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Well.. this week we had a sweet district meeting.. the focus? Families, families FAMILIES. We teach that this gospel will bless families.. "so why are there so many converts coming in by themselves?" Our leaders have told us that teaching families is the only way we will be doing this from now on.. of course there are circumstances that will be different, like if their family is in another part of the country, or dead.. or whatever else. For everyone else, its families. If we contacted a mother who has kids.. we WILL NOT teach her unless her family is there too. Contacted a kid? We WILL NOT teach him unless his family is present too. If we have to wait 10 minutes for someone to get him.. we will. If they wont be back tonight, we will come back tomorrow. This leads me to my scripture of the week: Ether 1: 41. Read it and tell me what you notice.

So this District Meeting was on Friday and that same day we had an appointment with "AU" and her family.. her son was playing Dota.. of course. And her daughter was kinda playing too. We didnt start. We just sat there waiting for her son and daughter.. they finally finished and we taught a pretty sweet lesson.. Bon is a nice kid but he needs to get his priorities straight... we hit him hard that night and you could tell.. it struck deep. Oh.. yeah, by the way dad.. SUCK ONE. All those times i played Dota? Yeah.. i incorporated that in the lesson. Told him that we wont teach unless its together as a family.. "Its like Dota.. your family is your team. What happens if 2, or even 1 person leaves the game?" Josh.. what happens? It was a no brainer and he really understood why families were so important. Just kidding about the suck one.. i love you :) hahaha. This family is way sweet.. i think if we exercise patience we can really get them off the bench.. how? Well it just so happens that their neighbor is Brother Bii who is getting BAPTIZED ON SUNDAY! Nice. He passed his interview this past saturday and is on schedule to be baptized this coming Sunday.. ho yeah! The interview may have taken almost 3 hours, but hey.. if thats what was necessary, its cool. So "AU" has been really curious as to what Church is like.. she has yet to be able to go, but last night she said like 5 times "i WANT to go to Church next week.. i speak truthfully.. i really want to go." When this woman speaks.. its truth.. she doesnt beat around the bush. So.. Church is an amazing experience for anyone who goes.. but, right after Church will be Bii's baptism.. if we can get her and her family to Church and SEE her neighbor make this commitment with Heavenly Father, we will for sure have them with a date this coming sunday. I am sure of this.. So... If we get AU, we will get Bon and his Sister.. if we get Bon and his Sister, Bon's friend Nat, will follow as well. Nat has kinda fallen off this past week.. never met with him once. He is addicted to friends and everytime we ask him to go to a church thing he asks, "is bon going?" You can hear it in his voice.. he wants to go, but not without Bon. If Bon goes, Nat goes.. if Bon has a baptismal date, Nat will too. Im really excited for this week. Don Muang is really excited too.. their first baptism in over a year and a half. We have a solid baptismal date for Fluk.. although it will have to be moved.. his date is stake conference.. plus i wanted to move it anyway.. further. Not that he isnt in to it, but now that we are enacting Operation Families Only, we gotta get his Mom and little brother too. Luckily, this is proving to be too hard. Yesterday, Fluk opened his heart a ton in Church.. Komgrid and i split for priesthood and komgrid went with him, and i stayed in Elders.. Komgrid said he opened it a ton about things he wishes that he never did with his mom.. things that made her feel bad. Later that day we went over to watch Finding Faith in Christ and Fluk was like, "hey.. i want you to teach me little brother and mother too." HAH! Hes totally Lehi-ing it! "Hey.. give this fruit to my family too!" Awesome. Its not working out too well however hahah. His Brother's got serious A.D.D....D.D.D.D.D.D, and his Mom is one of those where she understands it but doesnt think its important or applicable to her. But Fluk.. man.. hes getting it. When we went into his house he didnt even realize we were waiting for his Mom to finish going to bathroom.. he took the remote from me and pushed play.. i was like "wait a second! We want your family too." "no its okay they're coming! I want to watch this." Maybe im getting too excited about it, but it was sweet to see him practically begging me to start the lesson. The ONLY little problem is his stupid girlfriend.. holy crap! She calls every 2 minutes.. drop her man! What was that thing that Elder Holland said in the April conference? IF a relationship is getting too serious at a young age SEVER IT. Yeah.. something like that. He needs to. Or get her involved. Hey! All you little nuggets from ENC ward with girlfriends.. LISTEN UP. This next part is for you. seriously, if yo girl is going to get in the way of anything that is more important (like a mission.. or your family!) drop her. Sur'sly. Heres my phrase of the week.. my own personal one that i didnt even plan on using today, or in this way: "Drop em before you care too much." As missionaries you will have to prioritize who is progressing and who isnt, and "drop" those that arent. And if you wait too long, you will care too much and you will only get angry when THEY drop you.. like my investigator 2 weeks ago. It applies here too.. if you are starting to get serious with someone, you gotta stop. Lets be frank.. you cant do anything more than be "girlfriend and boyfriend" and you cant get married cause you HAVE to go on a mission.. so yeah.. date her and have some "fun" and then seriously.. GET RID OF HER. It sounds awful and i probably sound like a degenerate.. i dont mean to be.. but its the easiest way to say it. Be gentlemen of course, but have your priorities SET. What are those priorities? Exactly what i told Bon on saturday night: Family. I was actually about to say more than just 1 word, but if you analyze it.. your families are centered in the gospel.. your parents are more wise than you and they wont lead you astray.. what do they tell you to do? Get an education and get on a mission. So.. by simply saying family, it sums it up. I say this from experience because too often family was not my priority.. and now that im out here teaching about families i regret the fact that i didnt make them more important. Good to hear Whitehead sharin an experience about school and drugs. To you my young friend.. KEEP IT UP. To everyone else who hasnt had that experience yet.. be ready for it. Be ready to laugh at the cigerette or bottle of bear shoved in front of your face and say NO. Hold to the rod that Lehi described and dont be ashamed when they start laughing at you because you are different.. laugh at them because they are ______ stupid. Ok sorry that was quite the tangent.. felt like i should say it though. ANYWAY. Fluk.. hes an awesome kid. Nuff said.

Okay so thats it for our investigators.. our pool of potentials is pretty small.. we didnt get much inviting time this week because we had to go down to Komgrids university to make sure he doesnt get enlisted in the army.. such a stupid rule.. every kid at the age of 19 has the possibility of being a soldier.. you know like those big bingo games where there is a cage of balls and some guy spins it around and around and then ball that pops out is the next number? That is LITERALLY how it works for this draft.. everyone has their name on a ball and if your ball comes up.. you have to be a soldier.. no questions, no time to say goodbye.. you pack and leave. So dumb. Luckily, there is some kind of testing thing where if you do well enough you can get your name out of the cage for a while. And he passed his tests. So we have to wait only 6 weeks before he has to go again. Oh and we had to move houses.. so that took a while and we had no time for inviting. This week is gonna be a complete turn around.. gonna invite a ton and get some serious commitments out there. This was our slowest week across the board but we will turn it around this week for sure. Well.. we will see.. we are doing exchanges on tuesday and wednesday.. hahaha Elder Olive and I will be together in Rangsit and Elder Komgrid and Elder Cline in Don Muang.. Elder Olive is my Nong! Hahahaha hes been here for 3 weeks. We gonna get stomped.. just kidding.. gonna be so fun to experience what the missionaires 50 years must have experienced. OH! Almost forgot.. the new translation of the Book of Mormon.. heck, the whole 9 yards... came out! Its amazing... they finally have triple combinations and a font that everyone can read... new pamphlets are out.. new pass along cards.. new everything! They wont be sent out for another 2 weeks, but we had interviews with the president and i got to hold them.. ooooooo so nice! K well i just ripped a huge fart in this internet cafe so i should probably go now hahahah.. everyone looks really confused and im trying not to laugh and look confused as well.. And this is all i got this week.. love ya all! Even though we are both sick (again!) i feel strengthened! Im sending home my ipod today with all my song choices.. plus whatever else you want to give me... Not sending home the Christmas stuff yet cause i aint done. Love you all! Church is true yadayadayada! K talk to you all next week! Peace ENC

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