord will help him with literally ANYTHING! Then another miracle this week, as we were out putting up flyers for English class we walked into this country club type place and were talking to the front desk, and as we were waiting for permission to put up our sign one of the workers comes up to us and was like... I'm buddhist but i want to be Christian... what do i need to do?! WHAHHATTT!??! It was a miracle for sure! That does not happen very often, so we are sooo excited to teach her, and she already has a strong desire to come unto Christ which is awesome! The Lord truly prepares people and puts us in their paths! I am so grateful to be a part of this work! There was also a baptism for the Elders investigator, her name is Sister Earth and she is soooo great!!!! I love her to death! She already helps out so much and just loves being at the church! She is the one who taught us how to make pad thai! I am so excited for her! She will be such an amazing member and help the church here in Thailand so much! This week we also decided to go "Dan Jones'ing" basically go to a crowded area and just preach to everyone! We brought a white board to write questions and just started testifying to everyone who would listen! It was awesome! We went with the other 4 elders in our district and we were able to teach so many people! It was so fun to just go out, be bold and talk to literally everyone! Such a great experience, and i think we are going to go do it again this week! haha Well things here are still going great! I love every second! This week I will be getting a new companion b/c mine right now is going home on Thursday! WEEIRRDD! But it will be good! Love you all! Hope everything is good at home! Love, Sister Itri