146 days in the mission field!! :)
Dear Everyone:
Thailand is still pretty hot but I'm adjusting pretty well. I'm gonna
freeze when I come to Virginia in December next year. Things are going
really well out here in Thailand, in Samut Prakaan. My companion and I
are having pretty good success and absolutely love our investigators
and love to help them come closer to God. They have these semi big
lizards that are called Dugkaa or something like that. I've never seen
one but my companion is super scared of them haha. There are a good
amount of trucks but generally pretty small and millions of
motorcycles everywhere! They have a bus service that loads of people
used, we've even used it a little too. They also have motorcycle
services that carry 1-2 or 3 passengers but we can't ride on them. Oh
and they have things called song thaw's that are trucks that have two
rows of seat facing each other in the back with a shade cover over the
bed of the truck. Lotsa those as well. As for my Pdays, we've played
soccer, and frisbee the last two. And we just go out of our area to go
shopping or such. Like when I got the 17 ties for about 10 dollars.
But other than that we just hang out with other missionaries. This
week we are resting because my companion got food poisoning on
Friday/Saturday so he was a little out of it the past couple days and
needs some rest.
As for our investigators! They are all soooo funny. It's amazing how
funny all our investigators are. Their hand motions and everything
they say is hilarious. The other day we were asking James(15 year old
boy) if he thought the book of mormon is true and we followed up on
his prayers about the book of mormon being true. He said that he'd
prayed lots about it and still hadn't received an answer so we asked
him how he felt when asking if the book of mormon was true in his
prayers. He then went on for like 2 minutes on how his heart like
skipped beats and he said it felt really weird in a good way and it
was just WEIRD! SO then after we had stopped laughing at his answer we
told him that was an answer and he said, "Ooohhhh" anyways he always
has something funny to say. As for Sister Benz and her family it's
going well. Sister Benz is a golden investigator and is going to be
baptized on the 20th. Oh and James should be baptized on the 13th if
he passed his interview. As for Sister BEnz's family. Her mom and
youngest sister are doing well and are slowly coming around, we just
got to help them a little more before they are ready to be baptized.
So that's good. Then Benz's younger sister named Nam works all the
time but she's starting to open up to us as well. Just starting to
help her are well. So that's going well. Then we have an investigator
named Eww.. (I know kinda weird but yeah) and she is absolutely
hilarious! She's buddhist just like about EVERYONE in thailand, but
she's read to like Second Nephi Chapter 15 or so already. Absolutely
loves the book of mormon and she's slowly coming around. She was
praying wrong so we taught her the right way and she was sooo excited.
It's crazy haha. She has two daughters (16 and 18 years old) so
hopefully they open up as well. I'm sure they will, it's just going to
take a little more work. Other then that our investigators are doing
good. Oh and Toon is doing well. He has his group of friends at church
who is good and group of friends at home that aren't too good. So
we're trying to help him realize what he needs to do. He's doing well.
It's just going to take a little time. Our investigators are doing
really well. Working on new investigators. Still trying to contact the
two families we found while inviting.
Sounds like America is doing pretty well and everyone is doing great!
That's good to hear! I hope everyone keeps strong in the church.
Sounds like the stake conference next week will be awesome. If anyone
gets to say something to him, tell him I said his two talks at the
MTC(50th anniversary and talk on the gathering of Israel) were superb!
Anyways, enjoy that experience because it's a special one to hear from
an apostle with just one stake and such :) Not much else going on out
here. I cannot believe it's already by 5 months! It is flying by! I
love you all. Keep reading in the Book of mormon and praying
Everyday!! I'll try to send pictures next week.
Love
Elder Federico
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