...Unto The Ends Of The Earth: Baptism!

Area: Udon
Companion: Elder Hunsaker
February 16, 2014

Heyya

Well its back, we're baptizing again! Sis May got bapped! Way stoked about that I will tell you more about her story in a second here. This week we are going to baptize 4 people! Soo sick one of them Sis Ann has already passed her interview and Sis Jefi and Bro Tay should be interviewing either tomorrow or Wednesday and then Sis Kwan is finally coming back from Nakon Sawan this week and she was ready before she left and she has been praying and reading the whole time so she is getting baptized. Last but not least Sis Anna who is May's friend will be baptized as soon as she gets an answer to her prayers! We need 10 baptisms this week in our zone to reach our goal of 23 for this month, it’s gonna be big!

So we met May and Anna at Central (the big mall here in Udon) We were inviting i walked up to go talk to them and Anna shouts out a big hello (she’s an English major and so is actually brave enough to talk to farangs unlike most Khon Thais) so I asked them if they wanted to get baptized Anna was like yeah I do but May just wanted to leave and was like Anna you’re crazy but I was like alright and made an appointment for the next day and I got Anna's number and then I asked for May's too which is not something I really do that often. Next day called them both and they weren’t free to come so we never called again but then the next week Elder Saunders one of the AP's calls with a referral named Anna that apparently the elders had already taught once. Well we weren’t teaching an Anna so we gave it to the other Elders assuming she was there investigator. So they set up an appointment and Anna came and brought May too. We pulled up to the church right as they finished their lesson and I was more than surprised to see them! The other elders gave them over to us because we had contacted them. We taught them everything in 4 meetings like a half hour each time they came to church. They were often hesitant but we helped them each step of the way like 3 days after we first saw her May got an awesome answer to prayer. We called her to teach repentance over the phone so she could start repenting and we followed up on her praying to know. She said I got an answer have you ever felt like you were being hugged but no one was there, I prayed and it felt like that like God was giving me a hug and it just felt warm and I felt his love for me! So cool! I love answers to prayers!

Love you!!

Elder Cahoon