Companion: Elder Wilson
December 16, 2013
Hey Guys!
I am way sorry about last week’s letter that was way short
but golfing was fun the course was so pretty and it was 10 bucks for 18 holes
and that included a caddy! That was fun the caddies were way funny and as usual
were shocked that we were white guys speaking Thai! Our golfing was absolutely
atrocious without a doubt the worst game I have ever played but it was so fun
just to be out playing again! but man I have got a wicked slice great distance
just wrong fairway! 555
I really want to share with you all some of the miracles we
saw lately. Last night after church we met with a 16 year-old whose name is Ben
and he is so prepared. I met him at the park on Saturday night after we were
finished our 2 hours of inviting and were walking back to our bikes I stopped
him and invited him to be baptized and he said yes. Then yesterday we showed
him the church, the sacrament room and the baptismal font, gave him a date for
Jan 18 and taught him to pray. He ate it all up and in his prayer he asked to
be forgiven of his sins and asked for strength to overcome temptations in his
life. The first time he had prayed to God in his life and that is what he asked
for forgiveness and strength to overcome temptation, I was floored!
On Friday night we went to go eat at the market (eating is
kind of hit and miss lately we don’t plan it in, but it’s our plan c and when
everything goes through we just grab something at 7 on the way home but this
day it was plan c) We weren’t really sure what to do cause it was 8 and our
investigator was drunk so we couldn’t teach him and the LA that was our back-up
wasn’t free either. So we decided to go help Sis Guy (that just how you
pronounce it really means chicken 55) take down her clothing shop at the market
and while we were there she introduces us to some of the ladies that she sells
with and one of them said oh yeah I’m going to send my daughter to church this Sunday
in fact I might go too! And she did and stayed all 3 hours and totally loved
it! She is from the deep south where it is way Muslim which is pretty cool and
she is going to teach me Southern Thai which is even cooler! Speaking of cool
it is getting cold again here. Today is arguably one of the coldest days on my
mission it is pretty chilly but I imagine still around 20 I know I know but that’s
cold ok! I have learned so much about faith and patience in overcoming
this trial and just really trusting the Lord being able to say "Lord I’m
doing everything I can and so I trust that you will carry me the rest of the
way there!"
It’s fun to hear about all the basketball going on I cheered
about the wins and I’m sorry for the losses some of them were way close
too!
Christmas for the branch is coming into full swing the
Christmas party here in Roi Et is going to be 5 days long Tuesday to Saturday
with the last day being the big finale. My convert Bro Bo is the activities
President and so right now he is kinda way stressed out! But it’s alright after
this week it will all be fine! Sis Guy's daughters name is Gift she is 18 and
speaks English way good her and one of her guy cousins have started to come out
and play basketball with us at 6 in the morning its way fun and I’ve got huge
respect for any kid who will get up that early just to go play basketball with
a bunch of out of shape farangs. Her cousins’ name is Pug (with an
"uu"sound) and we met him at the market when we went to help Sis Guy
on Friday.
I got to go on switch-offs with Elder Chelson this week
which was waayy fun he is so funny and so smart. It was cool to work with him
for the day and learn from each other. I have never really served with anybody
in my group before so it was way cool to have an opportunity to do so.
Sunday was such a good day! The past couple weeks we have
really struggled to get investigators to church and Sunday has just been really
disappointing cause they don’t show and we end the week on a sour note but this
week everything went right and at the end Sis Dograg made us a huge thing of
real mashed potatoes and spaghetti for dinner it was the greatest!
I love you guys a ton!
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