MTC Letter Week One

Dear Family and Friends,

Sawadikhaa!! Sabidi may khaa?,

 I don't even know if that is spelled right, but Hello and I love you! This week has been amazing, I love being a missionary. The MTC has never had that many missionaries come in at once before. I think there were 832 of us or something like that. So exciting! So after you dropped me off, I met my lovely and amazing companion Sister Mullen. She is so sweet and we have really similar sense of humor so we laugh all the time together. Her mom is Thai and her dad served his mission there! So cool! So she understands about 80 percent of what our investigator is telling us and I'm getting about 10%. It'll come. I'm so grateful I have her to help me understand and learn new words. She is from Elk Grove and her dad is really good friends with the Newbolds. Love those small world moments. And actually those happen about every hour of the day. I seriously see someone I know every time I leave our classroom. Our district is amazing, I've been so impressed with these Elders and it's awesome to have so many Sisters. Oh! Guess how many of us there are going to Thailand? Yep, 29!! We have 8 Elders and 6 Sisters in our district. It's wonderful. The Sisters are amazing, so prepared and we all know pretty well a balance of having fun laughing and getting to know each other and then transitioning to reverence, focusing to study, and help prepare our lessons. The Elders are great, so funny and still 19 year olds, but I've really been impressed. They all have a great desire to serve and will be great missionaries. I've got a great quote book going of ridiculous things they've said. I'll share some good ones next week. We are teaching our investigator P. Nooy every day. I can't say much in Thai, but I can bear a simple testimony and the spirit takes care of the rest. I am so excited to learn more of the language so that I can better express myself. There are a couple Sister missionaries sitting next to me right now speaking Russian and it's really distracting me, sorry if this is all over the place. I know there was more I wanted to tell you! Well, I'll think about it, write it down and tell you later. Thanks for your dear elder letters! If you send it before noon, I'll get it that day. I love you all! Have a marvelous week!

Love, Sister Sahagun