Elder Landon J Watkins Week 19
Week
Ten in Ayutthaya
Monday,
October 21, 2013
What
is up everybody!
This week was wild and
I got a full line up for all you! So we will cruise on back to Tuesday! Tuesday a couple of the members took us out to Swenson’s since we knew
some people would be leaving, just not sure who, so we got free ice cream which
was way tasty! While we were waiting for
English class the ZL's called with transfer news and Elder Unsworth and Ohmer
were out of Ayutthaya! So we had English and all them and then after Elder
Unsworth said goodbye to most of the people they wanted to, which was sad!
Then we cruised off to get some McD's for the last time with Bro Nong and
it was pretty fun! That night Elder Unsworth was packing until like 2 AM and I just crashed and fell asleep at like 11 ha-ha,
but I woke up when he finally was going to bed.
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| The senior couple took them to Pizza Company knowing Elder Unsworth and Omer were leaving Ayutthaya this week. |
We woke up the next
morning and he was just dead and wouldn't get out of bed to finish packing it
was hilarious. He finally finished and we met up with Sis. Ganjanii who
organized a truck for us to put all the luggage, bikes, and stuff into and take
down to transfers which was a huge blessing! Bro. Nong even road with us it was
pretty fun. Bro. Nong was way sad to see Elder Unsworth go especially now
because he only has me left of the missionaries that really is his friend and I
don't speak that good of Thai, yet! I just keep telling him to find a
girlfriend so he isn't lonely! So that night we got invited to go hang out with
the ZL's Elder Terry and Appleyard. Since Elder Appleyard finished his mission
the members were throwing a go away party at this guy’s house for him, it was
way awesome because we got to go! To make it better it was a white guy’s house
and his wife is Thai and she made some spaghetti and garlic bread and I hate
spaghetti, but it tastes way good when you are in Thailand ha-ha-ha! He had a
ping pong table to and I whipped up on everybody, I was the champ! To make it even
better the girl I taught on my switch off, Sister Min was there and I got to
say, what's up to her and Sister Namsaay and Sister Ging so it was way awesome
to see some of those friends I had made. Oh and we had a ice cream cake from Swenson’s
too, which was amazing along with some brownies! Homemade treats are just rare
especially American ones. Luckily, we have the Sowards who make them for us all
the time, so we are blessed!
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| Goodbye to my first trainer...he is going to miss him!!! |
Thursday was
the big day we had transfers! I got to see all of my group from the MTC most of them are doing pretty
good! All of us got new companions except mine, Elder Keller who already got a
new one like about 3-4 weeks ago at the mini transfer. Elder Unsworth is now companions
with Elder Astle who was also in the MTC with me just 6 weeks ahead. He is now
the Branch President of his branch, when he found that out he about died ha-ha,
but it is like a brand new area and only like 3 people come to church! Then I got my new companion Elder Gibbons from Draper, Utah! He has
been out 20 months and is a way dang good missionary and works me to death. I
haven’t been this tired on my mission, so when I get home, I just crash around 10:15 pm and I fall right to sleep ha-ha! Yeah it is
cool, I'm leading our area in Ayutthaya, just because I'm the only one who
knows anything about it and that isn't much. So after transfers we had to go to
the bus station because he left his viola on his bus and we had to try and find
it and he got way lucky and did! Then we cruised over to this place called Adam
and Eves which is one of the places the missionaries get their suits made. He
picked up some shirts and pants he had cut and I bought a tie for 100 baht,
nice skinny tie, Nate would love it! Then I walked out the door and there was a
sunglasses salesman and I was like yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to buy
some I've been searching for forever! I got some fake Oakley’s for 100 baht, $3.50
ha-ha, what a steal! I was pumped best purchase, now my eyes have been better
since I'm not squinting all the time on my bike! Then we went to the office to
hitch a ride back to Ayutthaya with the Sowards. I can't wait to go back there
and buy some manmade stuff, it makes me want a suit even worse!
Friday was
pretty good we did some planning and set up the youth activity for Saturday then went to see some LA's which was good we
met with Sister Boo. Then we went to see the old Branch President Brother Chitsak, but he
wasn't home we talked to his grandson Brother Arm and got him to commit to the
youth activity, which was sweet. We went and ate dinner with Brother Nong also.
Saturday was
crazy we had an awesome youth activity we did a golf game and compared it to
the Plan of Salvation it was way fun. Before we had to make some score cards
and we were at the mall place and we just started talking to people and got
some potential investigator, it was sweet! We had the activity which was pretty
fun and had a good turn out! Our investigator Sister Cake was there, which was
good. After that we just went exploring everywhere that I hadn't even been, it
was crazy and we just were talking to all sorts of random people and met this
lady named Boo. She is fluent in English too because that was her major, but
she was interested and we are going to meet with her again. Then we just went
around talking to more people and stopped at this place to eat and met this
couple Day and Gwang. They were super interested and agreed to meet us tomorrow so we set up on appointment for 7 at the
church.
Sunday came
along and we had Area Conference for Asia, it was way cool! Elder Holland and
Elder Hales spoke! It was a way good conference because they talked about the Asian
people so much and Elder Holland has been recently assigned to the Asia area so
he said he'd be visiting the area more, that would be awesome if he came to
Thailand and we got to hear him speak! Sister Cake was our only investigator
that came to church and she is only 12 so it is kind of hard. We taught her a
quick lesson after church. We had an appointment with Boo that we had met
yesterday (the English speaking lady) so we cruised over there with Sister
Ganjanii and she wasn't there she went to Bangkok, but it’s okay because her
sister was there so we just taught her instead. It was a pretty good lesson and
she seemed interested so there is another potential investigator we got. Then
we had a fireside that we had set up at Brother and Sister McGeorge's house for
the youth and members! We had about 20 people there, it was so awesome Sister
Cake came and Sister Boo and her daughter Bahh. (This is Boo the member that is
less active and her daughter that is an investigator) We taught a lesson on the
Plan of Salvation using all the youth to teach it and then we ate, it went way
good! We had to hurry to our next appointment with Day and Gwang but they had
forgot about it being at the church, but luckily they lived super close to
Brother McGeorge's house so we called them and met up with them at their house!
Then we get there and Day, who is the boy, it was his family, so his Dad was there
and Mom! They were all way interested. The Dad can't read Thai so we are going
to give him an English Book of Mormon for now while we wait for a Hindi one to
come because he is from India! We left Gwang a BoM because she is the only one
who can read Thai. The Mom is Thai, but has never learned how to read Thai. So
we have another appointment with them tonight at 7 at their house so that
should be awesome! We were able to get 4 new investigators in just 2 days,
really it was way awesome, so we did some work! Time to get some baptisms for
this next month I'm feeling good about it! That was all for this week we are
just taking this p-day to do some cleaning and buying some stuff we need and
getting a haircut. Next week we will go touring some places! Have a good
week everyone!
Love,
Elder Watkins
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