Dear loved ones,
You will be relieved to know that this post is back to the normal too many pictures as opposed to last week's WAY TOO MANY PICTURES!!
While traveling last week around Thailand was wonderful, it is good to be back "home" in Bangkok. This week was filled with lots of yummy food, pickleball, friends, missionaries, and of course, work in the office. For more details, scroll on down to the pictures!
As always we love you and miss you and THANK YOU for your notes, love, support, and prayers!
Love,
Elder and Sister Brady (mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, John and Shelly, and so on)
Monday - we worked in the office! But of course we needed to eat lunch, so we headed to Terminal 21 to eat Cinnabon with the Sisters! Sisters Jenkins, Polsan, and Brooks - our Bangkok Sisters!
Terminal 21 is such a beautiful mall (as are most of the malls in Thailand). The malls are so fancy, some have themes, and the air conditioning always feels great! Terminal 21's theme is a different city from around the world represented on each floor!
While most everyone wanted a Cinnabon for lunch, I wanted to try a mango smoothy from an "all things mango stand!" The Smoothie did NOT disappoint! And I took a mini-bon home to share with Elder Brady for breakfast the next day!
Before lunch, I took a Monday morning walk down the Klong! I love those Bangkok blue skies! This time of year, there can be a lot of pollution that makes the skies grey. No Monday morning blues for us today - only the skies were blue!
Back at the annex after lunch, I had to stop and get a picture of the workers way up at the top of the temple. The temple is closed for two weeks for cleaning. It gets cleaned from top to bottom, inside and out! These workers were hanging from repelling lines and washing the outside of the temple!
Elder Brady said to me, "did you get the airplane flying overhead in your picture??" I didn't know, so I quickly took another one!
And then I zoomed in!!!! And do you see it?? How cool is that?? The workers way up there with the airplane!!
Monday night was pizza night! And it was so good!
Jessica and Kaitlyn met us for pizza and then came over for a movie night! I did not get a picture of us at movie night in the apartment, but if you look close you can see you can also see my favorite Elder and our favorite YSAs in this picture of my favorite flowers!!
We watched A Man Called Elder Brady - I mean A Man Called Otto! Haha!
I know . . . I know . . . I have taken this picture many times,
but you know I cannot resist a photo of beautiful bougainvillea!
Tuesday morning, we headed to some missionary house inspections.
Elder Brady is over houses and bikes!
Elders Bergstedt and Wingrove, our Bangkok Zone Leaders did a stellar job cleaning their condo. They live in one of the smallest condos so we were proud of their efforts to tidy up!
Elders Cypers and Sae Wang really blew our minds! They decluttered, cleaned, and even scrubbed the dust off of the top of the fridge! We were super impressed and they earned some extra plusses!
After inspections, we hopped on a songthaew and headed to the mall for lunch!
Elder Brady was entertaining the passengers with his "gang mag" (very good) Thai!
He even broke into a Thai song for the passengers!
All roads lead to Pepper Lunch! This was a first visit for two of the Elders!
Everyone loved it!
Mixue ice cream was the perfect dessert!
On the train ride home, we got a video call from Kevin! We didn't want to disturb the other passengers (who were loudly talking on their phones), so we shared air pods, whispered quietly, and listened to Kevin as he told us about his day!
I saw online that there was going to be a total lunar eclipse in Thailand!
And then I forgot about it!
Until it was almost finished! So, we ran outside to the 6th floor balcony where I got a couple of shots, but my camera really couldn't capture what the eye could see. Plus it was nearly finished.
I zoomed out for this beautiful view from the roof!
Here is another view from the 6th floor balcony of the Annex (where we live).
Wednesday afternoon, the office ladies met and went to lunch to say good-bye to Sister Stepp (front left)! We will be so sad to see her go! She and Sister Meeker (in the front) work in the West Mission Office. Sister Call and I work in the East Mission. I love these dear sisters and will miss them both (Sister Meeker leaves a the end of April). Sister Call will be here in the East for the rest of our mission! Yay! Sister Stepp picked KFC for her good-bye meal! And we were all happy to go! KFC is elevated dining in Thailand! I am not kidding! It is good and you can get a delicious meal for less than $3!
In honor of all who read our entire blog last week, I purchased 3 servings of mango sticky rice.
Elder Brady and I ate one serving for dinner Wednesday night
because we are grown ups and can eat whatever we want!
Thursday morning, I ate mango sticky rice for breakfast. Did I mention this is less than $1 per serving???
I don't know how I will ever leave Thailand!
Thursday morning, this picture (on the left) arrived in our messenger inbox! Sister Colver! hahahaha!! For the 3 people who read the blog, you may remember this silly picture of Elder Brady in an elevator (from a couple of weeks ago). Elder Brady was inspired by a someone he saw in an elevator the week before standing in the corner (as pictured). Sister Colver was inspired by Elder Brady and her companion sent us this picture. I had to create a side by side to remember this forever!
Thursday morning pickleball with the East Mission Office Missionaries and some young moms from the Bangkok International Ward. Jen, Sister Call, Tessa, and Sister Brady. It was hot, but fun!
More power washing of the temple!
Thursday evening, we went to Smizzle Burger to eat . . .smash burgers!
This yummy burger has a spicy peanut butter sauce to die for!!!
The Bradys and the Stepps (who leave 4 days!!). We have been meaning to go out for a bite with the Stepps for a year now and we finally did it in the nick of time!
They had some fun stories to tell! It was a good time!
And that is a wrap! Thanks again for reading!
We love you!
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