Another great week in the land of smiles! Thailand truly is the land of smiles, literally everyone smiles when we talk to them even if they are saying they don't want to listen to a couple of "Falangs" (white people)! Highlights of the week:
-We had another baptism this week! Sister Mook! She is awesome and now her sister is interested in the church too so hopefully we can get her whole family one day! Baptism went a lot smoother and we didn't have to attempt it 5 times. hahah.
- We had two switch offs this week, on Thursday we stayed in Surin and the Elders from Buriram came here and on Friday we went to Roi-Et to switch off with the zone leaders. One thing I learned from both Elders I was with (Elder Ignacio and Elder Escher) was just to be happy on your mission. The work is hard and the language is hard but if I can keep smiling through everything I will enjoy my mission a lot more. The Gospel is a message of happiness and of hope!
- I felt the power of prayer this week. We were contacting and I felt sort of down. Nobody was listening to us and every time I would talk people wouldn't understand me and I wouldn't understand them. Elder Chandler suggested we go somewhere else and that we pray before we go. He prayed and asked that we have focus and happiness and after the prayer I felt so much lighter and full of energy and I know that was a tender mercy from Heavenly Father. We eventually found a guy who listened to us teach. He hasn't been answering our calls but we'll wear him down. ;)
- Fun Thai names from this week are Bling, Piinit, Jam-Jim, and Ice. And speaking of names, we're teaching a guy named Han (he's way awesome, Baptism date set for the 15th) and I was about to ask where he parked the Millennium Falcon but I decided not to after he said he didn't know what Star Wars was!
- Another highlight was the rooster fight we saw. We were contacting on our bikes and saw a commotion so we hurried over and sure enough it was a rooster fight. We invited them all to church after they teased us for not knowing the rules of a rooster fight. I guess I better study up!
- I showed my picture book to the members of the ward and they freaked out. They all loved Daren of course and there was one member who was especially interested in Curtis so there you go buddy. They also said Dallin was the most handsome in Delta V. Well shoot. 0/2!
- Yeah, a lot of elders have GoPros but I'm good! My camera is perfect!
- Yep, zone conference is this week! It'll be a blast! We're staying in a hotel because it's so far away from where we are. I'm way excited! I've also been asked to be the chorister so that'll be neat.
- One of our favorite ways to meet people is to go to Markets and stand at the entrance and just talk to everyone that walks in. Then we get fried chicken and a smoothie after so everyone wins. We find most of our investigators from doing that and from referrals.
- I haven't told you much about the people we're teaching so here are our investigators:
- Gon: way interested, said he "must come to church" when we talked to him. His family doesn't want him to change religions either so that's been hard. hoping he gets baptized this week
- Han: Way interested, has lots of questions but they're all legit and helps him learn more, baptism date for the 15th
- Dxxon (D-uhh-on): Really busy but interested, has little kids and lives far away so it's hard to meet, had a baptism date but missed it
- Beem: Referral from a member, only been taught once but seems great!
- Rojaanaa: Mom of an RC, haven't met with her but Elder Chandler says she's good.
- Sompaan: Elderly lady we met yesterday, already Christian, way nice and accepted everything we taught, Golden!
There they are, our investigators! Love em all.
Welp, that's all I've got. This week was great and I can't wait to keep learning and growing! The Lord loves us all and wants us to be happy! I love all you and miss you!
-Elder Borg
Baptism of Sister Mook
Rooster fight. Yikes!
