Elder Landon J Watkins Week 17
Week Eight in Ayutthaya
Monday, October 7, 2013
Hey Everyone!
Well another
solid week down probably one of the best weeks we have had when it comes to the
work here in Ayutthaya! Tuesday was our English day so we had English
meeting, but the Sowards weren't back from America yet so we didn't end up
having one since we didn't have anything to discuss and they weren't there so
we just hung out at the church for a little bit until English class. Elder Unsworth
and I played the waving game which is just way funny to see what the people do
as they are cruising by on their scooters! English class as far as people was a
little less than we usually have, like 10-15 instead of about 20, but that is
okay!
Wednesday was
quite the interesting day we decided to do a ton of contacting so we were just
wandering around trying to find people and just talking to bunch of random
people. We walked into a store just looking around no one was in the store but
us and the two workers. When we come in they are just giggling like none other.
Two girls had to be like upper twenties, who knows, people here in Thailand are
impossible to read their age! We just didn't say anything, looked at stuff in
the store then they asked us if we spoke Thai and we are like yep and they just
become so interested in learning English and the gospel, it was cool, I took
charge explaining English class, so it was a good little experience for me,
working out the jitters. So we invited them to English class and they seemed
pretty interested so we will see if they come tomorrow!
Thursday was
a pretty good day we had more specialized training from the zone leaders that
took 3 hours. It was good and just kind of a refresher from zone conference a
little, but we talked about having a vision and setting goals and then having a
plan of action to achieve the goals that will accomplish your vision. It was
good. The Sowards' came back from the wedding. It was also Elder Ohmer's
birthday so we all had a little surprise thing at Swenson’s for him with a
bunch of the members. It was funny me and Elder Unsworth had to hide and run
from them so they didn't see us! Oh yeah, and Sister Gade went down to Asok
shopping and bought me a satchel for free and she gave me her Swenson’s card
since she is leaving which was way nice of her!
Friday was
quite the day; our kitchen was just so disgusting Elder Unsworth and I couldn't
handle it anymore since we never use it, but the other Elders do we were just
tired of their mess so we just spent 2 hours in the morning cleaning that whole
thing, it was disgusting and it looks like it got remodeled now ha-ha. Then we
went and hit up some Pizza Company because we just were feeling it ha-ha and it
was way tasty! Then Sister Gak called us about a new investigator of ours we
met and talked to her at Lotus and she brought a friend they seem way
interested, so we will be following up with them this week which is awesome!
Then Brother David also called which is Sister Mod's husband who lives in
England; saying he wants us to find his family a new house in Thailand, so now
we are searching for that. We went out visiting a bunch of Less Actives;
Brother Arm, Sister Boo, Sister Dooy, and Brother Chitsak. It was successful we
were able to do tons of solid work with the less actives this week teaching 15
RC/LA Lessons. It is the most lessons Elder Unsworth has ever had in a week and
obviously the same for me ha-ha.
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Saturday we
went and did some service at Maaben’s house. We cleaned some stuff and built a
railing on her stairs to her house that was like 53 years old, way ancient! It
was pretty fun and after we had the youth activity and Bro. Arm came which was
awesome since he is an LA! He is now a rescue of ours which is an equivalent to
a baptism! We've had him coming to church and PMG class and youth activities
the last couple weeks and he talked with Elder Sowards and has filled out his
form, so now we have him back, which is great! After the youth activity we went
and hit up Pizza Company again and did the buy one. get one free take out for
fast Sunday so we ate half of our pizza for lunch then started our
fast! We did a little contacting too and talked to this one worker and she
seems interested in English and her name is Pooy, so we will see if she comes
to class. We see her every time we go to the Lotus, so we can remind her to
come!
Sister Mod
also called Saturday afternoon and asked us to pray and fast that she
would be able to come to church and continue coming every week and guess who
came to church Sunday!!!! Sister Mod!!! Wahoooooo it was so awesome! Elder
Unsworth has been working with her for 5 months and me all of these 7 weeks and
she finally came to church for the first time! It is a huge step for her and she
said she felt better and that a mountain had been lifted off of her. So now her
and her son Boon have a baptismal date for October 20th so they
should be baptized then so that is pretty exciting! Also, Sister Cake one of
our new potential investigators we got from English class came to church too! I
invited her to come to church not thinking and didn't even remember I had until
she came; she is only 12 years old! I was way excited and she said she had a
blast, it was pretty cool!
We got
balanced key indicators for our first time as a companionship which is awesome!
Our hard work paid off this week, so good! Sister Gade left for the MTC for her
mission now, which was sad because she was such a big help in the branch, but
that is okay! That is about it for this week we really had a ton a fun, so it
was just great! Love you all!
Love,
Landon
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