Wow, fun week.

Hey Everyone!

Well I guess of with the start of this week. I am doing awesome here in Thailand. Perhaps it is way too much fun...

Monday: It was a relatively sweet Monday. Got all of our rest in for the day. Did the usual shopping as well. We went to a buffet for dinner where you cook the meat in front of you on top of coals. It was pretty sweet and tasted way good. Went and taught a lesson to Ang and An. It went really well. We taught the whole Plan of Salvation to them and they understood it all. It was way cool. They still really want to be baptized. It is way cool. Elder Leyva and I are way happy. Plus they are making great friends with the members of the branch.

Tuesday: The Elders from Surin came for our usual District Meeting once a week. It was way cool. We went and got pizza for lunch before going to the church to have the meeting. It was very good pizza. It is usually pretty expensive but we went for it. Was way fun. Had a good meeting and then went out finding and taught a couple lessons off of the find. It was really cool. Meet some sweet people. That is what I love about going out and walking around. You meet some very interesting people. Then we had the weekly English class. Always fun :) After that went and taught a way cool lesson to our other sweet family. They are doing way good and very excited about the gospel. I don't want to jinx it, but...they are pretty golden if you ask me :)

Wednesday: This was a pretty busy day I would say. We did a lot of inviting and a lot of traveling. It was good though. We taught Ang and An again. Doing good as usual. They really like having us and the members over. I don't think they have ever really been fellowshipped like this before and they really like it. It is great. Then I got to go to Surin for companionship exchanges :) That was very fun.

Thursday: Well the day in Surin was way fun. I got to be with another 3rd transfers missionary, a guy in Elder Leyva's group. Elder Ahlstrom. He is a way cool kid. He is in the Army Reserves and we talked a lot about going through Basic Training and all that. He has a lot of cool experiences. Helped teach some pretty cool lessons with there investigators. I guess I don't have much to talk about for that day.

Friday: Traveled Friday morning to go back to Buriram. Then we had our usual Long Planning for the week. Then went out and worked for the rest of the day. Taught a lesson with Ang and An again. We talked about having faith in Christ and An was like I already have faith in Him. It was way cool. Talked about having faith the be cleansed from sin and all that and tied it back into the Plan of Salvation. They really get it :) Then on the way home, the Branch President saw us while driving, picked us up and took us home. Saved like 20 minutes of bike riding. It was really cool.

Saturday: A pretty normal day. Taught two lessons after walking around for hours and not finding any success. Taught a lesson but found out they are not really interested at all, just being nice to white guys. Oh well. Then taught a way good lesson with Deng and Yaw. They are so good. They really want to go to church, and we set up to go help them harvest rice on Monday :)

Sunday: Only Deng was able to go to church because Yaw was stuck working out in the rice fields. It was way good and she made a lot of friends with the members. Oh and the new Thai Book of Mormon is out. That is way sweet. It is so cool. Finally an update from when it was printed back in the 70's. It is way cool. The members are excited too. Went out to find and not a lot of success. Taught a lesson with 6 people. All one big family. It was way cool. They are pretty interested I would say. Gave us some food to try. I now know that clam/oyster tastes terrible. Oh well.

Monday: Today was sweet. Went out to work in the rice fields!! It was way fun :) Our branch president took us out with a few other members to help gather the rice. It was great. The weather was really nice and there was a good breeze to keep us cool. Had lunch with them too and it was pretty delicious.

That is all for this week!

Elder Ackerman
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