Saphaan Sung

Hey Everyone.

Okay. Well all is going well here in Saphaan Sung. So I will just start off the week. Some pretty big news is that we are moving to the new church building just down the street!! Next Sunday will be the first day in it. Plus I have some other big news I will talk about a little bit later.

Monday: Well, it was a weird day, but I already talked about it a little. Pretty much a whole day off walking around and not finding very much success. Only 4 new potentials.

Tuesday: Okay. So Tuesday was P-Day this week. The schedule for the new missionaries coming in was weird. They came in on Wednesday, so President Smith changed the P-Day around. It was a good day. We still taught English. That was a crazy class. So the new missionaries were in Thailand, just at the mission office and at Presidents house. The moves meeting was on Wednesday. Okay, I am going all over the place! Okay, first thing we did was go and extend our visas, that took about 3 hours plus. Then we went and did all our P-Day stuff. Then we had English at 630 pm. That was crazy. Our Sisters were still in Pakkret helping out the new missionaries. So Elder Elwood and I got to teach English by ourselves. That was great because we can't split up, and we have 2 different classrooms. So we taught to different classes in the same room. That was fun. I only had 4 people teach. They were from the advanced class. And then Elder Elwood had everyone else. It went pretty smoothly I guess.

Wednesday: Moves Day. We didn't go. But one of our Sisters moved. And so Sister Lifferth is training this moves before she goes home/dies. This was the better day of the week. We got 2 lessons done and found 8 potentials. One of investigators that we taught, เพิ่ม, is going to interview this next Friday! He is doing way awesome.

Thursday: Wow, that was a crazy day. So in the morning we had our usual studies, and then planned for the next week. Pretty much a normal day. We went out inviting for a couple hours before a lesson. It was WAY hot. You have to understand. If it is really hot and there a still clouds, it is going rain for sure. So we predicted rain. We went and taught another lesson with เพิ่ม and it went way well. We left to go grab a little snack from a nearby 7-11. By this time the sky is dark and clouds are moving in way fast. So we still need to go home to grab a few items of paperwork for the upcoming baptismal interview, We get home at about the time it starts to POUR! It doesn't rains cats and dogs here. It rains elephants. The streets flooded within minutes and we are stuck inside. So after about 30 minutes, the rain slows down enough to walk outside without getting drenched. So we start to make our way to the church, which is not very far from the house. We get stuck at a 7-11 and have to walk through a flooded area. That was way fun :) We went into 7-11, asked for some bags to put on our feet and then we go walking. The funny thing is Elder Elwood still can't get his foot wet because of the ingrown toenail. Thankfully it wasn't a problem. So we get to the church, and lo and behold, it is starting to flood inside. So we have about 1 and a half hours before the baptismal interview. We start cleaning and pushing the water out. We see water coming down the stairs and go up to investigate. We get to 5th floor and start hearing a woman's voice that is getting louder and louder. We start going down and meet a 25 year old woman and her older brother. The woman had a problem with her brain and she wasn't quite all there. It took about 30 minutes before they were actually able to leave. The older brother was so patient with her and I was way impressed with him. So after that all happened, the zone leaders came to interview. And about an hour later, สิทธ์ had passed his interview. So we are having a baptism on the 1st of August!! Elder Elwood and I are so excited.

Friday: Another kind of crazy day. We taught Gift again and he is still held up on the fact that Jehovah is Jesus Christ. The translation from English to Thai is not very good with the I AM and all that. So next time we are going to teach him from an English Bible to show him. We will see how that goes. Then we went to the hospital for Elder Elwood and his toe is all good. We found only 4 potentials.

Saturday: It was a pretty terrible day. All day to invite and only 2 potentials to show for it. It was pretty bad. But we had a good correlation meeting with our branch mission leader Brother A. He is so awesome.

Sunday: Well, Sunday is always a good break. Elder Elwood spoke in Sacrament meeting. He got the assignment last week. And he only got to speak for 7 minutes or so because the branch president wanted to speak as well about the new church building. Oh well. We only had 2 investigators at church. Then we only found 1 potential. A very unsuccessful day. Well, I then made dinner. Hamburgers. They turned out well, but I burnt the fries and put to much salt on. Oh well.

Monday: P-Day. Today will be another day of relaxing!

A pretty crazy week if I say so myself. Until next week, this is Elder Ackerman, signing off.