The Language is Finally Clicking!!!

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 26

Week Seventeen in Ayutthaya

Monday, December 9, 2013

Hey Everyone! 

It was a crazy and wild week, but nothing as crazy as thing week is going to be. So first last p-day we were going to go tour this place but ended up not having enough time so we just changed plans and went bowling with Brother Nong! It was sweet; he had never bowled before in his life so it was a great first time experience for him. It was way fun and I ended up coming out on top pretty easily. A good old confidence booster for me, I still haven't lost my touch, right Dad? Ha-ha good times! We went and visited Sis. Mod and Bro. Boon to see how they were getting along after getting baptized, they were still doing great and invited us to dinner at their house on Wednesday. That is rare members never feed you here! After we went and visited Sister Boo and Baah and read 1 Nephi 1 with them. We are trying to get them to understand and be interested in the scriptures. So we've had almost all our investigators and recent converts start over in the Book of Mormon and it is working great. We read first Nephi 1 with her and followed up the next day and she had read chapter 1, three more times ha-ha it is so funny! 

 Tuesday was a pretty fun day just the usual English class, but I think we had around 26 people there. It is hard to tell now because we've split into two classes and I was teaching upstairs so I'm not sure on an exact number, but things are still going great in our English classes. 

Wednesday was awesome the Sowards invited us to have banana pancakes at the church and you know I'm not passing up on the opportunity to have an America breakfast, they don't exist here, it was delicious. We taught some music to Sister Jaah, one of our rescues we got last month and her Mom came too which is awesome because she is less active. We set them up to help us teach that night and after we taught a great less active lesson with Mod and Boon we taught Kwang about the restoration and word of wisdom. It was awesome because I was helping Kwang with her English homework and she had to write what she wanted to do in the future and she said she wanted to open a bakery and coffee shop and I was like whoa, hey you can't open up a coffee shop, we can't drink coffee. It’s against the word of wisdom. So I just cheesed her and taught her about the WoW and she is like, oh okay, well I better start keeping that commandment. She is like a golden investigator except for getting her to church is going to be really hard because she goes to Bangkok every Sunday for school. 

  

Thursday was wild we just woke up and cruised up to Ang Thong where brother Jamnong lives which is like an hour away by car so we went and taught his daughter-in-law because she’s LA then just visited with him for a while. Then we went for a cruise in his pod racer to go teach Sister Doom and we had a good lesson and we got a friend who is her neighbor to sit in on the lesson and we started teaching her and so now we have a new investigator, it is way awesome. After that we went up to Lopburi because Elder Gibbons had to interview one of Elder Wilamas investigator up there so we saw the Monkeys again which was crazy, those things are so annoying ha-ha, but fun to mess with. We had the interview and then some of their members invited us to have dinner after at their house which was awesome. We slept over in Lopburi and came back Friday morning to Ayutthaya.

Friday we had a lesson with Tuk and Nuch and it was way good we talked to them about their baptismal date and they wanted to change it from the fifteenth to the thirteenth. So they will get baptized Friday and receive the Holy Ghost on Sunday which is awesome! So we are preparing them this week.

Saturday was pretty crazy we had mutual and we just explained to them what Christmas was. I sat in the back and talked with Sister Sud which is sister Jaah's Mom, she is less active and I got to know her and she already loves me, which is great and I committed her to come to church on Sunday. She is getting fellowshipped so well by the members in bringing her back. We had a zone training meeting and learned about adversity with all of the success in the mission, President Senior released some training on how we can handle the adversity which is too come, it was really good. We had another lesson with Tuk and Nuch and they fed us an amazing dinner at their place which was sooooo good one of the best meals I'm been fed by members or investigators. Things are going great with them. We also had a switch off and Elder Gibbons went and taught Sister Dtaah the lady we met on the road that one day cruising by on her scooter. She said she knows that the church is true and we talked to her about getting baptized on the 15th with her two kid’s Pim and Non, it was sweet! 

Sunday was a great day to we had 61 people in sacrament which was awesome! Sister Sud came and I was way excited so we will probably rescue her next week. We had 61 people with 7 of the our usual members not there, but if they come next week we should be waaay close to our goal of 70 at church. It is amazing the work we have done here, when I got here we had about 35 people at church every week and now we are high 50’s low 60’s; it is amazing! Sister Mod and Bro. Boon both received the Holy Ghost! We had 7 investigators at church and all are RC’s, but one. Things are going great! It was also the primary program which was way funny! It was just like in America all those little tykes walking up to the microphone and talking way loud. It was good though because these kids don't even get help, they are way brave and just walk up and speak, it was awesome! We also had this guy show up and I was thinking he was the other Elders investigator. He was dressed up nice for church so we thought maybe he was from the District Presidency or something so after church I went and talked to him and he is a member here! He just moved here from Buri Ram, he is 23 and a Mel priesthood holder just what are branch needs!!! He is awesome too. He could be another Brother Nong in our branch which is exactly what we need. He also has a little brother living with him who is 19, but not a member. So we are going to try and start teaching him! It is a huge blessing to our branch because we have the least amount of Mel priesthood holders in our whole zone. It was great though, gets me excited. We practiced all our music for the Christmas party which is on the 14th down in Pak Kret. I went on a switch off with Elder Winsor and we taught four of his investigators. One is on a baptismal date and we gave the other three dates, it was soooo awesome! We taught Tuk and Nuch after and they are so ready to get baptized it is awesome!

This was a waaay good week! This was like my first click in the language also. I finally like had that moment of realization where whoa, I can actually understand these people and when I talk and they understand me, this is amazing! It was waaay good and I just feel like my language is progressing so much better! Such a great week though!!! Today we are just going to get our haircut and play some badminton so that will be fun! We are going to attempt to do the unthinkable this week and shoot for 6 baptisms, so pray for us because we need it! Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Landon

Baptism...Round Three!!!

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 25

Week 16 in Ayutthaya

Monday, December 02, 2013

Hey Everyone!

This week was literally the craziest and hardest week ever to get balanced key indicators! First things first though, we had Mission Tour Zone Conference on Tuesday. Wednesday the sickness hit Thursday was Thanksgiving and on Thursday and Friday I almost died from the sickness and then by Saturday I was doing better. We had an emergency baptism for the other Elders and then Sunday 2 more baptisms just sooo crazy but we managed to pull it all off!

So first things first, Mission Conference on Tuesday! That was literally so sweet except waking up at 4:30 a.m. to go down to Pak Kret, but it was all worth it because we combined with the Bangkok West Zone and Elder Unsworth is in that zone so I got to hang out with him like the whole day!! It was so sweet I loved that guy and missed him so much. We had Elder Wilson come from the 70. I think he is the 2nd Counselor in the Asia Area Presidency, if I remember right. He was a way good trainer and he really stressed how important it was helping our investigators to read the Book of Mormon and understand what is going on and get them interested to keep reading. It made me feel way good too because I have been stressing reading the Book of Mormon with our investigators so much, so I just felt like I was kind of already doing what he said, for the most part. President Senior also did some sweet training and really encouraged us to get our recent converts doing their family history. 

Wednesday was also way sweet too, even though that is when I got sick but I took a nap for like an hour before we went out and I had just enough energy to get through that, but we went out to Brother Nongs house for the first time, I'd never been, but it was way sweet. I didn't even know, but he literally has his own house right next to his parents. It is so cool and just the most relaxed house, it was so fun to hang out with him and help do some service around his place. We got to meet some people at his insurance place that he works at and one happened to be Sister Mod's sister in law so that was interesting we invited her to her sisters baptism.

So pretty much Thursday and Friday, I died. No sleep either nights, just running to the bathroom and all that. Nooooooooo fun and the worst was it was Thanksgiving and the best food ever was served I'm sooooooo jealous I didn't get any mashed potatoes and gravy :(((((((((((((((((((( It smelled amazing, but I just slept in the church while they all ate because I had no desire to eat, whatsoever. We did get permission to watch 17 Miracles after the feast too. I was able to watch about maybe half of that, but then couldn't do it anymore, so I slept. That was about it. 

Friday was similar. I slept all day except when I went to the hospital and they gave me some medication to help me get better, which was nice. We also got a sweet Christmas CD at the Mission Tour and they have some way good Christmas songs on there, so that was nice to listen to while I was dying at least. 

Saturday I slept all morning and finally got a little energy to go out to the baptism we had for Brother Five. He was the other Elders investigator. They literally taught him everything in a week so they could reach the one baptism a companionship for our whole mission in the month of November. So speaking of that, this November we made history in the Thailand Mission. As a Mission we had 109 people baptized and 62 less actives brought back into the church, that is incredible. 80% of the companionships in the mission had a baptism, how awesome is that!?

Now for Sunday woooooooooo! Sister Mod and Brother Boon got baptized!!!!!!! It was soooooooo sweet because Sister Mod has been an investigator since around like April and has just been giving missionaries tons of problems, but these last 3 weeks we've worked with her. She literally has changed like crazy. She had gone from being angry and having health problems to so happy, healthy, and loving. It is soooo great and we are so happy she finally got baptized. Her husband David from England came on Friday so that he could baptize his wife and son so that was really special! Also Sister Nub was confirmed, which was great! She says she feels so refreshed and is happy to be a member of the church, it was really special.

The Shaw Family

It was a really cool crazy week and we pulled it all off! I'm doing a lot better health wise, too which is nice! Today we are just planning on having some fun and going to Bang Pa In Palace which should be cool I'll tell you about that next week! Love you all and have a great week! :)

Love,

Landon

Another Baptism!

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 24

Week 15 in Ayutthaya

Monday, November 25, 2013

Hey Everyone,

Another pretty good week down. Last p-day we went to some old Buddhist temples which were super sweet! We were able to speak enough Thai to get us into places for the Thai price. It is more if you are a foreigner, we got in for 10 baht instead of 50, next we had to pay 50 and another one for 10 and the last one we got in for free. It was super sweet and way-cool fun! We went with the two Elders from Lopburi Elder Wilamas who is Thai and Elder Wheeler. Elder Wilamas is funny and really helps me with my Thai. Maybe I'll be lucky to get a Thai comp soon so my Thai will just take off. 

Elder Wilamas, Elder Watkins, and Elder Wheeler at the Buddhist Temples

Tuesday was just the usual district meeting and Swenson’s afterwards. Swenson's was tasty as usual and will you please let Cindy Nielsen know, Mom, that would be great! :) We had English class and our friend from McDonalds finally made it to English and Brother Nong and I convinced her to give us 20% off at McDonalds if we went the next day, so you know where we went to dinner the next day! McDonalds of course and she gave it to us 20% off, it was sweet! 

Wednesday was pretty good we taught Sister Mod and Brother Boon who are preparing to be baptized the 1st of December and they are so ready. Sister Mod is a totally new person now, it is so great. She is super happy, keeping commitments, coming to church, and just showing some much more interest and love for the gospel. Her headaches are going away, it just sweet. She should be baptized this next Sunday, by her husband, David who is coming from England this week. We also taught Tuk and Nuch this week they are doing pretty well and their baptismal date is on the 15th of December. Nuch went to Chang Mai for the weekend and I was smart and cheesed in having her buy me a little souvenir just in case I never get a chance to go up north. So I'm excited to see what she got me! Tuk went to Bang Na which is down by Bangkok for a convention for her work. So they were both gone and not able to come to church, but they say they will start coming this next week. They are good at keeping their word so that will be sweet. 

Thursday we taught Sister Nub on the phone and planned her interview for Friday and finished teaching her what she needed. We also taught our Recent Convert, Sister Baah, she is doing good and we were able to talk about the Holy Ghost with her. 

Friday was pretty wild we went up to Ang Thong so Sister Nub could get interviewed. Elder Wilamas from Lopburi came down to interview her. She passed it and is ready for baptism!!! It was funny, we needed the dates of her parents’ birth and hers and she didn't know any of them. The older Thais really never recorded things like that, it is way sad they didn’t. We came back to Ayutthaya and had to get a members bike fixed and then went and taught a new investigator named Elle. Who we met just a few days ago while "knocking doors", really we just walk up to their gate and yell, Hello in Thai until they walk out. We taught Sister Mod and Boon who we are still preparing them for baptism, it was good. 

Saturday was good we had mutual and then cleaned the church. We practiced some music for our musical numbers. We cleaned the baptismal font Sister Nub and made her baptismal program. Then we had a lesson with our new investigator Kwang the one who works at McDonalds. It went really good and she is super smart. I feel she could get baptized really quick as long as we can get her to church, that is the one concern we have.

Sunday was our Branch Conference. The District Presidency and all of them came to Ayutthaya. So with all them we had 68 people at church! Sister Baah received the Holy Ghost and I was able to stand in the circle. Brother Chinawat gave her the Holy Ghost. He is her home teacher, which was pretty cool. We also had 10 investigators in sacrament, it was so sweet! Mod, Boon, Nub, Taa, and her two kids and four other new investigators showed too so that why it was, way cool. Good turnout. Then after all that we had Nub's baptism which was kind of scary a little. She is 59 years old and not very strong. She was scared so it took two times to get her fully under water, but it was super awesome and another great experience! Brother Nong and Sister Dtuuy sang I Need Thee Every Hour accompanied by Elder Gibbons on the Viola and Me at the piano, it was pretty good. I'm starting to be able to play more hymns on the pian, it is good! We also practiced our music for the Christmas party next month. We went to Sister Baahs for Boo to sign her baptismal papers and on the way back it just started raining super hard and we just got soaked, so then Sister Mod canceled our appointment because of the rain.

It was a good week. We are just having a relaxing p-day this week so nothing special to look forward to for next week except to hear if Sister Mod and Boon get baptized! Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Landon

First Baptism!!!

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 23

Week Fourteen in Ayutthaya

Monday, November 18, 2013

Hey!!!!

Today was an amazing week and I was able to see my first baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stay tuned for more info.

So first thing off, Tuesday was pretty wild. We had English class which was okay, not as many people as the week before, but it was good. After English the Elders from Lopburi came down, Elder Wilamas and Elder Wheeler. Elder Wilamas is Thai and he was Elder Gibbons companion in the MTC so we were super excited as it was my first time really being in a house with a Thai. He was way awesome and helped me with my Thai so much in such a little time.

They came down because on Wednesday we had a Zone Training meeting so that was crazy because Elder Wilamas companion got a fever over 100 degrees and got way sick so they ended up staying another night because Sister Senior said to, so it was awesome because I got to be around Elder Wilamas more, he is such a great teacher and missionary. Elder Gibbons and I had to split off and get some work done after the zone training so we could prepare and finish teaching Sister Baah everything she needed for her baptism so we taught her Wednesday night and finished up a bunch of the commandments. After we went with Bro. Nong to Big C to have a lesson with our other two investigators who are daters for the 8th of December; Sister Tuk and Nud. It was a really good day. 

Thursday we went to Brother McGeorge’s house to teach Sister Baah. Sister Na his wife made us dinner and they all helped us finish teaching Sister Baah everything, it was soooo good and helped us a lot because it is hard to teach Baah at her house because we are outside by a busy street so motorcycles and cars are just distracting them constantly. I also was able to see if Bro. McGeorge and I are related. I don't think so because the dates of our John Watkins are close, but not the same. He said he was going to look into it more, but I don't know if he has. 

 

Cleaning the "very small" baptismal font.

 Friday was pretty crazy we cleaned the baptismal font. I cleaned it with Brother Now, it was pretty awesome trying to get that all prepared. Saturday we had a service project out at Brother Jamnongs house in Ang Thong Pa Moog so that takes about 45 minutes to get there. We did a switch out and I went with Elder Smith and we had to dig a bunch of holes and put these huge cement pillars in. It was some pretty good manual labor except for the fact that my Nike fuel band button broke somehow, so I guess I might send that home, I don't know. We hurried and cruised back to the church for the mutual activity so we could help with that. Sister Baah also had to get interviewed by the zone leaders. She was so scared, but a bunch of the members really helped her and got the interview done and she passed!!

First Baptism

Now onto the day of the baptism! Sunday was crazy since we did the switch off. We literally weren't prepared for anything, but somehow we just pulled of crazy numbers this week. We had 9 investigators at church and 57 people to church, it was like a record for people at church in a long time, I think! Sister Baah made it,but her Mom had to work and was going to try to come back for the baptism. Then next thing you know Brother Nong asks if we had printed out a program and we said, nope so I switched off with Bro. Nong during Elders Quorum to help him make a program so we could have it all ready! We got it done and Sister Baah was waaay scared and sad because her Mom wasn't there, but she wanted to get baptized today. So we did it, Elder Gibbons baptized her. It was soooo awesome, I haven't felt the spirit that strong in a while as when she got into the font and got baptized. We are just sooooo lucky, Sister Na was their Bro. McGeorge's wife because she helped Sister Baah to stop crying and calm down. After she was baptized she was just the happiest 12 year old girl and gave such an amazing testimony. It was just such an awesome thing we couldn't have asked for a bigger blessing and miracle of her getting baptized.

 

Loy Krathong is one of the most beautiful of all Thai festivals. It is a time for family and friends to gather together in the evening to launch small candle lit craft (Krathong) in lakes and rivers, and floating lanterns into the sky.

It was also one of the biggest holidays in Thailand yesterday and we got invited by two of our investigators to go celebrate a little, but we made into a lesson and all four of the Elders went with Bro. Nong and our two investigators, it was so awesome!

Sorry for the shorter letter this week not much went on, but it was such a great week and we have another lady, Sister Nub that is getting prepared for baptism next week. I'm really focusing on that and everything that we need to teach her! Love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Landon

Fifty-one people to Church!!!

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 22

Week Thirteen in Ayutthaya

Monday, November 11, 2013

I'm officially done with my training wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! Well another week down it was a way good week! So last week we went cruising around with Brother Nong to a bunch of historical sites it was a fun and just a good time. We have been so blessed to have him as a member, he is such a great guy. Tuesday was awesome we had English class as usual and we had 24 people!!!!!!!! Brother Nong looked at me and said, yeah never in Ayutthaya history have we had this many people at English class. What is great is the majority of the people coming are investigators, I'd say at least 14 of those people are investigators. As for our investigators we had there, we had that family we met which was 3 people and then Tuk, Nud, Cake, and Satong, and that was it for us, but it was just a way awesome turn out. 

Sightseeing at Wat Phu Khao Thong
Elder Gibbons, Elder Watkins, Brother Nong, Elder Smith & Elder Winsor

  

Wednesday was a wild day we taught Sister Mod and I had to take over the lesson for a little because Sister Mod flustered him a bit, but we turned it around and it was okay. We also taught Sister Baah about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we have almost taught her everything she needs for baptism except to obey and honor the laws and the Ten commandments, she is supposed to be baptized on the 17^th, so this coming week way exciting! That night Brother Mcgeorge and his wife Sister Naa and their daughter Iris invited the Elders over for dinner they bought us Pizza Company and ice cream it was soooooo delicious. It was such a fun time Brother Mcgeorge is a genius when it comes to the church, so we were just asking him all sorts of crazy questions and he’s like well, when I talked to Joe Fielding, we were like, what? Joseph Fielding Smith? Sure enough yeah he was friends with him and friends with David O McKay, he just knows so much stuff, it awesome. 

Thursday was a pretty crazy day we cruised out to Ang Thong where Brother Jamnog and our investigator Sister Nube live. It is a ways away we travel in a van and it takes about 1 hour. We taught a 2 hour lesson, it was crazy, but needed since she has a baptismal date for the 24th of November. It is so fun because Brother Jamnog picks us up in his little scooter-motorcycle pod racer thing which is a motorcycle with like a big basket in front, for people or stuff to sit in. It has two wheels and Elder Gibbons and I just sit in the front while we cruise around. It is so funny because all the Thai people look at us and are like who are these two white people riding in this with a Thai guy and they just always smile and wave at us, so funny. 

Friday was crazy it was weekly planning so that took a chunk out of our day and then after we taught our new investigator who is Laotian. He doesn't speak Thai, but he speaks Laos and a little bit of Eesaan which is a dialect in Thailand, so literally I just sat there and had no idea what was going on, but luckily my companion speaks Eesaan so he can teach, it was crazy! We also had a sweet lesson with Sister Baah she is just progressing so well. 

Saturday we went to Brother Nows new house that they are moving to and did a whole bunch of deep cleaning. We scrubbed mold off the walls and cleaned the floors, it was some solid work. So if you are wondering if we do service Mom since you didn't think Nathan did, we are. We actually are going out to build a roof at Brother Jamnog's house this next Saturday too. After we cleaned we taught Brother Moo and is his wife Sister Muk some guitar. We had a lesson with Sister Baah about Tithing and that was pretty sweet. We also had a lesson with the family and it went pretty well. After all that we cruised over to Lotus and got Pizza Company, such a good dinner you can't go wrong. 

Sunday was a sweet day we got 51 people at church! That is the most since I have been in Ayutthaya so it is awesome. We had 3 investigators at church Sis. Bahh, Sister Nube, and Sister Doom. This is the last Sunday we don't have a baptism scheduled for a while, it is awesome! My first baptism should be coming up this next Sunday if everything goes as planned. To top off the night we call our investigator Nud on the phone to follow up with her and it just so happened she was with her friend Tuk who is also our investigator! So we talked with them and taught them over the phone and committed them to baptism for the 8th of December! Sooooo sweet we now have 6 people with a baptismal date. So we have Sister Baah, Sister Nube, Sister Mod, Brother Boon, Sister Nud, and Sister Tuk; pretty sweet! Well that is about it for this week we are just cleaning and relaxing for p-day today. Love you all and have a great week!

Love,

Landon

Making Progress...

Elder Landon J Watkins Week 21

Week Twelve in Ayutthaya

Monday, November 04, 2013

Wow another week down already, time just flew by this past week even though it is always cruising by, this week went extra fast! It was great to get on my email and that first thing I see was SOXS WIN THE WORLD SERIES, I don't know what could be greater than that!! Well on to what I did this week! So for P-day last week we went to the Water Market and just walked around a little we didn't end up having much time so we just browsed the shops and I bought a shirt. We watched the play thing of the Thais fighting the Burmese which was pretty interesting! After we waited at the church to meet our two new investigators and then after 30 minutes of them not being there we called and it ended up not working out, but we just went and ate dinner and this place with Brother Nong and Sister Ganjanii, it was soooo delicious! Way good food and since it is Sister Ganjaniis friend we ate there for free and it is more expensive food! It was way fun and tasty and I officially have a new favorite food here somtom taahd which is fried papaya salad thing. Most Thai people haven't even eaten it and it is soooooo tasty I loved it! Somtom is just delicious, period and now it is even better. 

Tuesday was way sweet we had district meeting and Elder Gibbons and I presented our vision for Ayutthaya on what we need done by February to be worthy for a ward in the Stake. We need 70 people at church and currently we have about 40 coming and 17 baptisms so that will get us to 150 members on record. It was way awesome and we got everyone on board. We went and ate Swenson’s after since every Tuesday you buy one scoop get one free if you are a member and I just so happen to be member now since Sister Gade gave me her card when she left. We had an awesome turn out for English class though, our investigators Tuk and Nud came who we were supposed to meet the night before and our friend from Swenson’s brought a friend it was a good turnout. We taught Tuk and Nud after then we and grabbed some dinner with Sister Ganjanii it was a solid night. 

Wednesday we had a solid lesson with our investigator Baah and his Mom have already gone over the Restoration pamphlet before and so we just reviewed and taught her everything, he is progressing so well! After we went to go eat at the fancy restaurant the Sowards told us about that supposedly makes a mean chicken cordon blue and a good steak, but then we got there and it is like some sort of bar type of place and we didn't think we had enough time so, we were just like, okay maybe we shouldn't go there. Then Elder Gibbons was on the phone and he is just like take us somewhere to go eat. So I'm like okay just cruising around and I was like, let’s just go eat at this Eesaan restaurant so we go and while we were waiting we decided to just run into 7-11 real quick and grab some drinks and we walk through the door and there is our investigator, Tuk and it was sooooo funny because we had texted her 3 hours earlier and she had responded once, but not again and then we ran into her. She was so embarrassed since she didn't respond. You could say the spirit led me their ha-ha it was awesome and just funny, can't hide from the missionaries! 

Thursday we had another good lesson with Sister Baah though, she is progressing so well she is supposed to be baptized on the 17 of this month so that will be sweet! 

The cubby hole under the stairs that they cleaned out.

Friday was wild we went to the church and had to clean out the storage thing under the stairs it was filthy! It hadn't been cleaned in over 2 years which means it was all still disgusting from the massive flood! We cleaned that thing out. There were cockroaches, lizards, spiders, and rusts- gross flood water from 2 years ago in there, man it was gross! My comp was in there screaming because the roaches would fly around or the lizards would start running I couldn't help but laugh as I watched! Also, Friday we made a bunch of phone calls and we called our investigator Nub and gave her a date to be baptized on this 24th of this month so that will be exciting! After all that we had no idea what to do. So we were just sitting that this entrance to this apartment house things and we decided to say a prayer and when we were almost done praying this lady with her family drives by on her scooter and in Thai is like what are you doing. We finish our prayer and then we were like, okay that is what we are doing we follow her to her house and asked if we can share a message. We talked about the BoM with them and they were pretty interested. It was a Mom and her 30 year old son,11 year old daughter, and 9 year old son. We invited them to the mutual activity on Saturday and they said they'd come and sure enough on Saturday they came to our activity. Elder and Sister Jones from the office came up and did the activity they finish their mission this month so they will be going home. So our new investigators also brought a friend and her son it was so sweet!

Ready for the  mummy race at the activity.

Elder and Sister Jones teaching.

Saturday night we did some contacting with Brother Nong and just went home and made some phone calls. We had another convo with our investigators Tuk and Nud they are progressing way well and we've been teaching them over the phone, since one was visiting her mother and the other was at her sister’s wedding. They are progressing way well and we are excited to see them on Tuesday for English class.  They may be getting a baptismal date soon, so that will be sweet. Church was pretty good on Sunday, we had 4 investigators come to church Sister Mod and her son Buun came again they are supposed to be baptized on December 1st when her husband comes from England, so we are excited for that. Sister Cake came also which was awesome since she had to go to school, but still made the effort to come to sacrament and she is only 12! Sister Nub was also there, which was great. Today we are going to do some sightseeing somewhere, but not sure it should be fun though! Have a great week! 

Love,

Landon