My 4th transfer!

Hi everyone!

How are you guys doing? My companion, sister Wilson, just finished her mission so she went home this morning. It is really sad to see her left. We got along really well and It was such a great blessing being with her even if It was only 6 weeks! I have learned so much from her and I will miss her a lot. 

I'm staying in the same area, Lake View ward, Kirkland zone. I will pick up my new companion tomorrow. I'm a little excited and nervous at the same time but I know it will be great! 

Last week was a great week! We did a lot of service at our members house.

1. We did service at Bee's house, making Thai desert so that was fun!

2. Zone service, pulling blackberry bushes again. We almost done with them.

3. We also did service at Sister Christenson's house. She has 4 boys and they are so cute!

My focus this week is to work with members and strengthen their testimonies of the restored gospel. The more we study about the restored gospel, the more desire we will have to share about this message because we know how important it is. It is so sad seeing people rejecting the message but I know that Heavenly Father will not stop reaching out to them because he loves his children. 

I'm running out of time again!

Have a great week!

Sister Watanawongworakula

Washington Seattle Mission 

10675 NE 20th St. 

Bellevue, WA 98004

My district: Elder Nielsen Elder Felipe Elder Benson Elder Enos

Me, Sister Wilson Sister Hall and sister Grow

Last night together!

Week 6 of my 3rd Transfer

Hi everyone!

Hope everyone is doing great! Every week I'm struggling to come up with a cool topic for my email, so I will keep it simple... 

I can't believe that this week is my last week for this transfer. My companion, sister Wilson is finishing her mission also! It is so sad to see her leave because we got along super well and she is my good friend. I have a feeling that I will be staying in this area for awhile since I'm teaching Bee (Thai Recent convert) and Sam (Laotian Recent convert) in Thai right now. We just start to teach Bee's husband a gospel so we will see how it goes. 

This week was a really crazy week, we had zone conference and the topic was about teaching repentance. It was so cool how the atonement and repentance works in our life. So basically, the atonement of Jesus Christ is a gift for us.. it is right their in front of us! But without applying it in our life, it is just like having an unwrapped present in front of us. He has done everything for us, it is our job now to use it! The repentance process is one way to use it. Most of the time we don't realize that we all can repent every single day in our life. Sin doesn't need to be a big thing like we kill someone or we commit crime, it can be something small that does't in harmony with God. When we repent, our heart changes. And as we allow the atonement to work in our life, all feeling that we have, guilt and shame will be wiped away. No more scar! 

Love you all!

Sister Watanawongworakula

Washington Seattle Mission 

10675 NE 20th St. 

Bellevue, WA 98004

My companion cut my hair for me!

Happy New Year!

Happy 2017! 

New year, new beginning! It snowed on the new year eve so when we woke up, everything was covered by the snow! White new year? haha 

Nothing really happened last week except the fact that I'm now 20 years old.

I don't think I mentioned zone service my last email. So every Wednesday, everyone in our zone will get together and do service at the city park. What we do is....pulling blackberry bushes! I enjoyed doing it a lot even though it was super cold and muddy. In order to survive the weather, I bought heat pads for my hands and my feet. They are my life saver..

From that experience, I learned that when we are prepared, we are ready to face whatever we may face in our life. I put on tons of layers so that when the weather gets bad, I still can work. Like in the story of captain Moroni, in the Book of Mormon, the reason that they won the war because they were prepared! I would encourage everyone to be ready for the unplanned situation that we may face! We can start by having 72 hours emergency kit in our house!

Whoops, I ran out of time. Hope you guys have a great week!

Sister Watanawongworakula

Washington Seattle Mission 

10675 NE 20th St. 

Bellevue, WA 98004

Last email of 2016!

Hello!

How is everyone's Christmas? 

I got to teach Samrouy last Thursday in Thai and it was awesome! She had a lot of questions that she wanted to ask but because of her English, she couldn't express what she wanted to say very well. I don't know how to phrase this but I think the spirit is able to work better when we speak or hear in our native tongue.

On Christmas eve, we had zone activity. Kirkland zone is super small so we only have 7 companions. 4 of us are in English speaking and the other 3 are in Spanish speaking. Everyone brought food to eat at the activity and it was great! We thought the food would be just meat and rice since Elder Enos, our zone leader, told us to bring just meat and rice.. haha. We then played jeopardy and white elephant. The ended with the nativity and testimony meeting.  

On Christmas day, I got to skype with my family at bishop's house and we had dinner at our member's house. It was super great. The coolest part of Christmas (?) was we had a meeting at the beach... well, I will give you  more detail about this story. So when we got back from our member dinner, our zone leaders wanted to have a meeting about 2 transfers mind set stuff. However, we couldn't  get into the church building because none of our card worked. all the fast food places were closed. We ended up had a meeting on the bench at the beach. 8 of us were shaking while we had a meeting haha. Luckily, We brought blankets with us so it wasn't too bad.  Anyway, it was a really good meeting. I will never forget this experience haha. 

Love,

 Sister Watanawongworakula

Washington Seattle Mission 

10675 NE 20th St. 

Bellevue, WA 98004

Our tree is too tall to put the top on...

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!

I am doing super great! Missionary work is so awesome as it is always! This week went by really fast and Christmas is next Sunday. I am so excited for that. 

We had a lot of lessons with members because Sister Wilson and I both are new to the area so we try to get to know as many people as possible. I had a chance to go translate Eng to Thai for Bee. So we spent 3 hours at our ward and another 3 hours at Bee's ward at Bothell Stake Ceter. It was interesting trying to translate everything from Eng to Thai. It was a little awkard putting sentences in Thai at first but I think if I keep translating for her, I will get better (I hope) haha. 

Last Saturday we also went to Samrouy's baptism. She came from Lao! It is so cool speaking to her in Thai and she spoke Laotian mixed with Thai back to me. The coolest part is the new member lessons that Samrouy has to take will be from me! I am so pumped! 

We also just got a referral from a members in our ward and they are Laotian! I will get you more update probably next email because I'm running out of time.

Have a great week!

Sister Watanawongworakula

Washington Seattle Mission 

10675 NE 20th St. 

Bellevue, WA 98004

Sister Wat at the Christmas party for missionaries.

Sister Hall

My companion Sister Wilson

This is Samrouy