Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 72
Week
Six in Sisaket
Monday,
October 27, 2014
Wow;
can I first start off by saying…can you believe transfers are here already? This
was a crazy-fast 6 weeks. When they say time just keeps going faster, I think
it is true. I don't know why there is still only 24 hours in a day. I think it
is just the fact of getting lost in the work and working so hard and focusing
so much on other people. I never have time to just sit and look at myself and
say; I'm bored because even if we aren't home, I'm always thinking about how are
we going to help them get baptized or I need to fill out the area book or wow,
we need to find new investigators.
I've been blessed with
such a great companion this transfer too which makes time go even faster. Elder
Mitchell is such a stud and works way hard. Honestly we have the weirdest area
I've ever seen my whole mission. I did some work filling out the area book this
morning and finally got it all caught up. I literally counted all the investigators
and we have 12 investigators, it is unreal how many we have. The thing is we
aren't getting any baptisms, it is so weird ha-ha! Everyone is just so new and
we keep finding more investigators, but no one is really progressing because
they are all busy with work, testing, and school so they have all been super
busy. We got shut down hard a lot this week with appointments we were supposed
to have. They all just fall through so we hardly got to teach at all. We are looking
at our work and wondering what are we doing wrong? We are being super obedient,
doing everything President Senior has asked us to do, but we are just getting
slammed by people not answering their phones and things like that.
It was a pretty rough
week because with us going to Khon Kaen we lost a couple of work days, but we
worked hard and were diligent. So yesterday rolls around and we call all these
people and we get hardly anyone committed to come to church and we have to have
2 people to get balanced key indicators so we are like, are you kidding me?
Well we come to church and by 8:30 we
already have 2 brand new investigators come, way awesome! They are good the
only problem is one lives down in Bangkok and he just comes back sometimes to
visit his wife, but the good thing is that his wife is a teacher at a school
with one of our members so she already has friends in the church! This place is
awesome though almost every person we find and comes to church has some sort of
connection or friend to someone that is already a member.
We also had a girl
named, Faa come she is only 14 though so she has to wait 3 months to get
baptized.
As for the miracle
though. We were so blessed by the Lord this week! This random person came into
sacrament and she sat right next to me and our investigator Faa. I didn't know
who she was, but she was wearing like church attire so I was like okay; well she
is probably just a member because there are so many here that I don't really
know everyone as well as I did in my other areas. I started talking to her and
sure enough she isn't a member! She is a walk in! She is already a Christian
too; she is 24 years old and her name is
Yui. She is way awesome. For the 3rd hour of church in priesthood they just
watched the priesthood session of conference which we had already watched so we
just took her into another room and taught her the Restoration and told her she
needs to get baptized again. She is so ready, it is unreal. She accepted a date
for Nov.
2 no questions asked, so
we are going to be working with her a lot this week which is going to be hard
but we can do it.
This is going to be a
crazy week! We are not sure if we are going to transfers or not. I'm pretty sure
my companion and I will stay together so I can finish his training. But I have
to go renew my visa so I'm pretty sure that would be the reason I may go down
to Bangkok. If I go I will have to leave Tuesday night and be there to get my visa on Wednesday then stay there until transfers on Thursday. So we will be losing a couple days of work this
week but, I know we will just load up on Friday and Saturday with lessons! I'm way excited for these up and
coming next couple of weeks…we are just going to start baptizing all of these
people I can feel! Love you all so much.
Love,
Elder Landon J Watkins
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