Faith In The One Who Has Sight

Helping a member make some food..

We made waterfall pig and it was SOOOO good!

Someone gave us seaweed as a present. 

It was pretty good.

This is the house of Kun, 

the guy that runs the parking lot.

I wrote about him last week.

A monk that we talked to.

Spent the day with Elder Siebert!

 Just like old times!

A family doing their business of 

washing cloths and folding them.

Delicious food.

Brother Suk, he is my buddy in Surin.

I forgot my raincoat and used a trashbag. 

Buying food in Seven 11.

A giant dragon head outside of the Buriram Soccer Stadium. I have no idea why it was there, but it was still dang cool and realistic.

I got a little friend on my shoulder. It was sitting there for a few minutes before someone else flicked him off.

The professional soccer game that we went to.

SOOOOOO fun!!!!

My update:

Every time we have P-day here in Buriram, we are getting into the habit of going to the board game place. It is pretty fun playing some old fashion board games, but sometimes, it is very difficult to understand what is going on because there are 8 Thai people yelling the whole time and I can't translate the instructions until we are halfway through the game. Then at the end of the game I lay out all of my cards and think I won, but then I realize I got in last place because I was trying to do the wrong thing the whole game. It's okay though haha. It is fun. The best part is just hanging out with all the young people that come play. This last Monday was the four year anniversary of that board game place, and the guy who owns it let us all play there for free. (This guy is literally just so cool)

This week I have been working on goals. I love goals so much. They are literally so important. If you have no goals, you will sit there waiting for something to come change your life (News Flash: IT’S NOT COMING). I see a lot of people doing this every single day. When I was a child, I loved setting goals. Goals that were difficult, and random. Three of the first that pop into my head are: I wanted to ride a unicycle, I wanted to get good at origami, I wanted to get my Eagle Scout award and I wanted to run a marathon. At the time I was doing each of these goals, I worked super hard on completing them. I was very determined. When I would reach these goals, I would think, "whew, I'm done!" I would then create another random goal. Some of those goals like riding a unicycle or doing origami have taken me nowhere other then the fun to learn it. Now, I realize that is not the most effective way. Everyone can do amazing things when they set goals to get there, but when you can align those goals to have a purpose and meaning, the result is better than you at first imagined! Now you just gotta get up and do it!

Elder Lemone and I went to visit one of our recent converts to the church named อั้ม (um). She has one of the most hyper little girls of all time named Indie. She just goes crazy all the time haha. It is pretty cute most of the time, but have to try to calm her down during the lessons. In our last lesson with her, we were teaching about Jesus Christ. We were showing Sister Um a video (Because of Him, which is like one the most awesome videos ever), and Indie was running around eating chips. All the sudden, Indie just pees all over the floor. The grandma comes running in with a mop while yelling, "you gotta mop it fast or it will be sticky!" I guess that wasn't her first rodeo. It kind of made the spirit leave the lesson for a little bit, but I don't think I will forget that experience. 

We got to go to a Buriram soccer game for P-day! It was so much fun! The Thai people get into the game BIG TIME. There were nonstop cheering the whole time and massive drums that would shake the stadium. Buriram's stadium is called the thunder stadium, and they are really good at making the drums sound like thunder strikes. Buriram beat Corad 2 - 0. I hope I can go to another game before I leave Buriram.

We got a new investigator named ท็อป​ (Taub) We got him to come to the church for our lesson, and it was way good. We got to know him more and talk a lot about his life. Overall it went way well. We taught him about prayer with his Heavenly Father and he said he would pray every day from now on! He also said he would try to bring his friend who is interested next time!

I got to go on a switch off back to the good ole' Surin. It was fun being able to see all of my old friends. I also got to be on the switchoff with elder Siebert, so it felt just like old times. We got to have sports night at the church with some of the same people as when I was there and also some new people! Elder Siebert brought some rubber chickens to sports night, so we decided to play dodge ball with rubber chickens. It was so funny running around throwing chickens at each other. Afterwards we watched a video for the spiritual thought. The video was about 6 blind men who found an elephant and they were all feeling the elephant. They all grabbed a different part of the elephant and were trying to explain what they were feeling, but none of them agreed because they all grabbed different parts. The guy who grabbed the trunk thought it was a snake, the guy who grabbed the tusk thought it was a spear, the guy who grabbed the leg thought it was a tree, and so on. They couldn't see the entire truth, so they used what they knew and came up with their answer. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, but they weren't open to receiving other people's thoughts because they thought they were wrong. Then a person who could see came and showed them that it was an elephant. This is so much like us in life because we can't see everything that happens, and we can't come up with all the truth ourselves, but so many people think they have all the truth through what they have experienced. The only one who actually has all the truth is God, so we need to follow him and have faith that we will have everything we need through his leading us. 

I hope all of your weeks are sappy dappy fantastic! 

-Elder Barron