First Normal Week in Laos

This week has been pretty interesting. It has really been my first week of getting into the normal missionary schedule in Lao. Sunday was really awesome. Church here is only two hours long, because of government restrictions, but it is a super solid two hours. The members are super nice and all really friendly. After church we got to teach some investigators, which was awesome, because that was my first time meeting any sort investigators since coming here. The fun part was the people we were teaching didn't speak Lao or Thai. They spoke Hmong. It is a tribal language up here. So anyway, we were running most of the lesson through this nine year old, who speaks Hmong and Lao really well. It was fun. The investigator that was supposed to get baptized last Sunday did not get baptized. His Father has forbidden him from being baptized. 

This week I got into the whole, being an English Teacher thing. It seems a little weird still, but I am getting used to it. So, on Tuesday Elder Morley went down to Bangkok. He traveled alone and I stayed here to teach classes. It is really weird here. We have been given permission so that we don't always have to be with a companion, because sometimes we are spread thin and need to split up to teach English. I taught mostly by myself this week because Elder Morley was gone. It was a little interesting but I felt like I got a lot better now that I have been teaching by myself a little bit. 

When we are not teaching, we spend a lot of time at the Church; either talking with or teaching members or doing office work. Other things we usually do when we are not teaching is to go hang out with the deaf kids. They are super awesome. We were over there for a few hours yesterday and I feel like I am getting a lot better at sign language.

There are a lot of members here that are preparing to serve missions. It is really cool to see. There are like six that are doing their paper work right now.  During our Book of Mormon class on Thursday our investigator also stated he wants to go on a mission. His name is Bounma. He is super awesome and is trying to finish the Book of Mormon before he gets baptized which is planned for the second of October but it might be getting moved up a week. 

Today was a lot of fun. We went fishing over at a member’s house. I caught three fish and the companionship caught a forth one with Elder Morley. (It’s a long story which involves the pole getting pulled into the lake.) It was a lot of fun. Fishing poles in Laos are fun and simple. They are just a bamboo rod with some fishing line and a hook tied to it. You also find your own bait by digging in the ground. Super fun. 

Well that wraps up this week. 

 

- Elder Cheney

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