Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 43
Week
Sixteen in Nong Khai
Monday,
April 07, 2014
What
is up everybody?
This transfer is just
flying by, Like to start off with that I mean transfers are in just 2 1/2 weeks
already and I feel like last transfer just ended! This week on Saturday I will
be into the double digits I will hit my 10 month mark, pretty good! That means about 15 more months…not
too bad! I'll start off this week with 2 announcements!
First! The Thailand
Bangkok Mission has broken the record for the most baptism in a month for the
Asia Area with.......... 218 baptism in what they called March Madness!! WOOOOOOOO
Pretty sweet! Lets gooo!
Second, President
Kanankam or however you spell his name who is President Seniors first counselor
has been call to the Asia Area Quorum of the Seventy. The very first 70’s from
Thailand, how sweet is that!? Thailand is just booming these days, it is way
cool!
Anyways, I'll start
off with all our investigators this week. First with Winay and his two kids
Baam and Baahm; Winay didn't come to church again because he had to work, but
his two kids did so that was still good, they are ready to get baptized but can't
until their dad does. We all went to his house though last night and had Sunday dinner there which was way tasty and fun and
to get him to know some members. If he could just quit smoking and come to
church we could have him baptized in no time! He lives way far away though it
takes us an hour by bike to get there, but we had to do some serious cheesing
yesterday and got there in about 20 minutes or so on our bikes which was way
awesome and for the way back Winay just threw our bikes in the back of his
truck and drove us home so nice! Ha-ha.
Let's see next we got
Buubae! She is the girl who makes glasses. Who have almost taught her
everything now after being able to meet
with her 3 times this past week. She says she feels good about getting baptized,
but the only problem is getting her to church. She only gets 4 days off from work
a month so it is way hard for her to get to church on Sunday because the other worker takes off Sundays to
be with her boyfriend so she has to run the shop by herself. She thinks she
will be able to come to church on the 20th though since she gave her boss more
notice. We were trying to get her to church this week so she could get baptized
on the 20th, but that didn't happen. We got a text from the APs
these week saying that if investigators come to General Conference this coming
weekend it doesn't count for them coming to church to get baptized so that
pretty much messed that up for all the new investigators we have to get
baptized before transfers. It is all good though.
As for the other
investigators we have King and Sam who we both got from inviting on Friday. As for King we met with him Friday and taught him. He is good except for he didn't
show up to his next appointment on Saturday even though he came to our Book of Mormon class Friday night! He said his parents were coming to
visit him so maybe that was why. Sam is good though we met and taught him on Saturday and he came to church yesterday. He stayed at
the church until 4 pm with all the members, just having a good time, so that
was cool.
The other two
investigators we got are a girl named Ging and her little sister, Girl. Ha-ha.
She is 24 and just finished school in Bangkok. I met her at English classed and
she was really friendly and nice we taught her once on Wednesday, but she has been busy after so we aren't
really sure how much she is interested in the gospel or just in English. We
haven't figured it out yet, but they are way nice.
I taught English class on Tuesday all by myself, I forgot about that! It should
be the last time I have to do that by myself unless I get another Thai
companion, but that probably won't happen. Brother Gang even came to English class
and helped me out since my companion can't do much. Brother Gang was way good
in helping me out and explained some fun games. Brother Gang is way good he
will be going back to California in 9 more days I think, after Songran which is
the water festival which starts next Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. This is just
a big festival where people throw water everywhere, really. I don't quite
understand it all yet, but that is what we will be doing next p-day since we
are allowed to play on p-day! That should be fun. Brother Gang also said he'd be
going to Utah again probably towards the end of May nears Mother’s Day he
thinks, so he told me I could get him a present for my mother :) So I'll need
to put something together for you this week Mom! :) After coming to church
yesterday Brother Gang went to Bangkok he is just going there for p-day and
coming back tomorrow and he said he'd be coming to English class her again. If you
were wondering Brother Gang and I must be pretty good friends since he visits
me 2 or 3 times a week and he lives in Udorn! Anyways I can't think of anything
else to write about this week. It was a good week though with 4 new
investigators! Hope you all have a great week, love you all!
Love,
Love,
Landon
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