A waterfall that we hiked to on our day off.
My students send me a ton of random pictures of me teaching. It's funny how many pictures they take.
We got taken out to dinner and I had this super delicious Thanksgiving Sandwich.
This kid dodged my picture at the
ward Christmas party.
We organized a bunch of games at the party.
It was so fun.
This is sticky rice cooked in a bamboo chute.
My Letter:
This was an awesome week. Especially on the front of food. We got to go over to the Kowallis's apartment to have some Thanksgiving dinner. They found a turkey somewhere in Laos that was actually imported from Utah. It was so dang good. I really enjoy gravy too. When we were done eating, they gave us all the leftovers. I had some leftover Thanksgiving dinner for breakfast almost every day this week. Haha. I love the Kowalises! They are so nice to us.
Aping got baptized this week. She is awesome. She is really smart with the gospel already. All the members laughed when we took the baptismal picture because I am so much taller than her.
This week we got to know the Sessions family a lot better. We had family home evening over at their house and they also made a Thanksgiving dinner. It was amazing as well. Afterwards, we got to draw something we were grateful for and share it with the family. We got to watch the new video made by the church called The Christ Child. That video is so realistic. I love it. Here's the link if you want to watch it. It's just about the birth of Jesus Christ according to the bible.
For Thanksgiving, the American Embassy played some football in the morning and the Sessions invited us to go play. Chandler and I went. It felt like I was really back in America for a second. The only difference is normally Thanksgiving football is pretty chilly, but here in Laos it was still searing hot, so we didn't play super long in order to save our skin.
We were visiting a member named Sing Tong when he said he didn't have a lot of time because he had to go play a soccer game. Apparently he is the coach of a soccer team, and I never knew this. Then, he asked me if I knew how to play as a goalie, and I said yes. So he took us with him to go play. I thought it was just going to be normal playing around and such, but no. It was a serious game. I was OK at not letting them get a goal, but I had no idea how the flow of the game was, or when I should punt the ball off or just kick it closer to a team mate. I had never played goalie before. There was also no boxes drawn on the ground to show me how far I could go out and still touch the ball. I had no idea. I could tell my team was kind of irritated that I was playing. It was kind of embarrassing haha. They ended up switching me out and someone else came in as goalie. I learned that I should not just jump into things and say I can do them when I can't actually do it. Cause then it's going to quickly come back to bite you. It was fun though. I would like to play again after someone explained some rules to me haha.
This next week I will hit my "been on a mission for 18 months so do the stanky leg" mark. Pretty exciting.
-Elder Barron
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