125 days in the mission field!
Dear Everyone:
Thailand is really fun, and our investigators are just super awesome.
It's amazing to see the changes they are making in their lives. This
past week was the water festival called (Songkran) and the whole
country has a water fight for about 3 days, April 12-15. It's crazy
crazy! We got to play on friday because we changed Pday to friday and
had a 6:00 PM curfew because of the craziness of Thai people. Anyways,
it was fun. People drive by in trucks and just fling water at cars and
bicyclists and motorcylcists and stuff. Insane. Of course we
missionaries cannot ride in the back of trucks like that for our
safety. But was got to fling water at people walking by or motorcycles
and such from the side of the road. Lotsa fun. Feels weird because in
America people would be angry but
in thailand everyone just laughs. It
was a fun day, but super crazy because of how much they enjoy it and
how much water is just flying everywhere. Luckily I only got wet on
friday when I wanted to. I made it saturday and sunday without getting
wet but some missionaries weren't so lucky haha.
Well, all of our investigators are doing great. Brother Kwan Passed
his baptism interview and will be baptized on the 22nd, he wants me to
baptize him; so my first baptism will be in Thai.. hmm. Sister A has
her interview on Wednesday the 18th, I'm sure she will pass, and if
she does she will be baptized the 22nd as well. James is doing really
well, he has a date for the 6th, he's just struggling to understand
the Book of Mormon but we are reading it with him and he is doing
well, he is 15 years old but lives in a strong member's house. Sister
Benz is doing fantastic. She is scheduled for the 20th of may. At
first we
just taught her, but her mother is opening up and hopefully
her two younger sisters will open up as well. Sister Benz wanted to
change her life and this sunday she came up to us and thanked us
because she truly is happy and loves church and the gospel and
appreciates us helping her to change her life. She loves reading in
the Book Of Mormon, especially with us as we choose a favorite verse
each chapter. She is doing fantastic. Absolutely golden investigator.
Our other dater did not make it to church, Brother Awn is 10 years old
and his older sister(12) is a member as well as his mom but they are
less-active. So we are trying to activate his mother and sister and
get him baptized. His mom wants him to be baptized and grow up in this
church but she is struggling herself so It's a rough situation,
relying on the spirit a lot with them. All-in-all Elder Benjamin and I
are having success here in Samut Prakaan, we are
just trying to find
more investigators; but I'm sure they will come. I'm excited for the
baptism this Sunday! :) It'll be really awesome. It's amazing to see
the changes in our investigators each time we visit. Our other
investigators that aren't daters have struggles but they are getting
better each visit.
This past transfer we had to close a few areas in the mission but next
transfer should be able to open them up and a couple more. No
missionaries in the other countries yet and definitely no missionaries
in the penninsula of Thailand because of how crazy it is down there. I
am not sick of rice yet, you always have some sort of sauce of meat
with it and it's always yummy. At the fast-food chains here they don't
have everything america has but some of the more popular stuff as well
as a thai dish usually too. As for the poisonous animals, I honestly
do not know. I have not had to worry about that yet.
Mosquitoes are
annoying but that's it. I have not seen a cobra but I have seen a
komodo dragon. Transfers went really well my trainer and I are still
together but that is not a surprise. He could leave next transfers but
I don't know.
Thailand is becoming very normal. I've almost been in Thailand for 7
weeks and have been on my mission for 4 months already. It is flying
by. I'm doing very well, although it's very hot here. I encourage
everyone to check the weather out here because I honestly do not know
what it is, Just know that it is HOT! I encourage everyone to have
family prayer and family scripture study every day. Give the Lord 30
minutes a day to study/pray as a family and you will be blessed. 3
Nephi 18:21 talks about praying as a family. Just do it and the Lord
will bless you. Well that;s all I have to say. I hope everyone enjoys
themselves and stays safe. I love you all.
Love
Elder
Federico
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