Picking some mangoes from the church's mango tree ;)
I can't believe it's finally come down to my last transfer! It's ridiculous. But Heavenly Father has truly blessed me and has sent me to the place that EVERYONE always talks about when they talk about Thailand: เชียงให่ม (Chiang Mai). Yup, I've finally made it to the North!!! So far my mission has just been Bangkok and the Esan, but I'm officially in a completely new place where they speak a completely different dialect of Thai....haha yup, but luckily I think I've caught onto Northern way faster than I caught onto Esan. And on top of that I have an amazing new companion: Sister Remington. Funny story, she and Sister Brown (my companion before Sister Belnap) were both actually trained by Sister Ellis, and I am once again follow-up training! haha, yup following up both of Sister Ellis's "children." :) And so far so good!!! Turns out that she and I are pretty much the same person, so it's been a fun week together thus far. Oh, and she's from Canada! So that's cool haha.
Me and my new and last companion Sister Remington!!!!
Goodbye dinner in บางแค (BangKhae)
Well what to say, what to say...the North has been quite a culture shock that's for sure. We take care of 2 branches here, which means 6 hours of straight church EVERY Sunday. And I mean I know that I basically live, breathe and eat the gospel here everyday as a missionary, but 6 hours of straight meetings was quite the doozy. Not to mention how Chiang Mai is like one of the top 5 tourist travel spots in the world, so we get a LOT of tourists coming in and out of our branch every Sunday, which means we get to translate for 6 hours :) haha, yup definitely challenging, but it's testing my language, which is good I guess since I feel like I've just been getting too comfortable and complacent with my language skills. AND because there are so many tourists...there are just tall white people EVERYWHERE we go....so that's definitely been different. Usually in other areas missionaries avoid the white people cuz they are not usually very friendly. And I mean I know I served in International awhile back, but I feel like the majority of the people I taught were still not white...so it's like Heavenly Father is trying to prepare me for all the tall white people that await me back home haha. That wasn't supposed to sound trunky...
Turns out Chiang Mai has a lot of white hippies everywhere...this man we came across at the park by our house....just chillin in his short shorts playing the flute for everyone...#classy
I definitely miss Sister Belnap (my child!!!) and all of my RCs (recent converts) back in BangKhae, but I know that the Lord has a work for me and Sister Remington to do here in Chiang Mai together. We've already started to see miracles with random new investigators asking US if they can learn the gospel, and different members have started to open up about their families and inviting us to teach their nonmember family members!!!! These last few weeks I'm really really trying to just challenge myself at every corner and trying to make myself the best missionary I can be, that the Lord NEEDS me to be right now. And I know that we will see the miracles through our faith and service!
Ever upwards,
Sister Lam
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