Christmas in July

Dearest Family,

Hello! Thailand is still the best mission in the world and this was a wonderful week! One of my favorite things about Thai is how polite people are. "kha" (for girls) and "kha phom" (for boys) is just the polite word that you say at the end of your phrase or it just means yes and it's really polite and adorable.

I love it. 

This week Sister Tilley and I celebrated Christmas in July! We taught everyone about Christ (like we do every day) had a breakfast Christmas casserole, wrapped up PJ's and put them under our pretzel Christmas tree, we jammed to some MOTAB featuring David Archuleta, and you know I found some curlers and kept up that great tradition. The curls were great for about 5 minutes and then quickly vanished. It was a wonderful day and I'm so excited for real Christmas! Joy to the world! 

Jesus Christ is our Savior! Let every heart prepare him room!!

Tuesday was the best day ever. I've never felt so productive on a Tuesday. District Meeting and English class take up a huge chunk of the day, but this week we had three lessons with members, invited our new investigator นำพัน to be baptized, and prepared a sweet lesson for English class. At District Meeting I finally got to watch the Work of Salvation in English! I'm so motivated, I'm going to be the best member ever. English class turned out to be so quiet! It was raining so not very many people came, but usually we have about 40 15 year old kids and it's a zoo. But this week no one said anything! It was weird and really hard because no one was participating! Any suggestions for fun things we can do to get people to participate. Usually a good game is the trick but this week that didn't even work. I think we may just need to speak more Thai since it's the basic class. After English class, this cute 18 year old girl named Donut came up told us she wanted to learn about Christ! Yes! She is so humble, I'm so excited to help her prepare to be baptized!

We met with this amazing recent convert family from Shri Lanka on Saturday, I love them. Their dad died in the war 6 years ago and the doctrine of eternal families has blessed their lives so much and brought them a lot of comfort. We talked to them about doing family history and they are already doing it! They are refuges trying to move to Australia. It's really humbling to meet and teach these people that have been chased out of their country that have so little and then give so much to us when we visit. I love them.

Yesterday Sister Tulley and I were talking about how the Lord has called us here and simply needs us to be ourselves, using all of our talents and improving who we already are. We're committed to being real with our investigators and being more ourselves. We went contacting last night with this commitment in mind and it was so much more natural and fun to talk with the people that we met and then to share the gospel with them. This week we also had a companion exchange and I learned so much from Sister Wiganda. I'm going to focus on helping my investigators apply the gospel to their lives. Our investigators right now are two 15 year old girls and two 20 year old girls, so it should be easy to relate to them and help them see how the gospel can bless our lives each day. I'm grateful for the things I'm learning and for the Atonement that makes it possible for me to become better. 

I love you all so much! I know that the source of peace in this life is through our Savior Jesus Christ. John 16:33 Trust in Him! Have a wonderful week!

Love, Love, 

Sister Sahagun