Companion: Elder Sae-Dan
Hello People of the World,
I don't even know what happened this week. lol OK, just kidding, I do, it just went by so fast. I feels like nothing happened.
Thinking. . . Ok, so our Monday and Tuesday was pretty slow/filled with meetings. Monday is our P-Day, and Tuesday is when we have a meeting with the Bishop, District Meeting, and prepare for our English class which gives us 2 hours to work, which we filled with lessons.
Wednesday, we had a surprise visit from the APs, (Assistants to the President), they wanted to come switch off with us. Ok, it wasn't that much of a surprise, we knew the night before. I was with Elder Federico, and we just talked about the future of the mission and my future. He asked me, "if you were to choose somewhere to finish your mission, where would you want to go?" I told him Chiangrai, my first area. I would want to try it again because I can speak Thai now, or at least better than I did almost 2 years ago. He asked because, I don't know, maybe President Senior wants to know where "dying" missionaries want to "die." We also talked about contacting ideas and tactics and went out and did it. Not too many people were out, but we had a nice conversation.
Thursday was the day that a farang found us and started asking funny questions about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. I think, that sounds right. We had a lesson planned, and it got cancelled because the investigator was way tired from work, so we went to Fashion Island, a mall, and ran some errands. As we were going up an escalator, a white guy got on behind us and said "you boys must be Mormons." "yeah, we are," I said, "How did you know?" He said, " You look like it." "Where are you from," I asked. "Canada," he said, "What about you?" "Utah!" "Oh, from Provo, right?" That was weird, are a lot of Utahn missionaries from Provo? "No," I said, "from Farmington, further north." "Oh, ok. So tell me did Joseph Smith ever find those golden tablets?" Uh oh. "He did, actually" "Well, where are they?" "In heaven." "yeah yeah Ok." and with that he walked away. A few minutes later, we saw us again, and he walked right up to us and said, "no, really where are the golden tablets?" "They are in heaven" "How did they get there, inanimate objects don't just translate themselves." "Well yeah, an angel took them." "no, seriously" "really, an angel took them." " yeah ok." and we haven't seen him since.
Friday was a good day for feeling and using the Spirit. We had a few lessons, two of them very important, and we were able the seek out their needs and concerns in order to help one of them make a goal for baptism. We are still waiting for her answer to her prayer on what day. The other lessons were good lessons on teaching Christians. You don't have to explain so much to them when they already believe in God and Jesus. Saturday was ruined by the rain. Basically that is it.
Sunday was very slow. After church we came home and did some paper work stuff, preparing for this week. Soon we had to leave the house, I was going crazy. We went to this park far away and tried to talk to people, everyone was busy exercising and didn't want to talk to us. After being there 2 hours, we decided to go home and we proceeded to wait for a free bus. Meaning, we didn't have to pay money to ride it. We waited until 8:30 and then just jumped on a bus and paid the 13 baht fare. Easy.
That was my week. I hope to see you all soon.
Elder Anthony Susi
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