Subject: Riding ช้าง
Date: March 5, 2017 at 8:25:47 PM PST
To: Robin Decker <Robinlynnd@gmail.com>
What's Good! This is Elder Decker from the South Side of China here with another weekly update. This week was a good week. It went by so fast. Saturday I got to eat cheesy corndogs so it has to be a good week. I also ate a black burger from KFC so I still eat the american food. It's crazy sometimes biking in the streets of Buriram and realize that I'm in Thailand. Than I realize it's like 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity. But it's fun.
Date: March 5, 2017 at 8:25:47 PM PST
To: Robin Decker <Robinlynnd@gmail.com>
What's Good! This is Elder Decker from the South Side of China here with another weekly update. This week was a good week. It went by so fast. Saturday I got to eat cheesy corndogs so it has to be a good week. I also ate a black burger from KFC so I still eat the american food. It's crazy sometimes biking in the streets of Buriram and realize that I'm in Thailand. Than I realize it's like 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity. But it's fun.
So, last Monday we went to Surin to ride some elephants. Elephants are pretty nasty but also pretty dope. The little ones are mean though. We also decided to wear missionary clothes for some reason. But it was a fun, really interesting experience. I'd recommend it to everyone.
Tuesday, taught some more English. I'm still not good at any language haha. I had to translate the lesson into Thai because there's only two Elders teaching and everyone is at different levels. It's pretty hard. This is the reason why we're allowed into Thailand so I try to make it fun and educational.
We have a new investigator named Sister Lek and she keeps telling us how Buddhism and the church are similar. Brother Egg (who has a date for next Sunday!!!), is doing really well. He has a smoking problem and isn't legally married to his wife but he's really golden and has a desire to get baptized. In the lesson I straight up told him to quit smoking now or you'll keep putting it off for the next day and he said he'd do it. It's all about building the faith to believe that through Jesus Christ, you can do anything that he asks of you. I love teaching people repentance and also, with love, calling them to repentance. But the work is going good here in Buriram. People are still astonished when I speak Thai because I'm white.
So a story that happened this week, that was super special (or not so special- just typical), was we were riding down the street on a hot, cloudless Thai day when we saw a rice patty field and cows, couple shacks to the left side of the road. (It's weird people drive on the left side of the road). So, we decided to get off the road and see if anyone was home. We got onto a dirt path that had a lot of vegetation on the side and came to the first house and we asked if anyone was home and someone inside yelled out the window that no one is home - so obviously there's no one home- hahaha, same in all cultures. So we went to the next one house after dodging some potholes and cows and saw these two older people, in like there 50s or 60s, sitting down on a old, cement, bench. So, we pull up our bikes to the side of the house and ask them if they want to learn about Jesus Christ. And they said no...
So this week, during my personal study, I was reading in 1 Corinthians 2:9, and it's one of my favorite scriptures. It says:
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
It's so good. We can't even imagine, man has never even thought of, the happiness that you will receive if you Endure to the End. Eternal Life is the greatest gift of God and all we have to do is keep his commandments, and love one another for a short time on earth so we can have happiness for eternity. What it all comes down to is loving God. If you love God, you will keep his commandments, You will love his children. You will do whatever it is he asks of you, because you know that he knows what's best for his children. I just want to close with this scripture in 3 Nephi 27:33;
33 And it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these sayings he said unto his disciples: Enter ye in at the strait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
I love you all and miss everybody!!! Until next time :)
Elder Decker
เอ็ลเดอร์ เดคเคอร์
Thailand Bangkok Mission
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