Biking home for the day.
The student drew super heros for the day in class. Who do you think won the competition?
A little market on the side of the street, things were seriously everywhere.
Riding back to Buriram on the bus in the middle of the night after a zone conference.
Some cool Buddhist stuff.
Some random selfies.
We helped a lady feed her chickens. This lady was so funny. I love doing service in any way.
I caught this butterfly out of mid air and then set it free.
What I would look like if I wore glasses.
Look Mom, I sewed up this hole in my bag! I am having fun repairing my stuff all by myself.
Update for the week:
Dang sometimes I really forget the amazingness of being here in Thailand being a missionary. There are just so many blessings from being here. I will never be able to explain all of them. I can definitely try though! Last P-day, we rode our bikes over to a mountain that is pretty close to us. At the bottom is a staircase that goes up forever
At the very top, there is a massive Buddha statue and an AMAZING look out at the top. We woke up at 4:30 to ride our bikes there and go up the steps. Then we watched a stunning sunset from the lookout on the mountain. Everything about it was so beautiful. I could just feel the spirit as I was thinking of all the amazing things that God has created for his children to see.
We have an awesome investigator named ฝน. She is so cool. We have been teaching her for 2 months now, and she is on track to get baptized next Sunday. I am praying that everything goes well!
I am so tired this week. We had to ride busses last week for a total of 22 hours. It was a combination of having district meeting in Surin, an emergency call to come to Bangkok to so Visa work and stuff, and a Switchoff that we had in Roy-et. The hardest part of all of it is trying to use time wisely on the bus instead of just sleeping the whole time haha.
I got to go on a switchoff this last week with Elder Borg. He is a missionary who used to be AP, and he is currently on his last transfer. He is going home in 10 days. It was really fun being able to learn from him and talk with him throughout that day.
This last week we were eating some lunch over at Sister หนู (nu)'s house. She is an older lady in our ward who got baptized just recently. Whenever we go visit her, she makes a lot of food for us. (I love going over there.) She loves to make jokes about how much I eat. Sometimes they don't make much sense, but they are always funny. This week she told me, "I bet when the World War 3 starts, everyone will be running around going crazy and killing each other, but Elder Barron will be sitting right here when he always is just eating food the whole time." I laughed for a good while on that one.
One strange realization that I had when I was talking to one of my Thai friends, a lot of people who speak English says Asian voices sound so high pitched. I got asked by someone this last week why all white people have such low voices. A lot of them think we are the weird ones because our voices are strangely low while a lot of us think the opposite. I thought that was funny.
I got a call from Bishop late on Saturday night asking if I could teach Second hour of church for the relief society and priest quorum. I didn't have any time to prepare, so I woke up early Sunday morning to prepare. I tried to center the lesson half off Come Follow Me and also a really good talk given by Brad Wilcox called "His Grace is Sufficient". If you haven't listened to it, or if you have already, you should totally listen to it (again). It is an amazing talk and really helps me to put being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in perspective. (it is on
I really hope I said something that touched the hearts of the members and investigators listening.
It was a really great week! I love the gospel. I know it is all true. I know The Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know that through Jesus Christ's grace we will be saved. I thank you all for being such a great support to me!
-Elder Barron
