Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 70
Week
Four in Sisaket
Monday,
October 13, 2014
Hey
how's life going back in the US?
This has been a pretty
good week! Every week is good; that is for sure!
Well we had a goal for
Supad to get baptized this week, but he just never pulled through I'd call him
set up an appointment and I'd call him the day before to confirm and he'd
cancel. This happened about 3 times; so yeah we didn't get a baptism this week,
but that is okay!
This week was a really
rough week as far as inviting; to be honest we didn't see much success at all
from finding new investigators, but we were blessed from our diligence; which
was awesome. On Tuesday one of the RC's here brought us two of her friends and we were
able to start teaching them; their names are Kitty and Yam. They are pretty
good, but they went out of town so they couldn't come to church which was too
bad; but maybe next week!
On Wednesday; we
invited and went to the church to teach our investigator; Tri, but she didn't
show and we just talked with this member named Sister Ped about Less actives
and we ended up calling one, Sshe came 15 minutes later to the church and we
taught her; it was way awesome. To make it even better she came to church on Sunday; it was way cool!
Thursday was
honestly a really rough day! We invited for quite a few hours which was hard
because there was not much success at all and we had 4 appointments set up for
the night and they all canceled; it was so disappointing! We had scripture
calls though; which was good we will see how it keeps going.
Friday was
pretty much the same as Thursday we invited for a really long time and worked quite hard with
some good diligence, but just weren't finding any investigators. It makes us
feel like we are doing something wrong, but sometimes we receive are
investigators or blessings in other ways through diligence by doing the
inviting we are supposed to do every day. We had sports night which was just a
blast. We play volleyball every Friday night with the branch; it is way fun. Surprisingly enough the Thai
people are pretty good at volleyball and love it, but I tell you my size and
athleticism really does fluster them because I can just block their spikes and
spike it down on them way easy; it is awesome. We actually have a basketball
hoop at church and I can still dunk a volleyball way easy. So that was
comforting that I haven't lost too much over this time. So it should be easy to
get back in shape when I'm home, so no worries if you think I've lost my hops;
Dad, I still have them!
Conference on Saturday was way awesome! Tons of good talks for the
most part I really enjoyed Uchtdorf's, Holland's and some guy from the 70 I
think his name was Jorg, but they were way good. It was just a good spiritual
regeneration for the next 6 months. We were really blessed though after we
finished our 6 hours of conference we went out inviting and were just not
finding anyone as usual then we ran into two members these 2, 14 years girls
and they were like are you guys finding lots of investigators and I was like
nope! Ha-ha. Then as a joke I was like; will you find some for us and they are
like, yeah so I was like, okay go for it and gave them a stack of baptismal
cards a piece of paper and a pen. 20 minutes later they come running back, just
so happy and they got us 7 new potential investigators; talk about a miracle
really, it was so awesome!
Sunday we were really blessed. One of the RC calls me at 8:00 and is like; hey Elder I'm bringing a friend today I was just
like; yes!!!! Soo awesome. Then we also had one of the people we met inviting
come to church so we had two new investigators. They both stayed for conference,
it was way awesome! After conference was all over we had a baptismal service.
The sisters baptism; 1 girl and the other elders baptized a newly married
couple and the little sister it! It was really like baptizing a family which
was so cool to see! Then after that we had to practice this silly Thai dance
show we have to do next week in Khon Kaen. So next week the 3 districts in the
Eesaan are all meeting together to have a special meeting over there so we have
to go there on Saturday and come back on Monday.
So our p-day is going to be changed to Tuesday next week I'm pretty sure; so most likely I will not be
emailing on Monday it will be Tuesday; I believe!
Hope you all have a
great week, Thanks for everything you all do in supporting me back home! I will
be finishing up the Book of Mormon here probably on Wednesday so I'm excited to finish that another time,
that always feels good! Love you all!
Love,
Elder Watkins
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