Hey everyone!
Well so this week was pretty good I guess you could say. I will go right into it!
Monday: A pretty relaxing day around here in บุรีรัมย์. It is always so nice to wind down a little bit to rest and relax from a week to week. We did teach a lesson with a guy who used to work in the south at really nice hotels. He learned English by talking with white tourists and all. He is way good, but knows pretty much all slang. It is pretty funny. Then we grabbed a bus to go next door to สุรีนทร์ (Surin) for the night.
Tuesday: After sleeping the night in Surin we had our usual weekly District Meeting given by Elder Campbell, our fearless District Leader. It was good. Mainly just training on how to use the Area book effectively. I had made oatmeal no bakes on Monday, and I brought some of those to share with the other Elders. After a good 1 hour long bus ride home, we had time to go out and work before English. English was good as usual. 15 students which is much bigger than usual. That was way good. Then we went to go teach a short lesson at 830. It went really well. Elder Leyva and I are pretty pleased with them. They have been investigating Christianity and are really excited to learn with us and to go to church.
Wednesday: Our best day for the week. We went and taught 3 lessons. They went pretty well. We saw a new family and they are kind of in between whether or not to learn more with us. Then we saw another family who was just the same. Only a little frustrating. Then we had a sweet lesson with Ang and An. They are the closest to baptism and have a goal for on the 27th of this month. They are doing way good. This lesson was actually pretty funny. We were going to watch Finding Faith in Christ with them. We borrowed the churches DVD player, had the movie, were at the house and all set up ready to watch and go figure, we forgot the remote. Without the remote we couldn't change the settings to play it in Thai. Opps. That was annoying. So we did a quick of pulling a lesson out of nowhere. We taught about the life of Christ from Mosiah chapter 3. It went a lot better than expected. We were both really pleased with the lesson considering it was all on the fly :)
Thursday: Our usual day of planning. Then we went out to work. Taught one lesson with a recent convert and it went pretty well. We mainly have just been clarifying doctrine and answering questions. Then taught another lesson with a Christian investigator. I think I mentioned him earlier. Read the Book of Mormon over one night. We watched the Restoration with him and it is hard because the vocab in our church is different than in other churches. He is just getting way caught up on it. Although this next week we are going to try and give him a baptismal date to go for. He said in an earlier lesson that he wants to get baptised.
Friday: Ugh a pretty hard day I have to say. A long day of all inviting and nothing to show for it. We probably could have taught a few lessons off of the find but we weren't really feeling it. Later our zone leaders said that when ever we have a chance to teach a lesson, we need to take it. Since we are so young in the mission, it will be good practice. Then we taught Ang and An again. This time we actually did watch a movie, but we watch the Restoration instead. We felt it would better answer her question why are church is so different than all the others. It was good because we were able to testify about the Restoration of the Priesthood and we had some sweet members helping with the lesson. Ang and An get excited to have us over.
Saturday: A pretty bad day as well. We had to go to the hospital to get my last vaccination shot for rabies. That took a good 30 minutes. Then we went out to work. Taught a lesson off of the find, but that was our only success for the day. We got on a bus around 5pm to go to อุบล for District Conference. That was a fun 4 hour bus ride. A lot of sleeping :)
Sunday: We stayed the night in a very small house, packed with 8 people. That was the most uncomfortable night ever. Ugh. I slept on a skinny, very flat mat and a very small blanket. Thank goodness that Elder Leyva and I packed pillows. That made it a little better. So we went to District Conference and then went home. After waiting at the bus station for 2 hours and then another 4 hour bus ride back to บุรีรัมย์. We got home at 8pm when we go home usually on Sunday. Home in time to have a very small dinner. We forgot to get stuff on Saturday. Opps. But it was good. PB&J all the way!!
That was the summary for this week. I am doing fantastic!
Love you all
Elder Ackerman
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