Moving!

Sorry it's been a while since the last email, when we go to the temple during the week they move our pday to the temple day, which was thursday for this week, so sometimes my emails are delayed by a few days. 

But anyways, last pday we went to this memorial garden/crematorium place and had a look around, and it was pretty nice and quiet. I was reading a lot of the little grave-stone sign things, and I realized that a lot of them said some sad things, like, "still missing you" and stuff like that. I realized that for mine, when I die, which is inevitable since it happens to all of us, if any of you reading this are still alive at that time, can you please put something on my grave that's along the lines of "cya suckers" or some other uplifting words? I'll brainstorm some in the meantime, but when people see my grave I'd rather them not feel sad and depressed. But that pday really gave me a greater appreciation for the knowledge of the plan of salvation, and knowing that this isn't the end, and that death is only a stepping stone into the next life.

Well, enough talk about death and stuff, some other interesting stuff that happened this past week... oh we got invited by our investigator to his church activity! We got to make pizza and enjoy the night, and even casually slip in a few things about us as missionaries and what we do as we were talking to people! But it was fun and interested at the same time, being invited to another church's activity.

We also had to pick up some other Elder's that are staying in the city, Elder Soyson and Elder Saiyavong, and they made some pretty good fried rice for us, Thailand style. Just thought I'd rub that in for all of you that are feeling hungry at the moment.

And no, I'm not moving at the moment, the title of this email is talking about the moving that everyone else around has been doing! Unfortutely, all in about one week, we found out an investigator that we had been teaching has moved, another one will be moving in a week, and another one will be moving back to New Zealand in about 2 weeks! So it's back to hitting those doors and trying to find some new investigators!

Along the lines of moving, we also helped a less active family move this past week! We spent a few hours on friday and saturday lifting furniture and loading furniture around a house and into a truck, and at the end of it all we were ablet o have a good talk with the mom, who has been less active for many years (even removing her records from the ward list) and she even committed to read a chapter from the Book of Mormon that we left her! The miracles of service!

And for my spiritual message, I'm going to be stealing it from someone else (all credit to Elder Hymas and his training this past tuesday). But my zone leader told us that there are three types of people (this probably isn't word for word). The first person is someone that makes things happen. The second is someone that watches things happen. And the third is someone who wonders what happened. Our goal, not just in the mission but in life, should be to be person number 1! Making things happen! And that has been on my mind for many days now and has helped me to re-evaluate the things I'm doing and set new goals for myself, I hope you can all apply it too!

But anyways, hope you all have a good week! 

Elder Ho