Teacher appreciation, and 1 year

Well, to start off, yesterday was my one year mark of being a missionary. I can easily say it has been the best year of my life. It feels depressing, a little bit, to be at this point because it means I only have a year left. Well, this last year has been a ton of fun, and has been full of growth. 

Well, this week was great. We had a normal schedule of English teaching and I got a lot of gifts from my students because Lao teacher appreciation day just happened. All of my students are really nice. I especially enjoy the ‘zip on’ tie that one of my students gave me. 

Besides that, work here is a little hard without a Church building right now. It is a little too hard for us to go to Thailand to get to church so we haven't gone there yet for church we just call members and read the scriptures.  We still have a lot of investigators doing well. We just don't really have anywhere to baptize them yet. No Church building and there are too many laws that prevent us from doing it in a river or anything. The Church has the building, but it takes a long time for the paperwork to go through Salt Lake and everything so the money hasn't been moved yet. 

Laos is going good it is probably safer than Thailand right now after the death of the Thai king. There are a lot of rumors of rebel groups trying to take over the government in Thailand now. The food here is a lot spicier than in Thailand. It is generally not as tasty as most Thai food, but you can still find some good stuff.

That’s about all for this week.

Well, I included a collection of pictures from the last year

-- Elder Cheney

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