What's up crew!
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> Bangkok is full of mysteries, wonders, and miracles- it's too much fun.
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> We had dinner at the Ure's house (senior couple) last sunday which was way sweet of them. They are the most hillarious couple i've ever met. We had a nice discussion about "the signs of the times" hahaha.
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> Monday was my favorite day this week- it actually started off bad getting stuck in traffic for an hour, but after that there was just so many great experiences. Probably my favorite is this girl named Joy from Khon Kaen (eastern thailand). She has been an investigator over there for just over a month, but it down here in Bangkok for some errands or something. While down here her heart condition got way bad, and her heart rate spiked up ridiculously high. She was in the hospital, and called an elder from Khon Kaen, who then called us to go meet with her and give her a blessing. We get there and as she is sitting in the hospital bed her heart rate was 160+ bpm. She was super happy we came though and had asked us to bring her a book of mormon because she left hers at home. After talking with her for a bit we blessed her, shared a scripture, and then planned to meet with her again friday. Then friday came and she had the health/strength to travel and meet us at the church- and she told us of the miracle of her healing. She said that after we had left her at the hospital, she had this sense of over-powering calm, and when the nurse had again taken her heart-rate, it was back down at the normal 80bpm or something. I feel like we see and experience so many cool things like this while serving the Lord, it's impossible to mark it off as coincidence. God's healing power is so real, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
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> Then after that on monday, we went and met up with our friend Justin one last time before he heads home. Justin still had concerns with different proof or evidence that proved the book of mormon was true or that proved it was false, and he said the more he googled and researched for evidence pointing one way or the other, the more confused he got. We had a solid lesson, reading a lot from the bible and the book of mormon, and Justin finally came to the conclusion that he needs to read the book of mormon to know for himself if its true or not. I love watching and seeing investigators like really truly ponder a question, and that's definitely what we saw in Justin. So we'll stay in contact with him and help him meet up with some missionaries over in Tennessee. He is so awesome- i know God is gonna use him for good in the life of a lot of young thai people. His conversion from buddhism to christianity was a cool one.
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> Anyways, we also taught this 14 year old girl that says the cutest prayers, and then our last visit of the day was with our boy Renny. We went over to his house and Carl (the preacher from northern thailand) was still in town so we had a way fun lesson. We got into "The Laying on of Hands" and the "Power of the Spirit" a lot with Carl. He was way caught up in the fact that Jesus had prayed for his disciples and it said in those verses in the Gospels that the spirit descended upon them. And of course there's verses all over the scriptures that invite us to pray for the spirit to be with us, etc. and so he thought the laying on of hands was just a nice plus, but not at all necessary, becuase he already had the spirit. And so it was a good discussion, until i found the verses in Acts 19 or something where theres a group of disciples who exclaim to Paul that they have been baptized, but yet don't know of any "Holy Ghost", and then it goes on and Paul lays his hands upon them and it says they recieve the gift of the holy ghost. and then Carl's idea like slowly started shifting until eventually he's like "you know i think we are on the same page here, we believe the same thing", and so i agreed and asked him if he would be baptized and recieve the gift of the holy ghost by laying on of hands, and he said "all i need is baptism, i alreday have the holy spirit in me!" haha and then we asked him again if the laying on of hands was essential and he said yeah, but for some reason thought it was only essential for those who don't have the spirit in them. Anyways those lessons are always way fun.
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> Tuesday night, Slabaugh and I were home alone- the AP's went out to do switch off's with Zone Leaders up in the north. RIght as we were about to go to bed a HUGE explosion sound went off, and all the lights in our house and the buildings we could see outside our window went off. Then everything started to come back on and then PSHH it all went out again, and we saw like an orange gleam on the side of our building, which looked like a fire had started, so we got dressed and rushed out of the building, and it turns out the the rain storm had like blown the electrict circuits. Fortunately the fire was super tiny and went out in the rain haha, but we had to sleep with no air that night which brought me back to memories of having to sleep at the church in Phitsanulok. I also found my Daily Planner earlier this week! i had lost it last sunday and turns out i just left it in my suit jacket. It made me realize how relient we are on our planners as missionaries its crazy.
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> It's been way rainy lately which is actually way nice. Especially on tuesday night when we teach english class, it always seems like its ridiculously stormy on those nights, so all the people that came for english and up just hanging around in the church waiting for the rain to stop, which is perfect because then we just sit down with a bunch of people, watched sweet short Jesus videos, testify, and invite. My favorite part of lessons, especially like the lessons we had tuesday night, is seeing some of our new recent converts bear powerful testimony, and invite their peers to open their hearts to the message of Christ, and let it fill them with light and joy. So much faith in the saints over here man, i love it!
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> Slabaugh and I started has a blast this week. It was so much fun. We started feeling a little fat in the middle of the week, from just eating 7/11 food, little pork sticks off the street, and smoothies from our favorite smoothies place. We were feeling pretty sick wednesday so we decided we gotta commit to doing T-25 every night. which is just one of those typical crazy workout dvds haha. It's actually been way good though- I'm looking way big so watch out when i get home you probably won't recognize me. ;)
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> Another successful week in The City of Angels. As for my thai, i'm not tryna brag or anything but i'm basically pro. hahaha kidding, but it's good- the members are so great, and you can trust that they won't hesitate in fixing your grammar or tones. I am actually super grateful for that though. i love the thai people so much, they are just SO GOOD! I love you family<3
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> Cheers!
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> Elder Chamberlin
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