2/5/12 and 2/13/12

 

hety Family.

I am very sorrybutthis oneis going to be really short this time.  Yes

Mom I gotthe package and thank you so much for the camera i just

started taking pictures again right when i openeed it.  OK thereason

why this one is going to be really short is because i hurt my wrist

playing dodgeball for pday but im doing fine i just cant type very

fast this week. hahahaha

Thiss week we were preparing a littlebit for the sisters that are

going to bei in the disrict next moves. we had to clean their house

and we started their area book so that everything is ready when they

come.

we were handing out english pamphlets that day with 3 members and an

investigator.  they were all really funny.  so who is that person you

were talking about?  I do not know anyone with that name at all.  It

ounded very spanish and not thai. I actually had a hard time reading

it becauseofthe romanized way they dothings in thai.

Hey Family and Mom and Dad!This week i can actually type so my letter will be a lot better this time hahaha.  My wrist still hurts a little bit but i think that it was just a little sprain or somethign like that .  Not a whole lot has happened this week.  We have been finding a lit of new investigators and some of them are really good but i will talk about those a little later.  

So this week was really awesome!  I wasnt with my companion a lot because he had to do some district stuff because he is a new district leader.  But while we were working in our area i just felt the spirit a lot.  One of the things that i learned is just doing the right thing and the Lord will prepare a way for his children to meet us.  If we are just being good boys and doing what we are supposed to do then we will have the spirit be with us.  One night we were wondering what we should do right before it was time to go home and we just prayed and we felt like we could do a little more inviting before we walked home.  We started giong and this one house a woman came out and said that she was not interested at all but right as we said what we taught is trure she stopped and said that her husband would want to talk to us.  We then made an appointment with him and he has been super prepared by the Lord.  He told us that when he realized that he was getting old he really wanted to know about life and the purpose of it.  He read what Budda really taught and he knew that all of the other ceremonies that they do were not ture and that men had distorted the truth.  He got all of the idols out of his house and was searching for someone to tell him the truth.  We taught him and he asked the best question ever!  he asked after he met with us and read the Book of Mormon and got an answer what he needed to do.  That is a question that every missionary loves to answer.  He really wants to know more about it all and the Lord put him into our path because we were just doing what we needed to be doing at the right time.

Another one is in Ciaras email and i am running a little short on time but i just had a really good week this last week.  I was also reading in the war chapters in the Book of Mormon and i really wnated to apply them to my life and i prayed and asked the Lord to help me see how it could help me and it was amazing the different things that i got out of it starting in Alma 50-63.  I loved it so much so i want everyone to read them and see the different ways that we can appy them in our lives.

1/29/12

 

That is really funny about Micah make sure that you tell him that i said hi from Thailand and that i will teach him thai when i get back.  I miss him so much. i just remember those day that we would get him really hyper just in time for his parents to come and pick him up hahahaha.  I love doing that with the thai kids here too!  They are so funny and they are just so innocent and just have to light of Christ in them and they are just fresh from Heaven!  It is so awesome to think about them that way is that not very long ago that they were literally with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ just a little bit ago.

 

This week just started but i felt like it was jsut yesterday that i was at the first baptism that i saw and that was almost 4 months ago!  Time just goes by way to fast for me to even get a hold on some things.  Dad i did here that it is really cold up there.  That is what allen was saying in this last email.  He siad that it started to warm up and that he could take off his coat for a couple of days.  hahaha i am very happy that i am in thailand where the coldest i get is in our room because of the AC.

NMot much has happened this week here.  I did haave a rough couple of days but i have a really good prayer with Heavenly Father and everything just seemed so small after that and that i had strength that i have never felt before just fush into me.  It was just so amazing that i had such a response from Him.  He really does care about all of us.  I just want to share this thing with everyone that i meet now!  I just love noticing how much the gospel has affected me in my life and how much Him and Christ care about all of us!

I love this mission and this people so much!  I love you so much Mom and Dad and make sure that you let everyone at hom that i love them 

1/22/12

We had a lot of fun at english class and people are really starting to bring friends and we are getting a lot of investigators who come to english now.  We even have some of them giving us their friends to teach.  It has been really awesome!  
 

Elder Mondragon has been here for over a year he actually dies the same month and the same time when Bracken does.  They were in the MTC at the same time.  But he didnt talk to any of the spanish Elders because they didnt get a long very well back then hahahaha.  He is way awesome and i have already learned so much froim him and we are just having fun!.

Well not much else had happened this week although he will probably be my last companion that is a district leader.  These next couple of transfers we are having a lot of people coming into the mission because we need them.  The Lord has finally descided that we needed more and that we were ready for it so we are getting more and mroe over time.  So soon i might be a trainer.  I really am scared because i feel like i jut got here yesterday and now they expect me to train someone how to do it.  It is not for sure that it is going to happen but it is just the thought of it that scares me!

  I have actually been focusing a lot on the mercy of God and Christ a lot lately.