Still in Saphaan Sung

Hey all!

Wow. So this last week has just been crazy. Well...more like the opposite. I was sick from last Monday until Thursday. Not a very fun experience. So needless to say, no work got done on those days. If I was feeling up to it, we would go teach a lesson at the church. But nothing really exciting happened. Just some vomiting, diarrhea and a fever. I am all better now! Well, some news. This week is moves week and I will still be here in สะพานสูง (Saphaan Sung). It has been just a blast here with Elder Elwood. We get a long way well and are doing a great work.

Monday: Sick beyond all reason. Slept most of the day and began a fever about 12 pm. Left the house only to email.

Tuesday: Felt a little better. Had a DDM by Elder Elwood on the Atonement. It was most excellent, for what I got out of it. I was way tired and trying to pay attention. Being sick just doesn't go away quickly. We did go to English class at the end of the day. It went all right. I did a little teaching, but was way exhausted.

Wednesday: Well, still sick. Mostly on the recovery. Still had a slight fever. Did not leave the house at all, except to go get Elder Elwood food.

Thursday: Recovery day. No fever but I did not want to go out an work and end up getting sick again. We planned for the next week. We did go teach a lesson because I felt up to it. We taught พี่สีทธี์ (Sit) about the interview and asked him half of the questions. He is doing way well and will get baptized on the 1st of August.

Friday: We went to the hospital...not for me though! Elder Elwood had an ingrown toenail that needed to be taken care of. So that took a few hours. We then taught Sit in the afternoon again.

Saturday: Ah, finally a normal day for the week. We started a branch fast at lunch. We fasted for the help to bring 36 more people into the church this year (the goal is 40). It is quite a daunting task and will take a miracle. But with faith, all things are possible! We had our weekly correlation meeting with some members and the branch mission leader, who is way awesome by the way. He's 21 and the branch clerk. He is doing an excellent job. After that we had a lesson with a guy who had walked into the open church. We had learned with the Elders about 3 years ago. He is already Christian. It was a way cool lesson. Although, we isn't ready to accept that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father are 2 separate beings. We can hope that in the future he will accept it. We then went and taught a lesson with สมพล (Sompon) and his wife. They are doing well, although it has been like 3 weeks since we had last seen them because of work. It was a good lesson and thy said they will come to church this next Sunday.

Sunday: Wow, an even better day. We had a good 3 hours of meetings and had several investigators come. There were some great lessons and we then broke the branch fast after the meetings to eat at 12. It is very normal here in Thailand to eat after church as a branch. It helps the unity since there are so few members here. We then went and taught a lesson with the guy we talked to last week who wanted to do what it took to become Christian. It was a way excellent lesson. This week we are going to try and see him and his wife. Then we walked a lot and did inviting. Although we did not find anyone. We then had dinner at a members house. It was most excellent food :)

Monday: Well P-Day got switched on us. We had a DDM on Faith, Hope, and Charity. It was good and then we had pumpkin pie that Sister Lifferth made from memory. It was delicious. We did a lot of inviting and only found 4 new potentials.

Tuesday: Ah, P-Day. Well, this morning we went and ต่อed ("daw"ed/ extended - only in this sense, its a weird word) our visas for the next 90 days. That was a long taxi ride to and from. And now we have the rest of the day to write letters and what not.

Ah, well that's all I got for this week. Love you all!

Elder Ackerman
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