Sunday, August 19, 2012

July 29th 2012 for the US and July 30th 2012 for Thailand!!

230 days in the mission field!! :)


Dear Family and Friends: 

So, things are going great in Thailand. The work is continuing to move forward as the Lord blesses us missionaries with miracles. Last week went by extremely fast, they seem to continue to go by faster and faster. My companion is slowly coming to terms with his ending the mission soon. He has till September 27th; so not very long at all. Anyways, we worked as hard as we could last week considering he got sick Saturday/Sunday/Today. Monday was p-day and after we emailed we went out to eat with two members; they took us about 20 minutes away by car to a lake of some sort and we ate sitting cross-legged right next to the lake in a hut type thing(there was about 20+ huts). Anyways, it was really cool. I took a couple of pictures of the lake and the scenery there. It was very pretty.

Tuesday we taught a couple lessons and then we taught English class. English class went fairly well; then we had to end English Class a little early so we could catch the van that would go to Bangkok by 8:00 PM. So we got the van to Bangkok to stay at Elders house there; because we have Zone Conference on Wednesday. Wednesday we had Zone Conference which was awesome. President Senior shared his vision of the mission and shared about Faith, Sister Senior shared about Faith as well. Their talks went hand-in-hand. Then the zone leaders trained us on helping people keep commitments and such. It was a very good Zone Conference; I feel like I learned a ton. After Zone conference, we exchanged with the Zone Leaders and Elder Grover(Zone leader) came back to my area with me. We got back in time to go home and plan then sleep. 

Thursday we got to proselyte which was interesting. All of our planned appointments fell through for that day. So Elder Grover and I got to go inviting and finding new investigators all day from about 12:00-7:00. Problem was, it started to rain extremely bad at about 2:00 and didn't stop till about 7:00. Obviously, the rain slowed down; but it was a pretty big rainstorm. So we kept going and going and going and inviting and such. Still no success then we went to eat dinner and we bought some ponchos. Then we decided to try and find a new inviting area and we moved. Then prayed about what to do because we were drenched and out of ideas. So we prayed then decided to go close to our house to a street with about 10 houses on it. We invited about 2 houses then on the third house the person let us in and we got to teach a mother, her son(age19) and her son's friend. The lesson went extremely well and we found out that her husband had died 6 years ago.. so we got a return appointment and left her with a Plan of Salvation pamphlet. I hope everything works out, I feel she was prepared to receive the gospel. It took 6 hours of inviting and biking and walking but God provided us with a miracle. 

Anyways, then Friday we had district meeting and exchanged back. Elder Senalai and I then handed out fliers for English class for awhile and did our weekly planning as well. Then Saturday morning, Elder Senalai was sick with the flu or something. He was out of energy; so I stayed at home and he slept and I called people and studied and tried to stay productive. Then that night we went to the doctor and to have our Coordination meeting with the Branch Mission Leader. Then Sunday was the branches conference so lots of people were there and my companion was still sick. It was a great training for the members as well; as to how the branch achieve their goals. Then Elder Senalai taught a lesson with an awesome investigator and came home cause his body was weak and he had no energy. So another day at home. But, it was okay. 

Anyways, it was a pretty good week, I know God is watching us and is willing to help us in everything when we just have Faith in him. I also kind of thought about Faith and feel that Faith starts as a belief, but as we live the Gospel we express our faith(through action) which causes that belief to turn into confidence in Jesus or God. Then the confidence(faith) we have allows God to provide miracles. That simple belief that it could be true or correct leads into living the gospel and becoming confidence that leads to Miracles. Anyways, that's a little thought process that went through my head this past week. Well, not much else to say. I hope everyone is staying safe and have a great summer. I love you all.

Love
Elder Federico
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