June 24, 2012
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello People of the World,
Well, I think that this week has been pretty tame. I had to stare at my Journal to see what I should talk about. Speaking of Journals, I have lied in my Journal, twice. OH NO!!! Not really a lie, but I wrote in it, and then we would get a call from the District Leader, and change something that I have written down, and I wouldn't change it. Too lazy. Two little things, no big deal.
Anyway, here is my week. Like I said, kinda tame this week. I am very grateful for our member that teaches English, comes to our English Class and teaches. I can hardly teach religion, English is way hard. Wednesday was the most exciting day. We were with the Senior Couple from Roi Et Wednesday morning, so that they could visit some members. Afterwards, it was 12:00, and they wanted to get us lunch. Elder Tanawut said a place, this particular place takes forever to make you food. We waited a half-hour to get our food, and ate in 15 minutes. We were on our way and about 7km out of Roi Et, when Elder Khanakham, the senior elder, pulled over. His wife was like, "ok, time for beddy-bye. He's gonna take a nap." I thought she was joking, until we were at full stop and he had taken a nap for 5 minutes. After she finally woke him up, we continued. We got into the city at 1:00, and there was a traffic jam, a.k.a. rush hour. At 1:00, we were officially late to the District Meeting that we were supposed to be at. We were in traffic for an additional 20 minutes before reaching the church in Roi Et. I hate being late to anything, and I knew that we shouldn't have eaten lunch first.
I finally got my mission badge! YAY!!!!!! That means that my missionary badge has the church in Thai, my name in English and in Thai. This helps Thai people know how to pronounce my name. I actually spelled it pretty close to how it was sent, I just added a small marker that changes the tone. We had an investigator tell us that she had finished the Book of Mormon. We hadn't seen her for a week. There was a slight problem though, she hadn't learned anything, and she didn't remember anything either. She only remembered something about some Lehi and him having sons. We are gonna have her read it again, carefully. After an investigator's lesson on Friday, we were talking about what to do to help him keep commitments. Elder Tanawut gave this suggestion, "use your farang charm." This investigator loves farangs, and I can tell, because he always asks random, non-gospel related questions. For example, "Do you know Snow White?" He asked me that last lesson. I'm always got off guard. So, Elder Tanawut thinks that I need to just give all commitments, because maybe he'll do it if I ask. Yeah, that's just silly.
Awesome bit of news, our dater had his interview. He passed. We knew that he would. He's got lots of faith, and is really excited about this Saturday. I have the honor of baptizing him. Sweet!
That's my week, I hope that you liked it. I look forward to writing soon. Oh, sidenote. I'm going on a cleaning craze at our house. It is a disaster, and I want to open our mysterious upstairs. I took a peek already, it looks really good. I don't know why it's closed. I'm fixing that, hopefully today.
Wish me luck,
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, June 25, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Fathers Day
June 17, 2012
Happy Fathers Day!!!
Hello Father,
First off, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!! I just want to point out that America/everywhere apparently doesn't view fathers as well as mothers. Hence, we don't get to call families on Father's Day. Think about it.
Hey, if it seems like I am thinking about me, I am not. Well, maybe a little. Not bad. Mostly about food and drink. I still don't like water, but don't want to ask to go to a 7-11 to get a milk or something else. I hope that you enjoyed your weekend. You'll have to let me know what your ingenious plan is to do with the slide.
Ok, I had a extremely, random, trunky thought this week. For about half a minute, Doctor Who popped in my head. ok, here is what I thought about for half a minute. At the end of the season that I saw, River Song called The Doctor. Well, she didn't, she killed one of those Chameleon guys, that are very close to being a specific person. So The Doctor didn't really die. Now here is my thinking. Does that mean that her encounter with The Doctor with David Tennant won't happen? yep, that is my thought, you probably already know, but maybe not.
Yep, so, again, Happy Father's Day, and I love you,
Elder Anthony Susi
Mahasarakham
June 17, 2012
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello People of the World,
You know how excited I am that Brandon has gone to the MTC?! Excited. SOOOOO MUUUUCCCHHHH!!!! I listened to the talk already, it was way funny! Especially the end, "(Bunch of Mandarin, Ha ha just kidding. That really just means 'I like apple juice.'" Wow, I miss that boy. Imma write him an email right after this. He'll see it on Tuesday. Oh, I wish that I could've seen his talk and/or been with him afterwards. Oh well, I am here. I am having a good time, already half way through this transfer. (Wow). Anyway, here is my week!
My P-days here in the Isan, are so much more relaxed and layed back than they were when I was with Elder Hess in Chiangrai. There isn't too much to do/needs done, and the city is smaller. I like it. After this, we're gonna eat some pizza, buy groceries, and go chillax at the house. On Tuesday, we get a call. We ignore it. They call again. We ignore again. They call a third a time. "Aray?" Elder Tanawut answers the phone. It is a member, they have a service project for us. After companionship studies, (10:00), we go to Sister Oink's (translated already) house and discover our labor. We are moving a big pile of sand to under/behind their house so that concrete can be laid and it can transform into a second living area for their neighbor and friend, who happens to be an investigator. We are there until 1:00 or so. Hard work that was. We had to leave right before the concrete laying was actually started. So the rest of the day was really tiring, because we were already tired!! English Class was just ridiculous, I even forgot "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." The one from the Children's Hymnbook.
Wednesdays, we have our District Meetings, so we went to Roi Et. We were there on time, and we received some distressing news. The District Leader, Elder Mondragon, was on switch-offs with a Zone Leader, Elder Grover, and they would be late. They had gotten on the wrong bus, in other words, their bus was going the wrong way, and District Meeting ended up being an hour later than planned. Also, the Senior Couple, Elder and Sister Khanakham, said that they would be coming to Mahasarakham the next day. They did. At 9:00, we were to meet them at the church so that they could go meet some members, a couple of those members were Less-Active. In other words, don't become Less-Active, or Senior Couples and missionaries WILL come find you. We weren't really that scary. Friday morning, we were having studies. In companionship studies, we share what we learned/read during personal study. Elder Tanawut said that he was reading the story of Moses, and the Song of Solomon for some reason. He asked if I recognized it, and I did. He started singing a random song in English, singing, "I am Solomon, I am King Solomon." Ok, it was funny then, to me. In the evening, we get a call. One of our investigators, someone about to receive baptism, was leaving that night. We were sooooo sad, so we went over to sister Ood's house (Oink) to have a final lesson together. Sad day. Good news though: I finally drank 2L of water. YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!
On Sunday, I got to play the piano. We are preparing for an investigator to be have his interview for baptism, and we are soooo excited!! He is ready and wants it, bad.
There is my week, super stoked for Brandon. Who is next, I wonder? If y'all have any questions, just ask. K see ya later,
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello People of the World,
You know how excited I am that Brandon has gone to the MTC?! Excited. SOOOOO MUUUUCCCHHHH!!!! I listened to the talk already, it was way funny! Especially the end, "(Bunch of Mandarin, Ha ha just kidding. That really just means 'I like apple juice.'" Wow, I miss that boy. Imma write him an email right after this. He'll see it on Tuesday. Oh, I wish that I could've seen his talk and/or been with him afterwards. Oh well, I am here. I am having a good time, already half way through this transfer. (Wow). Anyway, here is my week!
My P-days here in the Isan, are so much more relaxed and layed back than they were when I was with Elder Hess in Chiangrai. There isn't too much to do/needs done, and the city is smaller. I like it. After this, we're gonna eat some pizza, buy groceries, and go chillax at the house. On Tuesday, we get a call. We ignore it. They call again. We ignore again. They call a third a time. "Aray?" Elder Tanawut answers the phone. It is a member, they have a service project for us. After companionship studies, (10:00), we go to Sister Oink's (translated already) house and discover our labor. We are moving a big pile of sand to under/behind their house so that concrete can be laid and it can transform into a second living area for their neighbor and friend, who happens to be an investigator. We are there until 1:00 or so. Hard work that was. We had to leave right before the concrete laying was actually started. So the rest of the day was really tiring, because we were already tired!! English Class was just ridiculous, I even forgot "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes." The one from the Children's Hymnbook.
Wednesdays, we have our District Meetings, so we went to Roi Et. We were there on time, and we received some distressing news. The District Leader, Elder Mondragon, was on switch-offs with a Zone Leader, Elder Grover, and they would be late. They had gotten on the wrong bus, in other words, their bus was going the wrong way, and District Meeting ended up being an hour later than planned. Also, the Senior Couple, Elder and Sister Khanakham, said that they would be coming to Mahasarakham the next day. They did. At 9:00, we were to meet them at the church so that they could go meet some members, a couple of those members were Less-Active. In other words, don't become Less-Active, or Senior Couples and missionaries WILL come find you. We weren't really that scary. Friday morning, we were having studies. In companionship studies, we share what we learned/read during personal study. Elder Tanawut said that he was reading the story of Moses, and the Song of Solomon for some reason. He asked if I recognized it, and I did. He started singing a random song in English, singing, "I am Solomon, I am King Solomon." Ok, it was funny then, to me. In the evening, we get a call. One of our investigators, someone about to receive baptism, was leaving that night. We were sooooo sad, so we went over to sister Ood's house (Oink) to have a final lesson together. Sad day. Good news though: I finally drank 2L of water. YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!
On Sunday, I got to play the piano. We are preparing for an investigator to be have his interview for baptism, and we are soooo excited!! He is ready and wants it, bad.
There is my week, super stoked for Brandon. Who is next, I wonder? If y'all have any questions, just ask. K see ya later,
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, June 11, 2012
Mahasarakham
June 10, 2012
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello people of the world,
I have had a somewhat relaxed week. I had to work hard to try to find something to talk about. Yes, I am getting along with my companion, and yes, I speak Thai all day now, except when I am with two members here. They are both from Utah, and are pretty significant people in this ward. One is the second counselor in the branch presidency, and the other teaches English to like a bagillion kids throughout the week. Fun stuff.
So here is my week:
So nothing happened last Monday, except that I cleaned our bikes. Fun. Tuesday was kinda slow, until English Class. That class made me think that I should be either a voice actor or one of those comedy actors that is known for actions, not words. For example, Rowan Atkinson. Wednesday, we traveled to Khonkaen for a special training in the zone. With special guests, President and Sister Smith, they will be gone either this week or next week for home. My zone leader was talking to me and the other zone leader about stuff, especially math. Because he had written extensive math expressions for the date. One of those was 12 in binary code, (10111). Then he shared an experience, "My first zone conference started like this." He starts writing on the board and continues, "This was written on the board when I walked into the room. 'Welcome to the Isan Zone, where we eat rainbows and poop butterflies.'" If you can name that movie good for you. I thought it was way funny. We went on exchanges afterwards, I with Elder Thomas, and Elder Tanawut with Elder Mondragon. Elder Mondragon is the District Leader for us two and Elder Thomas is the other guy. He was way funny, and nerdy, I like that. Our Thursday consisted of us teaching and having a coordination meeting with the Sisters and the Senior Couple in Roi Et. We also had ice cream, yum.
Friday, after exchanges, was slow. We were all tired and it just wasn't working. I talked to Elder Mondragon about our upstairs. Our upstairs is apparently unusable, since 6 months ago? Apparently, it just didn't feel right up there; legend has it, it is Satan. I got permission on Friday to check it out, and if an evil spirit or worse is up there, I should bless the house with Elder Tanawut. Saturday morning SUCKED!!!! I went to take a shower, and when I dried off, I felt funny. I felt like there was something on me-ANTS!! There were ants crawling all over my body, and biting me. I sprayed them off, drownded the towel, grabbed bug spray and sprayed that sucker and then threw it in the washer to drown any survivors. Right now, I am so itchy everywhere, I am getting some anti-itch cream or whatever to help today. Yesterday, at church, the Elders and a member, had a special musical number. We played "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" on guitar, violin and piano. Yeah, we're skilled. We got home and Elder Tanawut said, "Ok, in two weeks, we will do it again." He shows me a hymnal, and I get to prepare "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" for a couple weeks. Yeah. Hey, could I get ALL the words to "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" in English? Thanks. Easy-peasy. I had the opportunity to go home teaching with Brother Yale, it was fun. Mostly, it was the member reading from the Liahona and I translating, but it was good.
Ok, that is my week. Maybe it is the same length that it usually is, but I had to work hard ok?! Also, I think, we already got news that Elder Tanawut is moving this transfer, in a couple weeks or so.
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello people of the world,
I have had a somewhat relaxed week. I had to work hard to try to find something to talk about. Yes, I am getting along with my companion, and yes, I speak Thai all day now, except when I am with two members here. They are both from Utah, and are pretty significant people in this ward. One is the second counselor in the branch presidency, and the other teaches English to like a bagillion kids throughout the week. Fun stuff.
So here is my week:
So nothing happened last Monday, except that I cleaned our bikes. Fun. Tuesday was kinda slow, until English Class. That class made me think that I should be either a voice actor or one of those comedy actors that is known for actions, not words. For example, Rowan Atkinson. Wednesday, we traveled to Khonkaen for a special training in the zone. With special guests, President and Sister Smith, they will be gone either this week or next week for home. My zone leader was talking to me and the other zone leader about stuff, especially math. Because he had written extensive math expressions for the date. One of those was 12 in binary code, (10111). Then he shared an experience, "My first zone conference started like this." He starts writing on the board and continues, "This was written on the board when I walked into the room. 'Welcome to the Isan Zone, where we eat rainbows and poop butterflies.'" If you can name that movie good for you. I thought it was way funny. We went on exchanges afterwards, I with Elder Thomas, and Elder Tanawut with Elder Mondragon. Elder Mondragon is the District Leader for us two and Elder Thomas is the other guy. He was way funny, and nerdy, I like that. Our Thursday consisted of us teaching and having a coordination meeting with the Sisters and the Senior Couple in Roi Et. We also had ice cream, yum.
Friday, after exchanges, was slow. We were all tired and it just wasn't working. I talked to Elder Mondragon about our upstairs. Our upstairs is apparently unusable, since 6 months ago? Apparently, it just didn't feel right up there; legend has it, it is Satan. I got permission on Friday to check it out, and if an evil spirit or worse is up there, I should bless the house with Elder Tanawut. Saturday morning SUCKED!!!! I went to take a shower, and when I dried off, I felt funny. I felt like there was something on me-ANTS!! There were ants crawling all over my body, and biting me. I sprayed them off, drownded the towel, grabbed bug spray and sprayed that sucker and then threw it in the washer to drown any survivors. Right now, I am so itchy everywhere, I am getting some anti-itch cream or whatever to help today. Yesterday, at church, the Elders and a member, had a special musical number. We played "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" on guitar, violin and piano. Yeah, we're skilled. We got home and Elder Tanawut said, "Ok, in two weeks, we will do it again." He shows me a hymnal, and I get to prepare "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" for a couple weeks. Yeah. Hey, could I get ALL the words to "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" in English? Thanks. Easy-peasy. I had the opportunity to go home teaching with Brother Yale, it was fun. Mostly, it was the member reading from the Liahona and I translating, but it was good.
Ok, that is my week. Maybe it is the same length that it usually is, but I had to work hard ok?! Also, I think, we already got news that Elder Tanawut is moving this transfer, in a couple weeks or so.
Elder Anthony Susi
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Mahasarakham
June 3, 2012
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello, people of the world,
This last week has definitely been different, I've felt different. This last week, I've been reading our Liahonas and Ensigns at night and in the morning. I have definitely noticed something. Anyway, here is my week:
So, remember how I'm a big nerd, and remember how you said that you saw MIB3 last week and remember that I'm a big nerd? Well, I was at our "mall" last week and a trailer for Men in Black 3 started to play on there little TVs. I tried not to, but watched the trailer. I couldn't hear anything, and I can't read Thai fast enough to know that I wouldn't understand it anyway. Oh, I was soooo trunkie afterwards and then just all these nerdy thoughts kept popping into my head that day/ night. Grrr. So, I got over it, no big deal. On Tuesday, during English, I was talking with a member. She had asked about my drinking water, and I was like, "It's coming." She got all upset, saying that need to drink water! I know that! Sillies! Leave me alone, I don't like the taste!
So on Wednesday, I had my first REAL District Meeting: it included more than 2 people, real conversations, all Thai, everything. Everything that my other district meetings didn't have. That was fun, I get to go on switch-offs this week. Yay! Later, when we returned home, we started planning. In the middle of planning, Elder Tanawut asked, "Do you like that?" I look down to the side of my desk and a big spider is scittering across the boxes on the floor, on the floor in my direction! I throw everything I'm holding on my desk and push myself in my rolly chair away from the desk going, AHHHH! It disappeared and later, after I made myself popcorn to soothe myself, Elder Tanawut said that he had "taken care of it." I didn't really believe him, then he added that spiders are why our upstairs is out of operation. Spiders everywhere, ones even bigger than the one I saw. If you want a description, search: "Australia: where spiders are so big, they have healthbars" into Google. It should be a picture of a spider next to some curtains with a red "health" bar above it. Like in video games. The next day, I decided that the last bag of popcorn needed to go. I had pulled it out of the box, when suddenly, Elder Tanawut appeared. "What's that?" He had asked that, silly. He took it and looked at the unpopped popcorn and just had a confused look on his face. I opened the microwave and he got more confused. He then WATCHED the popcorn pop in the microwave until I pulled it out. He was just like I don't get it and walked away.
On Saturday, we were coming back from a lesson when we noticed a parade was starting. It was then that I learned that Thai parades are way sketchy: full of trannies, drunk people and other indescribable things not for children. We were outta there fast. Later, we passed out some English Class handouts. I was passing them out with big smiles when these two weird teenage girls came and grabbed one. They made those weird "we-are-teenage-girls-trying-to-flirt" giggles, and walked away. I continued to pass out handouts and I was turning my body to help give one out when I saw two familiar faces. Those weird girls! They were chilling in the, ugh, panty-and-bra shop watching me while looking at bras and panties. Dumb. Also two other girls passed by me like three times in twenty minutes. Stupid. Yesterday, after church, we were gonna watch the Restoration DVD with an investigator. In there was a blind member that was gonna help, and he wasnt' really facing the TV set, not that he could see it or anything. It moved him to a different spot in the room, next to me, so he wouldn't be off by himself. After I had moved him, he looks in my direction and says, "Do you have charity?" The world kinda stopped, I hadn't even thought of that. I was just helping him move to another location, I thought. Hmm, charity. The last thing we did before going home, was have dinner. We had it at a member's house. She is from Clearfield, and she loves making missionaries dinner on Fast Sunday. She made us hamburgers! Wow, they were good. She also had barbeque chicken legs, potato chips, ice cream, Sprite, it just kept coming. All in all, it was so good to have a delicious burger.
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Tanawut
Hello, people of the world,
This last week has definitely been different, I've felt different. This last week, I've been reading our Liahonas and Ensigns at night and in the morning. I have definitely noticed something. Anyway, here is my week:
So, remember how I'm a big nerd, and remember how you said that you saw MIB3 last week and remember that I'm a big nerd? Well, I was at our "mall" last week and a trailer for Men in Black 3 started to play on there little TVs. I tried not to, but watched the trailer. I couldn't hear anything, and I can't read Thai fast enough to know that I wouldn't understand it anyway. Oh, I was soooo trunkie afterwards and then just all these nerdy thoughts kept popping into my head that day/ night. Grrr. So, I got over it, no big deal. On Tuesday, during English, I was talking with a member. She had asked about my drinking water, and I was like, "It's coming." She got all upset, saying that need to drink water! I know that! Sillies! Leave me alone, I don't like the taste!
So on Wednesday, I had my first REAL District Meeting: it included more than 2 people, real conversations, all Thai, everything. Everything that my other district meetings didn't have. That was fun, I get to go on switch-offs this week. Yay! Later, when we returned home, we started planning. In the middle of planning, Elder Tanawut asked, "Do you like that?" I look down to the side of my desk and a big spider is scittering across the boxes on the floor, on the floor in my direction! I throw everything I'm holding on my desk and push myself in my rolly chair away from the desk going, AHHHH! It disappeared and later, after I made myself popcorn to soothe myself, Elder Tanawut said that he had "taken care of it." I didn't really believe him, then he added that spiders are why our upstairs is out of operation. Spiders everywhere, ones even bigger than the one I saw. If you want a description, search: "Australia: where spiders are so big, they have healthbars" into Google. It should be a picture of a spider next to some curtains with a red "health" bar above it. Like in video games. The next day, I decided that the last bag of popcorn needed to go. I had pulled it out of the box, when suddenly, Elder Tanawut appeared. "What's that?" He had asked that, silly. He took it and looked at the unpopped popcorn and just had a confused look on his face. I opened the microwave and he got more confused. He then WATCHED the popcorn pop in the microwave until I pulled it out. He was just like I don't get it and walked away.
On Saturday, we were coming back from a lesson when we noticed a parade was starting. It was then that I learned that Thai parades are way sketchy: full of trannies, drunk people and other indescribable things not for children. We were outta there fast. Later, we passed out some English Class handouts. I was passing them out with big smiles when these two weird teenage girls came and grabbed one. They made those weird "we-are-teenage-girls-trying-to-flirt" giggles, and walked away. I continued to pass out handouts and I was turning my body to help give one out when I saw two familiar faces. Those weird girls! They were chilling in the, ugh, panty-and-bra shop watching me while looking at bras and panties. Dumb. Also two other girls passed by me like three times in twenty minutes. Stupid. Yesterday, after church, we were gonna watch the Restoration DVD with an investigator. In there was a blind member that was gonna help, and he wasnt' really facing the TV set, not that he could see it or anything. It moved him to a different spot in the room, next to me, so he wouldn't be off by himself. After I had moved him, he looks in my direction and says, "Do you have charity?" The world kinda stopped, I hadn't even thought of that. I was just helping him move to another location, I thought. Hmm, charity. The last thing we did before going home, was have dinner. We had it at a member's house. She is from Clearfield, and she loves making missionaries dinner on Fast Sunday. She made us hamburgers! Wow, they were good. She also had barbeque chicken legs, potato chips, ice cream, Sprite, it just kept coming. All in all, it was so good to have a delicious burger.
Elder Anthony Susi
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