WooHoo!!

Hey Everyone!

Well, I guess I can go ahead and start off the week. It has been pretty cool here in สะพานสูง. I can share the exciting news later in the letter.

Monday! Well the first day of the missionary week. And it is also a P-Day to prepare for the upcoming week. Well it wasn't that astounding. Just a normal day of grocery shopping and writing any letters. Just a good day to restart. So P-Day ends at 6pm and then we had 3 hours of inviting to do. Out of that we only got 3 potentials for the day.

Tuesday. So it was supposed to be a pretty full day. Go figure all the appointments get dropped and we are left with time to invite before going to English at 530pm. We were only able to obtain 2 phone numbers. English was a good class. Elder Elwood and I taught the ABC's class, which is the basic of the basic. It was fun. Elder Elwood is an excellent teacher.

Wednesday. For some reason this day is the most successful day of the week. We got 2 lessons with a member present and 1 other lesson. And then we found 4 new potentials. A pretty good day. We had a lesson with เพิ่ม (Pum) one of our baptismal daters. It went way well. He is such an excellent studier. If he has a question about in the Book of Mormon about what something means, he will search for the answer in the book and pray about it before asking us for an answer. It is so cool! He is a great example of study and he isn't even a member!! We also had a lesson with สิทธิ์ (Sit) about his upcoming baptism and it went well.

Thursday. A not so successful day. We had our planning for the next week as usual. We invited for several hours and only got 1 new potential. We did have one other lesson with สมพล (Sompon). He is doing alright. He reads and prays which is excellent. He didn't come to church this week for the baptism which was disappointing.

Friday. Alright. Switch-offs with the Zone Leaders. I went to ศรินครินทร์ (Sinakarin) with the new zone leader Elder Chiu. Don't be fouled by his name. He speaks perfect English. He is from Virginia and his parents are Chinese. He is just a cool guy. Joined the Marine Corps. when he was 17 and we had some good talks about the military and what not. It was just a way awesome day. We taught a couple of their investigators that are doing pretty good. Had time for some inviting too. We met some success for the day. I don't remember how many potentials. Elder Elwood and a Thai elder, Elder Narin were in สะพานสูง and Elder Narin interviewed เพิ่ม (Pum), and he passed! So he will be getting baptized on the 8th!

Saturday. We had our normal studies and then went inviting for an hour and found 1 potential. Then we went to the church at 1 and did not leave until 630 for some quick inviting. We found 2 potentials and then headed back to the church for a lesson with สิทธิ์ (Sit). So for 5 hours, we had our correlation meeting and helped move stuff around at the church, checked the font and cleaned it, and then helped Brother เอ (A) with organizing the clerks office. Brother A is the Branch Mission Leader and Clerk. He is so cool and works so hard. So we help where we can. Then after the lesson at 7pm, we had time to invite and were really blessed by the Lord and found 4 more potentials. It was way good.

Sunday. Yeah, the first Sunday in the new church. It is very beautiful and everyone who lives nearby knows about it. So, สิทธิ์ (Sit) got baptized!!! YEAH!!! It was a great day. Everything worked out great, plus we had a lot of people attend. The branch usually had 60 people attend sacrament, but that day we had 80 people and almost all of them were there for the baptism! It was way cool :) We then had a lesson with a husband and wife and it went really well. We also found 4 more potentials for the day before going to Brother กอด's (god, ha, that is how it is pronounced, more like gawd) and it was a fantastic dinner as usual.

Well...that is all for the week! I am loving it here in Thailand. Love and miss you all! This is the Lord's work!

Elder Ackerman
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