mis-sion-ary, (noun)
someone who leaves their family for a short time
so that others may be with
their families for Eternity.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Hey,
So this week marks the start of Hot Season here in Thailand. It starts in March and goes until around July. Once in July, the Rainy Season starts but the temperature stays the same, super super hot! The temperature is so hot here in Thailand at this time of year that our Mission President changed our working schedule. He is now having us wake up at 6 a.m., exersize, shower, eat breakfast, and then leave the house to go work at 7:30 in the morning until 1:30 in the afternoon. At that time, we come home and have our personal study, companion study and language study until 4:00. We then go back out and work until 8:30 when we come home and plan for the day. 10:00 p.m. we are in bed. Our schedule before was we would wake up at 6:30 in the morning and have our studies in the morning as well. Leave the house at 10:30 a.m. and work until 9:00 p.m. Now it's just too hot to do that and we had to change our schedule because people just won't leave their house in the middle of the day when the sun is beating so hot! So today was our first day of the new schedule change and it was really different! I'm not use to being outside so early in the morning. Surprisingly, there was a lot of people outside! Apparently everyone wakes up at like 5 a.m. and they get moving out here! We were able to talk to a lot of people but the hard part is that it's not very convenient to sit down and teach someone in the wee hours of the morning. Usually people are busy going off to work. But I'm not complaining because once 10 o'clock hit this morning, it was hot!! It was probably over 100 degrees and it was just getting hotter and hotter. Going home to to study was great except that our AC in our study room didn't go cold enough! We turned it up all the way but the world is just too hot! Nothing can truly stop the heat here in Thailand. We just have to hide from it the best we can.
Well, I love you guys and I hope you're all enjoying your nice spring weather there in Utah. Talk to you next week.

Steve

2 comments:

  1. Steve, you write great e-mails! Thanks so much for sharing your experience there with us. It is very interesting to hear what it is like in Thailand-I really appreciate living here in Farmington, Utah, USA!!! Your mission president is a wise and compassionate man!

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  2. We always knew you were "hot" Steve!! Keep up the great work!!

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