Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 75
Week
Nine in Sisaket
Monday,
November 17, 2014
What's
up!
Another week down
already; wow it went by quickly. It was pretty awesome though! I'll first start
off with talking about how the mission did on working on getting balanced key
indicators this week around the whole mission! We were able to get balanced
again this past week but it was quite crazy! So 97% of the mission was able to
reach a balanced key indicator which is pretty good! Our mission has 102 baptisms
so far this month with two Sundays more to go we have a goal of 250 which is a
lot. I think we will break 200 for sure though.
So the usual
restaurant we eat at for lunch was closed all last week because she went to
Bangkok so Elder Mitchell and I bought stuff and made lunch at home every day
this week! It was pretty awesome and it did help us save some money so that was
good!
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| Fried Rice |
Wednesday was a
pretty awesome day! So on Tuesday we went and visited Brother Hot for
a second; he is doing well just way busy with work, but he said he could come
to church the 23rd. We then proceeded to go inviting for a little
bit around the university, but we were having zero success and then we were
getting on our bikes and Elder Mitchell yells at these two girls walking by and
was like; hey you want to go to church and they just look at us all confused
then hopped on their scooter, but they had to pass by us to get out of the
parking lot. So I stop them on their scooter and they both were interested in
coming to church so we met with them both on the following day so we got
our 2 new investigators; it was way awesome. After that Brother Somsak and his
wife Tan picked us up and took us to Winta's house our investigator. It took us
an hour by car it was crazy. No way would we have found it without his help. We
met him and taught him everything else he needed to know before he got baptized
and scheduled his interview for Sunday at 8 before church. He lives
so far away and works out there so he can't come in to meet with us
until then. Long story short with
him though he came to church Sunday Morning
just as planned. He interview and passed. I baptized him after church and it
was way awesome. He was the only baptism for our district this week.
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| Hot's Baptism |
As far as our
investigators go though we have two, well 3 really good ones! We have Faa; the
14 year old who has to come to church a lot because she is so young. She saved
us on Sunday on getting balanced for sure though. We finished
teaching her everything after the baptism on Sunday she is way
awesome! We are scheduling her to interview with the District Leader and Branch
President next Sunday and then she will be baptized on the 30th as
long as President Senior gives the okay! She is way awesome though. Speaking of
our Branch President though our old one is now a senior missionary so yesterday
we just got a new Branch President. It is Brother Somsak or now President
Somsak, he is way awesome, I'm so glad it is him. He is the best member I've
met my whole mission. They just barely got back from the temple for their first
time. He hasn't even been a member for 2 years. yet he is one of the few people
in the branch who hasn’t been branch president.
Our other investigator
named Nooy is teaching at the university that teaches people how to be nurses.
She has been to church 3 times, but is just so busy so we were not able to meet
with her until Saturday for the first time! She is way awesome
though! We taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the word of wisdom, law of
chastity, reading the scriptures daily, and praying often, She accepted
everything perfectly. I asked her what she needed to do to prepare herself to
be ready to be baptized on the 23rd of this month and she responded I'm ready. The only problem is
she is so busy she can't meet with us any day but Saturday or before Church Sunday... So we are going to
push her back to the 29th and baptize her on Saturday so we can have
more time to teach her. She also has a husband who is way awesome, but he works
in a different Province so he only comes back every other week. So we will
probably baptize him the first week December; we hope!
The other two things
that you need to know that happened this week are first is Elder Mitchell has
been wanting a haircut and at the store here called Big C they have posters up
of movies and there was a new movie recently called; Fury starring Brad Pitt.
So he is like I want my hair cut like that ha-ha will you cut my hair like that
for me, I don't want to pay someone to do it. I was like yeah. I can handle
that for you. He had brought clippers home that you can use to cut hair, so
that is what we did. Thursday night I cut his hair for him! So go
look at the poster for Fury and Brad Pitts hair and let me know how you think I
did. We think I did a good job and he likes it ha-ha! I put some pictures in
the dropbox of the before and after shots so let me know what you think!
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| Before Brad Pitt Haircut |
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| After Landon got the clippers in his hands...looks pretty good! |
The other adventure we
had this week was a good one ha-ha; well at least more for me! Soooo... it is
rice harvesting season. We had a member who needed help harvesting his rice so
the members organized and activity for us to all go help him harvest his
rice on Saturday. We started harvesting the
rice and were just having a blast. About 30 minutes in, Elder Mitchells
is like…we got to go fast and I look over and he has blood all over him and he
had cut into his finger with his sickle and it was really a deep cut. I was
like we have to get this taken care of and then these members are like; oh it
isn't that bad we can get it to stop bleeding, it will be okay. So they start
cleaning it up, but man the blood just kept coming and I was like alright well
we are going to the hospital. So we hopped in the truck with Sis Tan to take us
to a hospital which was pretty close, but the doctor wasn’t there so she just
wrapped it up for him. We headed back to the main city to go to the hospital to
get it fixed, but we stopped at the house and were going to just super glue it
shut and see if it had stopped bleeding but it hadn’t so we went to the
hospital. It is a good thing we did because he had cut one of the tendons in
his finger so the doctor stitched the tendon and his finger up for him. It was
pretty painful to watch and I filmed it for him on his camera ha-ha man it
looks bad! The lucky thing is a member is a nurse there and she saw us. He has
to get his bandage changed every day so that would mean we'd have to go to the
hospital every day, but luckily she meets us at the church every day and saves
him 200 baht every time..
That's all I got for
this week as far as pictures I put up some of Elder Mitchells haircut, me
harvesting rice, the baptism, and some fried rice we made! Love you all have a
great week!
Love,
Elder Landon J Watkins
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