Dear family and friends,
Well, I don't want to jump ahead, but this weekend has been action packed! From a dinner cruise along the Chao Phraya River to a wonderful Women's Conference with a special guest, the General Relief Society President, Sister Camille Johnson. However, since I have 800 pictures of food I took this week, I will share the cruise and conference pictures and stories for next week's blog. So this week was really just one of those weeks that we have already described to you before. On Saturday, we drove down to Rayong to attend church with our little branch. John had to give a talk in church. He did a great job, of course! After church, we had another wonderful linger longer with lots of yummy food brought and prepared by the branch members. Oh and we had the largest attendance ever! 32 people! It was very exciting. We drove back Sunday afternoon. The rest of the week was work in the office, English Connect, "physical therapy" (aka massage), mango sticky rice, trips to the Post Office (to drop off work mail), and another movie night (which included another massive tub of popcorn!!).
A picture is worth a 1000 words, so scroll on for one billion more words!
We love you and we miss you and we pray you are well!
With much love,
Elder and Sister Brady (mom and dad, grandpa and grandma, John and Shelly, and so on)
KFC in Rayong. We love our little meal deal! Less than $6 US dollars total for the two meals!
We have walked by Me Waffle many times and finally tried it the week before.
Last week we shared a chocolate chip waffle.
This week we had an almond waffle (for dessert after our KFC).
Almond Me Waffle. It was a yummy dessert and it cost 33 cents USD.
This little shrine is on the side of the road near our Hotel in Rayong.
Across the street from our hotel is a store called "Wan." It is a huge warehouse store, sort of like a Sam's Club or Costco, but without the food court or samples.
The aisles at Wan! This store is super warm/hot inside! There is no air conditioning and we come out of the store drenched in sweat! But the prices are right!
More Wan!
After Wan, we headed over to Lotus (sort of like a Target).
We found these intriguing snacks in the Cookie Aisle!
More yummy cookies!
Rain in the forecast!
Our morning buffet breakfast. Fruit and veggies (and in the distance, bread and Nutella!!!!!)
Say cheese!
The buffet!
More of the buffet!
And more!
Did I mention it was all you can eat? Finished the fruits and Nutella, on to fried rice and some kind of interesting meats. More fruit and pantango (Thai donut).
Time for Relief Society, I love that wherever we go in the world,
we can have sisters and friends at church.
More Relief Society with the Elders joining us to help interpret. We have a good mix of Thai speakers and English speakers (as we have some sisters from the Philippines in our Branch who speak English).
The after church potluck is wonderful!
Delicious Thai rice and Chicken!
This is Rambutan! And it is so delicious!
The Thai word for it is Ngok. One of the sisters in our Branch,
Master Chef, brought some from her farm!
Aroi Mak (very delicious) as they say in Thai!
Mangosteen. Also very delicious!
Yay! I opened it without destroying it! It is called mang-khut in Thai.
Elder Brady and Elder Jones enjoying some yummy foods!
The Bradys, our primary president (Sister Mary Jean), our only primary child, and Sister Grace!
Sister Grace and the Bradys! Sister Grace woke up at 3am to take the bus up to Bangkok for the Women's conference this weekend! But more about that next week!
The drive home. The bus is advertising Dominoes Pizza! Follow that Bus!!
Sister Master Chef sent me home with some homemade and home grown Mango Sticky Rice!!
More mangosteen!
More rambutan!
Since I was showing off the fruits, John wanted to show off the veggies!
We decided to go to the movies again this week . . . And of course we had to buy another giant popcorn that we could not finish, So we took it home to munch on for a couple of days! Waiting for the subway train after the movie! Oh, by the way, it was Mission Impossible! We enjoyed it!
It is a ridiculously giant tub!
Walking down the hall to our apartment!
Teaching English Connect. Why is one of the sisters upside down?
The Belnaps have family in town and their family brought them some chocolate from home! You can't find Milky Ways here in Thailand and they kindly shared with us!
Fun fact about me: I love chocolate!
The real fake costco!!! Makro! We took the missionaries shopping for Zone Conference Breakfast!
These outgoing Elders said hello to every person that passed by! Makro is another large discount warehouse store. You have to have a membership (wink wink - you apparently really don't have to have a membership) to get in. But alas, no samples, or hotdogs and a soda for lunch.
The Elders posing with our breakfast ingredients. Please note the Nutella! We (Belnaps and us) will be helping them make breakfast Tuesday morning. PS - If any of you know the Proctors, Elder Kiphibane's mother (he is on the far right) served her mission with Melissa Proctor in the 90s in NYC. And Elder Wood's grandpa was the Portland Temple President (The Garners) during Covid. It's a small world!
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