Hey everyone! Sorry for the lateness of this e-mail. None of the Internet Cafes were open. Starting from Monday to Wednesday was the biggest Thai holiday of the year. Its called Songran or the Water Festival. What they do is for 3 days during the hotest time of the year, they have a huge water fight! People come out of their houses and fill the streets with squirt guns and buckets and just get eachother completely soaked! During this Festival, everything is pretty much closed and we weren't able to send email. We couldn't even work because nobody was free, inviting didn't work because people would just soak us with water or they were drunk...so we decided not to resist in trying to fight against the festival but to just embrace it and join them in playing! lol, So we had an activity on Monday with all the young single adults at the church and played games with water and then we went to the street and threw water at trucks driving by. People would get into the back of their trucks and fill barrels with water and throw it on people on the side of the road so then people on the side of the road would throw it back! so we did that for a while and that was fun and then we went to a street called Sticky Rice and thats where everyone in Khonkaen goes to celebrate Songran and there were people all over the steet and what they do is take baby powder and rub it all over your face. I'm not sure why they do it but everyone does it to everyone and so we got covered with baby powder and because we are white, we got it a lot worst then all the Thai people. Thais love White people so we got hit a lot with this powder! But you have to accept it or else they will get affended. But it was way fun! My legs and feet got pretty sunburned. I was able to wear shorts and flip flops for the first time in a year and wow my legs and feet were white! But its ok because there not white anymore, there now red!So Yesterday we had moves meeting and I got a new companion and I was called to the District Leader in KhonKaen. Its going to be fun! I'm excited for this moves because my new companion seems pretty fun! His name is Elder Young. He is from Colorado and has been out in Thailand for 6 months.Well I got to go. I love you all and thank you for all your prays and all your support! if you have any questions, fell free to ask! Talk to you later!
Elder Olsen