tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47781287283015248032024-03-12T18:58:27.902-06:00IT'S THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFEJoanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.comBlogger379125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-74046468951369413772016-07-04T21:50:00.002-06:002016-07-04T21:51:29.952-06:00Happy Fourth of July<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-70272504657805278582015-12-19T17:19:00.000-07:002015-12-19T17:19:24.669-07:00ASU Graduate!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After sixteen long months of graduate school at Arizona State University Nathan graduated from his Masters Program in Marriage and Family Therapy on December 15th! We are so proud of this great accomplishment.</div>
Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-81571443298610384842015-12-01T15:31:00.001-07:002015-12-01T15:31:51.474-07:00It's Official...they're engaged!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We went down to Arizona for Thanksgiving and while we were down there Nathan proposed to Lauren. He gave her a plane ride for her birthday gift a couple of weeks ago hoping to keep it all a surprise. She thought they were going up to see Arizona from the air and see their beautiful sunsets.<br />
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While flying over a church parking lot the pilot said; "look down there and see my family waving"...<br />
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Lauren said; "what a cute family".<br />
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LAUREN WILL YOU MARRY ME?<br />
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We are so happy for the two of them. No date yet, but looking at June 2016!<br />Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-50863593893274451292015-06-01T21:27:00.000-06:002015-08-06T21:30:06.479-06:00Welcome Home Elder Watkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">After two years the big day arrived for Elder Watkins to return home...what a happy day for us! It has been an amazing journey we have shared with him while he was on his mission, but it is truly wonderful to be reunited again. We are so happy to have him home. It doesn't get any better than this!!! Welcome Home Son...</span></td></tr>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-26068052739359644432015-05-25T14:34:00.000-06:002015-05-25T14:37:10.852-06:00After 102 Weeks...He is Coming Home!!!<div class="MsoNormal">
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trying to go wild with inviting so that is where we spent most of our time Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
We ended up getting 88 phone numbers which was pretty awesome. We were just
trying to get as many new investigators at church as possible! We met with
Brother Beam on Wednesday and were trying to get him baptized this
past Sunday, but we went out of town and we didn't have enough time
to teach him. but we did get come to church with his friend John and we taught
them then. They both have accepted dates for the 24th to be baptized so please
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caught a bus up to Chiang Rai and did a switch off. I was with Elder Mitchell
and Elder Curtis; it was so awesome. I was so pumped and just had a great time
getting to be with Elder Mitchell again, he's so awesome and he is still
growing so much. It's cool to see how much progress he has made since I trained
him. On Wednesday night we got a call from the AP's saying that Elder
Tamang needed to go to Bangkok to renew his visa so in order to keep working in
both areas we needed to do another switch off so I'd be going down to Bangkok
with Elder Tamang. So our bus to Bangkok left at 8:30 on Thursday night
and our bus left Chiang Rai at 5 on Thursday so our bus pulled in
right at 8:30 I jumped off the bus and had to run to the bus to
Bangkok to make it on time it was wild ha-ha! We got there at around 5:30 in
the morning and went to the visa place. We got his visa all renewed and I just
felt gross so we went over to the AP's house so I could shower; which felt
awesome. We then walked over to the office to get some money from Elder Meeker
so we could get back to Chiang Mai. We walked
through the door and President Senior is right there. He says; hey you two come
in my office; so we talked with President; President is like whoa you are going
home next week what are you planning on doing? Wait a second how about we just
have your finishing interview. I was like umm... okay I'm not as ready as I'd
like to be, but whatever. So I have had my final interview with President Senior
already; it was pretty awesome. He's is such a cool guy and he will be heading
home here himself, July 1st. We got some Carl's Jr. for lunch since it was
buy one get one free burgers. We got on a bus back to Chiang Mai later that night
and got home at 5:30. So you can guess I only had an hour of sleep in my
own bed. I was sooooo tired I couldn't believe it. There just hasn't been much
rest recently, but this week should be better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good work day and did some inviting and went and taught Elder Khanakhams sister
(the member of the 70’s). She's so awesome and one of the funniest old ladies
I've met on my mission for sure. She's been a member for a month, but her
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at church we had some new investigators and Brother Brin is back and is going
to be baptized this Sunday. Right now we have 3 daters for next
Sunday, but 5 more potentials who could be baptized so we are shooting for
the best. We need at least 4 to accomplish our goal for this month so wish us
luck and pray for us; because we need it! Love you all so much!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at 3:00 to go to this mountain and see these temples and a waterfall
and then rode some elephants it was one of the coolest trips I've done for
sure. It was great too, because we went with Brother Keng; what a good guy!
Well I'm not sure if we will be emailing much next week or not at all; so this
might be it! Have a great week and I will see you all soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-67989799512051984192015-05-11T10:22:00.000-06:002015-05-11T10:43:56.812-06:00Happy Mother's Day...WEEK 100!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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week! Sorry this will be a shorter email because of skyping today. First I
would like to start off with telling you all Happy Mother's Day! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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full of traveling and switch offs! Tuesday we were able to meet with our
new investigators John and Beam who accepted dates for baptism on the 17th
because this Sunday they will be headed down to Bangkok. They are 28
and 29 year old friends and ready. After
teaching them we got tickets for the train down to Bangkok which is a long 14
hours, but we made it to the office around 6 p.m.!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leadership Council which was actually really awesome because Elder Gong the
Asia Area President came and it was super awesome. He is such a smart guy and
just puts a cool outlook on the gospel. We also had one of the senior couples
from Nepal here too, because they have been taken out of the country temporarily
because of the earthquake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Phitsnalok and got a couple hours of sleep on their floor. We decided to do
a double switch off with Kamphaegphet and Phitsnalok so I went to Kamphaengphet
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to work this week; Friday and Saturday. We met with our
investigators Run and Gay who have dates to be baptized on the 24th but we are
going to try for the 17th this week also so hopefully we can get 4 baptisms
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Conference on Sunday which was pretty cool and Elder Nelson spoke so
that was pretty sweet. We had a good turnout… 212 people, but there were a lot
more tourists than usual so we should have more than that next week between the
two branches! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last week we headed up to the mountain and had a great time and saw some cool
things so I sent pictures of that. We didn't end up going to the zoo, but we did
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awesome because for the most part we were in our area for the whole week. We
did do a switch off in Lampang though, but I was able to stay here and work in our
area. This last week we saw tons of success and I haven't found this many
investigators so quickly in a new area my whole mission. We had 11 new
investigators this past week with 8 investigators at church; it was just
incredible. Sister Moh the girl I found my second day here in Chiang Mai got
baptized on Sunday which was so awesome! I didn't get to teach her a ton
because we ended up giving her to the sisters, but I was just as pumped to see
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church we had 118 people in Branch 2 and 100 in Branch 1 which was just headache
because the translation equipment broke so I just had to sit next to 10 different
tourist and translate and to top it off it was fast Sunday which
didn't help. By the end of my second Elders Quorum my brain was starting to shut
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right now; 2 of them on May 17th and 5 for the 24th so we are going to be
working really hard with them. This week we have MLC and switch offs that we
need do too, so we will be heading to Bangkok on Tuesday night and we will
be doing training and switch offs Thursday and Friday so we won't
have much time to work in our area; so pray for us to be able to have miracles
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and rode Ostriches it was pretty fun and we had a good time! Hopefully the
pictures will upload fast so you will be able to get to see some! If not I'll
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was so crazy ha-ha! First of all the Chiang Mai zone is the biggest zone in the
mission so going to other areas in the zone takes a lot of time to travel to!
The AP's called us on Tuesday and told us they were coming up to
Chiang Mai to give us some special training and then do a switch off. So on
Wednesday Elder Crump and Elder Tanner came up; the AP's gave us some
training and we switched off and I got to be with Elder Crump for a day; it was
way awesome! We went to eat at Duke's together; which is an American food
restaurant that all the missionaries talk about and say how good it was, so I
finally got to experience it for myself; it was way good! I had a BBQ chicken
pizza and some hot wings! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had to start traveling around our zone to give the training so we went up to
Chiang Rai which was a 3 hour bus ride to get there. It was great because I got
to see Elder Mitchell (who Landon trained) again he's awesome. Then right after
we headed back to Chiang Mai and did training Chiang Mai and we had Lampang
come up and trained them too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up at 3:30 a.m. to get on a bus at 5 a.m. to go down to
Phitsanulok which is a 6 hour bus ride away. We figured there would be some
public transportation to take us to the bus station early in the morning, but
we couldn't find a thing so we ended up running 2 or 3 kilos before we finally
found one and barely made it on time to our bus. We got there and did training and
got right back on a bus back to Chiang Mai. We left at 1 p.m. and figured we
would get back by 7 p.m.; nope ha-ha we got back at 9 because it started
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investigators go we don't have too many to be honest; but the good news is that
the twins were baptized yesterday! It was way awesome! We were able to meet
with them twice and their Dad baptized them; it was really cool! We only have
one other dater and good investigator right now because I gave an awesome
investigator to the sisters that I found who will be getting baptized this
Sunday. But we have Bro. Brin who is 16 years old and he has a date for the
10th of May; he is doing awesome. He just has to come to Sacrament 4 times
before he can get baptized because he's under 18; but he's so good!</span><br />
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know I'm in Chiang Mai now! This last week was actually pretty uneventful for
the most part, but it was also pretty good! As you know last Monday we played
Songkran or the water festival it was way fun and we had a great time! I think
last year was better because there were more people in Nongkhai even though Roi
Et is a lot bigger city. It was still super fun though! </span></div>
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takes 7 hours) to get there, but there was tons of traffic because Songkran was
still going on. It was alright though we got there and ordered some McDonalds
to the house and slept in Samut Prakarn and I got to visit that house again; it
was cool ha-ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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transfers it was way crazy and I was super surprised! I thought I'd be moving
to Bangkok for sure which I was supposed to actually. Then right before the
meeting started President Senior switched me at the last minute. I was supposed
to be serving in Don Meung with Elder Sukhan, but he switched me to Chiang Mai!
Not sure why, but I'm happy here; it’s
way awesome! We got on a train that night which was supposed to leave at 8 pm, but
it was broken so it came way late at 10:30 pm. It's around a 13 hour train ride,
so we made it here around Noon on Friday. We got to the house and it was filthy
so the first thing I did was clean the bathroom so I could shower and then I got
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trying to find our way around town and find people. It's kind of weird. There has been very few
baptisms here which is weird because usually the Zone leader areas just have a
ton. Literally we have hardly any so we have to just find investigators like
crazy. And if you have no RC's we've got to baptize them right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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branches here in Chiang Mai and we go to both of them. There is a bunch of
tourist and white people that also come to the branches. So we just translate for 6 hours ha-ha and it
is way hard, but it's okay; it's a good time. I can't believe how many members
here can speak English though! We were able to get two new investigators at
church yesterday who are pretty awesome. We have two other investigators that
will be baptized next week they are the daughters of a Less active member that
was just rescued and guess what; they are twins!!! I'm going to be able to help
twins get baptized I've always kind of wanted to do that! :) It's sweet though
our district had 4 baptisms yesterday. One of them was Elder Wiset Khanakam (who
is the first Thai 70) 77 year old sister; it was so awesome. President and
Sister Senior came so it was a very special day!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are awesome and it is great to be around the Saedan family (Elder Saedan was
Landon’s companion in Nong Khai) since this is where they live, I'm way happy
and excited to serve here; it's going to be great! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-37254777913891803522015-04-13T10:40:00.000-06:002015-04-13T10:43:44.634-06:00"Stay By the Tree"<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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pretty wild last week and we didn't have too much time in our area, but it was
pretty good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So on Monday after
we emailed we went back to the office and I got my Temple Recommend renewed
which was good, so now it's in Thai for the next two years which is cool! Elder
Keller and I had a little special meeting with the Assistants and President
Senior about our Zone which was pretty cool. That night we headed off to Korat
so that we could train that District and do a switch off. We got there and had
to sleep on the floor which was pretty miserable. The switch of was pretty
pointless and short because of English Class that night we only really switched
off for 3 hours, but it was good. We ended up taking a taxi all the way back to
Roi Et so it only took 3 hours instead of 5 hours by bus which was nice! We
were able to get home and in bed by 11:00 p.m. which was really nice
considering we hadn't slept for a couple nights!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigators are going though things are going pretty good! There is an
autistic kid who is 9 years old and a son of a member who hasn't been
baptized. His autism isn't too bad so that he doesn't need to be baptized and
he has finally opened up now that he is 9 and has a desire to be baptized! He
is way shy, but once we talked with him for an hour or so he really warmed up!
His name is, Bank he is so awesome though you ask him if Jesus Christ can help
him and he gets the biggest smile on his face and just raises his eyebrows up
and down! He can pretty much be baptized whenever, it is kind of just up to
Bank on when he wants to get baptized. He is so awesome though! He probably
will be baptized this coming Sunday. He wants to be able to pass the
sacrament. His Mom told him that in two years you can do that as long as you
get baptized first, so he is really excited!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and her Mom; Tom who are doing okay. Mint is way awesome she meets with us
often and came to General Conference both days! Her Mom is just really busy so
she hasn't been able to meet with us for a while. They have dates for April
26<sup>th</sup>, but if her Mom doesn't come to church next week Mint will
have to be pushed back to the first week in May; she is way awesome though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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daters are Fay and Ooy. Ooy is like 26 years old and her little sister is 15.
They are doing really well and both have dates for the 26th. We have the same situations
with them though; they both need to come to church in order to be baptized on
that date. Fay is way awesome she has
come to our Easter activity, sports night, scripture class, English, and
she came to General Conference yesterday which was awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finally back from being out of town, but we haven't been able to teach her
again yet. She should be baptized this coming Sunday or the week after.
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things go watching General Conference was way awesome I really enjoyed it! Many
very cool and powerful talks; I really enjoyed, “Stay by the tree”; by Elder Kevin
W. Pearson; it was just such a powerful talk! I liked how he said; “When trials
and challenges come our way, we are often told to simply “hang in there.” Let
me be clear: to “hang in there” is not a principle of the gospel.”… I know that
we can't be casual about this, it is a serious things; it was a way awesome
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in. The Water festival starts today so we will be playing that today, but it is
just wild this week because they play until Wednesday and there are
no buses to on travel so only a select few people will be going to Bangkok. Only those moving will go and the companions
that are not moving will just be staying in their areas. So Elder Sukhan and I
from Roi Et will be the only ones going. Yes, I am moving for my last transfer. So the
two of us we will be heading down! I think I am going to finish in Bangkok
though because most of the people that are moving aren't evem going down to
Bangkok they will just go to their new area.
So we don't need to go; so either I’m going to step down and train or I
will just move and be a Zone Leader down there. So we will see what happens!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be short! We actually had to sacrifice our p-day today so we could have
Missionary Leadership Council in Bangkok! So we had to leave last night. Around midnight our
phone rang while we were on the bus and we were like; “who is calling us?” it was the AP's! They proceeded to tell us
that the Thailand, Bangkok Temple was announced! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… LET’S
GOOOOO! :) I couldn't have been more happy in my life! It's so awesome and it
is going to be such a blessing to so many countries. And the work of the Lord here
in Southeast Asia is really going to begin to progress! We then knelt down in
prayer and gave thanks to our Father in Heaven! I received such a great spiritual
witness that what I have been doing these last 2 years is true and the Gospel
of Jesus Christ is true! It was just another amazing testimony builder for me.
It has kind of given me the surge and boost that I need, which is so awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was so awesome! President Senior showed us the announcement of the Temple and again
it was just such a special spirit. It has so much more meaning because I have
been serving here. President Senior said; “If I was serving in North Carolina where
I was originally called my reaction would have probably been like;” “Oh, that's
great, but since I am here it is incredible what has happened.” He also showed
us the portion of Elder Anderson talk about President Satit; the Stake
President here and that was so cool because I've had the privilege to work and
meet his whole family! President Seniors parents skyped him while we were
meeting and he brought them in and we got to see them and listen to what they
said; it was just so funny! His Mom is like Honey; "are you happy"?
(Talking about the temple announcement) And his father is like; “Son you did it,
you’re a success!” Ha-ha it was just so funny! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so wild. We were only able to have 1 baptism, but it was way awesome! Sister Mali
was baptized; who is a recent convert Brother Dones, Mom and he was the one who
baptized her; it was so cool! Completing families is the goal and now we are
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a mother and daughter! They both originally accepted a baptismal date for the
19<sup>th</sup>, but the Mom; Tom wasn't able to come to church, but her
daughter; Mint was. She is only 16 so we had to push her date back to the 26<sup>th</sup>;
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pushing for Sister Na and we were supposed to meet with her, but she ended
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Sisaket gave us a referral of their friend that lives here in Roi Et and we got
to meet with him and he accepted a date to be baptized on the 5th. He's way
awesome and came to church yesterday and for the baptism! His only concern is
not working on Sunday, but he already said he'd ask for it off! So
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Naan, he came to District Conference last Sunday. We met with him on
Saturday and he is pretty awesome. He is preparing to be baptized on the
5th also and we are going to start working with his family (his wife and
daughter). He has some problems with the Word of Wisdom with smoking, and also
he drinks tea and coffee so we are praying to help him quit these things; he is
really smart and understands it. The only problem I think he may have will just
be getting rid of Buddhism. He stayed for the 3 hours of church and the baptism
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working with for this Sunday is Moli she is the Mom of a RC. We got
in contact with her a few weeks ago at an FHE at the RC's house. We left her a
Book of Mormon and last week she came to the District Conference Adult Session,
so that was cool. We went and taught her at her home and she was very open. She
came to church yesterday. We are preparing her to be baptized on the 5th also
and her son will be able to baptize her; it should be so awesome! Her only
concern is telling these other Christian people that come and teach her every Sunday that
they can't come anymore. The awesome thing is they leave her all these books
and have invited her to their things and for a year now and she's never read a
thing or gone to anything. We left her that Book of Mormon and she has been
reading it every day since and she is already in 2 Nephi; it's so cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shooting for 4 baptisms this next week and it is totally possible we had an
awesome week at church! We had 122 people in Sacrament with 29 RC's. My
companionship had 8 investigators which was also great! Sister Bai was baptized
and the Sisters had 2 baptisms. Now next month our goal is 3 baptisms per
companionship so that is what we are working for. The other goal is the video “Because
He lives”, we are trying to get 100,000 people in Thailand to watch the video
by next Sunday, it is awesome and the members are loving it. We have
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we are heading to the Elephant Village in Surin today. We got special
permission to go! We are going with Brother Keng so it should be fun. Love you
all! Have a great week!</span><br />
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great last week! It was a little disorganized at some point, but it was still
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District Conference was wild also! Sister Stoker had to make Carrot cake for
350 people, so guess what we did on Friday? Yep we were grinding carrots
with a cheese grater for a few hours ha-ha! Thursday we went with
them to buy all the food for the Sunday night dinner of Zone
Conference where we had scalloped potatoes, BBQ chicken, hot rolls, and carrots
with banana splits for dessert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amazing and there was just such a great spirit. To start it off though; President
Senior called us at 8:30 Saturday morning and says; Elder
Watkins I need you guys to go get me 20 little Snicker bars and some olive oil
for the 27 new Melchizedek Priesthood holders then I need you to rent me a Van
to take us to Khon Kaen on Monday after Zone Conference, and also my
flight is coming in an hour late so will you cancel the car that was going to
pick us up at the Airport because Elder Stoker will be picking us up now. I'm
like…Uh, okay; I'll do my best ha-ha! So we went right away and got the olive
oil and the Snickers. I made the phone calls and got the van rented and then
canceled the car to pick him. You’d think; oh well that's nice, no more stress ha-ha.
Ha-ha you're wrong. While President was doing interviews and all the stuff he
was running late so he didn’t get to interview hardly with anyone and since we
are ZL's we are literally last priority ha-ha. Anyway then Sister Senior calls
me and is like I need to you to come to the hotel at 2:30 p.m. to translate
for my workshop class I am doing. So we
get there and she also gives us the all vials to fill up with olive oil, but
the oil is at the church ha-ha. So I call the other Elders and they bring it
and I ask them to fill them up and when I come back and look at them they are
like greenish in color. Sister Senior says; it has to be virgin olive oil. The bottle said it was virgin, but she says
we want it to be pure so you'll need to go by more. So after we finished
translating and before the Adult Session, Elder Keller and I book it to the
store and buy more. Luckily, they didn't need them until the following day so
we think; no worries we will just get them ready tonight before we go to bed.
After I translated for the Adult Session which was good, but hard for me
because I was concentrating on translating and wasn’t able to pay as close of
attention. We also got to see the new video “Because He Lives” which is way
awesome. I'm pretty sure it comes out on the 28th of March in
celebration for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. So when we get home, I take
the vials and the oil into the bathroom to start filling them up and my hands
are all oily from holding the vials and stuff and pouring them out as I lift
the other vial up off the ground about 4 inches, it slips out of my hand and
just shatters all over the floor! I'm like; you've got to be kidding me, its 9:30
PM, so we just booked it out of the house to the store which we thought
closed at 9 or maybe 10; luckily it was open. We bought more and got it all
done, but what a headache ha-ha! But, our investigators really enjoyed it! It
was so special to see one of our RC's that I was able to teach in Sisaket
receive the Melchizedek Priesthood!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Italian Restaurant cater for us and that worked out too. It was awesome though
we had a special devotional on Sunday night and we got to watch “Meet
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It was really good and I enjoyed it. I really did loved Zone Conference and the
message we received. We talked about the picture of Jesus Christ wearing the
red robe and President Senior said; he felt that this is the way to go in
getting people familiar with Jesus Christ. So there is the purpose and drive
for us as missionaries. If there was any confusion there shouldn't be now. It
is that we need to help people know who Jesus Christ is and about the Atonement
that He performed for us. Recently most people in the mission have been
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investigators are going we have two awesome ones. Both are preparing to be
baptized on the 29th. We have Ba; who is a 39 year old woman with a husband and
a 6 year old daughter. She is so awesome and has received an answer that this
is the true church. When Bro. Siridad; the 2nd counselor in the District
Presidency, bore his testimony about when he was able to be eternally married
for his own mother and father and what an incredible experience it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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She is doing very well and we were able to have a Family Home Evening with her
husband and 7 year old daughter last night it was incredible and such a
wonderful spirit. He sat through the whole FHE and was engaged asking questions
and wanting to know more. We gave him a BoM after teaching the Restoration and
encouraged him to read it; then to ask his Father in Heaven. And he said he'd
do it! We are so blessed in having an opportunity help these people I love it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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companion and we are having a great time serving the Lord together. I'm
honestly probably forgetting something, but I can't remember right now. Things
are going good! Ha-ha love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-71911174840284151962015-03-16T15:51:00.000-06:002015-03-16T15:51:53.559-06:00Missionary Leadership Council<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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last week! Tuesday night we headed down to Bangkok for Missionary
Leadership Council where all the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders come
together and meet with President Senior. It was pretty good and he gave our
mission more directions in working with families and it was a good motivation
and energy booster for all of us. The food was amazing as usual. They had a
pancake breakfast for us with Buttermilk syrup and fruit which was way good.
For lunch, Sister Senior made us homemade tacos with chips and salsa wow it was
incredible. I haven't had anything like that in such a long time. It reminded
me of having tacos with Grandma Berlin. We made it home at 2 in the morning and
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little rough, but I've been able to keep fighting through it. I've been sick
since last Monday and now I've lost my voice, so inviting has been a little
hard, but I've managed to squeak a few words out and find some people. We have
two really awesome investigators right now and they are both going to be baptized
on the 29<sup>th</sup>; Bay and Na. Bay was going to get baptized this week,
but she ended up having to go to Bangkok for work and since this coming
Sunday is District Conference we won't be having a baptismal service.
Also, we have Na; who has been to church 3 times and accepted a date yesterday
for the 29<sup>th</sup>. What makes them awesome is that they are both
families! They are both Mom's and have about a 6 year old daughter and they
already invited us to begin teaching their husbands! It's way awesome. We also
received a referral this week and she is a single Mom; named Juk and her
husband has just recently passed away and she has two sons 14 and 12 years old.
She invited us over to her house to begin teaching her family I'm so excited to
be working with these families. Anyways, the families are coming in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great this week. I am super excited for it and we've have everything mostly
planned, booked, and ready to go! On Thursday we spent most of our
day arranging meals, etc. for Zone
Conference and finding 17 hotel rooms for all the missionaries to stay in and
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switch off with Elder Davis who is Elder Mitchell’s MTC companion so that was a
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person we had at church was Na, but she was awesome. We had 101 people at
church this week which was kind of low, but what can you do! District
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-40531446222354377642015-03-09T09:57:00.000-06:002015-03-09T09:57:58.000-06:00Reunited with Elder Keller and a Baptism!!!<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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wild week! So Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday was just
getting prepared to head off to Bangkok and all that good stuff! Nothing to
special happened we taught and met with Sister Ern a few times, but now she is
off in China again! I'm so glad that I was able to stay here in Roi Et.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all wondering who my new companion is and all that stuff, but guess what you
already know him! I'm way excited for this new transfer. It is so awesome to be
reunited as companions with Elder Keller again and we were MTC companions! He
is way awesome and we are getting along great already seeing miracles beginning
to happen! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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focusing here on making miracles happens instead of waiting for them to happen.
Yesterday we started making a list of members who need to renew temple
recommends or members who are strong and active who have never been to the
temple. We also are getting prospective Melchizedek Priesthood holders ready
for the up and coming district conference. We met with the Branch
President and figured out his schedule and are going to call all these people
and set up interviews. We have 37 people that should have temple recommends
just here in Roi Et and we need 1000. We are at 811 so if we can add that many
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at church yesterday named; Bay she is way awesome and accepted a date for
baptism this next Sunday she is so ready! At church we had 119 people;
23 RC; and 3 investigators in our companionship! It wasn't a bad day at all!
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short because of traveling! This week we will be headed down to Bangkok again
for a Missionary Leadership Council and get some training. That should be way
awesome and I am super excited! Things are going good though! Have a great
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-79737374455765336092015-03-02T08:20:00.001-07:002015-03-09T09:58:10.886-06:00Last week before transfers; Madness!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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I can't believe how quickly it passed by! Anyways, I'll start off talking about
Ern!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appointment with her at 10 and we called her and she said that she couldn’t
come and can’t come and can we meet later today at 5 p.m. Five o’clock rolls
around and she doesn't come or answer her phone. We are like really, are you doing
this again? Tuesday we are tried to get a hold of her all day and he phone
just said; line busy so we can't talk to her. Wednesday we finally get a
hold of her and set up an appointment which she doesn't show up again. We are
just like well; there goes our hopes for a baptism this week! We called her one
more time on Thursday and set up an appointment for 12. Twelve o clock rolls around and sure enough
she isn't there so we call her a few times; no answer... We are just like okay,
again, really? 12:25 comes around and sure enough she finally showed up, I
was so pumped! We finished teaching her everything she needed to know and we asked
her if she would like to be baptized on Saturday and she just was
like, yeah! We were so excited! We did her interview right after and she passed
that! We had to have her baptism on Saturday so she could receive the
Holy Ghost on Sunday before she leaves for her studies in China next
Thursday! The baptism went great and she was able to get baptized on
Saturday and get confirmed; it was such a miracle and we couldn't have
done it without our Heavenly Father helping us. It was an awesome way to get a
baptism the last week of the transfers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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met with him a few times, but he is still being the same way! He did say he's
willing to let us meet his family as long as it is convenient, so now we’re are
going to try and meet them this week before transfers! We just need to meet his
family and show him that if he is baptized it won't cause his family to break
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this week we had 105 people which was low, but we had 28 RC which was good. We
also had 4 investigators which was cool because we had only one that we have
been teaching who is way awesome and will get baptized this coming Sunday.
We also had two new people named Bird and Booy who we found and got them both
to church. We also had a members younger
sister, named Pumpim. She also has a date for next week, but she is only 14 so
her father will have to give her permission which might be hard because her
father doesn't really like the church very much, but we will just go over and
meet with him and try and talk to him about it! So pray for her father to open
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went and visited a family the lives an 1 1/2 hours away by car; it was so far!
They are half active which means the Mom and Daughter come to church, but the
husband doesn't. It's cool because they are watermelon farmers so we got to
harvest watermelons to take home with us; it was so awesome! Ha-ha. That’s really all the awesome things that
happened this week! Transfers is on Thursday so I may be moving or
staying I have no idea! </span></div>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-29612192754070446622015-02-23T11:42:00.001-07:002015-02-23T11:52:33.278-07:00I Rode a Water Buffalo!!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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rough week, to be honest, but we taught tons of lessons and found tons of new
investigators. Just none of our investigators are ready yet to commit to
baptisms and it's a bit frustrating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing that happened last Monday was we went and rode a water buffalo ha-ha! It
was so awesome! It is just a members Water Buffalo here and they just
leave it by this huge river and let it hang out so we went to the members house
where it usually is, but it wasn't there and she told us that it was down by
the river. So we headed over there and sure enough a Mom and the baby are just lying
in the water ha-ha! All 7 of us went as missionaries, but everyone was just
frightened; except me! So I climbed down and pulled the buffalo out of the
water hahaha! We took a few pictures with it! Then since I knew everyone else
was already scared I asked; “who wants to go first?” and everyone just looks at
me in silence. I figured that's what would happen so I said; “fine I'll go
first” ha-ha so I jumped right up on! It was so fun ha-ha and just
exhilarating! There should be a video of me getting on the buffalo and some
pictures! There is also a picture of the Family Home Evening we had that same
night at the District Presidency 2 counselors house, it was pretty fun!</span></div>
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investigators. Ern and Ahh didn't come to church as we had hoped and they both
quit picking up their phones... Then all of the sudden Sunday morning
at 7:30 Ern called and asked if she can come to church. Originally she couldn't so it was such a
miracle. So now we are going to meet with her today and try and baptize her on
Thursday so she can receive the Holy Ghost before she goes back to study
in China next week. Please keep Ern in your prayers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigators this week which was crazy! We have quite a few good ones! We have
a girl named; Ice who has been coming to English for a while and wants to be
baptized! She could have gotten baptized this coming week if she would have been
able to come to church yesterday, but she had an activity at the university
that she had to go to!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigators Wirat is doing okay; we have finished teaching him everything and
tried everything we can to help him. We even had the Stokers come and help us
teach him, but he is just so worried about causing a division in his family if
he gets baptized. We need to talk to his family or lets us meet them, but he
won't let us meet them so hopefully he will talk with them. We are going to
have him interview probably on Wednesday just so we can say you are
ready to be baptized; now it's up to you to make it happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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121 people which was pretty awesome our whole Zone had balanced key indicators.
We had 26 RCs at church and my companionship had 6 investigators so it was
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to a few homes of people that were too sick to come to church which was a good
experience. After we had dinner at the Stokers house, She made BBQ chicken,
peas and carrots, potatoes, and cheesecake! It was pretty good except I'm not a
big fan of cheesecake, but it's better than most Thai desserts ha-ha. That's
all for this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-42927896014779325642015-02-16T18:34:00.001-07:002016-02-21T15:53:28.665-07:00Translating for Elder Kanakham<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Well I'll start off with Saturday and Sunday since
it is fresh on my mind! So this week we had the Leadership training for our
Ubon District here in Roi Et! Wow was it crazy we were assigned to translate
for everything…ha-ha; oh great! So the meeting started at 10 so we are leaving
our house at 9:30 and I look at my companion’s bike and both of his tires were
flat ha-ha! We go down the street to a little the place and it’s closed! So we
kept trying to find a place to fill them up with air, but I knew that one of
the tubes was burst for sure, but we had to find a place that could change it
out! We finally found a place and it's already past 10 by now ha-ha; but the
guy had no tubes so he had to go buy one! So we just ditched our bikes at his
shop and luckily he had a car and he's like; I’ll just take you to the church
so he took us over and we just got translating. The cool thing is Elder
Kanakham is here and he the first Thai Seventies you know and was just way
awesome. Our heads were hurting from translating all day and we thought it was
all over. The best part was though all the Sisaket leaders came up here so I
got to see all of them! I didn't even get to eat lunch because they ran out of
food except for I did get a few cucumbers ha-ha! We went and picked up our bikes and grabbed
some food because; Oh, surprise we have a special fireside tonight from Elder
Kanakham which was way awesome, to be honest! He tied everything into the
atonement and if you have an understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and
will come to church, do your home teaching and visiting teaching! It just all
made perfect sense; he was a great speaker. It was cool he called me out of the
crowd to play; “I Stand All Amazed” while everyone just listened. It was a
little stressful because I had never played that song before, but my sight
reading was okay ha-ha! Luckily the song wasn't too hard. There was a special
spirit while everyone sat in silence remembering what our Savior had done for
us!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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any investigators at church be we ended up get 4 news ones to show up, which
was awesome! It was so lame though; Ern and Ahh didn't go to church because of
who knows why, but we got lucky! Wirat our new guy from last week who is 82 is
wild. Everyone knows him and he is just super rich and well known I guess. We
met with him a ton, but he has accepted everything but baptism; it is so weird ha-ha!
He is worried about the whole Buddhist thing and what his family will think
because he is like the head of it. He went off to another province for some
special meeting so he wasn't free. We had 126 people at church this week which
was also good! We had Elder Kanakham in church with us so it was just a great
time to learn! I just wish I hadn't been translating the whole time during the
training so I could have written some things down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Celebration and for our part we did line dancing again because the members
loved it so much! The bad thing was that the Stokers were out of town so guess
who had to lead the line dancing! Yep, you guessed it; this guy ha-ha! I led
all the members and I think I did a good job; I guess! But luckily it wasn't
too hard! Good exercise, fun, and learning for the members which was a great
success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Other than that we just worked all week inviting! I went on a
switch off to Kalasin with Elder Kandun a Thai Elder and it was way fun and
just a good switch up! Everything is going pretty good! Hopefully we can get
some more baptisms here soon; the work is a little slow. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Have a great week everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Love,</span><br />
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Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-80078638187020674672015-02-09T13:04:00.001-07:002016-02-21T15:51:58.528-07:00The Fish Grabbers!!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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this was a pretty awesome week for the most part! On Monday we had a
FHE with Ern and Ahh and the District Presidents Family! It was awesome and
there was a ton of good food! She made chicken wings and I ate 22 of them and
there was still a whole plate they wanted me to eat and I was like whoa; no way
ha-ha! I was so satisfied though and it was good for Ern and Ahh to experience
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awesome… first thing in the morning we got ready and headed off to help serve
old Bro. Yahd again! He's so awesome ha-ha; he's a 78 year old man who can
barely hear and I don't even know if he speaks Thai ha-ha! So we ended up
pounding PVC pipe in the ground with this wooden log he gives us and then you
take a water bottle (which has a hole poked through the cap) and squirt it
around the PVC pipe which hits the dirt at the bottom around the PVC pipe. You
pull it out and dada; you have a nice little hole to water and plant the
watermelons! It was some pretty, wild work! After that was when the real fun
came! We went over to this huge pit and it is just mud with all these Thai guys
grabbing fish and putting them in baskets; it was so funny! Man that was some
thick mud, just trying to climbing down in it even trying to walk! Then you
just shove your arms down in the mud and try to find the fish! We didn’t get to
help them much; because they were just finishing up! I did catch 4 fish and my
comp got 2; so I guess I was the better fish grabber ha-ha! It was fun though
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awesome! We are now just focusing on families as much as possible which is way
awesome! Plus we had such good food! They made a ton of pancakes with
Buttermilk syrup; wow were they good! For lunch they made Lasagna and had salad
with Ranch Dressing which was the first time I've had that since the MTC; so
good! We headed off to Korat that night so we could train the missionaries
there! Then we did a switch-off with them. We got back around 1 AM on Friday morning
and got a little bit of sleep and then trained the other districts that morning
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worked hard teaching lessons and preparing as much as possible for Sunday!
We had 110 people at church this week with 29 RC's; so that was way awesome. The
only thing that was bad is Ern and Ahh showed up late so they didn't make it to
sacrament, so now we don't know when or how we will get them baptized because
they actual study at a university in China and are headed back in March and the
next 2 Sundays they are not free again until March 1... So next week we committed
Ern to go to church in Nongkhai and the Ahh in Asoke. We had a new investigator
come to church named Wirat; he is way awesome! He's 82 years old! He accepted a
date to be baptized next week! So we are trying really hard with him! He's has
a cane and everything, but he still drove himself to church; which is awesome!
Sister By was baptized yesterday (if you guys can remember her) I was teaching
last transfer until I moved areas! I sent you picture of her because I really got
to teach her everything before she got baptized! I was way excited for her
though; it was cool!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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going to take my companion to the Moose to get his haircut. It’s a really nice
barber shop I found that I really like! Love you all!</span><br />
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Tuesday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">morning a member
picked us up and took us out to his farm and we prepared the land so he could
plant watermelons. We got the ground wet, dug the holes, put in fertilizer and
compost and then turned up the soil. It was some good work and a fun time! I
sent some pictures of some of water buffalos in the field and of me watering
the ground with the giant water cans ha-ha! It was a fun time. We are actually
going out</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> again tomorrow </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to help him catch fish. They drain the pond of water so it's
just super muddy and then we just go around grabbing fish and throwing them in
buckets from what I understand it should be awesome and a good time so
hopefully I can get some pictures of that for ya. It was some good service. The
member we helped is 78 years old and his
health isn't the greatest so being a farmer is really hard on him so we really
lifted his burden by helping him out! </span></div>
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fun! The AP's right now are both Thai; the first time ever, but they are so
good! They both speak English really well. I went with Elder Thanawat who is a
really nice guy and we had a blast teaching and finding new investigator; it
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pretty good too! President Senior and Sister Senior came up to Roi Et and gave
a few areas in our zone a special training! They really emphasized bearing our
testimony more often about Jesus Christ because we are representatives of Jesus
Christ! Also they put a huge stress on Family History so that is why I'm asking
you guys for all the pictures and information. Now we are supposed to help every
new RC sign up for Family Search and have them start filling out the “My Family”
booklet. So I have to finish mine first before I can have anyone else to do you
theirs. So I've been working on mine really hard trying to make it good. I just
need some more pictures and filling out some memories which will be the hardest
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We also met with two
new investigators this week Ern and Aah that Elder Hill found at Big C. We also
ran into them at the park with a friend named Air who just so happens to be a
member and is studying in Russia, but is back for a week. She is the District
Presidents daughter here in Roi Et. Both of the girls are her best friend so
they are really being fellowshipped it's so awesome! We worked with them and
they came to church</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Sunday</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">!
Ern is way good and will most likely be baptized</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> this Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">we hope, but Aah is a little stubborn and hasn’t
accepted a date, but we are working for her to be baptized</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> this Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">too; so pray for them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week though!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">we had 3 investigators in sacrament but we also had 4 other
people show late after sacrament was over. Three of them were black people from
Cameroon! I don't know how interested they were, but we had some more come who
could be pretty good, hopefully we can meet with today, at least that is the
plan! We had 108 people at church with 27 Recent Converts in Sacrament, so not
too bad! The work is progressing, but right now the rest of our zone is
struggling. We are going to Bangkok this week for Mission Leadership Council so
when we get back we will be going around training the districts in our zone and
can get them pumped up and working hard!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doing pretty well; this was quite a wild last week for
sure. Monday night around 10 o clock we got calls saying that
everyone in our district was moving except Sister Woodbury, so 5 out of the 6
missionaries here. I got the call I was moving and I'm like, wow already? Then
I told Elder Kris on the phone (who is AP) if I'm just moving up to be zone
leader you better tell me so I don't pack. So on Tuesday we just had
a regular day for the most part! Didn't have anything to special; I taught
institute which was good, I'm not the biggest fan of doing it in Thai because
the lessons are in English and the vocabulary is crazy, but I get the job done.
It helps me learn a lot which is good, so I like that! We started saying
goodbye to members and all that good stuff. Wednesday we spent most
of our day packing and getting food with some members. So right now I'm
thinking well I didn’t get a call from him or President so I must just be
moving to a new area as district leader so I take all my stuff down to Bangkok
and I'm talking to like Elder Crump and a few others and President called them
to be ZL's so I'm like; oh I guess I'm just going to be DL somewhere new? Then
Roi Et pops up and it says I'm ZL in Roi Et. I'm just like; what in the world!?
Ha-ha so I talked to Elder Kris after and I’m like why didn't you tell me and
he says; President said he was going to call you; but of course that didn't happen.
So I took everything back to old Roi Et and now I'm companions with Elder Hill
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Hill is from Bountiful, Utah he is 21 years old and is actually a convert to
the church. He was baptized at 14 and is the only member in his family! He's a
nice guy he is just on transfer ahead of me so he will be headed home in April.
So we are both new to being Zone Leaders as he also moved up from District
leader so this is going to be a good, fun experience. It's cool though because
every month we get to go down to Bangkok for Missionary Leadership Council so I
will be able to eat some Carl's Jr. or McDonalds when I go down; lets gooo! I
can always buy some American stuff too! A member went to Bangkok this week and
said she'd bring me two boxes of Lucky Charms; man am I excited ha-ha!</span></div>
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though to make things interesting we had 5 new missionaries come back. The
sisters are now in a tri-companionship and the two new elders. Elder Sukhan is
training a new greenie. So we have the stuff of 6 missionaries going back to
Roi Et because had I had all my stuff too. Anyways they couldn't put all our stuff
on the bus so we had to send our bikes up later.
So Friday and Saturday we couldn't work much like we wanted
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that is really all we have. Our Zone had a Zone Goal of 20 baptisms this month
and our district had 10; so that was awesome! The picture of the baptism from
last week is a kid named Dream and Ton! They were the sister’s investigators,
but I had helped to teach them once and had interviewed both of them so they
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last week! I have a few stories for you this week. It was the last full week
before transfers. Since transfers are in two days. Who knows what will be
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So we have our two investigators from last week Nonney and his friend Bye! They
go to a university here, but it is way out of the city in kind of a forest ha-ha.
It's about 30 kilometers from the church so round trip 60 kilometers. So we set
out after studies to head out there and it took us an hour and half to get out
there because the wind was blowing so stinking hard it was unreal ha-ha! Wow,
was it a ride to get out there! We went out there hoping we could get them
baptized this week so we ate lunch with them; rested up and taught them quite a
few lessons and headed back which was a much better ride because it wasn't near
as windy on the way back which made us get back in just over an hour, so we did
better on our speed. Man that was one of the farthest bike rides I have done on
my mission right there ha-ha, but worth it. So</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they both came to church and we taught them
during the second hour of church and tried to see if they wanted to get
baptized, but they weren't feeling it, but that's okay we will get them next
week ha-ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As far as</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">went, it was a pretty awesome day! We had 114
people at church. We had 4 investigators; 2 were new ones. One is pretty good,
but the sisters tried to steal her! We were like what the heck, so we don't
know what is going on. Should we just be the nice guys and give her to them or
do we take her back because they know they stole her because they had already
talked to us about it ha-ha. Anyways, besides that though we've been working
with an old branch president who has been to the temple, but has fallen away
from the church and so has his whole family and believe it or not he came back
to church this last week for the first time in over a year!!! He also brought
his wife, his daughter,r and his daughters husband so it was so awesome! We had
4 people rescued this week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last week we did tons of less active work. We found another LA family that has
been gone for about 9 or 10 years who used to be in the district presidency as
a second counselor. We are going to begin working with them at least once a
week and try and bring them back too. We need to bring back these Melchizedek
priesthood holders; it is very important as we are preparing to receive a
temple here in Thailand. It was a good last week! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p>Joanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011922143654148366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4778128728301524803.post-19743486846772068982015-01-12T20:00:00.000-07:002015-01-13T09:36:15.722-07:00"Saving Mr. Banks"<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This week was pretty good! We finally got Brother Banks baptized! It was awesome. He called me up</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Monday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">night and was like; Hey I have something I want to talk to you about. I was like okay; let’s hear it. He's like can I get baptized this week? I was like ha-ha well, yeah; but do you believe in God yet? He's like; yeah, I got an answer. I was like, lets goooo ha-ha so</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> on Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was able to baptize him which was the highlight of the week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what we did for New Years! We ended up going to look for some silk with
elephants on it but they didn't have any. So Bro. Baw a way awesome member he
took me to this cool place! He took pictures for me and sent them to me so you
can see them on dropbox. After we went and picked up the other two Elders and
we went on the hour ride to this Buddhist temple where there are monkeys ha-ha!
Man they are cool, but just so mean and you always got to watch your back.
Luckily none of us got bit or anything so that was good! There are some
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investigators go we taught Bro. Bank and had his interview</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on Friday</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. He is so confusing ha-ha! He passed everything
but the first question. So he wasn't able to
get baptized. A few of our other investigators bailed, which was way lame, but
luckily we were saved by one of the RC's in our area Sister Tooy. She brought
her two kids who are not members. So she gave us some new investigators and we
are going to try and get them baptized next week along with giving old Bank
another shot! Yesterday was a pretty awesome day though we ended up pulling off
some crazy numbers with 4 member lessons, 3 new investigators, 3 referrals, and
4 Recent Convert/Less Active lessons. We had some members just take us around to
all these LA's houses and part member families so we got some new referrals and
investigators from that, so it was way awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As far as the camera
story goes. The Dad tracked down the kid and brought him to the church we
talked to him and the kid was just lying through is teeth so hard! The Dad
would ask him did you steal it? And he'd just sit there in silence for 2
minutes. We are like, are you kidding me if he didn't steal it he could answer
straight up. You could just see him shaken in his boots, but he won't admit
that he had stolen it so we can't do anything about it now, so today I'm going
to try and find a new camera! I took some money out to buy one! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh and just so happens
a member from Bangkok who I know came to Roi Et and he is going to leave on a
mission soon and he offered to cut me a suit because he's a tailor and it was
such a good price I just couldn't pass up because he is going on a mission so
it's my last chance! It only cost me 2500 baht which is about $80 dollars for a
customs tailored suit! Pretty sweet I chose a sort of Navy blue so if I go
transfers on the 22<sup>nd</sup> of January he said that it would be done for
me; I'm pumped ha-ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister Stoker made
some amazing Carrot Cake for us last night. American treats are good ha-ha!
Thai treats are the worst ha-ha! Anyways, love you all. Have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elder Landon J Watkins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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