Elder Cheney's Suit and Thai Adventure: Less Actives and Laotian Investigators

So this week has been good. Last Monday, Chinatown was really fun. It is just this crazy, thin alley with tons of shops on either side. Today we are going to a zone sports day. It should be fun as well.

As far as the Area goes, this week we had a nice referral fall into are hands. It was for this man that wanted to know where the church was. We set up an appointment with him and talked to him. It turns out he is a less active member from Bangkapi that moved down to Samut Prakaan and didn't know where to go to church. So we let him know where the church building was then taught him the restoration lesson. Afterward, we asked for a referral and he told us about his friend that would be interested. Then after that, he wanted to give us a ride home, so we went with him and he told us about his 9 year old son and his wife that he wants to get baptized as well. it was sweet. He came to church with his two kids yesterday so that is great. He is from Africa so we talk to him in English but he speaks 4 languages. Super cool. I am really excited to be working with him.

We also have had the chance to visit these Laotian people in our area. We have an investigator there. His name is Brother Came. It is cool, there are 4 of them that live in this small room and the other three guys are baptized already so now we are working with Came. They also have another friend that we have taught that we are working with. Brother Came has a baptismal date for this Sunday so he will most likely make it. We will see what happens. His friend will probably take a little bit longer. It is fun teaching Laotian people; Lao is really close to Thai so we can usually make it work. Sometimes, though, they can’t understand what we are talking about.

We are really trying to work with Less Active members. There are a lot of LA's here because the church building is not in Samut Prakaan anymore. It is about an hour away so it is really hard for people to get out there. Especially because a lot of people don't have their own individual transportation. We are really just trying to get people with cars to start picking up people on their way to church. It is hard, especially because there are a lot of people that barely have enough time to go to church and now it is almost impossible with an hour commute on either end of it.