Bringing The World His Truth

Elder Body is one of my best friends.

English class.

 This place is called Cow Gra Doang, it made me feel like kung fu panda a little bit.

 Roi Et Zone-our awesome zone conference.

My Letter:

This last week has been totally great. I am having a good time with Elder Body my companion. 

Lately our Tuesdays have been pack full of things to do. We always have a district meeting at the beginning of Tuesday. District meetings are fun because it is a good way to kind of reset the week and get focused on missionary work again. It can get difficult to focus on work sometimes when we do it every day non stop, but when we can have district meeting with other missionaries, we get a spiritual boost to work for the next week again.

We had zone conference this past week too. (Another very good spiritual boost.) While we were about to leave to zone conference, we were late for the bus, but the other 2 elders in Buriram did make the bus. They called us and said, "YOU GUYS GOTTA GO! THE BUS JUST LEFT!" So we peeled out on our bikes and caught up to the bus while the other elders were asking them to stop the bus and wait for us. It was intense!

The focus of this zone conference was how everyone individually needs to know God better. This topic is very important because every single piece of truth in the gospel comes back to God and the fact that we are all children of God. One of my favorite things President Hammond told us is that the single most important fact that anyone will ever learn is that they, and everyone else, is a child of God. If this wasn't true, nothing else would be true. That makes me ask the question "If God knows me perfectly, how well do I know God?" We can all always get to know God more through prayer, reading the scriptures, and going to church.

Lately, Elder Body and I have 3 investigators who we feel like are progressing.

Their names are Bao, Alice, and Bahn.

Bao, is a guy who has learned a very long time ago with the missionaries, but dropped off. My first week here in Buriram, he just came up to us and said, I would like to start) learning again. Right now, he is doing very well, and it seems like he is making very good friends with the other members here in Buriram.

Alice, a young girl who comes to church every week with her grandmother. She is a very happy girl. I think she will get baptized fairly soon.

Bahn, we met him for the first time at his work, and just started talking to him. He has a wife and is the father of five children. Five children is unheard of here in Thailand. He is a very nice guy and he seems to like our message about families.

This area is doing pretty well as of now. We spend most of our time out on the streets of Thailand talking to everyone we can to teach them about their relationship with God and how it can help their life. It is absolutely the most fulfilling thing that I have done in my life and I have grown to be a better person because of it. There is nothing else that I would rather be doing right now.

Everyone have a great week! I love hearing from others and I thank you for reading my emails.

-Elder Barron