Greetings from the Future! 6/13/10

Well, this week was moves (not "moons") meeting... and we got 3 new sisters yay!! And I also got moved. I am now in a place called Bangkapi... (which is about 20 min away from my last area). I guess as you get old in your mission, they send you home to "die" so.. I went back to Bangnaa for a little bit, before deciding (or, rather, forced) to move to a different city to discover my roots, or do some family history work. I was moved to the home ward of my trainer (or "mom") Sister Wichitra (now know as "cherry"). So I moved "home" to get to know my "grandparents". ok... my English and all is probably horrible so Basically what I'm saying is I moved to Sister Wichitras area... but she is not here.. I missed her by one week. She already moved back to Utah to finish school at BYU. I've been here in the area for 4 days and I think I'll really love it here. Well, all except for the house...which is disgusting.. and which I spent 5 hours so far cleaning.... it's getting there... but hey.. at least we have a working kitchen now and all the cockroaches are out of it. YAY!.

My new comp is Sister Akagi. She was in the group that came after me in the MTC, so we've known each other for a while now. Ever since the MTC, I've always kinda felt like we would be companions....so now that time has come. She's a cute girl from Hawaii. everyone thinks she's Khon Thai...but she's a Japanese/Chinese mix from Hawaii. So that's fun to explain to people. The ward is pretty great. I was kinda sad to leave Bangnaa again, esp becasue I was going to miss Nuu's baptism... but We just had a baptism yesterday here in my new ward instead..It was kinda a circus (because there are a lot of kids) but it went really well. Oh, I'm also back serving with an Elder that I served with when I was a greenie in Bangnaa...so that's kinda fun. Now he's my District leader... and we "cob" together (aka... end our missions together) I am excited for this area (probably my last one... I can not believe I only have 4 months left... ridiculous).

Sounds like everyone is doing well. Your party FHE sounds delightful. Have fun... Here's a little something somethin for Cody:

Dear CoCo,

You are smart. I told you that 2 years ago. Congratulations on completing for GRE.. If we all lived in Thailand together, I would buy you ice cream in a bread bun in celebration. (or a red fanta with a straw from seven). But we don't...so please just wait until sat and get yourself a cake or 2 (and some jalapeno bread) from my backyard. K.. Super. CONGRATS!!! YOU CANZ GOE TO SKOOL!

love, Grizz

I think that's all for the week. I love you all. please keep up the good work with life. Go to church and the temple. Keep the commandments and you'll be happy. (it's that simple).

Love,
Sister O'Neil P.S. 2 Corinthians 13:11

6/6/10

Dearest Family,

Well, greetings from ºÒ§¹Ò, where the sky looks fake today because it's so beautiful. The past two p-days have just been wonderful. Except it's still 309547592394829+ degrees. I really was just trying to "endure to the end" yesterday before coming home. I love being exhaustified at the end of the week though. We worked HARD.... and it was a rough week as far as actually meeting with people.. we had TWO FULL days of people not showing up or canceling our appointments, back to back... I'm not gonna lie... it was a little frustrating. Sometimes i feel like people are just too lazy to be happy. "Every religion teaches us to be a good person. They're all the same" hence "SAME SAME" but people...THEY"RE DIFFERENT. Despite all the bad things right now (ok... theres really nothing that bad... just a little sore throat this morning that won't go away)... I'm still completely happy and wouldn't trade it for anything.

Oh, before I forget:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

To Jenny, Chris, Ryan... and anyone else who's birthday was this week and I just can't remember. Oh...and late happy b-day to Adrian... So I McForgot to mention it in the email, but i did remember on the day.

I hope you all had a grand day. (sounds like Chris/Jen/Mom/Dad had fun at Mimi's cafe.. (yummm) ) Everyones b-day is this month... so that's fun.

I'm trying to think of things that are note worthy. Oh! This week we did Sister Switchoffs... I finally went out of my area... and went over to Bangkapi (my trainer, Sister Wichitras, home ward) I was excited to see her, but she actually left the SAME DAY to go to BYU Utah...so I'll have to wait to see her again. But it was fun to serve over in a different area... it felt kinda like a "vacation" because it's not your area... but you still do the same thing. (I love missionary work). It was so hot, and we spotted a McDonalds that was selling ice cream cones for 9 baht...( 30 cents) so we drove through the drive-thru on our bikes... The Thai's loved that... especially when I tried to order two cones.... which if you say "cone" it sounds like "¤¹" which means person.... so that was fun (I'd like two ice cream people please". Um.... wow... I really don't have anything else today. Sorry. We get new sisters this week! We haven't had any new ones for 8 months now, so we're all excited. to meet them. well, I hope you all have a good week. Enjoy the last weeks of school (unless it's already summer time... then enjoy that too... Lisa) Thank you all for your love and support and letters and such.

Love, Sister O'Neil

P.S. ESTEE.... I HAVE gotten your letters- i just sent you one back. Thank you! However... i didn't get your postcard yet.... so i don't know.. I dont' trust postcards some how... I don't even know if anyone ever got the ones I sent)

Katie-- thank you for that. I loved it.

Laura/Kellie--- i love your comments. Almost as I love you.

Sorry I've been so bad at writing letters lately... I just don't have any time anymore... But I'm TRYING!!!