four days until December. Bring on Christmas! Sounds and looks like
you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. We had a very good week here in
Buriram as well. Things are really starting to pick up around here,
and we're definitely being blessed for our hard work. Work=Miracles.
We've added quite a few investigators to our pool, so it's kept us
busy. Probably not going to be able to go through day by day exactly
since so much went on, but I'll try my best. Tuesday, I honestly
cannot remember what happened other than English class. It was pretty
good, but only about six people came. We had fun though, and played a
game that I'll have to introduce when I get home. Wednesday, me and
Elder Christensen were able to go and teach Golf's mom again. Her name
is Isari. We taught her the Restoration, and I feel like it went
really well. We also gave her a baptismal date! Dec. 22nd, the same as
Mai. The bummer thing is that if these baptisms go through, there's a
good chance I won't see them because I will probably have moved on the
20th. But oh well, as long as they get baptized. After that lesson, we
had District meeting, and then did switch-offs. Me and Elder Hunsaker
stayed in Buriram, and E. Christensen and E. Hansen went to Surin. We
had a big day lined up, but most of our appointments fell through. We
were able to meet with a lady named Sis. Ampon. She is the mother of a
member and has learned with the Elders before. She's actually learned
with many elders before. She's Catholic and has a tough time accepting
the Restoration story. We're meeting with her again this week and
we're going to try to clear some concerns up. The next day was, of
course, Thanksgiving. We wanted to celebrate a little bit, so we ate
at farang restaurant. I feel that it was appropriate. Once we got back
to Buriram, Elder Christensen wasn't feeling so hot, so he went to
sleep for a couple of hours. Once he got up, we decided to go and find
Sis. Mii, because she hasn't answered her phone for almost two weeks,
and E. Christensen hasn't even met her. When we got there the door was
open and there was a little chubby child playing on the computer. He
said that Mii had gone to Bangkok, that he was the only one home, and
that he didn't know what day she'd be back. Don't know how believable
that was. We tried calling her Saturday night, and her daughter
answered and said the same thing. It would just be weird if Mii took
off for Bangkok without her phone and didn't tell her kids when she'd
be back. We're still going to try and contact her everyday. Friday was
a very good day. We were able to visit 2 less-active members, Bro. Bob
and Pa Lek. We did some inviting and were able to serve a guy we found
(we cleaned out some nasty fish bowls) and set an appointment for
Sunday, and we were able to go and see Sis. Bad and her family. They
are so...odd? Sometimes they act like they don't like us at all,
sometimes they love us. This time, it was the love, so I'm not
complaining at all. They said they aren't ready to start coming to
church again yet because they have some "stuff" going on, but we'll
definitely be back out working on them again soon. To end the night,
we were able to go over to Golf's house and start teaching his younger
brother, Coco. He's fifteen, and he actually seemed really interested
in learning with us because he learns at a Protestant school. He even
said he'd bring some friends to the next lesson! I'm stoked. I would
love to get that entire family baptized. Saturday was kind of a crazy
day. We had a bunch of stuff lined out, but whenn we called to confirm
appointments, every single person cancelled on us. We were super
stressed. We had to long-plan, so that took up a few hours, but after
that we were stuck. We decided to go out to Bro. Bob's neighborhood
(which is a bunch of town-houses in the middle of nowhere) and go
inviting. It was tough at first, mainly because we had a group of
about 15 kids following us from door to door. But once we ditched
them, we got two lessons right in a row. The first guy was about 55,
named Bancha. He had some questions about life's purpose, so we gave
him one or two answers, and set a time to come back. Right after that,
directly across the street, we taught a guy and his wife (who also had
a 4 month old baby). The guy was super shy and wouldn't give in to
praying, but he did allow us to set a time to come back, which should
be tonight. I'm stoked! We have a bunch of investigators now. The only
problem is that Mii and Mai are kind of pushing themselves out of the
picture. I already told you about Mii, and Mai just won't give in to
meeting. Sis. Ooy isn't helping much either. She said she wasn't going
to be at church yesterday, but then she showed up (which is good) but
didn't bring Mai with her. Come on! We'll keep working. Sunday night,
we were able to meet with Suwit, the guy whose fish bowls we cleaned.
We taught him and his girlfriend the Restoration, and it was an
awesome lesson. Me and E. Christensen have such great unity in
teaching, and the Spirit was really strong. He's quickly becomin my
favorite comp. Today is pretty chill.
So like I said, Thanksgiving sounded great. Wish I could've been
there! But hey, less than a month until we get to skype! How's the
weather there? Still hot as ever here.
Well gotta go! Love ya! The Church is True!
Love, Elder Sharp
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