"This has been the most successful week of my whole mission so far. It was an amazing week! Let me tell you about it. We go inviting and invite everyone to church or to be washed from sin. We get their numbers and call them every day for an entire week. If they say they will go to church, we call and follow up with them every day. It gets to the point where they know that it is us calling and they just say, "Yes, Elder" and that they will go. Then we ask them if they will bring family members or friends and if they know where the church is. It is always a different question along with asking if they are coming to church. It works really well. This last week we got 32 people saying that they would go to church."
"This entire week we had no daters and no investigators, save for one that was not really interested. We just kept going contacting and calling for hours on end. We had a weekly planning meeting and prepared for our baptism we got this week. His name is Dong and he is way cool. He has been an investigator for a year. He had some addictions, but we were able to help him to understand that he doesn't have to worry and that he could still be baptized if he would just stop right now and rely on God. He came to the next appointment with so much confidence and said that he was going to be baptized. He was baptized on Saturday and received the Holy Ghost on Sunday and he is so happy."
"I think this next week, we are going to take some pictures of us contacting so that you can see how and where we contact. We are doing it a new way by taking shifts. One of us stays in the ice cream parlor and calls investigators and the other goes outside and contacts, always switching every half hour. We will see how that goes. It should work better because sometimes we are on the phone for 2 hours just making calls."
"I was contacting on Friday on the way to a lesson and went up to this girl and asked, "Hey, have you ever gone to a Christian church?" She said that she did once but no one would help her understand. I told her that if she will go this Sunday, that I would help her. She said ok and I took her number. We contact everywhere we go, even on p-day. We went to Asoke to get some Book of Mormons and we found 5 numbers for the Asoke Elders. They were so surprised! haha We got them all in like 5 minutes."
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"The really cool news is this Sunday we had 32 people who said they were coming to church. The other Elders had 30. Nine actually showed up for us and 7 accepted to be baptized! 2 this next week (including the girl that I contacted on Friday), 3 the following week, and 2 the next week. We have 7 daters that we will be teaching! It was amazing! The other Elders had 13 new investigators show up and the Sisters had 5. All in all, we had 43 investigators at church, including old, new and eternal. We had 120 people at church, so think about that!! President brought us up in his meeting and talked about our success. Everyone knows that Rangsit is doing awesome! We are not boasting in ourselves, but we are where God needs us to be doing what he needs us to do. We show forth our works so that others can see it and glorify their Father which is in Heaven. We are planning to get 40 new investigators at church."
"I can't wait to see how this week turns out. Everyone keeps telling me that this is going to be the area that changes my mission and I would have to agree. I have improved so much and I can work so easily and I like it a lot. I love you all and can't wait to talk to you at the end of the week."
