Rats!!!

June 23, 2013

Companion: Elder Flanary

Hello People of the World,

This week has felt different. I'll explain. President Senior last week asked us to change a few things in our work to make things better(?), so we did. It has gone smoother this week. We were asked, for one thing, to go and contact for 2 hours, if possible, every day. We went one day and had some successes. We decided that going to the bus stops would probably work. The first man that we talked to was very friendly and stopped to talk with us for a bit, we exchanged names and numbers and hopped on a bus. Side note: it was a free bus, no need to pay money. We went towards the grocery store, Big C and just tried talking to everyone, and it worked. We found a nice man named Egg, he wanted to know if Christianity really can cleanse us from our sins. I told him yes and we talked for a half hour about the Plan of Salvation and how Jesus is our Savior. 

A couple days later while inviting again, I tried to talk to these two ladies selling some food. They clearly weren't interested, as shown that they were making fun of my Thai and made fun of the fact that I was trying to talk about Christianity to them. In their eyes, they think it is useless, because they are Buddhist and need to be Buddhist to be Thai. Figure that out. Luckily a man and his wife called me over to talk about Jesus, because they were Christian. They wanted to know where a church was, so I told them ours, because ours is the one that will bring them salvation, and it is the true church. We talked forever, and I gave them a Book of Mormon. 

Sadly, later that same day and the next, I got discouraged and depressed. I didn't think that contacting every day for 2 hours was doing anything for us. I honestly, am not a big believer in contacting, I have never seen anything come from it. I talked to my companion about it, and we decided that we need to be diligent in our work, and to make sure and do more than just "talk" to people on the street, we needed to be messengers and representatives of Christ. 

We have a couple of investigators that are doing very well. Their names are: Guy and Bay, (remember, I have to think from Thai to English to write these names). Guy is an English student that was invited by a member to a baptismal service that ended up not happening, (she wasn't ready yet), but he came anyway. He is interested to learn more, and really likes our activities. Guy was also with us in the choir for Stake Conference, which if you saw my Facebook, there is a video of us singing. I don't remember where he stood. Another one is Bay, he was given a Book of Mormon by the same member that invited Guy. Bay is interested to learn more off of curiosity, he also likes our activities. Both were committed to be baptized and both said that they weren't ready/not interested in baptism. That is okay. 

We are going to start doing Less-Active member work this week. We have talked to a few older members that have been members for a while about a list that we have to help us find out more. They have been helpful, all we have to do is to take action, and to help these members "come again unto [Christ]" and return to Church. 

This week should be a good week, and I hope everyone has a good one.

Elder Anthony Susi

I forgot:

There is some other things that I forgot to talk about.

At Stake Conference yesterday, I got to see many members from the Bangnaa Ward that I served in. Many of them are doing well, and my recent converts from there are doing well. I, and Elder Simonsen, are apparently talked about a lot by them to the other Elders and Sisters there. It is nice to feel loved and remembered by them. There is a sister there that is getting ready to go on a mission! She leaves in August to the Temple Square Mission! Wow! I will have to go say hello.

We have pests in our house, mostly because it is messy. We found evidence of rats/mice in our house, so a trap was set up. This morning, we got up and I opened the door, and a rat was in the trap right outside my door! The other Elders put it there. Rascals. What do you do with a rat in a trap? You fill a bucket full of water and put the trap inside it and let the rat drown. Sad day. It needed to be taken care of though, it was making a mess. 

That is all.

Stake Conference Choir