First Transfer

Hello Everyone! It was the end of the first transfer in Thailand and halfway done with being a Greenie. This week has been a good week. We got another greenie in the house and the one that just finished training left for the North. I found out Rangsit is strictly a training area so I'll either be training next transfer or moving. I was a little sick last P-Day and lost another 7 pounds so I've lost 20 pounds now haha. I'm starting to fit my shirts better. We taught English Class the other day and teaching English is hard. I don't even know how to explain how to make most of the sounds in English. I contacted this old lady that lived in Vegas named BJ. She was a black jack dealer in the casinos. She speaks really good English. She's funny she yells into the phone.

We painted a member's house the other day. It was such a Thai way to paint. We barely had anything to cover the floors and the paint was so watery so it was fun. It took awhile but it looked really good actually. Thailand does stuff in the most sketchy way possible haha. Some lady came over who is a painter and said she could've done it faster but the member was like how much you cost and she was like 3-4,000 Baht and the member was like they did it for free. Dropped the mic and walked away. She also gave us some Ice Cream.

The other Elders who live with us finally found a house. Now we won't have 6 Elders living in a house for 4 Elders. We saw a house or something in the middle of some trees, it was weird. I sent a picture. You can see they have a ladder leading to somewhere over the wall. The other picture of me wearing my favorite tie (just for the picture then I had to put back on my black one because we are still in mourning for the king. Don't know when that will end). I bought some fabric and had a Thai lady make some ties out of it. It's my favorite tie. I traded the other ones I had made.

We're contacting (calling) all of the numbers we've gotten from our street contacting this transfer. We don't knock doors. Sister Gung missed sacrament meeting so she won't be getting the Gift of the Holy Ghost for two weeks because it's Stake Conference next week and Elder Wong from the 70 will be there.

This week I started to read "Our Search For Happiness" By Elder M. Russell Ballard. It's really good. It talks about the church to someone who is investigating it. I love personal study. There is this story of a Firefighter who was saving children from a burning building and he got all the children out and he went back in because he thought he saw a baby in the crib. The building exploded and they found him next to the cradle covering an unscratched doll. I love stories of heroism and admire them. The greatest hero of all time is Jesus Christ. He suffered for us more than we can imagine. He did what He did because He loves us and wants us to be happy and return to live with God again. He overcame death so that all of us can be Resurrected and live forever with our families. This knowledge is what drives me everyday and what I love to share with people. I love this Gospel and the amazing spiritual experiences of serving a mission. I love you all and miss you all!

Elder Decker
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Thailand Bangkok Mission