Dear family and friends,
Happy Mission Anniversary to us! Can you believe we have been missionaries for 8 months?? That means we are 1/3 of the way through our mission! Honestly, the last 8 months have flown by. We will be leaving Thailand before we know it! So we are going to enjoy every minute of it!
This week we had our Area President Elder Tai and his lovely wife here in Thailand for a Mission Tour. We had a chance to meet with them and go out to dinner with them, our mission leaders, and our office co-missionaries (the Belnaps).
We also had the pleasure of joining the Bangkok Zone for zone conference. This joyous occasion included waking up before 6am and making a pancake breakfast for the Elders and Sisters. It was a lovely day were where were physically and spiritually fed.
In other news, we did a house inspection (where the Elders did an A plus job) and my tooth started hurting this week like crazy!
Root Canal is scheduled for Monday!
Well, you will be relieved to know there are way less pictures this week. Scroll on down for pictures and details!
We love you and miss you all! And we hope to hear from you! Thank you to those who take the time to read this!
Love,
Elder and Sister Brady (Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, John and Shelly, and so on)
Thai food for dinner with the Tais (visiting general authorities),
Kanyaphans (our mission leaders), and the Belnaps.
Pad Thai! It was as good as it looks!
Rise and Shine! Time to make some pancakes for Zone Conference! Belnaps and Bradys!
Time to dish up! By the way, this breakfast is happening in the old Asoke Building where John attended church when he was a missionary half a century ago because our building was in use. We found out at the last minute so we scurried to cart everything over to the church so we could make the breakfast. I forgot the extra pancake mix, but there was enough and more! A loaves and fishes miracle!
Lunch time with all of our wonderful Bangkok Missionaries! We sure love these servants of the Lord.
Time to play a game! We transferred a pomelo (giant grapefruit like fruit) using only chopsticks and teams. We learned how to work together
and how to transfer responsibilities. It was a great object lesson!
And here we are - the entire Bangkok Zone! Oh how we love these missionaries!
Fun fact - we had a special musical number and the entire zone sang!
The audience consisted of the Tais and the Kanyaphans!
Walking home from the Asoke building, I had to take this picture! These are bougainvillea. I mistakenly called them azalea in a recent blog post.
Checking out some local dentists.
I hope this is not the equipment they will use for my root canal!
Sometimes you jus need to have pizza. And we had to celebrate our mission anniversary! We have a special coupon at The Pizza Company. We can buy one get one free. Every few weeks we go buy two pizzas (one is free), eat a few slices and bring the rest home to freeze and eat over a week or two.
On our way to do a house inspection, the GPS directed us to take some back roads to avoid an accident. The scenery was so beautiful!
I love this little back road! So much nicer than the traffic we get in Bangkok.
I love this story one of our RMs (from the seminar) posted!
Congratulations to these Chachoengsao Elders for having an A+ clean house!
Elders Runia, Tupou, Olson, and Kiphibane are such great Elders!
Remember last week when we were dancing on the cruise ship?
Well, these cute sisters saw the dance on our stories and sent us a video of them doing the dance! We love you Sisters Colver and Brooks!
A little flashback fun! Then and now! Still dancing 41 years and counting!
You made it! Pizza is on us when you come visit us in Thailand!
Thanks for reading!
I love that you got to take the scenic route on the way the apartment inspections. It’s beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWhere did you find the old fashioned dental equipment? I hope your root canal goes well.
Hi Kelsey! The dental equipment was at one of the dentist's office we were checking out - trying to get estimates for the root canal. Thank goodness, it was just for display fortunately! Haha! The procedure went well and the throbbing in my tooth is gone. I go back in in a couple of weeks for a crown! The scenic roads are sure pretty here when you get out of the city a ways!
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