Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 41
Week
14 in Nong Khai
Monday,
March 24, 2014
Hey
Everyone!
Well this week just
seemed to fly by! I have to be honest though I don't know why because literally
nothing special happened except Zone Conference!
So that is where I
will start because that really was the biggest highlight of my week. So we had
that on
Thursday down in Udorn. We got there
and just talked with the other missionaries passed off our memorizations then gave
our talks and did planner checks. We have to do that every zone conference. I
passed off on everything so that is way nice. We started up zone conference and
my companion was assigned to say D & C 4 and he had to do it in English
since he is Thai so the last two days I've been helping him memorize it like
crazy. He had it down really good, but he got up there and got too nervous and
ended up reading the whole thing. After that we all said it together and my
companion did it just fine. President Senior was just why didn't you do that
the first time ha-ha... It was good though.
We had a little
activity that was way cool. It was on higher expectations. President and Sister
Senior did training on how we can raise our expectations. They didn't know how
they could have us raise ours anymore because we work so hard so they did an
activity to show us how. They had us all write down a goal on a sticky note and
then said, okay jump as high as you can and stick it on the wall. So we all did
and of course I was the highest. No one saw me do it, but there was just one
sticky note way higher than everyone else’s and everyone is just like who's is
that, but believe it or not President saw me do it. After that he said ok now
raise your expectations and beat that last sticky note. Believe or not everyone
in the whole zone was able to beat their previous stick note. That was fun! Then
a couple of the other Elders who thought they had hops tried to start beating
mine ha-ha but when I did mine a second time I moved mine up a good 6 inches so
that wasn't happening; apparently mine was the highest in the whole mission. President
Senior was even talked to me and was way impressed.
After that we had
lunch which was decent we had Vietnamese food and ice cream cake since it was
Sister Seniors birthday. I got my ice cream cake and everyone else had finished
eating theirs and I was just hanging out at my table and both President and
Sister Senior just came out of nowhere and sat by me. This is where I learned
President Senior is a greater man that I already knew he was. We started
talking sports because of the whole jumping thing. Turns out the President
Senior is Red Sox fan must I say more? Ha-ha then we had to talk about March
Madness of course. Plus a few weeks ago I sent President an emailing saying I
heard if the Mission gets 200 baptisms in March we get to watch the National
Championship game ha-ha but he wasn't having any of that, but he got a good
laugh. It was just way good to talk to him and he just thanked me again so much
for helping Elder Saedan. Sister Senior also said I heard your Thai is
Phenomenal. Which surprised me ha-ha, but apparently Elder Brown who is the new
senior couple in Udorn told her that I guess. I don’t know why, but apparently
Elder Brown never compliments anyone like that so she said that was a real high
compliment and I should feel proud. So that made me feel good.
After lunch we had a
scripture chase and it was all in English so I had to translate for my
companion because he is way better in the scriptures than I am. But it was a
jeopardy type of format and I was able to get one for our squad. My companion
did so good though. One of the sections was church hymns so they gave you a
name of a hymn and you had to know the scripture that referenced it in the BoM,
it was crazy. My companion answered 3 of them in a row within like 5 seconds
and no one else in the whole zone knew what they were, everyone just thought he
was cheating because it was so good! Guess who's district came out of top
and won that also! That’s right the Nongkhai District!!! It was great we were
in contention with one other district and we were behind them just a little bit
with one question left. We came back and won it with the last question…way
sweet because we got a Snickers bar.
After Zone Conference went
over to Central and met up with Brother Gang. It was so good to see him again
and plus he had a package for me! I finally got the fuel band back and a
jacket! So sweet so thanks Mom and Dad for that. We went and ate at Pizza
Company together and just talked. It was way nice. He also came to church here
yesterday which was much needed.
Winay didn't come to
church either though he was busy with work this last week. We need to meet with
him one time this week and just teach him everything. So we can baptize him
next week since he has been to church twice already he just needs to learn
everything and be keeping the commandments.
That is really all I
have for this week.Thanks everyone for your support back at home love you all
have a good week! :)
Love,
Landon
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