From Prison to Branch Mission Leader (A Brother Go Story)

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This week has been another great week in the life of Elder Decker. Elder Decker's birthday was good. We had a Halloween party and they gave me a lot of cake. I'm not a big fan of cake but it's cake. Wish they had pumpkin pie here. They have pumpkin curry, pumpkin pumpkin, and no pie. Pretty much pumpkin everything else. But Sister Larson made me a bomb pie. So it's all good in the City of Gold. 

We had 10 potential investigators this week and they all canceled their appointments and didn't answer their phones. So even though that happened yesterday we found a cool family at Miracle Park. They were just visiting Ayutthaya and were chilling at the park. We taught them about Jesus Christ and it turns out his wife passed away 5 years ago. Way sad but the Plan of Salvation is definitely the next lesson. 

I had a switch off with Elder Greenwood this week who is a greenie from Lopburi. It was good. He's way good already at the language and has a great attitude about the work. Way fun. Found the Jehovah Witness Church. They were out in full force the other day. 

One of Brother A's teachers is christian and started telling him about how our church wasn't true and he shouldn't learn about it. He came to us with questions and I told him that right now you're learning the truth and Satan will try to tempt him and than he said he doesn't like his teacher anyways so it's all good. The problem is he lives in the same neighborhood as one of our other investigators who we can't teach anymore because the neighbor said his son won't allow him to go to church. And that neighbor happens to be brother A's Brother in Law who saw us as we left the church after the lesson. He asked what he was doing. Families are causing us some problems right now haha. 

Brother Mong is so cool. He believes in the Book of Mormon and Jesus but he just has some problem with the commandments which is holding him back.  

Last Friday was Loy Krathong where you make like a floating thing out of flowers and plants and put it into the river to be cleansed of your sins. I put one with Jesus on it into the river. It'll make its way to a new investigator. 

Last Sunday, Brother Go who we have been visiting in jail the past couple months who just got released from prison got called to be the Branch Mission Leader because our old one goes to the Seventh Day Adventist church. He started from the bottom and now he's here. It was pretty cool. He wanted us to help clean up his friends apartment because she's on drugs and is crazy and would not let us clean it up. But he's giving us some referrals. He's my favorite. 

This week I was reading in Helaman in chapter 5 verse 12 which we all know but it's one of my favorites. It says:

12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

It's such a good scripture. If we have faith in Jesus Christ, who is our Savior and Redeemer, we cannot fall. We won't fall into the temptations that Satan is constantly throwing at Christ's followers. We're the ones stopping him from his work. He focuses most his efforts on us and wants us to fall because the Disciples of Jesus Christ are the ones that aren't under his influence. Building our foundation on a rock which is our Savior will help us through even the worst of temptations and times. We just need to do the basic, go to church, read the scriptures, and pray and these simple things will build our foundation that will stop the Devil in his work and we won't be brought down into a gulf of misery and endless wo. We will stay in the light and feel the love that Jesus and Heavenly Father has for us when we hold true to our faith and our standards. It is only in following the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we have true happiness. 

I love you all and miss you all a lot! Have a great week.

Pics: some construction in a wad, more wads, a family in Asoke(old pic), my khuu, some nice water, and a squirrel

Elder Decker
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Thailand Bangkok Mission