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Service Week Wrap Up & Beach Day

This morning started out with a lovely breakfast of…. Grilled cheese and corn sandwiches! And if you didn’t want that, you could have grilled cheese and sausage (think bland hot dog) or grilled cheese and raisin. Yum yum. Blech. Today the environmental volunteers joined us in working at the school, so we traveled in a […]

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Wrong Color Paint

So remember how I said that we got half of the main section of wall painted light blue yesterday? Well, the new bucket of paint that we used didn’t *quite* match the color of the front or other side once it was dry. It took a long time to convince the coordinators that it wasn’t […]

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School Renovations Day 2 & Hua Hin Mall

Another breakfast at the Sunshine Center then 45 minutes in the back of the truck. This time the driver avoided the huge bump in the road that made us all fly yesterday. We got right to work where we left off – NixiRay painted a panel of fence purple as the background of a mural, […]

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“I am so happy!”

This morning after breakfast we got in the back of a truck with 4 other volunteers (2 german girls (Hannah is talkative, the other girl must not know English well), Callum from New York & Andrew from New Jersey), along with 2 volunteer coordinators and our driver). We drove 45 minutes through rural Thailand until […]

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Adventure Part 3 Starting Now – Last Morning in Bangkok, Travel to Hua Hin

This morning we knew just where to go to find church! The building behind the Bangkok Thailand Temple of course! The address doesn’t actually have a road to it and our Bolt driver asked us “Where you go?” We answered “Church.” He looked at the approximate destination and said “Mormon Church?” We replied “Yes” knowing […]

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