Elder Montague's Mission

November 19th, 2018 1 year, 5 months, 4th week Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) During District Council this past week, one of the sisters made a profound statement. In discussing zone conference from the previous Saturday, Sister Christensen said that we can't truthfully love missionary work without loving all of the aspects of missionary work. One of the least desirable parts of being a missionary is going out and inviting or tracking for large periods of time. To us, it is highly ineffective, it is physically draining, emotionally trying, we face much rejection and we often do hours of it at a single time. How fortunate that we were able to try out loving the part for a 5 hour block on Wednesday 555. With a   determination to love it, I went out to make that chuck of time a fun and positive chunk of time. We made up a list of almost 50 different goals of things to say or do to start a conversation. We made i...

November 12th, 2018 1 year, 5 months, 3rd week Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) Miracles have been happening here in ธนบุรี! Last Monday we did not have a FHE planned so we decided to go inviting. We tried calling a member, but then I moved away from where the map said that they were. We decided to still go inviting in that area anyways. On our way there, we served, we kept walking, and then we started talking to this gentlemen. At his request, we ended up following him to his house and teaching him. It was alright. But we stayed in this hidden little neighborhood talking and trying to teach everyone. On our way out we passed by someone we had asked earlier. He said that his family was chill with us going to their house and teaching. We did. And we taught him and the 8 others that were his friends and brothers. They all are really young and smoke but we have already met again with them and there are a few gems that ar...

November 4th, 2018 1 year, 5 months, 2nd week Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague @myldsmail.net (I would love to hear from you) My new companion is coming from my first area, bangnaa. His name is Cole James Halverson and before his mission he's moved around a little bit including spending time in Texas, Florida, California (which he calls home), Utah as a student, and his family has since settled in Los Angeles. He bonded with his dad by going golfing together on the weekends. He has blue eyes that really contrast his often red face. We got back from transfers very quickly - much much faster than I was expecting to. We were able to scramble together a few appointments for the next few days, cuz there wasn't really anything. We made some good progress with a lot of our investigators. The big family that we've been teaching has gotten bigger, and we have made baptismal goals with most of them. That was a big blessing when we did. The same day we did that we ...