Elder Landon J Watkins Week 81
Week Three in Roi Et
Monday, January 1, 2015
Hey Everyone!
Well it's
officially the New Year for us, but it isn't over there in Utah quite yet!
Anyways this was actually a pretty slow week and felt way long, I'll be
honest! A lot of people have been out of town and just too busy to meet
with us. Also as we have been inviting it has been rough just no one seemed
willing to stop and talk to us no matter what we do, but we were still able to
find a few new potentials and get a few good lessons in.
Elder Hartung and I
are getting a long great! He is a really good guy and fun to be around. He is a
great example to me in effective studying and is helping me to learn so much
more about the Gospel, the language, and the scriptures it is awesome and I'm
really enjoying being his companion.
Here
is the story about my camera getting stolen this past week was on
Saturday. We
had coordination meeting and right before we went in I grabbed my scriptures
out of my bag and left my bag in the usual closet where we all leave them. The
meeting started at 2 and at 2:30 my companion had to use the
bathroom and I had loose string on my tie so I went to get my bag to grab
my Leatherman to cut it off and my whole bag was gone. So we just
started searching around trying to figure out where my bag went. We
wandered around and there was a kid around 12 years old with a friend who and
come in earlier to use the bathroom, but a member kicked them out. We found him
and his friend were gone and the kid just sat and lied and wouldn't tell us
anything. Anyways, the Sisters were searching behind the church and found my
bag behind some bushes and everything was there except my camera. Some members
took the kid and went to his house and found the parents of the kids who we are
pretty sure stole it. But the parent’s kids haven't been home in 2 weeks. Great
parenting right? So the Dad and stuff were cruising all around town trying to
find his kid and never did, but a member has been helping and got the cops
involved. I haven't had a chance to talk to the member, but the Dad said if
they can't get the camera back then they will give me some money. I don't know
how true that will be, but the kid has had to have sold the camera by now so I
guess there is a still a slight chance I can get it back. I just need to talk
to the member today.
As
far as our investigators we are working with. We have 4 good ones and a lot of
potentials.
We
have Bro. Bank our 15 year old who has officially read the whole Book of Mormon
in less than two weeks and is doing great! We are going to have him interviewed on
Friday and
hopefully he will choose to be baptized this Sunday.
We
also have TonKla who is new. We found him at the New Year’s Party that has been
going on for the last week. We met him and he was free so we ended up just
walking with him all the way to the church and taught him, it was way good! He
has a date for the 11th of January. So as long as he comes to
church he should be getting baptized here soon.
The
other two is a Mother and daughter named Gan and Yui. They are pretty
interesting ha-ha. The Mom as a boyfriend from Australia who is Christian so
she wants to be Christian also! We showed them around and introduced them at
church. They are good and want to learn and her daughter has learned about
Christianity before. They were supposed to come to church week, but her sister came
up to visit from Bangkok so she was too busy, but they said they'd come this
Sunday!
Good stuff though.
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| Shabushi Buffet |
The
other cool thing that happened this week was Monday! It was a great day. First
Bro. Keng came and visited and we went and ate Shabushi together a Japanese
buffet which is just delicious I loved it! Bro. Keng is such a nice guy. It was
a short visit, but way fun; I love that guy! That night we had a Family Home
Evening with some members that we didn't know, but turns out that is because
one of them lives in Hawaii and the other lives in Bangkok! They both studied
at BYU Hawaii so they speak English, so well! It was so great to be able to
speak some English! One of the girls named Vivi is from here and has two
sisters that live here in Roi Et who aren't members so it was great experience
and I think she had a great time! Her parents have already passed away so life
hasn't been the easiest. So she really appreciated the Family Home Evening so
the house wasn't so quiet and boring. Fun stuff though!
That's
really all we did for this past week, hopefully we can get some baptisms here
soon!
Love,
Elder
Landon J Watkins
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