Sister Hammon: Week 71 - "You are working so hard!" -Random Thai Guy

Crazy, crazy week! So I don't know if you remember but a year ago the King of Thailand passed away and it began the year of mourning. Well this last week we hit the year mark and it was crazy. All black all over again, and missionaries basically had a lock down day where we had planning/meetings all day to stay off the streets. But our days of black are (most likely) officially done tomorrow! Cannot believe it has already been a year

We had so many miracles this week but this is one of my favorites:

White washing has been an adventure, filled with lots of canceled appointments haha. One day was a day basically all spent contacting on the streets. We went in front of a big mall and tried to contact a bunch of people there. We stayed for 45 minutes then decided to go somewhere else because we weren't having a ton of success.

We moved locations to a neighborhood of giant apartment buildings and started talking to everyone, when a man from behind us came up and started talking. He started by saying, "wait, I just saw you, were you not at the mall a few minutes ago?" We answered him and he said, "wow, I sat and watched you for a long time. You were working so hard to talk to everyone even though no one would listen to you....why?"

We then were able to have the most incredible talk/lesson with this random man about our purpose and why we came on missions. Honestly it was the biggest tender mercy of the day, being able to testify of the importance of this work. AH. I love being a missionary, even when the days are long and hard at the end of the day I know why I'm here! We also were telling him how it wasn't a coincidence that he happened to see us at the mall, then at his apartment within an hour, but it was God directing our paths. HE IS IN THE DETAILS!

ALSO the random guy might be our investigator if he meets with us again! MIRACLES!

Another example of God being in the details:

We had an appointment with a man investigator (so we need another woman to teach with) we called everyone and no one could come! We kept praying, then left for the appointment. On the way right after I got off the bus I went straight up to a woman and flat out asked her if we could give her a tour of the church....she said YES! (WHAT?! It was the craziest miracle!) So not only were we obedient, but we got a new investigator!! I know that it was not 'random' that we got off the bus at the exact moment we passed her by and that it was not simply a 'coincidence;!! LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY. Miracles everywhere:)

I love life. Pray for Don Muang and for Thailand, we gotta get this temple up and running! Challenge for the week is to notice His hand in the details... "The Lord’s hand is guiding you. By “divine design,” He is in the small details of your life as well as the major milestones" (Elder Rasband)

Much much love,

ซีสเตอร์ แฮม

PS. So in Thailand everyone loves nicknames...so they all call me Sister Ham (it's way cute) but lots of the time they call me 'hamburger' by mistake which is funny. But now I am companions with Sister McDonnell...oh man the food puns that we get are endless. Sister Hamburger and McDonalds at your service. Would you like fries with that?