Dear family and friends!
Happy Friday! We hope this finds you well and enjoying summer adventures!
We have had a fun week spending lots of time with the younger missionaries. We inspected some houses, had lunch with some of the missionaries, went out to dinner with the senior missionaries for a birthday celebration, played games and made cookies with the sister missionaries on their P-day (preparation day)!
The bad news: We started playing games with the sisters after I put the last batch of cookies in the oven. In the middle of our Phase Ten Hand, Sister Johnston said, "I smell something burning!"
The good news: We gratefully did not burn down the apartment complex. We were afraid that the whole building would be evacuated when the smoke alarms went off.
BUT - the smoke alarms did NOT go off. We are not sure if that is good or bad news.
Well, enough nonsense! Let's get to the pictures to tell the rest of the story!
We love you and miss you all! Thanks for reading!
Love,
Elder and Sister Brady (Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, John and Shelly, and so on!)
PS - I also went to Young Women's Camp this week in Oregon. (But you will actually have to scroll to the bottom of all the pictures to see if I am telling the truth or not!)
The fantastic four! We love our Rayong Missionaries! I guess there are six of us Missionaries!
Elder Jones, Elder Lowry, Bradys, Elder Sevilla, and Elder Bergstedt
We enjoyed our house visits with the Elders and hearing their stories of how they ended up on missions in Thailand! They had us in tears!
Rayong Branch on Sunday, July 20th, 2025
Walking around the store on Saturday night we saw this yummy delight advertised!
Chicken and cheese wrapped inside a slice of Pizza!!
Another temple view from our office. We enjoyed our trip to the temple on Wednesday night again.
We cannot beat this commute. It takes us a whole minute to get to the temple.
We will take advantage of this once in a lifetime convenience and blessing!
Monday - P-day! Sisters Endaya, Taylor, and Johnston came over to our apartment to make cookies and play games with us! We don't get a set weekly P-day,
so we played hooky from the office and spent the afternoon with them!
We were so happy that these young gals would want to spend an afternoon with the geriatrics!
We found out they had not had lunch so Nana and Poppa Brady had to make them some! Elder Brady shared his very special (hard to find in Thailand) Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with them! And they were so happy! Sister Brady had fruits and veggies cut up!
Batch one! The chocolate chip cookies turned out great!
Let's celebrate with a picture!
We should make No Bakes too! And they turned out amazing! So far -- great success!
I put the last batch of Chocolate Chip cookies in the oven and then it was time to play games. We pulled out the Phase Ten and started playing. After a considerable amount of time, Sister Johnston said, "I smell something burning."
So! I jumped up and opened the oven . . . and smoke came billowing out!!!
Sister Endaya looks concerned! And rightfully so! There was a lot of smoke! We were sure the smoke alarms would go off and all 5 floors (apartments, mission homes, mission offices, MTC, Temple Distribution Center, and so on) would all get evacuated!
But the smoke alarms did not go off. We turned the oven off. And eventually, the smoke went away. I don't know where it went, but when we opened the oven we found these tempting chunks of coal.
The sisters felt so bad and wanted to let us know they still loved us, despite the burnt cookies.
They sort of look liked triple dark chocolate chip cocoa cookies. The sisters thought it would be funny to make up a plate for the Elders! Hahahahaha! But we did NOT do that!
Here are the cookies side by side for comparison.
They sent us this cute photo of them on their train ride home!
Hahahaha! 
Gifts of food are always fun in Thailand! We get to try the most interesting treats!
I held my google translator (iphone) up to see what the package said! And Langlang wants me to try it!
So, I will try it! I did not call the number though!
This package had about 9 little pieces of toast with a sweet and spicy Thai chili past on it and the yellow stuff on top of that was dried shredded pork!
Here goes!
I'm going to have to think about this!
I would never have thought of eating toast with sweet chili paste and dried pork!
Elder Brady is a little hesitant!
But he did it! Yay!
Elder Belnap takes a bite and studies the packaging.
He doesn't need google translate to figure out what it says!
Some of the missionaries needed new spoons. Elder Brady wondered if these would do! Haha!
After inspecting the APs and Office Elder's house we headed to McDonalds for lunch!
AP Elder Bird, Bradys, Office Elders Collado and Gao, and AP Elder Kiphibane.
(AP - Assistants to the President - they help the mission leaders!)
(Office Elders - work a few days in the office to help us out!)
I thought this lone flower needed a picture taken.
This is in front of the Elder's Condo. A Buddhist shrine is in the background.
Elder Hutcheon, Bradys, and Elder Fowles after their house inspection.
Elder Wingrove and Elder Tang! We enjoyed our visits with the Elders (all of the above) and loved the stories they shared with us!
Waiting for the train to head home!
Happy Birthday to Elder Meeker! We celebrated at Hard Rock Cafe!
Bottom left clockwise:
Elder Stepp, Elder Meeker, Sister Meeker, Elder Brady, Sister Brady, Sister Stepp, and Sister Belnap.
Good morning to the Gresham Young Women Camp! For the past two years, I spent the last week of July at Camp with my daughter Katrina, and granddaughter Charlotte and some amazing campers as Cabin Moms! This year we are in Thailand so I could not be there. Or . . . could I?
Hello! Mother and Daughter!
Camper Zoe holds me up for skit night! Charlotte in the background!
If you read this far, you are a true friend!
We love and miss you!
Bye!
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