Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 51
Week
Six in Samut Prakan
Monday,
June 02, 2014
Hey
Everyone!
Well another week down;
it was a pretty good week for the most part!
First I'll start off
with the crocodile farm! It was way cool! I got to get my picture taken with a
baby tiger cub and the big tiger! They had some hippos too, man those things
are huge and scary it is cool because you can feed them bananas. They also have
some Asian black bears and if you tell them to “Y” which is the thing you do
when you greet people here they will do it back to you and then you toss them a
banana. It is pretty cool!
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| Feeding the Baby Tiger and if you look close you can see the banana in the Hippos mouth |
As for some other cool
stuff that happened we did some hardcore inviting this week and got 37 new
phone numbers of potential investigators we can possibly get. We have 2 new
potential investigators from English class also; so I'm hoping we can get about
3-4 really good investigators. Thursday we didn't really have a plan or anything to do and the other 3
Elders just wanted to sit at the house and I'm like no way, I'm not doing that.
I'm not wasting my time sitting at the house. So I just stood and said, I'm
leaving and they just followed me. So I just started talking to everyone as we
went and invited them all to get baptized and they just watched me for like 30
minutes. I was seriously, you guys are pathetic and then my comp joined and it
was just him and I with two shadows following us (if you get what I'm saying) ha-ha.
Nothing more annoying than when I'm inviting and someone is just standing there
listening to my conversation when they could be inviting someone else. I got us
to this market that is only open on Fridays and I was just going ham, pulling
numbers like crazy and finally all 4 of us started inviting together. It was
way cool to get us all going back to doing the work of the Lord, that is for
sure.
The Zone Leaders
called us and told us that the AP's want to come do a switch off with you and your
companion on Saturday. So Elder Marshall came down to be my companion for the day and my
companion went up to Asoke with Elder Hunsaker and Wilson. Right now we have
three AP's, We got 22 phone numbers from inviting together, it was way
sweet! The only sad thing was we had 8 people committed to coming to church and
only got 2 investigators came to church which is too bad! But that was okay we
have 3 baptismal daters now.
We have Muays niece Ing
we just baptized a couple weeks ago. One of the girls I met contacting this
week also said she wants to get baptized. We have to give people later dates
right now because stake conference is the 15th up in Asoke. We are
pretty sure they will be announcing the new stake in Thailand which means we
will have 2 stakes in Thailand; so sweet!!!! Our other dater is Tik who is also
ready she just has to finish her last two tests which are the 8th
and 15th and then she is ready to get baptized she is way
awesome!
It was way cool though
when I invited our new investigator Ging, I was just talking to people and I
was like hey do you want to wash away your sins and she was like, yeah! I was
like whoa, because people will say yes all the time because they don't
understand what you are saying so I asked her again and she said yeah and I was
like; for real? I asked if we could have her number and if we could meet tomorrow? We made an appointment with her to come to
church the next day. I called her just after 8 o clock and asked her if she was
coming and I woke her up ha-ha. I couldn't even understand word she was saying
because her voice was so sleepy. I told her I was sorry for waking you up, but
told her she should come still, but she said she couldn't get ready in time :(
Hopefully it is better this week!,
Today we went to
Bangkok for interviews with President Senior for our upcoming zone conference.
But you will never believe what we ate for lunch! Carl’s Jr.!!! Oh man it was
sooooooo good! I had a double Western Bacon cheeseburger with crisscross-cut
fries. It was a little expensive, but sooooo worth it; the best fast food I've
had on my mission! Which reminds me I completely forgot to tell you we found a
Mexican restaurant pretty close to our house? It is a Mexican guy that married
a Thai women and he opened up a restaurant. Such a good pork Barbacoa burrito
and totally hit the spot…it was amazing! We walked into the restaurant and
thought we were back in America again. The atmosphere it was way better than
Que Pasa Mexican food, but Que pasa makes a mean steak and cheese sandwich with
super shakes. This place was so good and it was nice to just order it in
English ha-ha!
After Carl's
Jr. we got some shopping done in Watergate. I bought a couple t- shirts and ties
and to top it all off I'm getting a suit cut! Nice light grey with maroon
lining initials and a vest. I'm so excited it was only 7000 baht so not bad
probably around $225 dollars in America, but it is tailor fit, so it doesn't
get any better than that. The type of service it would probably be like $500
bucks easy in America. I'm excited and can't wait to send you a pic in my new
suit!
That is all I got for
this week though, love you guys!
Love,
Landon
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