Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 47
Week
Two in Samut Pakran
Monday,
May 5, 2014
Hey
Everyone!
Well first things
first; I have to tell you the highlight of the week. Friday we are just hanging out going to appointments
and Elder Martin called and said; “the ZL's just called and I'm moving”, we
were just like whaaaaat? “What time do you have to go” and he is like; “9 tomorrow morning”. So he packed all day and then we had
a our monthly training from the ZL's that night and I was talking with the ZL's
and I asked who is coming here since Elder Martin is moving and he is like,
Elder Unsworth and I am just like nooooo way, you're lying, don't mess with me
like that because they know Unsworth trained me. They were like he really is
coming, I just said; whatever “I'm calling Unsworth” so I called him and he is
like, “Hello; this is your new district leader”! So on Saturday around noon Elder Unsworth was here. This is the area
where he was a greenie so it is really special for him to be able to return
here. Unsworth was so happy it going to be the best last transfer of his
mission! Plus his companion Elder Hales is awesome. It is way fun to talk with him
because he is from Monroe, Utah and is just a straight redneck and hunts like
crazy. He has some great stories, so him and I just talk about hunting all the
time. Also, I forgot to tell you last week but my companion Elder Wheeler is
from Portland, Oregon so that is cool.
Anyways this week was
pretty awesome. I also got to have Chuck McHenry and Scott Phippen come and
deliver the package and cookies you sent with him. How did you like the videos
he took of us…pretty cool! I hope you liked them. It isn’t very often a
missionary in Thailand gets someone from their stake to come and see them, it
was pretty awesome!
We just have been
working on getting our investigators ready to get baptized. We have taught Bow
and Toe this week. They are pretty good we are going to see if we can't at
least baptize Bow this next week because her husband Toe is really busy all the
time because he drives a van so his schedule is just crazy! They are really good
and super nice. This little family is just so ready. They have a 3 year old
daughter and they are just trying to figure out what direction to take their
family and believe it or not they have found the best way, the gospel of Jesus
Christ, so it is way cool.
We found a new
investigator this week named Muay and she has a little niece named, Yim. We
found her at our local Big C where she sells fruit. We sat down and taught her
twice this week and invited her to church. She said she needed to come and try
it out. And sure enough she came to
church yesterday. It was way awesome!
We did some inviting
yesterday at the Lotus which is kind of like a Wal-Mart. I invited like 200
people and was getting rejected like crazy. Finally I pulled out a sticky note
and stuck it on my planner and wrote in Thai “Do you want to have your sins
washed away” and then I held up a baptismal card which is a pictures of baptism
and asks the question, “What is baptism”? I sat straight up and sat there. I didn't
do say anything and just held up these two things trying another tactic to get
people interested. After about 10 minutes of chilling and people walking past
me smiling and then one guys reads it, passes by and you can just see him
thinking, then he stops, comes back to me and sits down and he is like, how do
I do this and I explained it all. He is like okay I'm coming to church next Sunday. It was a pretty little cool experience...but I
got his number.
The Branch is here though has a good amount of
priesthood holders, not like in Nong Khai where we just had a branch president,
elder’s quorum president, and mission leader. All the callings are full here with
counselors and secretaries, it was way awesome. So the branch is pretty well
functioning. On Saturday we went and did service at the only Patriarch
in Thailand’s house. He is in our branch and believe it or not, he is blind, how
cool is that. We went and cut his grass for him and got to know him. He speaks
amazing English and is just awesome how he is blind and has the greatest
attitude. Everyone from Thailand comes to get their Patriarchal blessings from
him, so that's pretty special.
I really don't know
what to tell you about my new area except it is a big, busy city. There is a
big crocodile farm here which is supposedly awesome. They also have a place
called the Ancient City which is mini version of all the awesome places in Thailand.
We are pretty close to the beach and I think we will probably go take pictures
there one week which should be cool. It is not clean here like my other areas
that were in the middle of nowhere ha-ha. The people here a much more prideful
and stubborn though, then they were in Nongkhai, but its okay! Life is good,
like usual!:)
Anyways, have a great
week!
Love,
Landon
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