Week 24: Baptism, rain, and someone tries to set me up with her son

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Hello from beautiful BANGNA THAILAND!!! I love this place, especially the people. I love the ward members here, the investigators, the missionaries, and the new people we meet every single day! 

So this week we had a baptism! น้อต was baptized yesterday. She is the cutest thing ever. She met the missionaries when she came to English class and she learned with the missionaries before but then she stopped coming for a while. Anyways, she started coming to church and to activities again in the last few weeks and she said she had a dream that the missionaries told her to be baptized and she realized she needed to do it. So she was baptized!!! I love her and all of the people here so much. But funny story: we were supposed to do the baptism right after church but we accidently forgot to fill up the font so we had to delay it for 2 hours but oh well, life goes on. But a ton of our investigators still stayed and it was a great experience! We even had one say she wanted to get baptized so stay tuned! 

I am kind of in a rush so I will just finish off by saying that I think being a missionary is such a great blessing. I love Jesus Christ and serving him every day. I have grown to love Him and my Heavenly Father so much since coming on my mission and I just want to be like them. I have been studying about the life of Christ in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, the Living Christ, and Jesus the Christ. I just want to be like Jesus!! 

Other fun stories: we were visiting a 40-50 year old investigator and she tried to set me up with her son. She really wants me to date him for some reason and she said he would come to church and everything. I was like he can come to church but I am not dating anyone haha

It also rained this week so try streets flooded so that is fun.

Okay love you all! Have a great week! Sorry if I didn't respond to your email!

Sister Lahti 

Ps it is mango season!! Look at this cute mango I found!

I'll send a video of the rain next week







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