Dear Family and Friends, can you believe that it's transfers week already? And that I've now been out over a year? Mom, when you said that Carli's pictures would bring back some good memories from a year ago...blew my mind. Crazy! Anyway, transfers meeting is this Thursday, and I'm excited to see what's going to happen. Elder Oakeson is definitely out of here since he's been here for almost 6 months already. I'm kind of thinking that I'm gone, too. There's just been some drama in the ward, and I wouldn't be surprised if Pres. Senior yanked us and put in Sisters or something. We'll see what happens. I wouldn't mind staying here, but I actually wouldn't mind going back to the Isan (can't believe I'm saying that) or going up north somewhere. That's some of the prettiest country. But I'll go (or stay) wherever the Lord wants me to be. This week FLEW! You're right Mom, time just isn't the same anymore. Me and Elder Oak stayed busy, and we're making a lot of good progress here in Thonburi. Our 4 investigators are all doing great. I'll go through them all. We met with Fuse once this week on Friday. It was the first time that we have ever met with her on a day other than Sunday (hallelujah!). We finished up teaching the Plan of Salvation, along with repentance. It was what you would call a "good lesson," but it's hard teaching a quiet 15-year-old girl. Neither me nor Elder Oak know how to relate. We usually would take another young woman to teach with us in a situation like this, but there's just not really any who are willing. But because Soda is getting so close to baptism AND wants to be a future missionary, we're probably going to start asking her to come along. We threw the idea out to her yesterday after church (we wanted to teach Fuse, but she had to leave) and she was down for it. Good idea? I think it'll really help. Soda herself is doing awesome! We were actually really contemplating on moving her baptism up to the 17th, because she's ready, but decided to wait and make 100% sure she's good to go. I think she is though. We met with her twice this week. On Wednesday she brought her little brother, NamKeng (which translates to ice. Ha, Soda and ice). He was really shy and quiet, but said he's interested, so he'll definitely be taught in the future. We met with her again on Friday. She was really stressed with school and some other stuff, and I felt impressed to give her a blessing. The Spirit was completely directing every word that came out of my mouth. It was an awesome experience. Boss, as you might guess, is still a boss. But even more so now (if that's possible). We met with him on Thursday and Saturday. Thursday, we followed up about how keeping the WofW was coming. Come to find out that he is a smoker...and smoked A LOT. We were a little worried, but he told us that he had cut it down from 20 to 5 cigarettes a day since the Saturday before. Oh yeah! And he committed to be totally clean by Sunday. When we met with him on Saturday, he still had the same commitment. He was also in Alma in his 2nd read through in the Book of Mormon, and had finished reading the Gospel Principles book. It's so easy to teach him, because he already knows everything! He'll be a future Bishop or Branch President. Dukadan is doing good as well. Met her on Wednesday and Saturday. She's been asking a lot of questions on the difference between the Book of Mormon and Bible, and also the difference between our church and other Christian sects, so we cleared those up for her. She's been wanting to share the 10 commandments with a French-speaking friend, so I ordered a French Book of Mormon for her. We introduced the WofW to her as well, and her problem is coffee. She's committed and is going at it cold turkey style. She had to leave church after Sacrament meeting yesterday because she had a terrible headache, but she didn't drink any coffee, so I'll take that any day. We still haven't felt prompted to give her a date yet, but it should be coming soon. Ah, the worst part about the possibility of leaving Thonburi is having to leave all of these awesome investigators. But as long as they get baptized in the future and come unto Christ, I don't care who teaches them.
The rest of the week was pretty solid. On Thursday (my year mark) we went out to eat at a Japanese restaurant, but were quite disappointed. Not a huge fan of half cooked pork and chicken with blood oozing out haha. We did some more house-hunting on Friday morning. We went back to the Lumphini, the one we've been focusing on. At first the guy there wanted to make the church pay under the table to avoid taxes, but we weren't taking that. So we had a guy talk to him and kind of "scare" him since it's illegal. So he agreed to talk to the owner this past week, but never called us back. When we walked in there on Friday, he looked like he needed an adult diaper, with a death grip on his laptop. For some "mysterious" reason he hadn't been able to contact the owner. We were done, so we left and checked out another place that's WAY nice. We're hoping for that one. Oh Mom, a lady in the ward bought some silk for me and Elder Oak (she made sure to let us know how expensive it was). I don't know what to do with it, so I'll give it to you. For some reason, people are ALWAYS giving the Elders stuff, whether it's food or whatever. Weird. We've tried to tell them to stop, but nobody listens. Funny story of the week: after church each Sunday, the members eat lunch together, and we eat with them. Sometimes the food isn't...wonderful. Anyway, yesterday they dished us up plates long before we were able to eat. One of the side dishes was kind of an egg omelette thing, and it was cold. I could not stomach it, so I decided to get rid of it. Me and Elder Oak took our plates outside, and when nobody was looking, I threw the egg over the fence. It's a tall fence so I couldn't really see where it was going to land, but I knew there were some garbage cans on the other side, so that's what I was going for. Well, I threw it pretty hard on accident, and I'm pretty sure I hit someone's window. We bolted inside, and I was sweating the entire time, expecting some angry tie person to walk in the church holding some fried egg. But don't worry, nothing happened.
Love you all!
Well, gotta go! The Church is True!
Love, Elder Sharp
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Matt. 22:36-37
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