Quick Week

Such a fast week.. not gonna lie i have no idea where the time went for this week.

Way, super, hardcore effective week! Got is now a confirmed member of the Church with the Holy Ghost as his companion. He is studying the standard works LIKE MAD and totally going out with house to help like.. a ton. Its so cool. We are gonna have him interview with President Smith at Ubons next district conference in november.. get him out in the field!

Amphon is doing okay. She knows what she has to do but is not really doig them. Her faith is growing. We are still trying to get her to realize that if she just does it, nothing bad will happen. But she thinks that there just HAS to be exceptions to the commandments.. that there always has to be a possibility of SOMETHING coming up that makes it so she cant keep a commandment. FALSE. We simply explained to her that that statement is her making an excuse so that she wont feel so bad when something like that happens. I know because ive done it haha... but thats not the way covenants work.. sure, we probably will mess up here and there, but dont say it! Make the committment to NOT do it. Know that you can. No worries.. we will continue to build her faith and start using Christs atonement in her daily life.

The magic family: So prepared. My kid and i were talking about them and realized that we were totally led to them without knowing it, much like Nephi going to find Laban. The day we found them was the day we decided to play tennis in the evening, which made it so we had to work in the morning.. thats the first thing that was from God; they usually arent home in the mornings. After that.. well, when we planned the night before we had planned to go on the OTHER SIDE of the city. Like.. not even close to that neighborhood. As we were preparing for the day on monday morning, we felt that we should change our plans.. we had to send something through the post office anyway, so we decided to do it right before we went over to that neighborhood. As we biked over there, nothing special happened. But the Spirit guided us, and the FIRST house we stopped at was him, outside, about to smoke. He wasnt going to let us in; he knew who we were. We figured that it would be nice to slow down and just talk to him and be friends.. so we asked to see magic tricks. He showed a couple.. after about 5 minutes, he completely changed and just said, "okay, come on in.". Since then, him and his wife and his family, in the space of 2 weeks have changed so much. They are committed to church and they both started repenting already.. they love Church and like.. ah man i cant even describe it. We havent set their date yet because their repentance process will take a little longer for past transgressions. But they are committed and on board. They love us too.

After them we have 3 more people that were seriously prepared for us.. 2 of them are referrals. We taught them yesterday AFTER they went to church (of which they asked us if they were allowed to go.. yeah, we didnt even get to the invitation). They would have a date, but they are both minors and we havent met the parents yet cause they live in different provinces throughout thailand. We want to give the family a chance to see what their kids are doing and make sure they are completely okay with the change. They are named Ome and Mai. Mai is a 17 year old girl and Ome is 15 year old dude. Mai made my day when she called friday night (mind you, this is before we actually got to teach them with prayrer and committments) saying: "Hello Elder this is Sister Mai" (yeah she called herself sister) "i want to pray tonight.. how do i do it?". I was exceedingly astonished, lemme tell you.

After these 2, there is a guy name Sag. Hes a way nice dude who lost his arm sometime ago. He lives with his brother on a couple days here in buriram and just is kind of lonely. My kid and one of the Surin elders found him while i was on exchanges in Surin. THey set an appointment for saturday, but my kid thought it was sunday... we tried calling but it wouldnt connect, and so we just went to his house yesterday on the time we THOUGH was appointted.. when we got there he was chillin and cleaning a little bit around the house and he looked really surprised when we came up to the house. When we actually got down teaching, he was like.. "man, yesterday i was so sad.. you guys didnt show up and i thught you werent ever gonna come back." It was way sweet cause hes just a super humble guy and well.. i doubt he has that many friends. Hes kinda shy.. even with Heavenly Father haha.. he feels super scared to pray. But he accepted a date for the 8th of October. Pretty sweet.

SO yeah.. fun week. we only have 1 more full week together.. this transfer was short because president smith is going to hong kong on week six.. so transfers is early. its good. Really good week for spiritual growth.. i felt a incredible feeling (reduncancy.. fun) of appreciation for the Restored Gospel again and how beautifully simple it is. Yeah sure there are deep doctrinal principles out there, but when it comes right down to it, its very simple: A young boy went into the woods to pray. God and Jesus visited him. The Gospel is Faith, Repentance, Baptism, HOly Ghost and Endruance. Done. I feel people think that we come to explain the origins of God or seomthing super complicated.. but its not even close. Its so SIMPLE. Yes that was in a Hansel voice from Zoolander. I love it. I mean the Gospel.. zoolander too.

Love ya fam.

Peace



Elder G