Notice the basket on my bike.
I talk about that in my letter.
This guy is our Zone Leader.
Traveling to a lesson.
This is a random guy that we invited to learn about Christ. He loves America (notice the jacket.)
One of the main parks here in Surin. We like to invite people here because it is a popular place in the evening for people to go.
This is where we buy groceries.
At Zone Conference! Fun seeing friends!
Here we are practicing our phone skills. Lol!
Eating dinner with our investigators.
A cute dog at the park.
We are teaching this kid how to work out at the park. He wants to get stronger.
I made myself breakfast.
Working with one of the new greenie missionaries. His name is Elder Body and he is from Thailand. We got to be good friends.
Random street that we invited on.
My Letter:
Last P-day was really fun. It was just a very chill day where we didn't have anything special planned, so we had time to just rest from the last week of working. It is nice to have one of those days every once in a while. I was exploring around the house because there is just a ton of random stuff that has accumulated over the years from all the missionaries that have lived here and left stuff. I ended up finding a basket that I think was used for motorcycles, but I bought a rope and tied it right on to my bike! It is now super useful when we have to carry things around to peoples houses or shoes when we are going to do service or for groceries! It was a good investment!
At the end of P-day we went to the basketball courts and I got to play some against the guys that were there. They kept forcing each other to play me one on one to see if anyone could beat me. Nobody did. :) They are completely freaked out when I dunk it on them Haha. It was so fun.
Lately, Elder Siebert and I have been doing some service for the Branch President Arm. We just go over to his house, and we carry a ton of buckets of dirt from their front yard to their backyard. Then, at the end, his Mom will give us some delicious free food. Totally worth it. We also have also been giving President Arm personal English lessons because he is about to take a test that will prove whether he gets a job or not, so we are helping him out. President does a lot to help us in our missionary work, so it is always fun to repay him in any way that we can.
I went on a switch off with another missionary, Elder Dollery this week. Elder Dollery is one of the hardest working missionaries I think I know. He literally talks to every single person that he possibly can. He will just talk to people non stop unless I remind him that we have one more meeting with someone that we are already late for. Sometimes he even forgets to eat food because he is working so hard. I don't think I can work so hard that I miss my minimum four meals a day =), but he is definitely a good example for me of how to be a good missionary. While I was with Elder Dollery, we met with a man that is ready to get baptized! We asked him some questions about how he believes God helps him in life, and how being baptized will help him in the rest of his life. It is so much fun to see people realize the goal of this life and how to follow the path of righteousness.
We have had some challenges teaching Nuey lately. We have taught her just about everything that there is to learn to become baptized and she says she feels God helping her in life. She also believes the Book of Mormon is true, but she continues to have questions about whether after she is baptized if she will be able to be Christian for the rest of her life. Hopefully she can have faith and realize that she doesn't have to worry about these things as much. If she has faith in God everything will turn out good in the end.
There is a sister in the branch named Sister Goong. We met with her and asked her about her conversion story to believing in Christianity. When we heard her tell her story of how she got baptized, it surprised me how similar it was to Sister Nuey's current experiences, so hopefully we can get them both working together.
This week we had Zone Conference, so we rode a 3 hour bus to Roy-et. I love our Mission President, President Hammond. He has the spirit of God with him so strongly. Every time I get to talk with him I feel rejuvenated. Our mission has been focusing a lot of finding new people lately. As a zone we are trying to find at least one new person a day through inviting per companionship.
Another woman we visited is named Koko. She is a mother of a little boy, and when we visited her we talked about the temple. We talked to her about how close it will be and how easy it will be to go. Then we showed her a video about the blessings we receive from temples and how it can help us in life. The spirit was so strong in that time. She said she was going to try to come to church often and she wants her son (who just happens to be 8 years old) to me baptized. Totally awesome. Miracles are pouring down from heaven.
This week at church we had a random drop in our number of people attending church, so I had to help do some parts of sacrament meeting. I was the chorister, blessed the sacrament, and gave a talk haha. Hopefully more people will come so we can delegate these responsibilities to more members in the branch.
Today is the 250th day I have been out on my mission. And last night officially marks the first time I, Boston Barron, have ever filled out an entire journal. Truly miracles are happening every single day. I can probably count the amount of pages I have written in a journal before my mission on my fingers, but I haven't missed a day yet. (woop woop) #thehungrydontstop #IamachildofGod
I hope everyone has a great week!
-Elder Boston Barron
