Celebrating a birthday.
Can you find me in this picture?
Can you find me in this picture?
Emailing our families.
I always wondered what I
would look like with glasses....
What the Thai language looks like.
Email Update:
This was a good week. I am getting better at the language. It is crazy hard and I have never been good at memorizing vocab and such, but I know that God is helping me with every step of the way. Since my Companion and I are zone leaders for our zone, we have to go to a lot of meetings to report how our zone is doing. It makes me happy to know my Mission President trusts us with the responsibility. It’s been cool.
I'm having fun with my companion Elder Benteti (still sounds like Bendesi) because here in the Missionary Training Center there are athletic records for 12 different events and my companion and I want to try and beat the vertical jump and long jump. The vertical record is 36.3 inches and I got 35.1 inches and Elder Benteti got 34.9 inches. We are both really close on the long jump record too, so we are both gonna try to beat one each of those records by the time we leave. We are also doing 100 pull ups every other night and 400 push ups on the other nights.
In basketball we can only do half court and we can only play 2v2 or 3v3. It’s kind of lame. But they don’t want anyone injuring them selves right before leaving to go out in the field so I can understand that. You aren't allowed to touch the rim, net, or backboard. I have gotten in trouble for doing a lay up and slapping the backboard. Every once in a while if I can't see the instructors I sneak in a 360 dunk though. It is still getting easier to dunk.
We are teaching some lessons to fake investigators to practice for when we have to do it for real. It is getting harder each time because they are starting to speak faster like how they will in Thailand. There are a lot of times when we don't know what they say, so we just have to improvise.
I got to see my cousin Marcus Krommenhoek! ( I will try and get a picture next time I see him!) He entered the MTC this week and is headed to Russia in a couple months. It has been fun seeing him around. I am very grateful to his mom, my Aunt Emily for sending me a package of cookies! I didn't know how to thank her so I guess this is the only way :) THANK YOU!!!
I would like to urge everyone reading this this week to think of your family this week. Family is a very important part of Heavenly Fathers plan for us. " The family is central to the Creators plan for the eternal destiny of His children." This is a quote directly from one of our former prophets President Gordon B. Hinckley. You should read the rest of it at this link
Always keep your family in mind and let them know you love them often because we are all on Earth together and nobody else would rather help you along the way other that your earthly family and your Heavenly Father.
With Love, Elder Barron
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