Roi Et

Hello all! 

Nothing super exciting happened this week...there's a huge market that made its way to our sleepy college town...the traffic is insane.  We are trying out lots of new detours, that's for sure.  But we are going shopping today, so I'll take the traffic if it means our P-day is going to be more exciting than normal!  ;)  Yay for shopping!  

This weekend we got to go to Roi Et for District Conference.  SO FUN!  I love seeing other missionaries and just having fun!  Plus getting fed and staying in a hotel with nice mattresses is ALWAYS a perk!  :)  It was fun going to Roi Et because that is where Sister Ng (my trainer) was "born" - her greenie area.  I got to meet two of her Recent Converts who were baptized after she left.  We were about to board our sketchy bus back to Mahasarakham when they were like "Come sit next to us!"  I told them I was leaving and they asked where I served before coming to the Esan.  I told them Chiang Mai and they about freaked out.  "We knew it!  You know Sister Ng right?? We recognized your face from the pictures she sent us!!"  So funny.  It made me miss her and Chiang Mai!  But I think I will always miss it - nothing really compares to HEAVEN!

We had 3 Brothers from our Branch sustained to receive the Melchizedek priesthood this District Conference.  SO EXCITING.  Khon Kaen (our District) is well on its way to becoming a stake!  :)

The big news of the meeting - supposedly if we get 1000 people temple worthy and with recommends, getting a temple should be pretty easy!  Now it is just time to make it work!

Nothing really else happened this week...we are setting a goal for an investigator to get baptized this week...we worked really hard, set our goal, now we are going to pray like crazy for a miracle!  :)

Sorry this week wasn't more exciting...and the fact that I think my memory is failing me.  There's way too much to think about as a missionary sometimes.

I love you all!

Sister Norrell

Pictures:

We had a conference in Roi Et - the missionaries in my Zone right now that were also in my MTC Zone! :)

Our view from the hotel window.  Yep, this is the Esan!

Our ride home from Roi Et.  A really colorful bus, with the doors open the entire way home.  (about 45 minutes).  Yep, gotta love Thailand!

Me and my new favorite book - about a girl who loves her 3 cats way too much.  SO FUNNY!  It has become quite the obsession.  The stories and pictures are really just too ridiculous, especially since I can't understand it all because it is all in Thai.  Best use of my money thus far!