August 26, 2012
Companion: Elder Thacker
So, how are we?
It sounds like everyone has had an eventful week, and school starts up again soon. Great. Not too much excitement over there, and honestly, not too much over here either.
Tuesday: We had District Meeting with the Zone Leaders, and it turned out that was the same one that I had like three weeks ago. Good to review. Had my first meeting as an English Leader, and I guess it went well. Nobody complained afterwards.
Thursday: Somebody (Elder Thacker) was having a very gassy day, he wasn't feeling very good. So he decided to take this thing called "Beauty Drink" that is supposed to help.
Saturday: This is our most exciting day. We went looking for Less Active Members, and it was hot and stuffy and we got chased by dogs. What?! First time ever that I've had dogs REALLY chase me. It was kinda scary. They got close enough that I had to kick at one. I planted a shoe on his head and he veered off and the dogs stopped chasing me. Apparently, it was a good kick. Continue.
The Sisters in the area had a baptism. Score for the Sisters. Finally, we end our day at home. Trying to now relax at home and enjoy our personal time when we get a phone call. "Hello, I have your food." Weird, we didn't order anything. "I'm from McDonalds, I have the food that you ordered." Still weird. Hang up. Twenty minutes later, we get a knock on our day. McDonalds guy is standing there. "Here is your food." Let us see the receipt. The name is correct, the address is correct, but the phone number is wrong. Who is it? Call it, and the Elders in Samut Prakan answer. They ordered food from McDonalds and he took it to the wrong place. Wow.
Well, that's it. Like I said, not too much. I'll see you around and talk to y'all soon,
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Bangkok!!!
August 19, 2012
Companion: Elder Thacker
Big news everyone,
I am in Bangkok! Crap. I'm already scared of everything here. Traffic is a mess, I don't really use my bike much. Things are expensive. The list goes on and on. Bangkok is actually the name of the province, and I am in the city, Bangna. It's ok I guess. Anyway, here is my week:
Monday: After I emailed last week, Elder Slaughter, Buss, Staten and I went to this one place where we could climb these dinosaurs. Elder Tzanis and Mondragon went off to visit a member, seeing it would be the last time Elder Mondragon would be in Galasin for a while. The dinosaurs were cool, the whole province is way into dinosaurs! I couldn't get very high, because I can't climb. Bummer.
Tuesday/Wednesday: I packed and got ready to move.
Thursday: We had to take this bus from Khon Kaen to Bangkok because so many people were moving. It didn't get there until 1:00 am. Made it to Bangkok, and had our Moves Meeting. I found out that I am with Elder Thacker! He is from Melbourne, Australia.
Sunday: Had my first church meeting here. It was interesting. I got a new nickname, Sister Susi. Why?! I went from Elder Sushi in Chiangrai to deg noy in Mahasarakham, to here. Wow, I just can't get a break, can I?
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Thacker
Big news everyone,
I am in Bangkok! Crap. I'm already scared of everything here. Traffic is a mess, I don't really use my bike much. Things are expensive. The list goes on and on. Bangkok is actually the name of the province, and I am in the city, Bangna. It's ok I guess. Anyway, here is my week:
Monday: After I emailed last week, Elder Slaughter, Buss, Staten and I went to this one place where we could climb these dinosaurs. Elder Tzanis and Mondragon went off to visit a member, seeing it would be the last time Elder Mondragon would be in Galasin for a while. The dinosaurs were cool, the whole province is way into dinosaurs! I couldn't get very high, because I can't climb. Bummer.
Tuesday/Wednesday: I packed and got ready to move.
Thursday: We had to take this bus from Khon Kaen to Bangkok because so many people were moving. It didn't get there until 1:00 am. Made it to Bangkok, and had our Moves Meeting. I found out that I am with Elder Thacker! He is from Melbourne, Australia.
Sunday: Had my first church meeting here. It was interesting. I got a new nickname, Sister Susi. Why?! I went from Elder Sushi in Chiangrai to deg noy in Mahasarakham, to here. Wow, I just can't get a break, can I?
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, August 13, 2012
Mahasarakham
Aug 12, 2012
Companion: Elder Buss
Hello everybody,
This week has been a long one. Not too much is happening, but a lot is. Make sense?
Monday: We went and bought a bookcase for our study room and so that Elder Buss could get all his stuff off the floor. I also found a My Little Pony shirt, but not an older generation. It is awesome, and kind of a new nerd thing.
Wednesday: We had switch-offs, I was with Elder Slaughter again in Roi-Et. We had rain all day, and didn't really teach anybody. The switch-off was cut short when we got word that one of the Sisters was going home. I was back home that night.
Thursday: I worked on my satchel some more. Still a work in progress. Elder Buss said I was in some crazy moods.
Saturday: One of our daters had her interview for baptism. We had a Mother's Day celebration at the church, and it was interesting to see. They celebrate Mother's Day by the queen's birthday, which was yesterday, the 12th. It was funny, we had testimonies, music numbers and dance numbers.
Sunday: Found some Jehovah's Witnesses out inviting, and we had to talk to them, but we couldn't find them later after our studies. We did find their church though for future reference.
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Buss
Hello everybody,
This week has been a long one. Not too much is happening, but a lot is. Make sense?
Monday: We went and bought a bookcase for our study room and so that Elder Buss could get all his stuff off the floor. I also found a My Little Pony shirt, but not an older generation. It is awesome, and kind of a new nerd thing.
Wednesday: We had switch-offs, I was with Elder Slaughter again in Roi-Et. We had rain all day, and didn't really teach anybody. The switch-off was cut short when we got word that one of the Sisters was going home. I was back home that night.
Thursday: I worked on my satchel some more. Still a work in progress. Elder Buss said I was in some crazy moods.
Saturday: One of our daters had her interview for baptism. We had a Mother's Day celebration at the church, and it was interesting to see. They celebrate Mother's Day by the queen's birthday, which was yesterday, the 12th. It was funny, we had testimonies, music numbers and dance numbers.
Sunday: Found some Jehovah's Witnesses out inviting, and we had to talk to them, but we couldn't find them later after our studies. We did find their church though for future reference.
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, August 6, 2012
Mahasarakham
August 5, 2012
Companion: Elder Buss
Wow, exciting! What is this Kingdom Hearts that I am hearing about? If it the one that I've been waiting for for years, I'll be way sad. It's good that everyone has some good news. Good news is good. This week has actually been kinda boring.
Tuesday: It was Elder Buss's birthday. He is 20. We went to go teach a new investigator, and it turns out that he lives 10km away! I was sooo tired! We did that same ride later in the week. By the way, both times were on a bike. My butt hurt.
Wednesday: Our district meeting was dead. One of the Sisters is going home, and the senior couple also wasn't there, they usually put in a lot of input, but now they are 1st counselor to the Mission President.
That's basically all that happened this week. We just had a really long week, barely any investigators, no lessons, long days at the house.
See ya later,
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Buss
Wow, exciting! What is this Kingdom Hearts that I am hearing about? If it the one that I've been waiting for for years, I'll be way sad. It's good that everyone has some good news. Good news is good. This week has actually been kinda boring.
Tuesday: It was Elder Buss's birthday. He is 20. We went to go teach a new investigator, and it turns out that he lives 10km away! I was sooo tired! We did that same ride later in the week. By the way, both times were on a bike. My butt hurt.
Wednesday: Our district meeting was dead. One of the Sisters is going home, and the senior couple also wasn't there, they usually put in a lot of input, but now they are 1st counselor to the Mission President.
That's basically all that happened this week. We just had a really long week, barely any investigators, no lessons, long days at the house.
See ya later,
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, July 30, 2012
Mahasarakham
July 29, 2012
Companion: Elder Buss
Why is it, when we take everyone for a fun family outing, that someone cries, doesn't get there way, or winds up half dead on a golf course? What's up with that? I'm glad to see that you're trying. I was freaking out all the way over here! I had to read it twice, because I thought it had something to do with Laura getting hit by a ball, but that's even worse. I probably would've been with Matthew, crying. That's scary stuff, and I'm glad to see that Dad has minor injuries. Sounds like y'all need a vacation away from the kids. We were told two transfer meetings ago, that we only receive packages at transfers. I think that is what you meant in your email, but it sounded otherwise. We do see some missionaries here start having terrible English, and just speak English can't. Not as bad as forgetting English. Sorry, no cold showers yet.
Yeah, that picture, the teenagers just wanted me to keep playing songs, that's not even in my area, by the way. I was on switch-offs in Roi Et. They do watch the Olympics, and did catch a news feed on the opening ceremonies. Mr. Bean was in them! I am so upset. It looked funny. President Senior is making a playlist of songs, and music that we will be allowed to listen to. Currently, only Mormon Tabernacle Choir and General Conference is allowed, so hold off on the iPod until further notice.
Monday: I decided to make myself a satchel. I'm getting tired of a backpack, so I making a satchel. Done and done.
Tuesday: I was having a terrible time at English, not knowing what to do. So, I came up with a brilliant game, and saved the day.
Wednesday: The best day ever. We taught a wonderful lesson about the Word of Wisdom to one of our daters. She works at a coffee shop, so we meet her there. After, the lesson, she asked if it was okay to SELL coffee. This was something that we had talked about the night before, so it really excited us. We said that the law states that we don't DRINK coffee. She got a big smile on her face. We went to the Rajchaphat (university apartment central thingy) to put up fliers for our English. We finally found a place to ask about it, and a guy that I might have given a hand-out to opened the door. He was super excited and wanted to interview us about what we were doing. We did it. Afterwards, he told us how to bring our family name honor. We have to write a big book with our knowledge and put our name on it. That's it.
As we were leaving, Elder Buss was like, "You know what freaks me out? When girls don't look at me." Girls here check us out all the time, probably because they are teenagers/college girls and we are two foreigners. Funny. To end the day, we went inviting.
Thursday: We had an amazing Zone Conference. You should be around when President Senior is around, he does great. So many funny things came out of his mouth.
Friday: Exchanges with Elder Mondragon again.
Saturday: We did planning and decided that we need to teach and think like children, teach like a greenie teaches (simple and clear), and do more role plays.
That's my week. Hope you enjoyed it. See you soon.
Companion: Elder Buss
Why is it, when we take everyone for a fun family outing, that someone cries, doesn't get there way, or winds up half dead on a golf course? What's up with that? I'm glad to see that you're trying. I was freaking out all the way over here! I had to read it twice, because I thought it had something to do with Laura getting hit by a ball, but that's even worse. I probably would've been with Matthew, crying. That's scary stuff, and I'm glad to see that Dad has minor injuries. Sounds like y'all need a vacation away from the kids. We were told two transfer meetings ago, that we only receive packages at transfers. I think that is what you meant in your email, but it sounded otherwise. We do see some missionaries here start having terrible English, and just speak English can't. Not as bad as forgetting English. Sorry, no cold showers yet.
Yeah, that picture, the teenagers just wanted me to keep playing songs, that's not even in my area, by the way. I was on switch-offs in Roi Et. They do watch the Olympics, and did catch a news feed on the opening ceremonies. Mr. Bean was in them! I am so upset. It looked funny. President Senior is making a playlist of songs, and music that we will be allowed to listen to. Currently, only Mormon Tabernacle Choir and General Conference is allowed, so hold off on the iPod until further notice.
Monday: I decided to make myself a satchel. I'm getting tired of a backpack, so I making a satchel. Done and done.
Tuesday: I was having a terrible time at English, not knowing what to do. So, I came up with a brilliant game, and saved the day.
Wednesday: The best day ever. We taught a wonderful lesson about the Word of Wisdom to one of our daters. She works at a coffee shop, so we meet her there. After, the lesson, she asked if it was okay to SELL coffee. This was something that we had talked about the night before, so it really excited us. We said that the law states that we don't DRINK coffee. She got a big smile on her face. We went to the Rajchaphat (university apartment central thingy) to put up fliers for our English. We finally found a place to ask about it, and a guy that I might have given a hand-out to opened the door. He was super excited and wanted to interview us about what we were doing. We did it. Afterwards, he told us how to bring our family name honor. We have to write a big book with our knowledge and put our name on it. That's it.
As we were leaving, Elder Buss was like, "You know what freaks me out? When girls don't look at me." Girls here check us out all the time, probably because they are teenagers/college girls and we are two foreigners. Funny. To end the day, we went inviting.
Thursday: We had an amazing Zone Conference. You should be around when President Senior is around, he does great. So many funny things came out of his mouth.
Friday: Exchanges with Elder Mondragon again.
Saturday: We did planning and decided that we need to teach and think like children, teach like a greenie teaches (simple and clear), and do more role plays.
That's my week. Hope you enjoyed it. See you soon.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Mahasarakham
July 22, 2012
Companion Elder Buss
Hello Everybody!
We are sitting here complaining about our keyboards and computers at this crappy internet store. FAIL. Some keys don't even work! sad day. It sounds like a trip to South Carolina is just what the Underwood family needed, but it also sounds like they shouldn't have come back. lol. That sucks that the flight was cancelled and then that the rooms were terrible. We should just be thankful for nice restaurant employees, cheap hotels, and our own homes. ahhh. So nice. I hope that everyone actually enjoyed their trip though.
Here is MY week:
Monday: nothing, we sat at the house while I organized more binders and other stuff. We do that a lot.
Tuesday: Our English Class program is getting better. We were able to try out our new idea. It worked, and we are gonna do it again tomorrow.
Wednesday: I was "bit" by a dog. Let me explain a bit, because people freak out about that here. Mostly because of rabies. There is a restaurant that we seem to go to everday, inside there is a small puppy. I love to play with this puppy, til a certain point. Biting. This restaurant has a linoleum floor. Understand yet? I was playing with this puppy, and it ran off to get some food. I wasn't paying attention and I let my hand hang to the side. The puppy ran back to play, and it being a happy puppy, ran into my hand with its mouth open. I received two little punctures. We asked the owners about it, and they said that he had his shots already, and on time. I am safe, no need to get shots. Funny thing was: Elder Buss and I were talking about it, and the discussion changed direction. I wasn't paying attention, and he said, "We have until Friday." I was worried now, he just gave me a death date. lol
Thursday: Elder Buss tattooed himself. Not really, but he cut his finger with his ruler while he was trying to wipe off a marker streak. It's gone now. Later, we terrorized a teenager. We locked in a room, (held the doors shut), and at one point, we got ahold of her phone. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! She was freaking out, and while she wasn't looking, we hid it in this cubby and let her out. She thought that we still had the phone, so she started chasing us. She had been waiting for seminary, but was on her phone/sleeping. Her seminary teacher showed up and the teenager was like, "She'll make you give it back." We sat in the seminary room, and talked about it. The teacher agreed, of course, that it was good that we took the phone and had hidden it. We committed her to not have it for 45 minutes. Priceless.
Friday: I needed to wash my ties, so I put them in the washer. When I pulled them out, I realized that I had done a wrong. End product: clean ties, but two were destroyed and the rest had seams undone that I now need to fix. Dumb. I'll never do that one again (Bill Engvall voice).
Saturday and Sunday: We were at the house all day not knowing what to do, so we started looking up Former Investigators and started trying to contact them. Sunday, we decided to suck it up and invite those one-room apartments. We taught 3 lessons in 1 1/2 hours. Score!
That's my week. I don't have any pictures to send this week, so I'll try to have some next week.
See you soon,
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion Elder Buss
Hello Everybody!
We are sitting here complaining about our keyboards and computers at this crappy internet store. FAIL. Some keys don't even work! sad day. It sounds like a trip to South Carolina is just what the Underwood family needed, but it also sounds like they shouldn't have come back. lol. That sucks that the flight was cancelled and then that the rooms were terrible. We should just be thankful for nice restaurant employees, cheap hotels, and our own homes. ahhh. So nice. I hope that everyone actually enjoyed their trip though.
Here is MY week:
Monday: nothing, we sat at the house while I organized more binders and other stuff. We do that a lot.
Tuesday: Our English Class program is getting better. We were able to try out our new idea. It worked, and we are gonna do it again tomorrow.
Wednesday: I was "bit" by a dog. Let me explain a bit, because people freak out about that here. Mostly because of rabies. There is a restaurant that we seem to go to everday, inside there is a small puppy. I love to play with this puppy, til a certain point. Biting. This restaurant has a linoleum floor. Understand yet? I was playing with this puppy, and it ran off to get some food. I wasn't paying attention and I let my hand hang to the side. The puppy ran back to play, and it being a happy puppy, ran into my hand with its mouth open. I received two little punctures. We asked the owners about it, and they said that he had his shots already, and on time. I am safe, no need to get shots. Funny thing was: Elder Buss and I were talking about it, and the discussion changed direction. I wasn't paying attention, and he said, "We have until Friday." I was worried now, he just gave me a death date. lol
Thursday: Elder Buss tattooed himself. Not really, but he cut his finger with his ruler while he was trying to wipe off a marker streak. It's gone now. Later, we terrorized a teenager. We locked in a room, (held the doors shut), and at one point, we got ahold of her phone. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! She was freaking out, and while she wasn't looking, we hid it in this cubby and let her out. She thought that we still had the phone, so she started chasing us. She had been waiting for seminary, but was on her phone/sleeping. Her seminary teacher showed up and the teenager was like, "She'll make you give it back." We sat in the seminary room, and talked about it. The teacher agreed, of course, that it was good that we took the phone and had hidden it. We committed her to not have it for 45 minutes. Priceless.
Friday: I needed to wash my ties, so I put them in the washer. When I pulled them out, I realized that I had done a wrong. End product: clean ties, but two were destroyed and the rest had seams undone that I now need to fix. Dumb. I'll never do that one again (Bill Engvall voice).
Saturday and Sunday: We were at the house all day not knowing what to do, so we started looking up Former Investigators and started trying to contact them. Sunday, we decided to suck it up and invite those one-room apartments. We taught 3 lessons in 1 1/2 hours. Score!
That's my week. I don't have any pictures to send this week, so I'll try to have some next week.
See you soon,
Elder Anthony Susi
Monday, July 16, 2012
Mahasarakham
July 16, 2012
Companion: Elder Buss/Elder Slaughter
Hello, everyone,
It sounds like going to the temple was good for the kids. I'm sad that I
missed a history museum, and a beach. But, can't do anything about that now can I? It's okay though, because I didn't need a beach to see lots of water, just needed lots of rain.
So, last Monday while teaching a lesson, it started raining way good.
There was lots of thunder and lightning, one was way close! Less than a mile! Streets started flooding and the street that we normally use was way flooded, took some pictures, waded in it.It was great.
Tuesday: We tried to go see an investigator. He lives kinda far, so we
have to take a sontaew thingy there. It turned out, he wasn't there, he had
completely forgotten that we were coming. So, we decided to see where our color would go. There are different colored sontaews that take different
routes. We have two that go to the university, which is where ours' went.
It was neat to see a university. Especially in Thailand. Not any different than in America. We also decided that our English program here sucks. So, we made some ideas, and have most everything ready. We hope it will be awesome.
Wednesday: Went to District Meeting in Roi Et, and came back with a
different companion, Elder Slaughter!! I was on exchanges with him. It was
great, I got to do lots of things with him that he hadn't done yet.
Granted, it had been a week since he got here, but I took had the
opportunity to take him inviting for his first time! Wow, Roi Et is doing
really good. They apparently have 10 people getting baptized in the next
month. That is outstanding. By the way. I took Elder Slaughter to a
less-active family. Had a awesome lesson, saw a less-active member that
I've only read about. She is awesome, and they all 3 people came to church
just long enough to get the sacrament and leave. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! It was
apparently an election day, so we'll have to see what people's excuses are
next week. Attendance was low again.
Thursday: Still with Elder Slaughter, lots of inviting done. Helping him
with his Thai.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Not much happened. Elder Buss and I were trying to figure out what to do with our hour before going home. We are having trouble with the 8pm hour, it's hard to invite and find anything to do. We did go visit this one vegetarian restaurant. Elder Buss is vegetarian,
loved the place. The people there are part of this religion where they take
a little of EVERYTHING and mash it into one, they believe in Christ,
they believe that Buddhism is closer to the true church.
Well, that's my week. I hope that you have a good week this week.
ok, bye,
Elder Anthony Susi
Companion: Elder Buss/Elder Slaughter
Hello, everyone,
It sounds like going to the temple was good for the kids. I'm sad that I
missed a history museum, and a beach. But, can't do anything about that now can I? It's okay though, because I didn't need a beach to see lots of water, just needed lots of rain.
So, last Monday while teaching a lesson, it started raining way good.
There was lots of thunder and lightning, one was way close! Less than a mile! Streets started flooding and the street that we normally use was way flooded, took some pictures, waded in it.It was great.
Tuesday: We tried to go see an investigator. He lives kinda far, so we
have to take a sontaew thingy there. It turned out, he wasn't there, he had
completely forgotten that we were coming. So, we decided to see where our color would go. There are different colored sontaews that take different
routes. We have two that go to the university, which is where ours' went.
It was neat to see a university. Especially in Thailand. Not any different than in America. We also decided that our English program here sucks. So, we made some ideas, and have most everything ready. We hope it will be awesome.
Wednesday: Went to District Meeting in Roi Et, and came back with a
different companion, Elder Slaughter!! I was on exchanges with him. It was
great, I got to do lots of things with him that he hadn't done yet.
Granted, it had been a week since he got here, but I took had the
opportunity to take him inviting for his first time! Wow, Roi Et is doing
really good. They apparently have 10 people getting baptized in the next
month. That is outstanding. By the way. I took Elder Slaughter to a
less-active family. Had a awesome lesson, saw a less-active member that
I've only read about. She is awesome, and they all 3 people came to church
just long enough to get the sacrament and leave. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! It was
apparently an election day, so we'll have to see what people's excuses are
next week. Attendance was low again.
Thursday: Still with Elder Slaughter, lots of inviting done. Helping him
with his Thai.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Not much happened. Elder Buss and I were trying to figure out what to do with our hour before going home. We are having trouble with the 8pm hour, it's hard to invite and find anything to do. We did go visit this one vegetarian restaurant. Elder Buss is vegetarian,
loved the place. The people there are part of this religion where they take
a little of EVERYTHING and mash it into one, they believe in Christ,
they believe that Buddhism is closer to the true church.
Well, that's my week. I hope that you have a good week this week.
ok, bye,
Elder Anthony Susi
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