This week has gone by
pretty fast. Elder Joyem and I went around to a lot of different people. Monday
and Tuesday we gave out a lot of baptism dates. We gave Jackie the date for the
12th, a new investigator named Joshua a date on the 15th. Joshua is awesome. He is Christian already, he just wants to come
to church to learn stuff and be a member. He has come to church the last two
Sundays. We also gave Chaad and Nat a date for the 29th. The funny thing is, we
worked super hard all week to try to get members to come to lessons with us and
we ended up with more daters than member present lessons. We also have some
good potentials coming up. We started teaching this girl named Nampuan. She has made signs for our English class, and
she is interested in the gospel. Also we have our neighbor Comb. We met with
him and he has before opposed the idea of getting baptized because he has
gotten baptized in another church already, but we really talked about how the
people who baptize need to have the authority to do so and he accepted it well
and said he would get baptized. The problem is he is going to a different part
of Thailand to work for a few months. He doesn't want to go there but that is
the only place he can find work in his trade. This is when our member was
really cool. He asked if he wanted to stay here and Comb answered yes then he
was like ok well then I will find you a job here. So our member is on the job
hunt for him here so hopefully he can come back soon.
On Saturday, we wanted
to go visit this referral the Sisters gave us. We got directions to the place,
then we showed a member the directions and he told us it was really far. Then we asked like how far. He said it is about where this member lives. Knowing
where that member lived, I didn't think it was that much of a problem. Not really that far. So we biked out to around
where the member lived and asked for further directions. We kept using this process of biking and
asking for quite some time until after about 2 1/2 hours of biking, we got to
this Buddhist temple that the investigator described as being close to their
house. We then had to try to figure out
where to go. We randomly ran into these
two young men on a motorcycle that were the sons of the investigator. They told us to follow them and they took us
down this dirt trail forever until we eventually got to this village that is
really remote and all the houses are huts.
So that was fun. We will probably be going back there again,
too. It didn't take near as long to get
back once we knew the route. There was also a lot of cool scenery up there too,
so it was really a nice trip.
Church yesterday was
good. We had Jackie and Joshua come to
church. I have also inherited a lot of translating duties since the transfer. The other companionship of Elders translates
for the 1st Branch so we can sit by our investigators, and we translate for
second Branch so they can sit by their investigators. I like it. It helps me focus on the meeting better but
sometimes it gets really hard when the person at the pulpit is talking about
this weird movie that has a time machine.
Also, I wanted to mention a funny story. Today for our exercise time, we went and
played basketball in the church parking lot. We played for a while when one of the other
Elders asked if I could dunk. I did an
ok 1 hand dunk, then they asked if I could do a two hand. I ran up and jumped
hard to dunk and the backboard came crashing down on top of me when I dunked. Like, literally, I broke a backboard. I wasn't even doing a rim hang or anything. It
was really funny and at the same time sad, because now we don’t have a basketball
hoop or anywhere to play until we can fix it.
Well that is pretty much
the summary for the week.
-- Elder Cheney
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