Elder Landon J Watkins Week 49
Week Four in Samut Pakran
Monday, May 19, 2014
Hey Everyone!
I'm emailing a bit
later today because we went to the Ancient City here in Samut Pakran! The
Ancient City is the whole country of Thailand with all the really famous sites
shrunken down. But they are still way big ha-ha. So we got there around 9:30 this morning and road our bikes around and
toured the whole thing which took us all day! It was really cool! I got some
really cool pictures. I sent you guys just some of them. I didn't send every one of the sites because I
took around 200 pictures just today! It was pretty sweet though. Definitely worth
it, but for sure an all day trip!
Well the other big,
sweet highlight of the week is we had a baptism! Sister Muay got baptized on Sunday after church. She gave us a big, old scare
showing up late to sacrament at forty minutes late, but luckily she has already been to church twice
so it wasn't an issue. Sure enough I got the opportunity to baptize her which
is always a cool experience. It was kind of funny though she was like resisting
to go in the water and so I just have to shove her down in the font ha-ha and
then next thing you know she didn’t help by coming back up so I had to give her
a nice lift out, but I got in all done in one try and that is all that matters!
No noob moves from me! :) Ha-ha it was cool though! We had met with her about 3
times earlier in the week prepping her and teaching her everything. She works at
a little fruit stand and sells fruit. So Sunday is her best day of the week to sell fruit so
getting her to not work on the Sabbath was hard, but she was just so ready for
the gospel that she accepts commits so well. We were teaching her on Friday and we even got Brother Pornchay the Patriarch
to help us teach her. Towards the end she is like so when do I get my interview, tomorrow? We asked her what time she would be free and
she is just like tell me what time and I will be there. So cool how it didn’t matter
what was going on, she was going to make sure that this was her top priority.
As for other
investigators we are shooting for another baptism this week and we have the
potential for three investigators that could be baptized. The one we are
meeting with tonight is Tik and she is a school teaching and summer is now over
so she just gotten very busy with school
starting last Friday. She is super close to have everything done and ready to be
interviewed. We just need to get an answer and feel good about the baptism and
to make sure that it is what she wants! We also have Bow who we didn't get to
meet with last week because she is a nurse. She has a kid and a husband. She
needs to just meet with us 2 more times so she can have an interview. Our other
one is Bow too, ha-ha, but I call her Lil Bow since we don’t get them mixed up.
She is the niece of a member, but she lives about an hour away in Chonburi which
we have to get special permission to go out there. She works so by the time we went
out there, there would is no way we can get back by 9:30 p.m.
On Tuesday we get a call from the Zone Leaders saying we
just got some new training and an announcement that the mission is changing. We
are like okay, what is it, but Unsworth made us wait until District meeting to
tell us. So the BIG news is that the Thailand, Bangkok Mission is now on Facebook!
The training was to create a new Facebook page on Thursday and each week we are allowed to use Facebook
for an hour on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday’s. Restrictions are obviously that we can only talk with
Members, investigators, and our recent converts through face book. It is kind
of cool, but weird, I guess! I tried it out and it was super hard to type in Thai
that is for sure ha-ha! It will be good practice for me though once I get home
and talk to some people over here in Thai. I should be ok at typing and
spelling by then, so this will really help and will be a benefit.
That is what we got
going on for this week. The Zone leaders came and had a switch off with Elder
Unsworth so that was cool we all went and just invited like crazy trying to
find new investigators. A couple of pictures are of a member’s birthday party! Wish
us luck for this week, love you all, have a great week!
Love,
Landon
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