Around the church

This is our church in Udonthani. It is well-loved and well-used.

The members hang out here after school and work. They do homework, practice piano (since most of them don't have one at home), help the missionaries teach investigators, cook and eat, and just spend time with each other. There are so few members of the Church here that they love the support they get from being together. L-R Wiw, Ping Pong, Jack, Tuey and a friend. All of these are nick-names. We don't have any idea what their real names are. No one ever calls them by their real names.

Sister Downs and Sister Tilley are teaching a discussion. Mai (the boy in front) is helping teach the Plan of Salvation to his girl friend, May, (next to him). Sister A (middle) is waiting for her mission call, and Mo is an awesome convert of about 7 months. The missionaries do most of their teaching at the church.

Brother Jack sharing something interesting with Tuey, Sam, Dam, and Nam (Really) and green eggs and ham, Sam I am.

The church is always swarming with mosquitoes because the doors are always open. The missionaries and members take turns hunting them down with the mosquito zapper! Sister Slaugh is helping Sister Yim stay focused on them.

It's a tough job, but someone has to do it! I usually come home from the church with several new mosquito bites each day, so I appreciate their efforts to reduce the number of attackers! Two of the sisters went so far as to hunt down the lifeless corpses of the mosquitoes they slaughtered and placed them in a mosquito graveyard. (Just as a side note, we spend a lot of time in this particular room in the church--this is where we teach English and have district meetings, and I teach piano here, too. When we're not working on something at home, much of our time is spent here.)

Saturday evening--In the background Elder Burke is helping Brother O find the right size clothes for the baptism tomorrow while a dedicated sister helps clean up for Sunday meetings.

More help to clean the church, Dam and Pim. I'm sure Sam is working somewhere because he is always there on Saturday nights helping to make sure the church looks good on Sunday morning.