Thailand, Pakkret Week 6

Hey guys! 

I can't believe it's already P-day again! Time goes so fast here, soon I'll be getting ready to come home! (kinda soon, like 20 ish months but that's not important) We usually some pretty fun stuff for P-days. So far we have gone to an aquarium, gone bowling, did one of those escape room things, hiked a freaking sick mountain, played some pretty epic games of ping pong at the church, etc. Today we don't really have anything planned so we taught a woman this morning and now we are emailing (obviously). We are probably gonna go to lunch with a member of the 70 which is pretty cool too. Oh! and tonight is a festival here in Thailand where they send off those floating lantern thingies like in Tangled! That will be way cool. P-days are fun, but sometimes I just wish we could spend the time teaching more people, honestly. 

The last 3 days have been super busy for us. The 50th anniversary of the church being in Thailand was on Saturday, and since the celebration was held in our home building, me and the other missionaries in my district spent SO much time preparing for it and setting up tables and all that jazz. On Friday, people that had served missions in Thailand came in from all around the world and had a reunion thing with super good food (we weren't able to have any though cuz "it's the rules"). For a long time in the mission, there was a missionary band that literally just played music all over Thailand and spread the gospel by doing that. They became really famous in Thailand and went on all kinds of TV shows and tours and stuff. Well the band came to the celebration and played/sang for all 3 days. 2 of the people from the band are from Farmington apparently which was cool. Missionaries that are serving now were able to go to the celebration on Saturday and then the fireside on Sunday so we did that and it was very interesting. When the big cheese molded (the King died) they had to change the whole program basically so I think it could have gone a little better and it was kinda boring cuz you're not really allowed to celebrate anything for a while so we had to do a more mellow thing and we had to talk about the king a lot. It was still cool though. 

That's basically all that's been going on here! We still have some awesome investigators and they're still doing fantastic. It's such an honor to be out here teaching them and helping to build the kingdom out here in Thailand. We had 3 baptisms this transfer (which is gonna end on Thursday, how crazy is that!?!?) which is less than we were expecting, but it's ok cuz as of now we have 7 lined up for next transfer! The field truly is white and ready to harvest! 

We'll there isn't much else to report so I'll just focus on sending pictures now. I think I'm gonna start doing separate emails for the pictures because last time I think they got all messed up so hopefully this will fix it! Love you guys! 

Elder Wilcox

We found these guys that make coconut milk and I helped them unload coconuts out of the back of a truck! It was a blast.

This is our English Class! (from outside).

This is where the murder lady used to set up shop. I miss her food so much!

Our gigantic kitchen.

View from our "porch" (not too shabby)

Ok I think that's it. Hopefully all these partially make up for how bad I have been in the past with pictures... Sorry I'm not in more of them, I have an irrational fear of taking selfies and I'm too embarrassed to ask people to take pictures of me for you guys, so I think I'm gonna have to get over the first fear. (I already have two on here from this morning, aren't I doing so well?) Loving it out here in Thailand as you can tell! Love you guys!