[oops, i got behind posting. sorry!]
...How narcissistic... Awesome
So how is everyone doing today? Stellar? Saweet.
Here in Buriram all is well.. kind of. But really, we are doing great. We had a pretty stellar week and great opportunities to see people exercise.. what is that called again? Oh right! FAITH. Yeah. Its good.
Got is doing great. He of course has insomnia, which made it so he couldnt get up to get to Church haha.. but hes pretty much learned everything and comitted to everything. He had a lot of questions about Chastity and the Word of Wisdom, but we used a little technique from my good friend Stewie Griffin: "Well, I shall answer your questions with another question".... iis for fun! Seriously i cant even explain this kids faith.. i dont really understand how its so strong! But in the end, it goes back to the "diligently reading your scriptures" and giving yourself to pray and fasting.. which hes doing. Even better we also met his broseph! He told us that he would try and introduce him to us, but he wasnt sure if he would buy it. We talked to him for ten minutes yesterday and hes a way chill dude. I gave him a little advice on being brothers.. sup Josh.. werd. So yeah.. hes preparing himself nicely for his baptism and for being a missionary in the future. He actually REALLY wants to be one so thats way chill. Hopefully his brother will stick and get batpized with him (or by him ก็ได้).. would be a great support for him. His parents are separated and neither are ever at home.. he said he sees him mom maybe once a month.. thanks for being around mommy :)
After Got we have the mother of a member.. i dont think ive mentioned her lately have I? Sister Anne is a member and her mom is named "Ampon" (kind of like blessing but more high so). We taught Ampon WWWAAAAYY back in the first week that i got into Buriram. Sister Anne referred her to us on the very first sunday i got her and weve been slowly teaching her ever since. Shes one of the special cases where patience is a virtue.. not that patience is never a virture, but you know what i mean. Its almost been 3 months now since we taught her, and that includes like, nothing besides prayer and sacrifice and church, and reading (maybe a lot). She knows all about our purpose just hasnt accepted a date yet.. until SATURDAY! She had told Anne that she wanted to set a goal for baptism as a motivational thingy... and so she took it! We set a date for the 3rd of September and she agreed to prepare for that date. She will have to really exercise her faith especially when it comes to the Sabbath day, but i know she can do it. Thats the coolest thing about promising blessings is that they WILL happen! Shes way sweet and is really seeking truth.
The other eternal investigator has yet to accept a date because she wants to feel more sure first (which means a miracle). Weve told her it doesnt work like that before.... okay so the power just went out haha... some kid playing dota just yells "VERY GOOD". Hilarity insued. Anyway, we told Ann (not anne) that it wouldnt necessarily work like that because miracles work by our faith.. and miracles do not create faith; faith creates miracles (usually resulting in YOU being the miracle). We told her that if she wanted anything to feel more sure that she would need to give herself to serious fasting, praying and reading of the scriptures.. only in that way will she gain a true testimony.
So as far as other investigators, we dont have many.. we have this one super old guy that is just hilarious... he loves speaking English too. His name is Wit, and he came to Church! He enjoyed it but didnt really understand much haha. It was pretty interesting to see how powerful having members in lessons is, because before saturday we had yet to have anyone in a lesson with us. We brought the former branch President in Buriram to teach with us (fairly old too) and Wit just immediately started talking to him about EVERYTHING. It was a slap to my face to make sure that members are there more often.
The last 2 for today are both referrals (cause referrals are legit). One is from the Philipino in our branch (who is also a philipino) who has tremendous faith in Christ and really wants to know the truth, and the second is Golfs mom; Golf is a recent convert who is very quiet.. have i told you about him? Hes way sweet but very quiet. When i was in the lesson yesterday (yeah we finally got him mom to sit down with us for 10 minutes) i had MASSIVE deja vu.. like, the craziest ive ever had before in my life. Besides deja vu because of the general situation, i also felt it because of Fluke, First and Apple back in Don Muang.. its the same kind of sitch where the oldest son learned first, followed by the Mom and then the younger brother; the husband is gone as well. Golfs mom is SO cool. I would be so crazy happy if she got baptized.. wait, not IF, but WHEN she gets baptized. So then theres the philipino, from our member friend Rose... her name is Monaca. Shes a Baptist and has a lot of faith in Christ. Yesterday was the first time she had ever touched a Book of mormon and had a lot of questions. She was very open to the message of the Restoration and to reading the Book of Mormon to receive an answer about what we teach. Sister Rose has a VERY powerful testimony and she will totally be the means of baptizing this woman. What was weird? The lesson was in English. After we prayed and were about to say goodbye, Rose, Manoca and my companion all said that my English is very poor! I was very surprised, honestly, but they insisted that my grammar is pretty bad... Wow. Thats prety sad. Now that someone has said something i notice it! We actually had a pretty funny mess up when we invited a foreigner last tuesday.. before we left i asked, "is there anything we can serve you with..." hahah.. my comp and i looked at each other like, "wait what?". Lulz. Anyway, Manoca accepted the soft comittment and agreed to meet again.
So other that this, not much else happend.. we did have a nice training meeting that was SEVEN HOURS AWAY on thursday... my kid and 2 other kids up north worked one area by themselves haha! My kid led of course :) The meeting was very uplifting and gave us some really good revelation about going to Church. Stuff that will really help members and ivestigators get more out of Church.
Okay im bored of talking to you hahah.. lulz. This next week will be pretty quick.. im exchaging with Surin again and then we have a whole day spent up in Ubon for special training.. yes, back to Ubon. The interview in Surin didnt happen, but theres another one scheduled this saturday.. sweet! Im excited (again). Hope you are all swell and just glimmering with happiness (dont ask where that sentence came from). Say sup to ur'one and that i miss them.... i dont really miss you though :)
Love Elder Gudmundsen
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