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Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 44
Week
Seventeen in Nong Khai
Monday,
April 14, 2014
Hey Everyone!
I'm still just postin
up in Nongkhai these days, not much has changed really except the weather is
way hot right now. We are hitting close to the peak of the hot season now and
it is the Songkran Festival or the water festival. Luckily since this is a
smaller place it isn't as wild and played as many days. Just yesterday, today,
and tomorrow it will be played here. We have a curfew and
we have to be inside our houses at 6 p.m. during it. We just switched around
out studies. So yesterday we were lucky to get to the church before they all
started playing so we had no problems getting wet then. We watched two sessions
of conference which were way good and relaxing. Conference just seemed to fly
by and was a good rejuvenation for our spirits. I really loved Holland’s talk it
was cool. He shared such a powerful testimony at the end. I also liked
Uchtdorf's and Eyring's in the Priesthood session. I liked Eyring's because he
referenced baseball so much and I was able to relate and stay interested! I
also liked Elder Perry’s talk and also the guy with the Brazilian accent in
afternoon session of Sunday (I can't remember his name). It was just a way good conference.
After conference ended people were just playing water festival like crazy so we
were just hiding in the church. I didn't know how to get home because I didn't
want to get my suit all wet. Luckily Brother Bang came to church here and his
dad came up from Udorn to pick him up so Brother Gang’s dad took us straight to
our house so we wouldn't get wet. I changed out of my suit into other church
clothes that can get wet, but I didn't want to get them wet though. We were so
close to sneaking all the way back to the church without getting wet, but there
were just two random little kids hanging out. They were about to soak my companion
and my companions says to them; Hey don't do it to me, do it to the white guys
and I’m just like…What, I can’t believe you would tell them to get me…so they
just soaked me! We just hung out at the church with members and had some
activities. On the way home we were almost home again and as were sneaking home
I was staying way back so they wouldn't know I was coming and hopefully soak my
companion first and he goes through and the guy just completely leave him alone
and I try to sneak by a few seconds after and the kid is just camping out like
a little noob waiting for me and just dumps a whole huge bucket of water over
me. Luckily we were almost home so I just went home and took off all my clothes
and dried off like I had just had a shower. After that we were just stuck in the
house the rest of the night because of the curfew.
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| I pictured Landon getting soaked like this on his bike!!! |
So today we are going to
play some Songkran after we finish emailing. As of right now I think we will be
going to our buddies little restaurant down the street that is where all the
members will be. After that we will just wander around and play I think. Our
new investigator said she will give us free sticky rice and mangos today if we
go to her house so we will be heading over there for sure.
So onto our new
investigator that we got this week. She is actually a friend of one of my recent
converts Ice, if you guys remember she is the second person I helped get
baptized here in Nongkhai. Her friend is here in Nongkhai visiting her family
but lives in Bangkok. I think the new investigator name is Ann, but
she will be going back to Bangkok so we will end up handing her off to some
other missionaries! Maybe that is where I will move if I get transferred so I
can keep teaching her ha-ha, who knows. Oh also Ice and Taew the two friends
and recent convert of mine are also planning on moving to Bangkok to find work
since they are just bored her in Nongkhai.
As far as everyone
else goes this week it has not been very good because of the Songkran Festival.
Everyone seemed not to be free and too busy to meet. No investigators came to
conference and no one is free until Wednesday.
As far as our
investigators go though, Sam we are going to probably hand over to the Udorn Elders
because he is down there more and said it would be easier for him to learn so we
will be giving him to the ZL's which will be an easy baptism for them since he
just really has to be interviewed for baptized.
Winay and his two kids
are okay. We may try and baptize his two kids next
week since they want to get baptized way bad.
Transfers are next
week we don't really know anything about it yet, but since my companion is
finishing his mission we will probably be going down to Bangkok a day early.
Yeah and if you were wondering my companion is way trunky and just wants to go
home and won't do anything ha-ha so wish me luck this week, for real! He is
good though I still love him, he is a boss! I have learned a ton from him!
Anyways, love you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
Landon
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