Dearest Family,

I'm so happy! Happy as a dappy! There's just no way you can understand how great it is to be a missionary here in Thailand right now with Sister Tilley. Our favorite thing to say is "tight". Like we had a tight day, or our  our schedules pretty tight, or our muscles are tight. Maybe it's not that funny. Did I mention we have a new district leader? Well it's the truth, and well he just makes everything really intense. He's really great, everything is just a major big deal and we are way chill so it's funny. I don't know why I'm telling you this random information.

Saturday we spent the whole day with the youth! It was a missionary preparation activity and they were all at the church from 6:30 to 7:30 - pretty close to a full day of missionary work! They had a transfers meeting in the morning, companions, nametags, the works, and our job was to take them out Dan Jones-ing and support them in giving out a Book of Mormon and just contacting. It was so fun! They are so bold! A couple of the Elders said that the young men that they were with were on fire and just about gave this woman a baptismal date! These kids are so ready to be missionaries. I love contacting. Talking to people is so fun. We met a man from Israel who was super strong in his beliefs and not really into changing, but was very respectful of us going out and sharing what we believe. These youth were a really good example to me and reminded me of that fire that we need to have as we go about sharing this gospel. This is exciting news! They were literally running from person to person, it was hard to keep up. One girl, Bukkhi, was just showing us all up and didn't miss a single person that walked by her. We would be walking up the stairs, realize she wasn't with us, and then turn around to see that she was testifying to the lady with the food cart! Such a good example to me! I'm recommitted! Talk to everyone. 

We did most of our contacting at Central (the mall) and there was this huge animae (how do you spell that)convention happening and all these people dressed up as Asian cartoon characters it was hilarious and great. I wish I'd taken better pictures, but I'll send what I've got. 

On Wednesday night Sister Tilley and I were on our way home from a lesson when we almost quite literally ran into this man. He just stopped us and asked us what we were doing here. He was speaking English, he's from Ghana and then he just told us hes' been looking for the Church. Perfect! He's amazing. We met with him at the church the next night, gave him a tour of the chapel, gave him a Book of Mormon, he came to church on Sunday, I'm just so impressed by his faith in Christ. He's had aso many crazy life threatening experiences and terrible trials that have brought him closer to God. After talking with him, I really felt humbled and was reminded of the goodness and glory of God. He is our loving Heavenly Farther and protects us in so many ways. He places people in our lives that bless us and help us grow. I am so grateful for these teaching experiences that I feel like I get so much more out of.

Our little soi that we live on is so cute and I just love coming home at night and seeing the herd of angry dogs ferociously barking at us. It's really terrifying. Friday night there were literally 11 dogs that chased us down the road. Sister Tilley and I thought it was the end. We rode as fast as we could and then as soon as we were away from them Sister Tilley stopped and wanted to turn around and go back for a picture! What? We're crazy. The picture didn't even turn out.

We had zone training yesterday, Sister Tilley and I were asked to make cookies. Specifically cookies with too much salt that tasted bad. Object lesson! Unbalanced ingredients means not good cookies. Similarly, unbalanced key indicators means not good missionary work! This week we are committed to having balanced key indicators! Numbers are important! The Lord numbers his children, right?

I love you all have a wonderful week! The church is so true!!!

Love, Love,

Sister Sahagun