Wow, these 6 weeks have gone by fast...

Hey One and All,

So this is the last week of the transfers, well really it is only half a week because everything changes on this Thursday. We find out tomorrow what is going to be happening. I am hoping I get to stay with Elder Leyva another moves. He is a way cool guy. But he has been here for 3 transfers already so probably not.

Monday: Well that was a cool day. We went to Surin for some sweet stuff. Saw some way cool stuff. Took some cool pictures around the city. Got to chill with the way cool Elder's in Surin. Elder Campbell made us a way good dinner. Some like Italian Pasta thing. It was very delicious.

Tuesday: Another good day. We had our weekly District Meeting and headed back to Buriram. We had a little time before English, but did not have much success. English was a sweet class. It is always way fun and I know that I say it every week. Oh well :) Taught our really cool family afterwards. They are way sweet. They are cousins. And one of them has a 16 year old son. They are way excited to be baptized in December.

Wednesday: A pretty good day. We got some lessons done. Taught our other people who are going to be baptized in December as well. Actually on the 11th. The husband is working on quiting smoking and he is doing really good. He quite drinking after 4 years of it. He quit by himself! It is way good. This week, or the next few days, he is going to be doing one cigarette. Actually, what Thai people do is buy the tobacco, and role their own joints. He rolls on and take one puff and throws it away. Lately he is doing that 2 times a day. He used to smoke 30 in one day. He is doing great! This change has been happening after receiving a blessing from the branch president and the first counselor. It is way sweet. Seeing someones life change in front of your eyes is very rewarding.

Thursday: Today, I had exchanges with our District Leader, Elder Campbell. The day was kind of a flop. We had time to find for a couple hours with no success. Got a referral from the branch president that happened to be 40 km from the city. We went not very smartly. The appointment fell through. So we spent 3 hours in a car. Darn it. Then we had time to eat, prep for Coordination meeting, and have the meeting. And our last appointment fell through because the investigator was sick. Oh well. There are days like this as a missionary.

Friday: Another flop day. We did our long planning for the week. Should have done it on Wednesday...but we had time to go out and work and we got nothing. Except for a lesson with the investigators who are going to be baptized on the 11th of December. It was a good lesson for sure.

Saturday: Another even worse day. No appointments and no lessons off of a find. A long day of a lot of walking around. It was way hard. It is hard to believe, but missionaries have bad days too :)

Sunday: A better day for sure. 3 lessons for the day. They turned out really good and we had an investigator go to church as well. It was the guy who is quiting smoking that I talked about. He likes church and is really making friends with the members. Then we had the Surin Elders come over for P-Day.

That is all for this week!

Elder Ackerman
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