and she passed!

Hello family!!! Well this week was so good! we saw sooo many miracles and being blessed so much!!! Yesterday especially! we had a member bring 4 people to church and then after church we were talking to some of the members and this cute lady walked in and usually when that happens it is someone for english class, but the members asked what she wanted and she said she wanted to learn the gospel!!! WOW! Just so you know that does not happen very often, but she is sooo adorable... apparently she had a dream where she saw Jesus calling to her and since then she knew she needed to go search for a church and it just so happens that she has been passing by our church for years and knew where it was... she has waited a while trying to get a friend to come with her, but yesterday she decided to just come in and we were so lucky we were still at the church to meet her! She's adorable and i am so excited to teach her again!! Then this week we had our investigator, S. Noon, be interviewed to be baptized! YAY! so we were way excited for the interview... she has been investigating for over a year and has interviewed once already and didn't pass... but we truly felt like she was ready so she went into the interview.. then the other elder scared us b/c he was like the elder that's interviewing her is super hard... he hasn't had anyone he's interviewed pass before! AHH! that made us a little nervous... so we were waiting and then after only a 1/2 hour our investigator came out... which made us even more nervous b/c they are usually at least an hour... then the elder comes out w/ kind of a somber look... but then gives us the thumbs up!!! YAY!!! So we are sooooooo happy and excited! S. Noon is great! and we are going to have her baptism on saturday.. the only sad thing is that either me or s. steele won't get to be here for it :( transfers are on thursday and we still dont know who is moving! but we are both so happy that she is finally getting baptized!! Anyways things are going great! I am about to start my last transfer... which blows my mind!! I am not ready for this to be anywhere close to being over, i love it too much!! but we'll see if i stay here or move my last transfer! Hope everything is going well at home! Love you!

busy busy busy

Hello Family!!! Well this week was just a blurrrrrr!!! I can't even believe how fast it went!! We were all over the place this week! We had a zone training we had to go to this week and we had to do some other training to help some of the other sisters in another zone as well so we were just going back and forth between our area and the other 2 zones so it was pretty crazy! But when we were in our area it was soooo good! This week we had some amazing lessons with our investigators! We have a new invesitigator.. s. wiew! She is AMAZING! So we taught her the restoration on monday and gave her a BoM and committed her to read... and then we met with her on tuesday and guess where she was... 1 Nephi 11!!!!! WHHAATTT?!?! That does not happen very often!! So we were soo excited and she had soo many great questions and just so excited to read! It was awesome! She now has a goal to be baptized next month! Then we taught her again on saturday and started the plan of salvation... and after an hour had gotten to talk about the atonement.. but when we started to close the lesson, she was like wait.... i want to know it all right now! Can't we just stay!! hahaha She's soooooo good!!!! So excited for her!!! Then yesterday at church we had a couple walk-ins who are protestant, but when we were in sunday school we were learning about working and learning as members out of gospel principles and it was so cool to hear one of them share a brief testimony that god guided them to come to our church today b/c she had been having a lot of questions about her work and what should take more priority work or family! So she said she got her answer! So cool! AH! so many little miracles everyday! Anyways things here are going great! This next week is going to be another busy one! We have to go on 2 switch offs and prepare for another zone conference! Hope all is good at home! Love you!! Love, S. Itri

and that's why this is the lord's work and not man's

Helllllloooo family!!! How is everyone doing!??! hope all is going great! Well this week has just been a whirl wind of events but i will start with the most important... we had a baptism yesterday!!! YAYYY!!!! Her name is S. Noon and she is awesome!! she has been investigating for over a year and we have been working with her for the past 3 months and she's finally made the commitment! I am sooo excited for her b/c she truly understands the commitment she's made and that's why it has taken her so long b/c she needed to know 100% this was the path for her!! AH! i am just sooo happy for her and i know her life is just going to get so much better!! yay! The next event of the week... transfer meeting!!! So we got the a call on tuesday saying the me and s. wiganda would not be moving and that our 2 companions would be... and so we just assumed that we would be getting 2 new luugs (greenies) b/c their were 11 new sisters coming in... so we have this thing here called payagoning which is basically guessing where everyone is moving to and such... just according to what makes the most sense... so that's what we payagoned that we would have 2 new sisters with us... well the morning of transfer meeting we get a call from the APs.... they wanted to talk to our companions (who just got done with training) and guess what.. they got called to be trainers!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!! so they will be training after only 3 months of being in thailand!! WHOA!!! Crazy right... well then it gets better... 6 others from their group are training too!!! and no one from my group is... i am now a "sister training leader" and my companion is S. Wiganda... we are still in srinakarin... with no other sisters... and still no elders!! WHHHAATT?!?!? yes so this is how you know this is God's work and not ours b/c nothing about what happened actually makes sense... but it just shows that God knows better than us!! But as far as this next transfer goes i am soo excited and so sad b/c i feel like it is going to go by suuppperr fast!!! So me and s. wiganda are the leaders over all the sisters in Bangkok... which means this next transfer we will be going on 6 switch-offs and to 3 zone trainings... and to top it off we are now combining our 2 areas together!! AHHH!! soo this next transfer is going to be busy, busy, busy! I am way excited but i dont' want it to go by soooo fast!! Anyways everything here is great! i love everything about being here... i hope alll is great at home! love you all Love, S. Itri

foood

Hello Family!! This week was another exciting week! So the members here now know that it is getting close to transfers so they are inviting us over to eat ALL THE TIME!!! AHHH!!! its sooo good, but sooo bad b/c they make sooo much food! But it has been sooo much fun b/c they are teaching us how to make the food as well! So that has been great! I am soo excited to try some of these recipes! Its soo good! I hope you are all ready for some spicy food when i get back!! haha This week we also had stake conference which was good! I got too see all the members from some of my old areas which is always fun! They talked about some good things, especially in helping with missionary work, so i am super excited for that! We'll see how it goes!! This next week we will also be having one of our investigators be interviewed for baptism!!! yay!! she is soo funny! She was like... wait you or s. steel might not be here for my baptism, ok im going to email your mission president! i won't allow that, you both have to stay!! hahaha sooo cute!! love her! her name is noon and she has been an investigator for over a year! but she is soo good! She just wants to make sure this is for her! Anyways, everything is going great! i love it all, hope you are all doing great! love you! Love, S. Itri Picutres 1/2: our yummy food we made 3: our awesome matching district... poor elders huh?? hahaha

Click

Hello Family! So this week was good! we had an exploding amount of new investigators this week! It was sooo crazy!! We had sooo many new people come to English Class this week and we were able to introduce the gospel with them and it was sooo good! We have some people that we started teaching that are really great! I am way excited to see them progress! We have this really sweet old lady that we started teaching and in the first lesson we gave her a goal to be baptized! She was sooo interested in everything and sooo excited to read the Book of Mormon!! And she even called us to set up the appointment! It was soooo great! She is already Christian, but doesnt really go to any other church she just has faith in Jesus Christ and wants to follow him! She is soo great! And i am soo excited to teach her more! Then This week we had a great lesson with one of our other investigaters, S. Noon, she has been struggling with her testimony in Joseph Smith, So we decided to watch the full length Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration with her and it was such a great lesson, and even though it was in English she was sooo intently watching every second of it, and at the end she asked "why did Joseph have to die" and as we explained more, i asked her if she thought that Joseph Smith would endure all those trial and sacrifice his life if this wasn't for God, or if it was just his own church, and she said No, for sure no, So i think it finally clicked with her! YAY! I am sooo happy i think that's just what she needed to start to understand more fully! Anyways, everything is going great! Hope all is going well at home! Love you all! Love, S. Itri 1: We went soap boxing for district meeting: stand on a stool and testify! 2: "

I'm Glad I'm Not In Europe

Hello Family! So this week was a rollercoaster that's for sure! But it was good! This week we had some interesting experiences... so i'll start with...i hate the rain! hahaha So in Thailand when in rains the work basically stops...which stinks... but they are afraid of the rain here so if it starts to rain they will cancel their appointments, turn off their phones, and pretty much stay inside... so it rained for 2 days last week and that basically turned into us struggling to find work! We had appointments that we called and confirmed an hour before and then it came to the time they were suppose to show up and they cancelled! AH it was a little frustrating but it all worked out. Then this week we went and visited the boss of one of our members and he is Christian already, so we thought that would be kind of a good thing, b/c that doesnt happen very often here and thought oh yeah he'll have that good solid background... well how wrong we were! He is a very headstrong person and we couldn't even get a single word in like the whole time we were there... pretty sure he was trying to convert us to his religion! haha but it just made me think of how grateful i am that i am here in thailand and not in europe trying to teach tons of people with a christian background! Buddhist background is easier! (never thought i'd say that!) haha But it was a fun experience! This week we also had the chance to teach a guy from Nigera! We met him a few weeks ago and invited him to come to English class (even though he already speaks english) well sure enough he came! So usually we have Elders who serve in the International branch here who will teach people that aren't thai, so we gave those elders his number and they made an appointment, but then the elders weren't able to make it out the our church building, so we ended up teaching! Anyways overall this week was soo good! Hope everyone at home is doing good! love you! Love, S. Itri