I got my mission call! I’m going to Bangkok, Thailand. I’ll enter the MTC on August 21st. That gives me enough time to get the visa and immunizations. And I’ll have plenty of time to start learning the language (it’s supposed to be notoriously difficult) and studying the culture and history and customs. I’m exceedingly excited. Thailand is about as exotic as you can get. I read a little bit about the language and found that it will indeed be difficult — it’s tonal. I’ve never studied an Asian language before, so I’m used to languages like German and Latin and French. Thai is totally different. The script shouldn’t be too hard to learn. But they don’t put spaces between words. The only punctuation they use are spaces between sentences. Wow. Kind of like reading old Latin inscriptions. I went to the city library and checked out every book they had on Thailand and Thai. Tomorrow I’ll go to the BYU library, which should have even more books. Oh, on the back cover of one of the guidebooks I got, it talks about the ancient temples and palaces. I can’t express in words how much that excites me. Thailand is primarily Buddhist, I believe, so I’ll be studying Buddhism as well.