Elder Montague's Mission

December 16th, 2018 1 year, 6 months Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague@myldsmail.net These brief few days have passed by so quickly! Thursday was just a normal day, since no one in our house was transferring. It was also probably my most productive Transfer Day, as we had decent things scheduled all day. We have been helping one of the people we teach, Top, clean up his house. I think I have mentioned about this service activity before. We've already put in close to 50 man hours cleaning his house and it is nowhere near finished. This most recent time we went and  attacked the second floor, containing his untouched-for-5-months Mom's room and the adjourning hallway. We did our very best to try to help, but WOW it really hasn't been touched (there was fruit and food laying about). There is a change happening within Top as well; he is now more willing to throw things out or donate them, and he didn't keep any of the stuff we cleaned out! And his ma

December 11th, 2018 1 year, 6 months Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague@myldsmail.net Wow hello friends and family. This is greetings from Thonburi, Thailand where I will be staying for the next transfer (I'm here for another 6 weeks)! We had our transfer calls this last evening and only 1 person is moving out of our district. 5 of us are staying. I was pretty sure my companion and I would be staying together, because we haven't been having any problems and the area has been going great. I wasn't expecting that the rest of the district not to change though 555. I love change and I guess this is a change from normal. Because we are all staying together again. The Lord certainly has lessons in store for me! This past week and a half as a district we have really put a big focus on serving. We have gone to members houses and gone caroling to their neighbors with them. One of the people learning with us, Top, has a very messy house. He has kinda put his life

December 2nd, 2018 1 year, 6 months Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague@myldsmail.net So we've been meeting with this Cambodian security guard who we came across on accident when we went back to find one of his coworkers. But this person is actually very interested and has been praying since day one and has recognized help that has come as a result of those times he has prayed! Any time we teach him anything, without asking he will teach it back to us and relate it to concepts he already knows and translate it into Khmer. Shoutout to google translate for helping us share some new concepts and my friend from the MTC( Elder Daniel Blaine Tuft) who is in Cambodia and sent us how to actually pray in Khmer. We have now finished with our massive English training, and now it is up to us to implement the practices we learned. It is not easy to change how I plan English class and it has helped me understand the feelings and thought processes of those that I teach, as I h

November 26, 2018 1 year, 6 months Thailand, Bangkok, Thonburi Ward samuel.montague@myldsmail.net This week was amazing. We had so many miracles! We have a few people that we're teaching that came to church last week and they came to church yesterday.  A few of them are really excited about the gospel and  have expressed interest in being baptized so in the following weeks we're gonna work with them to make that happen!  English training We went in to Aso ke for another English meeting, this time with all of the missionaries of Bangkok to further learn the new process. Thanksgiving was an attempt at being American, followed by ลอยกระทง. We went to Wat arun and it was cool to see it. I went on switch offs with Elder Mcwhorter, my MTC น้อง who also had the same trainee as I do. It was super fun and had time to catch up on our experiences in Thailand.  I'm sorry I literally don't have anything else to say.  Thanksgiving Dinner