Transfer Meetings are a big part of mission life. They consist of new incoming missionaries, missionaries going home (we call them cobbers, pronounced jopers, to jope is to leave), changes in companionships, pep talks, financial tips and instructions from Elder Grange, health tips from our mission nurse, musical numbers and talks from the President and his wife. There are training meetings before and after. Elder Grange does reimbursements, and we take care of phone changes and problems. It is a lot of fun, as many of you saw in the last transfer video.
This is Sister Mon, she is from Myanmar and we met her in Provo at the MTC. She learned Thai and English while she was there. She calls us her "paamaah", which means parents and I call her "lugg-sow", child-daughter. She misses riding her motorcycle and says she likes ride it very fast.
These are our 9 new missionaries, we actually had one more from Thailand that arrived a week earlier. We were responsible for keeping them hidden until their introduction in the meeting.
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SOME OF OUR NEWEST ELDERS..... |
Elder Allen with his new companion, Elder Stone.
Elder Joyem, in the air, and Elder Chamberlin.
Elder Lindley, with his new comp.
Elder Reid with new Elder Walker on the right.
These are the Din Daeng Sisters. Sister Tau, Sister Satatip and Sister Alley.
They serve in our area so we see them often and they are super missionaries. Sister Satatip is Thai and being taught funny English phrases such as "supercute".
This is the boat you ride on the Klong (canal), it is commonly called the Klong Monster. The Klong is stinky and dirty, and these boats go so fast that you need to pull up the plastic to protect yourself from getting a little drink of klong along the way. These boats are a bit tricky to get in and out off, and they often take off before you are in or out. They are really for the young and limber.
I am putting these in for Ryan, there is a lot of graffiti art along the klong.
This is actually when we were off the boat and walked to the Jim Thompson house museum and restaurant.
So glad the plastic is on the boats, it is a long recovery from klong water. We had an Elder pass an 8 inch worm--he vows to avoid "klong" water from now on.
ReplyDeleteLove to read the blogs. Glad you two are enjoying it. Missions are hard, maybe harder for couples in the sense that there is so much more to do---if I only had the energy. Right?
Great pictures and its great to see John hard at work. The missionaries are so cute. So fun to see their happy excited faces. Keep up the good work and have fun.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your pictures and descriptions of your experiences there. I know you are working hard, but what a great group of people to be with! I have a soft spot in my heart for all of those missionaries - and for you and John too!
ReplyDeleteLoving your posts and all of the photos from Thailand. So wonderful to see the service you are giving. I'm sure the missionaries love having you there, to teach them and to be examples to them. You are in our family's prayers here in Colorado.
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