Elder Montague's Mission

March 26th, 2018 10th month Thailand, Bangkok, Surin Branch samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) So picking up with last pday: we ended up doing a super fun but hard scavenger hunt, where the groups went all over Roi-et to take pictures with a bunch of random things and people. We played a giant werewolf-card-roleplay game while we finished with our interviews. It is then I was interviewed. I was a little more nervous than normal, because this was my first interview as พี่ (senior companion) and I'd had plenty of hard times already. But the interview was great and reassuring! The conference was great and really helps renew my spiritual commitment.  President Johnson and the other instructors focused on improving our efforts with the people that we are working with, helping them progress and be a higher caliber of investigator. This contrasts with the general feel we have as missionaries sometimes to produce numbers for our key indicators. We'

March 22nd, 2018 9 months, 4th week Thailand, Bangkok, Surin Branch samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) So zone conference tomorrow, which means pday was moved to today (Wednesday). We are spending it traveling to Roi St at a ridiculous time, having our interviews with the mission president, an activity, and practicing for our musical number. It's also been very hot lately, hence the title.  Last week was filled with a lot of long events in the morning. We visited a member who lives really far away from the town(she has kids she wants to be baptized!), did some service, had switch offs (this time I went to Buriram with Elder Bevan). We went to a post-graduation picture session thing at the university to support a member), and passed stomach issues to each other #ท้องเสีย I'm really tired at the writing of this, and I'm on a hard-to-type bus, so this email is going to be short.  There were some low parts of the week, but we are defi

March 5th, 2018 9 months, 2nd week Thailand, Bangkok, Surin Branch samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) "And so great was the prosperity of the church, and so many the blessings which were poured out upon the people, that even the high priests and the teachers were themselves astonished beyond measure." Helaman  3:25 This was a very interesting week to say the least. Through trial and error we have established a high correlation between my personal afflictions and perseverance and the blessings we receive in finding those searching for the gospel.  So much frustrating and challenging things happened to me this week (my 3rd flat tire in a months time, all my whites are yellow because our washing machine decided to have fun, etc). Even though it was rough, we saw so many blessings! We had a sharp jump in our "numbers": new investigators, investigators with baptismal dates, people that went sacrament meeting, and of course ซ. ตุ๊ก

March 12th, 2018 9 months, 3rd week Thailand, Bangkok, Surin Branch samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) Happy birthday Elder มองตากู!!! So many prophets said great stuff about these later days, and it's true. It is a great time to be alive, and a great time to be a patriot (of the Lord).  To celebrate we are going to ride elephants today! This time we won't have a seat- we are riding bareback. I am so excited to do this!. On top of it, I am wearing clothes I've purchased here or found at our house, and I look like a Mexican cowboy. So turnt :) We had another baptism! ซ. หญิง is so awesome! She's very knowledgeable and always hungering for more. She has so many friends at church and I know she's going to stay strong. She asked me to play the piano for her baptismal program, which surprised me because this branch is filled with much better pianists than I. This week I saw a direct correlation between my efforts and