Dearest Family,

HEY! IT"S MOM"S BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MOM! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! :) May all your birthday wishes come true!!

Hello! Right now I am barefoot sitting in a smelly internet cafe. It really smells terrible and it's because people sleep here! I feel a lil bit gross, but it's all good. I'll just get out my sanitizer and say a prayer that I don't get some weird fungus disease in my feet.

It's raining!!!! Welcome to rainy season! It feels so nice outside. I love it. Maybe if they kept the door open in this place it would smell like rain instead of...whatever this is.

Yesterday I got to go to the International Branch Sacrament Meeting! ENGLISH! It was great. It felt like sacrament meeting at home. Sister Carter and I have been assigned to help in that branch in addition to the Pak Kret branch. They have one investigator named Josiah, he plays soccer, and is progressing pretty well. We haven't met him yet, but we will and we will get to teach him. They also have some less actives that we get to work with! I'm so excited!

I forget if I've told you this already...but anyway, last week we stopped at this house and asked if we could use their bathroom. The lady was so sweet and talked to us for a lil bit about religion. Her son is 24, and he loves studying all religions. We asked if we could come back on Sunday and teach them about Christ and they said yes! SO last Sunday we taught them how to pray and watched Finding Faith in Christ. It was amazing, New (the son) said the most amazing prayer (I feel like he prays better than me. Well, he does. He speaks Thai) but really he was so reverent. We went back on Tuesday, gave his Mom a picture of Christ, and then Yesterday had an awesome lesson with a member to introduce the Book of Mormon. We had a great Zone training about introducing the Book of Mormon with more sincerity and excitement. We talked about rather than just turning to the introduction page because that's what you do, we talked about being creative, sharing the stories in the Book and telling them about the people that they will be reading about. The introduction pages are powerful and should be read with investigators, but if you sit down with someone and say read the first paragraph and then the last two and then you can pray to know if it's true, they don't even know what is in the book or why they should read it. It opened my eyes to what these investigators are experiencing the first time they ever are introduced to the Book of Mormon. When we showed Malee (the mom) The Book of Mormon, we told her that the Book starts out telling about a story of a family that traveled on a boat as they were guided by the Lord. I told her about Nephi and the great faith that he had. I told her that this story and example of Nephi is one of my favorites because like Nephi, there are many times in my life where I don't know what I am supposed to do or how, but I know that through faith and trust in the Lord we can do all things. When we gave the book to New (the Son) he turned to the picture of Christ at the beginning and just kept saying how much he loved it. He told us that he would read the whole thing this week. We promised him that if he prayed as he read that he would have a greater understanding of the book. I am so excited to continue teaching this family.

The Book of Mormon is so powerful. I never want to go a day with out reading it. I love being a missionary. I love helping others become converted and change while I too get to experience a deeper conversion and change every day striving to become better. I know that this church is true.  I love you so much! Have a wonderful week!

Love, Love,

Sister Sahagun