Week 13: Merry Christmas!

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2. White Christmas

 Merry Christmas everyone!! I have wished everyone I saw today Merry Christmas. Here is what I did this week....

•phones - we got smartphones this week! I am typing this from my phone. It makes it really nice and way easier to do missionary work (because I am typing from my phone and won't be using a computer this week, I can send more photos next week). 

•zone conference - we got to have zone conference this week in Chiang Mai so all of the other missionaries came here and we learned more about how to be better missionaries and had a lot of fun with the other missionaries! We played a soccer game and it was so fun but my legs are totally bruised from falling in the game

•Christmas Fun - we had a fun branch party and we had a ton of investigators come! We played games, had the little kids act out the Nativity, sang Christmas carols and ate a ton of delicious food. We went caroling last night in Thai which was so fun! We have great members here. 

•Baptisms - we had 3 of our investigators get BAPTIZED this week! It is so exciting to see and help others come unto Christ! The Elders also had a bunch of people getting baptized so it was a white Christmas - not in the traditional sense, but check out how white that photo is! Fun story: they were filling up the baptismal font and it flooded because they forgot to check how full it was during sacrament meeting....So we had to hurry to vacuum and mop up all of the water before the baptisms!!

Well I hope you all have a Merry Christmas! This month we read 32 verses of Mark as a mission so we started at the beginning of the month and finished today. As I finished reading Mark this morning, I was reminded of why we celebrate Christmas - JESUS CHRIST! I am so grateful for Him and the opportunity to be a missionary for Him. I hope you all remember Him as you celebrate Christmas this year! Have a great week! 

Love, 

Sister Lahti

1. Check out this cat


3. Zone conference fun 


4. Pigeon in the hospital because that is how Thailand rolls


5. Christmas party fun!


6. Buffalo! I ❤ NY

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