A cool night time market.
My missionary journal.
Elder Thomas and I shooting a toy Thi G together.
Our taxi drivers cool dashset.
Eating at a members house named Golf.
On the beaches of Chonburi
I saw these guys trimming palm trees and I thought it was cool.
Me and one of my best buddies.
Update:
Last P-day was a blast, we had a bunch of missionaries come to our area and we had a giant basketball tournament! We played 3 on 3 games and it was awesome. There are some pretty good basketball players out here. I love the attitude out here on the mission. All of the missionaries are so happy and encouraging about everything. It makes it so much easier to be doing service for others when we have good attitudes about it. After we were done playing basketball, we went to the beach. It was only about an hour drive. The beach was sooo fun. As missionaries, we aren't allowed to go into the water above our knees, but it still felt so good to have my feet sink into the sand. I got to eat about 50 shrimp and then take a nap. It doesn't get much better than that.
I had so much fun in teaching this past week! I love teaching with Elder Thomas because he is very good at explaining and we are good at going off of each other's teaching skills. This week in our English class we were teaching them how to read the time on a clock and say it in English, but every time before their turn, they had to do a dance. I was dying on the floor laughing because Thai people have no shame at all!
This week we were at a college university teaching a student named Ong. We have been teaching him there for a while now and he loves learning about our religion. He wants to get baptized in the next few weeks. While we were in the middle of teaching him, a random guy named Nook walks up to us and says "I am Christian. Teach me more." It was so cool. I know that God prepares his children to hear the gospel and as a missionary, I am able to see these miracles all the time. This has been a great blessing in my life.
This week was sad because one of our sister missionaries who was serving here from New Zealand had to return home this week. She had a family member pass away and left to help out with them, so she is serving in a better way now. She was one of the nicest people I have ever met.
I know that this is the true church and that even though we have hard times in life, we can get through anything through relying on God and his plan for us. Thank you all for reading my emails and keeping up with me!
-Elder Barron
