Yes, it was freaky...

 These elephants are maaasssiiive!

 Interesting things spotted 

while walking down the road.

 These birds have chains so they won't fly away.

 An awesome bridge.

 It's about to rain.....again.

 Vietnamese food.

 Moo gra ta. We had to cook our own food.

 We are at the home of some 

members of the church.

(Above) This is the street that we live on.

 Random street on our way to a 

teaching appointment.

 This is Adam. He was hanging out with us when this rain cloud formed. It's about to dump. 
(Notice the 7-Eleven!)

 Slashing Elder Steele with a samurai sword. =) 
(I found it when helping some people move.)

 A huge rain cloud coming.

 Last p-day we went to a crocodile farm.

Update:

Hey, I think I am starting to understand stuff... psych.

I have some days when I am just doing awesome with the language! I understand what we are teaching in lessons and I am speaking too! It feels so great when I start to understand what people are saying because I am on the other side of the WORLD! It's about as different from English as I could possibly get, but anyways, whenever I have one of those really good days, the next day I don't understand a single thing anyone says. I always remember that I am a total newbie at the language. I know that I just have to have faith that I am actually learning slowly every day.

So last P-day, Elder Steele and I went to a crocodile farm here in Thailand. It is apparently the biggest crocodile farm in the world. We went to this awesome crocodile show and these guys were sitting there holding their heads and their hands in the crocodile’s mouths and they would pull out right before the crocodile snapped down on them. It was totally freaky. I also got to take a picture with a tiger. It was totally an experience I will never forget. While we were driving home Elder Steele and I were sitting on the left side of the car and the sister missionaries were sitting on the right side of the car. We had a contest to see who could see more 7-Elevens on their side of the car. It was a 45-minute drive and we saw a total of 24 7-Elevens on the way home. These Thai people are in love with their 7-Eleven!

In Thailand it is very abnormal to see a white person, so Thai people call white people Falongs. In Thai, a falong is a guava fruit. Every time I walk by little kids they start yelling at me Falong! Falong! It is pretty funny. Thai people will also think we don't understand them and call us falongs, but then when we reply to them they are super surprised. They also get a huge kick out of when they see us eating guava. They start laughing and say falong eating falong!!! hahahaha!!!

There is a lady here named May. She is such an awesome member of the church! She has had a lot of challenges about a year ago. I don't want to go into detail at all, but she has had so many more challenges in her life than I have. She has helped me so much with Thai and she loves telling her friends about the Gospel and helps us teach them in lessons about faith and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I admire her faith and she has helped me to strengthen my own faith.

Whenever it is about to rain here, I can always tell because it gets super hot. Then a wall of black clouds starts coming across the sky. Everyone starts running around because they want to get inside or get their food to a dry place so it doesn't get soaked. Everyone who is walking gets plastic bags out of their pockets and puts them over their heads because they believe if your head gets rained on at all, you will get sick. At first, I thought that was a dumb belief that they have, but I am pretty sure now that it is actually true. There is so much pollution in the air in Bangkok, that it is pretty much acid rain coming down on us. It makes me not want to get my head wet either. Also, whenever it rains, IT RAINS. It hardly ever just drizzles. It will be pouring buckets down in only 5 minutes.

This week on Monday, I had a Zone Conference with a visiting General Authority, Elder Homer. He talked a lot about how we all have our own gifts given to us by God. It is so true. Every single person I know has his or her own gifts different from everyone else. You need to use your own gifts that God has given you to do good, when you do what you can to do good, God will bless you and give you more gifts that you can use to help others with. I believe that these gifts that we have aren't something that we are supposed to use to make our own life better, they are responsibilities to help others. We will be filled with more happiness if we turn outward than if we turn inward. One of my favorite scriptures in The Book of Mormon is Ether 12:27.

It says, "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."

If we can come unto God with our weaknesses, they can become strengths through him.

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Have a great week everyone. 

-Elder Boston Barron