Elder
Landon J Watkins Week 97
Week
One in Chiang Mai
Monday,
April 20, 2015
Hey
everyone!
As you guys already
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!
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Wednesday we
spent all day on a bus to Bangkok. It took nearly 10 hours (it usually only
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!
Thursday was
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
our room all cleaned up and organized; so now it's good!
We've just been
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?
So there are two
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!
The members here
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! :)
That's about it
though for this week; love you all, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Landon J Watkins
Elder Landon J Watkins
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