Tomorrow is day one of สงกรานต์ (Songran) or the Water Festival. It's the biggest holiday here in Thailand and is also the Thailand New Year. It's a 3 day holiday starting on April 13-15 and all it is is a big water fight! Because of how hot it is at this time of year, the Thai people decided the best way to celebrate their New Year is to cool each other down by getting everyone wet! People will fill up huge 30 gallon buckets with water and put them on the streets and use them to throw water on cars, people and missionaries on bikes. They also throw these huge 30 gallon buckets on their trucks and drive around soaking people walking on the streets. When you walk out of your house in the morning, you have to expect to get wet and be getting wet all day. There is no way to avoid it because there are people everywhere and they all have the same goal, get you wet! It is impossible to get any work done during these 3 days because everyone is playing สงกรานต์ (Songran) or visiting family so it's not very convenient for them to meet with us. Luckily we have a very loving and caring Mission President that is going to let us play สงกรานต์ (Songran) so we get to have a part in it all. We are playing tomorrow and I will take a bunch of pictures to send home next week. It's a way fun holiday and I think America needs to adopt it into our culture.
We watched the re-broadcast of Conference yesterday and Saturday and it was really awesome! I noticed there was a common focus in a lot of the talks about families and parenting. When Elder Anderson gave his talk and started out by talking about how each speaker chooses his own topic and nothing is assigned, it helped me realize that God is truly revealing through his representatives and apostles. There was a lot of good talks given and a lot of great quotes as well. Being on a mission has really helped me realize the greatness of General Conference. Before, I was never really attentive on watching it. But now, I really look forward to it!
Well I love you all and I'm looking forward to seeing all your faces in a couple of weeks!

Elder Olsen