Chiangrai

March 18, 2012

Companion: Elder Hess

Hello from เชียงรๅย!
So this week we had our first storms of the year! Yay! They were so cool! Except for the part where the power went out, the wind blew so hard that trees fell over and I could hear things flying around, and the fact that lightning was getting pretty close to our house. It was kinda funny, because when it started, I said "Where's a flashlight?" and Elder Hess didn't know so, I went downstairs to the extra study room and grabbed the flashlight. I noticed that the batteries were pretty much dead and grabbed my suitcase with a bagillion AA batteries and switched the batteries. As soon as I switched them and saw that it worked the power went out and Elder Hess called out, "Dang it! Why did you have to be right?!" It was out for an hour and then the lights came back on. It was fun. Two days later, it did the same thing, but earlier in the day. Thank goodness we were right next to the house. We went in and went through less-active members (there are a lot) and tried calling them. At one point, we stopped and watched the rain, and we saw that with the amount of rain and the excessive wind that it made waves in the rain. It was neat. 

Just the other day, we went inviting past the big mall and the mountain temple and came to this ladies' house. She was very energetic and had a son that was a soldier, wow. She kept getting up to go answer her phones and stuff, so Elder Hess and I played I-SPY. She had a lot of stuff to play it with. Then, we went down the street to this other ladies' house and her friend was there with HER little boy. After we sat down, all of these little kids somehow appeared. I felt obligated to give them something so that they would stay so that maybe we could talk with their parents. So I gave them each a piece of 5 Watermelon flavored gum. They sat and listened. When we left, they followed us and talked with us. At one point I think that they went to their house, because all of a sudden, they had a box in the basket of their bikes and was giving it to us to look at. It was full of Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh cards, very cool. Then they started to ride away, and we can't take things from people: money, children, Yu-Gi-OH cards. So we had to give it back to them, I think that they were sad that we didn't want them? 

When I was sick, I actually called the Mission President's wife and told her what was wrong with me. She "diagnosed" me and told me what medicine to get, and if I wasn't feeling better soon to go get a certain medicine from a hospital that she would tell me when I told her I was still sick. 

Last week for P-day, we went to a driving range with Brother Ton and whacked some balls. It was alright I guess, I still suck at golf so sure. This week, today, we are going to a National Forest Park and going to see a waterfall that is apparently very pretty. 

Being in Thailand is actually kinda funny. Lately we've been hearing swear words, coming from Thai people. It's like hearing a baby swear, it's really funny. We've heard a person say F you to his friends and run off. Then it church, yeah church, yesterday, I think one of the Sisters was complaining about how cold the classroom was (it was at 23) and she's like, "Elder! (says something in Thai here) What the H?" Elder Hess and I started busting up, then we had to explain that it was not a good word and she said wouldn't say it again. Too crazy. 

5 Words From English to Thai:

grod-angry
ron-hot
now-cold
blian-change
sookapab-health

Ok, that's it. See y'all later,
Elder Anthony Susi