Week 31: 22 foot waves in Phuket

Well this week there was a huge storm in Thailand, specifically the south of Thailand where I live. I had gotten so many people asking if I was ok and if I was still alive. But, honestly all there was was just a little rain haha so I'm totally good!! Because there was a "huge storm" we were asked to stay in our house, so my companion and I just studied the whole book of Abraham! Honestly so many good things in those chapters especially chapter 3. So if any of you have time to read Abraham 3 it is a good read. I learned so much and it opened my eyes to how big the universe is and how we small we are and yet God knows us individually! So crazy but true!! 

So moving on from that, this week was way way successful. This week we had 7 INVESTIGATORS at church. Like legit 7 people we have been teaching came and I was amazed. So many miracles. We asked one of these people, กอล์ฟ (golf), how he liked church and he said he loved it and that he felt something he hadn't felt before. I know the Lord is blessing me so much down here in Phuket!! 

Plus we continue to find a bunch of people interested. This past week we found 6 new people that we are teaching! One of them was this guy named เชียวเชิญ (chiawchun), who worships idols. Next time I go over there I will have to take a picture but literally his house looks like a วัด (Buddhist temple). He might have 1000 statues of different Buddahs. But we are gonna have to change that somehow haha wish we luck! He is way open to Christianity though and says he worships Jesus too. 

My companion and I got another dater this week. Her name is sister อ้อม (awm) and she has been to church twice now. Her baptism is for the 20th of January and I'm so excited for her and her progress! 

Funny story: 

I met this lady at the park and started talking about buddhism and christianity, and she told me flat out that she wasn't interested. Then on Christmas Eve I get a call from her saying that she wants to begin learning. So we started teaching her and she went on for days rambling on about her life. In the end she told us she didn't want to learn though. I was a little confused and then she told me she just wanted a place for her kids to run around (the church). So a couple days later she showed up to English class and then church but doesn't participate or do anything. I'm not sure what to do. She is a little crazy too and yeah haha. 

Love you all!! I'm going to send a bunch of photos since I haven't sent some in a while. The mission rocks and I'm so excited for this next year. 2019 will be completely in Thailand...blackout year!!!

Love, 

Elder Lowe 

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Welcome 2019!!

Week 31 - Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!

 I cannot believe it's already 2017! I also cannot believe that I have been out for 7 months!! I hit my 7 month mark yesterday January 1st! Missions go by so fast... It's not fair.

So this week was an amazing week! One that has made my mission so far!!
So to start...

This summer when I was with Sister Brunt, we taught this girl named Lansing. If you read my emails then you probably will remember her:)

Sister Brunt and I taught her all summer long for about 3 months. She became our best friend and we loved her so much and still do! We wouldn't even have to knock on her apartment door, we would just walk in; that's how comfortable we were with her, haha! Well her last week in Logan (she was moving to Texas for her PH.D.) she had a prompting to get baptized. We were so excited because we had been asking her to get baptized since we met her. But because it was her last week in Logan she felt it would be to rushed and backed out of the baptism the day before her date in August. Sister Brunt and I were devastated. This hit me harder then any other rejection on my mission. It was because I loved Lansing so much. She truly is one of my dear friends now and I just wanted this joy and happiness from the gospel to help her in her life. Well she moved to Texas and I kept writing her emails on Mondays and didn't really know if I'd ever see her again. Well about a month ago, she emailed me and said she wanted to get baptized. She said that she just keeps getting this prompting to get baptized. So she flew to Logan December 24th and was baptized on December 27th!!!! Sister Brunt and I drove Up to Logan to be there for her! It was seriously the best baptism ever!! The spirit was so strong there. Both Sister Brunt and I bore our testimonies there. It was so great to see Lansing and I already miss her. She flew back to Texas and has been attending church and institute there. MIRACLES do happen. Sometimes we have to patient, but God will always provide away!  I love this gospel so much!

Sister Brunt, Lansing, Marissa

Lansing's baptism

Lansing sad because she has to go back to Texas

Besties reunited again!!!

There is a giant Mnion in this house

Utah decorations

Okay so other things that happened this week:

So I lost the phone 3 times this week!! Yep...I'm the worst. I just kept misplacing it, in people's cars, at the house, I'd leave it at lessons. So I gave it to Sister Sharp and now she's in charge of it because I keep losing it, haha.

It keeps snowing here! On Sunday it was snowing buckets outside and when we knocked on doors people told us we looked like snowmen or the abominable snowman... Yep snow was all over us from head to toe. And we got more than a foot of snow.

We did a lot of tracting this week (like usual). We found some potential investigators, but we just got to make them solid:) We are still teaching Tage and he is getting baptized this Saturday, so excited!!! On New Year's Eve, all the missionaries in my zone had to be in the church from 6-9pm just for safety reasons. We played a nurf gun war...
It was so fun! We played like 3 rounds and man we all had a ball. We were just running all over the church shooting at each other and running/hiding! We then played some knock out and speed ball. It was a fun night and a great New Year's Eve! (We didn't stay up though...Still got to be in bed at 10:30pm, haha).

New Year's Eve Zone Party

Hope you all had a great New Years! And I wish you a happy 2017! (I'll be on my mission this whole year! Woot woot)

Sister Lowe