Surprise Wedding and Biking

So, this week has been great!

Last Sunday was an interesting day, there was a surprise wedding at the church. There is a member here named Khampee. He is an older guy and he works as the driver for the senior couples here. He is really amazing and is a big help. He does a lot of DIC work and does everything for our visa's here in Laos. So, last Saturday we keep hearing all these rumors about an event at church the next day and how members were preparing food for the next day. We end up calling Khampee for some visa question and before we hung up the phone, we asked him if there is any event going on after church. He said there was Then we asked. “What’s going on?” He replied that he would rather not say. The next day he got married to another member, Sister Mack. We did not even know they were dating. It was quite funny. One amazing part about the wedding was it brought us a lot of investigators to church. To be exact it brought us 21 investigators to church. The sad part is there are still only two Elders to teach these people so we only got to teach 6-7 people out of the group. We can't wait till new Elders come up here. They are sorely needed especially on Sundays. Sunday we have to talk to members and set up appointments. We have to translate for the English speakers. Teach investigators and much, much more.

The week was great. We filled it with visiting members and teaching English like usual. One night after English teaching we went out to visit this one family. We had a good time out there and as we were walking out the door it started raining quite hard. Knowing that it was getting late and that it was a long bike ride home we got going. After about 300 meters I ran over a screw and blew my tire. After that we had to wait on the side of the road for 15 minutes or so until a vehicle came that could give us a ride home. This vehicle is called a TukTuk. It is a three-wheeled vehicle that is like a motorcycle on the front and has a few seats on the back. The rain kept coming down harder and harder and by the time we got home all the streets are flooded and we were thoroughly soaked. 

  

Another fun biking story; yesterday we went out to visit a member that we had never biked out to before. I estimated it would take about 35 minutes or so. We headed out and the road there ended up being this crazy hill for several kilometers. It took us about an hour to get out there. The member was not really bothered by our tardiness and we ate lunch out there and after a while of talking, we headed home. The way home ended up actually being 35 minutes with all the nice down hills we had going for us. 

Our investigators are doing well. Tomorrow we have See's son Coco getting baptized. So that is going to be great. We also have another investigator on date for the 9^th. Her name is Basa and she is doing great. She has been reading a lot in the Book of Mormon and has really been showing her faith on every commitment we have given her, despite all the finals she has at school right now. 

So, things are going super good right now! God is definitely moving his work along here in Laos. Great things are happening all the time. 

--Elder Cheney

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