I'm loving this new schedule change, we get more free time, and more independent time to schedule while we study, and we get an hour and a half of free time before we go to bed!
After visiting an older woman with some church members, a few members, my comp, and I ate at an outdoor restaurant. Just a short distance away from the restaurant was a big stage. In the middle of dinner, 30+ year old men dressed in sparkly women's clothes with makeup came on the stage and sang weird songs. I wanted to get a picture or video but I didn't. Then I realized that if I did, and if my grandchildren saw these photos/videos in like 50 years, they probably wouldn't want to know what happened on my mission.
I got to do a switch-off with a Burmese Missionary, Elder Tone. He is awesome, and really funny. He speaks English, Thai, and Burmese. I asked him what he does for exercise, and he said he meditates. Then he said, "I actually meant sleeping."
Yesterday while visiting an older couple, I noticed one Thai man holding a ladder while the other was on top of the ladder fixing some power wires.
I've been on my mission for six months now. That is super weird. I've only heard it gets faster, since I am getting the hang of things. There's a diagram that some missionaries showed me, and it basically explains missions. There's a Thailand missionary tradition, where a missionary would burn a tie when they hit their six month mark. My tie of choice was polyester, so it didn't burn at all. My companion was
laughing the whole time while filming me, trying to burn the tie. I'm not attaching the video.
We were blessed with finding more people to teach this week. It's a big surprise as well, since our area is considered a tough area to find people to teach.
During church yesterday Brother Pronchai came up to the stand and bore his testimony. Despite me not understanding most of what he was saying since I'm still not the best at Thai, he talked about my family and how extremely grateful he was to have my family help him get his master's degree at BYU, and for being a great friend to him. He spoke of my Uncle Kent, my Grandpa Barrus, and my mom. Honestly if I hadn't served in Samutprakan I probably wouldn't have served here, he probably would have never had the opportunity to connect with my Uncle Kent again.
Before we went back to our house the other day, we went and visited an investigator who has been struggling. We sat and talked to him, and he said he has had a hard time with his job, and has been really stressed out lately. He lives alone as well. We asked him if he could pray for us, and in his prayer he expressed gratitude for the missionaries coming to visit, and he talked about how despite us having a long day working and being tired, we still put effort into visiting him. Really heartwarming. Despite us being there for about 15 minutes, it still really helped him out. I hope that all of you will visit someone who needs help. Even that 15-minute visit really helped that investigator out.
Transfers are this week, so I may get a new companion or maybe in a new area next week.
Have a great week,
Elder Brinkerhoff
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