Dearest Family,

I love you so much! Thanks for the million pictures from the family reunion! I went on a lil raft! So fun. It just all sounded so beautiful and I really want to go to Bryce and go on all these hikes. I miss Utah mountains. Recently, I've been noticing that the sky feels bigger here. Others have confirmed it. The clouds are just so big and beautiful. I love Thailand. Alma 17:23

Today is Mother's Day in Thailand!! Happy Mother's Day! Too bad I don't get to talk to you twice. Just know that I love you most and I'm thinking of you this beautiful day. 

AH! I was so sad when I realized I forgot to tell you about Breecha's baptism last week! He is the Elder's convert and my new favorite member. He is the most adorable old man. He is 80 years old, has 2 teeth on the bottom and the cutest round eyes (kind of looks like pooh bear).

This doesn't quite capture Breecha's true character, he's a lil formal with picture taking, but just imagine him smiling even bigger and squinting those adorable eyes. He's simply wonderful.

He is so sweet has so much love and respect for us refers to us using the very formal tan that they use for scriptures. Anyways every time he sees us he smiles so huge and whys, usually says ohhhhh before he says anything. We are obsessed with him. The story; After 2 minutes of splashy confusion we finally were able to get the Baptizing Brother( Br. Somsak) and Breecha facing the correct direction with the correct hand placement and everything.There was a moment of reverence and Br. Somsak stated Breecha's full name, than another moment of reverence... a bit shorter because Breecha being the incredibly respectful man he is eagerly popped open his eyes and  said "khraaaap, Khaaphom" in response to hearing his name. Everyone lost it! Some explanation was given and moments later he was shaking and rubbing water from his face smiling from ear to ear, He has sure pure testimony which he shared after the ordinance. I was so happy for him. I love him. Cant wait to baptize everyone!

Breecha's Baptism Day!

Here's a lil story about our experience riding bikes in Thailand. Sometimes I get a lil crazy and our calm steady ride to our appointment turns into a Lance Armstrong race. I just get lost in thought and don't realize how fast I'm actually going. Then I turn back to look for Sister Tilley and she's way back there. So I've steadiest the pace, and we've been much happier and less sweaty. Sometimes though I'll look back and Sister Tilley is just nowhere to be found. Then moments later she emerges from the crazy traffic triumphantly holding up the one baht coin she stopped to pick up. I would just laugh and congratulate her on the rich find and we'd press on. This week though, it happened literally every time we set out somewhere new and I just had to ask how she always found these coins. Obviously she's just looking for them. I've just never been looking for coins. I usually look up to make sure I don't hit any cars or I'll look at all the crazy color buildings and make an attempt to read the fast passing signs. Whenever I look down at the road I usually just see trash, plastic bags, and rubber bands. Thai people use plastic bags for everything. They'll put your drink in a bag. And then they'll put that bag inside another bag. And then they'll put that bag in a bag, and then they'll put that bag in a box and then they'll mail that box to themselves, and when it arrives, they throw a rubber band on it. So The buildings and people are usually much more enjoyable to look at than the dirty ground, but as soon as I started to look for coins I found them!

I promise this is a real elephant. It walks the streets of Pak Kret. Last week we were riding our bikes home and it was walking against traffic right in front of us!! Believe it!

We rode our bikes from the Big C Extra to Hollywood Major probably like 6 blocks and between the two of us we found 14 baht! Seek and ye shall find! 14 baht is not very much, but the small victory of finding those coins was really exciting and reminded me of all our investigators that are learning little by little the many blessings that come from the gospel. When you are looking for answers they will come, even if it's just a little bit at a time. All you have to do is seek and ask! DO it!

We've been spending a lot of time rehearsing for this concert, I don't know if I told you about it. Beyond 5 is this boy band group from the states and they're coming here and there's this concert on Friday I should probably know more details, but all I know is that it's been a lil worrisome spending so much of our time to be missionaries singing. It's just a testimony to me that this is the Lord's work and nothing will stop it from progressing. Even though we didn't have as much time as usual, we still saw everyone we planned to see and we were able to find new investigators. 11 new investigators actually. Sister Tilley and I were erupting with joy and happiness yesterday it was just the biggest shower of blessings. There's just so much joy in my heart it doesn't even fit. We feel so blessed, it's amazing to see the many miracles that are happening here. AH! And our investigator May is getting baptized next Sunday I am just so happy. 

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Have a wonderful week! Remember who you are! Really though, we are children of God. He wants so much to help us have happiness in this life. Trust in him and move forward with faith!

A sad dog

Love, 

Sister Sahagun