Dear loved ones,
I'm a day late on posting this week's letter but we have been going nonstop! This past week was filled with apartment inspections, a root canal, missionaries finishing their time in Thailand (joping), new missionaries arriving, and transfers! We were on the go nonstop! As always the pictures tell the story best. So read on for this week's adventures.
Before you scroll, I just want to say we love you and we miss you and we are so grateful to hear from you!
With love,
Elder and Sister Brady (Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, John and Shelly, and so on)
Elders Lowry and Jones from our branch in Rayong get an A+ on their house inspection!
Great job Elders!!
There is a friendly competition between some of our missionaries. I have to say that our Sisters in Bangkok have been known to have super clean apartments. And now some of the Elders have wanted to get in the game! And we love it! Seriously, look at how they shined the fixtures!
And no spots on the mirror!! Cleanliness is next to Godliness!
Out to lunch to celebrate clean apartments! Elders Saunders, Sevilla, Jones, and Lowry.
Enjoying burgers at Humble Burger in Rayong.
I love these little cats and dolls that wave their arms all day long!
After months of tooth pain that spread to my face pain (this all started around the beginning of July), I finally went to the dentist. I needed to get a crown removed and have a root canal. I'll be getting a new crown in a couple of weeks once the infection is gone. The Dentist told me to only eat soft foods after the procedure. So I had to follow the Doctor's orders. Nutella for the win!
The view from our upstairs apartment often has a new surprise!
Let me zoom in for you:
This rooftop job looks scary to me.
Meet the Nuffers! They are Senior Missionaries serving in Nepal. They are in Thailand for a few weeks. Elder Nuffer is the brother of my good friend, Coral Hammond (a flight attendant friend from SkyWest). And they are related to the Nuffers from the Gresham Stake where we attend church back home. It is such a small world! We plan to have lunch with them and hear about their adventures.
It is new arrival week. One of the many things we do to get ready for new missionaries is to create these Welcome Books to give to them.
These booklets have all kinds of helpful information for new missionaries.
On Wednesday, Elder Brady gave a patriarchal blessing to Deepak.
He is a 32 year old Stake President from India!
This was in the news and all over facebook here in Bangkok this week! I did not actually see this new hole in the road, but thought I would share it here anyway!
Thursday was joping day. We are so sad to say goodbye to our beautiful, faithful Sister Taylor!
She was so much fun to spend time with!
We will miss our pickleball games with her, cookie bakes, and her great sense of humor!
Lots of hugs and tears!
Some smiles too!
Group hug with Sisters Taylor and Johnston who is leaving too!
Tears and laughter all day long!
Sister Johnston is from Australia! She was such a lovely hard working missionary. She had a great sense of humor and we loved our visits, lunch and cookie making with her too!
Oh how we love these Bangkok Sisters! Sisters Johnston, Siri, Taylor, Lundberg, and Peterson!
Elder Belnap is waving hello behind us!
Lunch time at the Market! This street food market has the best Pad Thai! The Senior missionaries were in charge of breakfast for Friday morning Transfers. So on Thursday, we took a trip to the market to eat lunch and pick up the fruit for Friday morning's breakfast.
Elder Tamayao also left on Thursday! So we needed to get a goodbye picture! Elder Tamayao has a great sense of humor, a love of the gospel, and he is a fabulous artist! He did pencil drawings of Elder and Sister Brady and gave the to us. He did a great job!
Sister Johnston's family flew to Thailand from Australia to pick her up! Mother, father, brothers, sisters, and their children all came for a trip of a lifetime!
It was so fun to watch the Johnston family's joyful reunion!
This is Elder Serna from the Philippines. He is serving his mission in Cambodia, but was in Thailand to get his Visa renewed. He had never received a patriarchal blessing and Elder Brady was able to give him his blessing on Thursday!
Thursday evening, Sister Taylor comes over to our apartment to say her final goodbyes!
She is nervous and excited! We are happy to spend time with her, but also we are sad to see her go!
Friday morning! Time to train the new arrivals. It's really more of an orientation. We welcome them and go over housing and medical information! And we spend a little time introducing ourselves and getting to know them! New missionaries: Elders Dixon, Hiltscher, Phokk, Bun, Knapp, and Morgan, and Sisters Brunt, Merritt, and Siri!
Lunchtime in the mission home on Friday. It's the scrumptious Cow Soy!!!
White shirts always get ruined when you eat Cow Soy, unless you are smart like Elder Brady!
All of the new missionaries and their trainers (companions) gather for a picture on the mission home balcony! The Bangkok temple is a beautiful backdrop!
Leadership training in the mission home.
I am in heaven here in Thailand! The only thing missing is our children and grandchildren!
And our friends! Let's all move to Thailand!
Thanks for reading!
We love and miss you!
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