Week #70

Dear Everyone,

Monday: It was a pretty good day here in Thailand. We had a nice short preparation day. Elder Todd and I had to travel to Mahasarakham to exchange with the Zone leaders there. Elder Todd went up to Khon Khean while I stayed here in with Elder McDonald. We had a good evening. Taught a couple of really good lessons with the investigators out at Nong Jig. We also got dinner while out there too. I got to eat a straight pepper. That was hot but not too bad.

Tuesday: We had a pretty successful day. It was me and Elder McDonald. We taught a couple lessons and got into a couple of houses. They have been some of the best lessons that I have taught. It is really nice being with someone who has been a missionary as long as I have and to teach lessons together. It was pretty fun. Way spiritual lessons. We taught English and Elder McDonald interviewed three more people of mine for baptism. They all passed with flying colors.

Wednesday: We had our weekly District meeting taught by the Zone Leaders. That turned out well. Then I chose to do a last minute exchange with Elder Christensen in Mahasarakham. That was great. I had to run to the house, grab clothes and get back pretty fast. We did not have a very successful teaching evening, but it was still really good.

Thursday: I was still in Mahasarakham for the day. We taught a couple of good lessons in the evening. There is one family that they are teaching that was I was very impressed with. Except that the kid of the family is a little brat. Oh well. It was fun. Elder Todd and Elder Merrill met us in Mahasarakham because on Friday morning we have to travel to Khon Kean for Zone Conference.

Friday: Traveled early in the morning to get to Khon Kean on time to attend Zone Conference. It was really quite fantastic this time. It was on the power of the Book of Mormon. President Smith is a fantastic teacher and mission president. We got back to RoiEt at around 630pm. Just in time to head out to Nong Jig and teach a couple of lessons.

Saturday: We taught 2 lessons in the morning and then had to hurry over to the church to do interviews with Pres. Smith. I had a really good interview with him. President Smith is a great man. The rest of the evening, we were busy with a lot of other stuff and did not have much time to do any proselyting work.

Sunday: We had 4 investigators attend church. That was really cool. As well as having 5 people walk in to the church. It was a single family. Pretty awesome. I thought that they were visiting from another branch because they looked so confident walking into the church. That was a cool experience. They are actually in the sisters area. So they taught them. We did our weekly planning as well and taught a lesson.

That is all for this week. I am glad that everyone is doing awesome!

Love,
Elder Ackerman