Dear family and friends,
Here are some fun facts:
After today, we only have 6 transfers left!!
And in 9 months we will be home!
How is this even happening! Time is flying by! I won't bore you anymore with my words! I will bore you instead with my pictures! Haha!
Thanks again for taking the time to peek into our lives! We love it here and will miss it here when we "jope (Thai word for finish)!"
As always we love you and we miss you and we thank you for your words, prayers, love, and support.
Love,
Elder and Sister Brady (mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, John and Shelly, and so on)
On to the pictures:
Saturday morning drive to Rayong! Thank heavens for our prescription sunglasses!
We would be blind without them!
Inspection day lunch with the Rayong Elders at Humbleburger!
Elders Allred, Casinillo, Westcott, and Hutcheon :)
Waiting in the lobby for the missionaries prior to their house/condo inspection.
Elders Westcott and Casinillo did an A++ job! Their condo was super clean!!
Look how neatly they have their cleaning supplies lined up (separate from the food, of course!)!
Saturday afternoon haircut at Elder Brady's favorite barber shop!
This is a very sour treat made from the Tamarind plant!
Here it is on the google!
This darling beautician made this sweet and SOUR treat and gave us a bag of her homemade goodies! They are very sour, but I like them!!
Sunday morning, the Relief Society sisters gather for a lesson and discussion in Rayong.
Elder Westcott (our Branch President)! Hello!
Sunday afternoon lunch after church! It was so yummy! As always!
We saw about 10 of these giant colorful buses in a caravan on our drive home Sunday!
We actually see them all the time and we wonder where they are going and who is on them!!
Sunday evening Zoom fireside! We love to hear from our "departing missionaries." Their devotional, stories, and testimonies are so inspiring. We will miss these great missionaries!
I love the efforts being made to beautify this walkway along the klong.
You can see the water taxi in the distance.
Tuesday afternoon, we traveled to Ramkhamhaeng to check out the Sister's old Condo. The Elders will be moving into that Condo soon. We met up with the Sisters to spend some time visiting Sandy whose husband passed away not long ago. Sandy shared some sweet experiences with us. She has never prayed before and decide to pray for peace and comfort because she is missing her husband so much. And the very night that she prayed, she had a dream where she was able to see and talk to her husband. It gave her so much comfort.
We ordered a pizza from Sandy to take home for dinner and we did our favorite pose with the Sisters!
Our beautiful friend, Sandy.
Tuesday afternoon, driving home, we saw these beautiful rays of sunshine peaking through the clouds.
I'll have to check in with my mom to be sure, but I think her mom used to call these rays of sunshine - angel's slides!
There is a motorcycle, car, and bike in front of us on a BUSY freeway!!
The motorcycles are everywhere!!!!
No pictures on Wednesday! What?? I guess we are jumping to Thursday - we ran into Elders Nash and Bird who left Thursday evening! We had to take a picture of these great Elders who served in Bangkok as APs at various times. The temple grounds and temple are being deep cleaned during the two week temple closure. (That explains the blue tarp in the background).
Elder Brady helps the Elders weigh their luggage!
The "pose" with the Bradys, Calls, and Elders Nash and Bird!
How would you like this to be your bathroom scale? Sister Call found this in the apartment they just moved into! Haha!
Sisters Colver, Cobia, and Cobia stop by for a visit! Sister Colver recreates Elder Brady's standing in the corner pose! Haha!
The Bradys and the Sisters! Mariah Cobia (left) flew in today from Bangladesh to meet her triplet sister (Sister Cobia) on the right! They will fly home tonight back to Utah. Sister Colver (center) also flies home soon but will spend a little more time in Thailand with her mom (who is Thai) before flying home to Nevada. We will miss these darling, fun sisters!
We spent nearly two hours Thursday afternoon telling stories and laughing! Oh how we love these missionaries! And it was fun to meet Sister Cobia's triplet (well one of the triplets . . .)!
Friday morning - transfer day! And new arrival training day!
It's breakfast time in the mission home! The Senior office missionaries handled the breakfast and Sister Nok made us a yummy lunch (I was so busy eating seconds and thirds, I forgot to take pictures!!!) Pictured above: Sister Makilan (arrived from the Philippines) hugs her new companion, Sister Cameron (who heads back to Australia at the end of this new transfer).
So many missionaries are gathered in the mission home!
Me and the Bangkok Sisters! Sister Polsan (from Thailand) and Sister Furlan (from Canada)!
Look who is back in town! Elder Parker - but we call him Jonathan now! Old companions Elder Jones and Jonathan are happy to see each other!
Time for training! Elder Arganbright and Sister Makilan are the only new missionaries this transfer!
Elder Brady trains the missionaries on all things housing!
It's time to take pictures on the mission home balcony.
Each transfer we take pictures of the new missionaries with their companions.
And then we send their parents a "Safe Arrival" letter and the pictures!
It's Friday afternoon! It's been a long, wonderful, exhausting day! Departure/transfer/arrival days are always long wonderful and exhausting. That actually wraps up the 10th transfer here in the mission! We only have 6 more transfers to go!!! TIME IS FLYING! I am feeling this desperate need to eat mango sticky rice every single day!
That's it for this week!
Thanks for reading!
We love you!
Goodbye!
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