Elder Olsen:
Hey everyone,How are you all this week? For myself, I have had a very interesting week so far. On Monday we went to the Mission Office for interviews and unfortunately I have been sitting in the dark for the past 2 weeks. My new companion wasn't doing the best of things and was breaking some rules behind my back and somehow President Smith found out and let me know of what had been going on. We had to have an emergency transfer that day. We headed back home and my companion packed and we took him to a different area where I went to pick up my new compaion and brought him back and you will never guess who my new companion is?! ELDER MCCOY!! We went to the area where my companion was being dropped off and I was shocked to see who my new companion was!! What are the chances that 2 people from the same Ward would get the same mission call at the same time and then for those 2 people to be companions while out there!! I'm so excited to be his companion. Once we got put together President Smith interviewed us and told us what was up and has entrusted us to fix the problem that has just occured here in Bangna. Its going to be a blast working here with him! I still cant believe we are companions! I somehow knew one day we would be companions though. I guess that feeling was real! So that the big news for the week, I got to go but I love you all!
Steve
Elder McCoy:
Well, this is going to be quite a surprise, but no need to panic, run around screaming, or throwing any parties, okay?This past week (Monday), we received a phone call right after district meeting at the Ayutthaya house. The phone call happened to be from President Smith. He said there was an urgent situation and he needed my help to solve it. I asked, "How can I help solve the problem?" He said, "Pack your bags right now." Well, that was quite a shock. But, no questions asked, I packed my bags in 45 minutes and shortly after, none other than yours truly, Elder Olsen, was at our doorstep dropping off his companion and picking me up. I don't know the whole story, all I know is that I am now in Bangnaa, serving as companions with my next door neighbor! Who would have thought, in all the world, two people from the same ward get called to the same mission and end up being companions? My head is still spinning at the thought. The only thing I know is that there is no bar here in Bangnaa. So President Smith has entrusted us with the responsibility to raise the bar once again.
Elder Spencer McCoy
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hey everyone,
Last Friday I had an adventure and the adventure last until the end of the month. On Friday we went out inviting to try and find some investigators and we went down this little road and I had a run down with a species that hates missionaries more then anything else, Dogs... usually we will go down a street and every dog on the street will come running out to bark at us and run after us. This has become a usually thing and I don't think to much of it anymore when it happens but on Friday a dog crossed the line. There is a mutual understanding between us missionaries and dogs, we don't kick, they don't bite. But on Friday, our understanding was broken! I was just casually riding my bike and a dog come walking beside me and thought hey, I want some white meat! and it decided to take a taste and it bit me on the leg! I was so shocked that this happened that I jerked my leg away and when I did, my knee flew up and slammed against my handle bar and made my bike go all screwy almost sending me to the ground. Once I regained my composure I looked back to see the dog casually walking back to its house being fully satisfied with what it had just done. I was not to happy with that dog...I looked down to see the damage of my bit and my pants had a huge hole in them. I rolled up my pant leg to see the bit and I was bleeding out of the bit and around it was bruised over in the size of a baseball. There wasn't a ton of blood but it was enough that I didn't like it. I called Sister Smith and asked her what to do and she said needed to go to the hospital so we canceled all other appointments we had for the day and headed downtown to Bangkok General to have them check out my bite. Once we got down there they said yeah...your going to have to get rabbie shots. I was fine with that because I would rather not die and I hear there has never been a case where somebody had survived from getting rabbies. So gladly I took them. In that one day I got 5 shots but I'm still not done. Its a series of 5 shots so throughout the month I have to go back and get them all. Its been a blast! Tomorrow I go in for my third shot of the series. I'm not too upset because well every missionary needs to get bit at least once while on hims mission. Its part of the fun and the experience! But I'm doing good, I haven't been excessively drueling and I haven't grown a tail so I think the medicine is working. Well I love you all and I hope all is well at home. I love you guys!
Steve
Last Friday I had an adventure and the adventure last until the end of the month. On Friday we went out inviting to try and find some investigators and we went down this little road and I had a run down with a species that hates missionaries more then anything else, Dogs... usually we will go down a street and every dog on the street will come running out to bark at us and run after us. This has become a usually thing and I don't think to much of it anymore when it happens but on Friday a dog crossed the line. There is a mutual understanding between us missionaries and dogs, we don't kick, they don't bite. But on Friday, our understanding was broken! I was just casually riding my bike and a dog come walking beside me and thought hey, I want some white meat! and it decided to take a taste and it bit me on the leg! I was so shocked that this happened that I jerked my leg away and when I did, my knee flew up and slammed against my handle bar and made my bike go all screwy almost sending me to the ground. Once I regained my composure I looked back to see the dog casually walking back to its house being fully satisfied with what it had just done. I was not to happy with that dog...I looked down to see the damage of my bit and my pants had a huge hole in them. I rolled up my pant leg to see the bit and I was bleeding out of the bit and around it was bruised over in the size of a baseball. There wasn't a ton of blood but it was enough that I didn't like it. I called Sister Smith and asked her what to do and she said needed to go to the hospital so we canceled all other appointments we had for the day and headed downtown to Bangkok General to have them check out my bite. Once we got down there they said yeah...your going to have to get rabbie shots. I was fine with that because I would rather not die and I hear there has never been a case where somebody had survived from getting rabbies. So gladly I took them. In that one day I got 5 shots but I'm still not done. Its a series of 5 shots so throughout the month I have to go back and get them all. Its been a blast! Tomorrow I go in for my third shot of the series. I'm not too upset because well every missionary needs to get bit at least once while on hims mission. Its part of the fun and the experience! But I'm doing good, I haven't been excessively drueling and I haven't grown a tail so I think the medicine is working. Well I love you all and I hope all is well at home. I love you guys!
Steve
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Hey!
So Im in my new area now, I moved back to Bangkok ...:( I'm in a city called Bangna. Its right next to the downtown part of Bangkok . I was really hoping I wasnt going to come back to Bangkok but at the same time I had a feeling that I was coming back down. The North was so much better. I could actually breath! Haha but Bangkok is good, the work is a lot easier here because of all the people. But my new companions name is Elder Correa. He is a surfer from Florida and he has also lived in Hawaii . He is pretty sweet, we are having fun so far. Also his Dad is a retired NFL football player. His Dad played for Miami ! That was pretty cool to find out.
So I'm now living in a 5 stories, 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms house. We don't even use half of the house! There is only 2 people living in it and its pretty big! Unfortunatelly there is only 1 air conditioning in the whole house, we have to have fans everywhere. It makes it hard for studying because our papers are always flying around. haha, But its a good house. The area I'm in is a little dry and doesnt have to much going on so I'm going to have my work cut out for me here. It will be great though. I'm still the District Leader and in Bangna there are 2 sisters aswell so now Ill finally have more then 2 people at my District Meetings! But I'm excited to be here in Bangna, it has good potential to be a good area, we just have to get it going!
Well I got to go, I love you all!
Steve
So Im in my new area now, I moved back to Bangkok ...:( I'm in a city called Bangna. Its right next to the downtown part of Bangkok . I was really hoping I wasnt going to come back to Bangkok but at the same time I had a feeling that I was coming back down. The North was so much better. I could actually breath! Haha but Bangkok is good, the work is a lot easier here because of all the people. But my new companions name is Elder Correa. He is a surfer from Florida and he has also lived in Hawaii . He is pretty sweet, we are having fun so far. Also his Dad is a retired NFL football player. His Dad played for Miami ! That was pretty cool to find out.
So I'm now living in a 5 stories, 4 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms house. We don't even use half of the house! There is only 2 people living in it and its pretty big! Unfortunatelly there is only 1 air conditioning in the whole house, we have to have fans everywhere. It makes it hard for studying because our papers are always flying around. haha, But its a good house. The area I'm in is a little dry and doesnt have to much going on so I'm going to have my work cut out for me here. It will be great though. I'm still the District Leader and in Bangna there are 2 sisters aswell so now Ill finally have more then 2 people at my District Meetings! But I'm excited to be here in Bangna, it has good potential to be a good area, we just have to get it going!
Well I got to go, I love you all!
Steve
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Sorry I didn't get an email sent off last week. Myldsmail.net is the worst email user ever! It deleted my email that took about 30 minutes to write. So I was a little frustrated and didn't have time to write a new one. So Ill tell you about the picture in this email.
> The other week had 2 more of our investigators baptized. Their names are Gan and Big. Gan is the Girl and Big is the guy. It was a really good baptism. Big has been preparing for this day for the last 6 months. He has had a problem with work and not being able to go to church on Sunday because of it. But we finally got him to talk to his boss and get Sunday off and he has gone ever sense! We had trouble finding him someone to baptize him though because he didn't just want anyone to do it. It had to be someone who he thought was spiritually close to God. So he picked the District President to just so happened to be in our Branch. But unfortunately he was going to be out of town the week of his baptism. So he had to pick someone else but could make up his mind. He asked if we could do it but we told him we wanted a member to do it instead. It was a huge dramatic event picking someone! So we told him that the 1st counselor in the Mission Presidency is also in our Branch and he could do it and he said OK! I think he didn't want anyone that didn't have the position of President to baptize him. Luckily Gan didn't care who baptized her so we just said hey President Samad is baptizing Big, do you want him to baptize you to? She said sure, why not! So that all worked out and the baptisms went well up until Gan had to bear her testimony in front of everyone. Usually after a person gets baptized, they will go up and share their testimony or something quick and Gan was terrified out of her mind! Her testimony reminded me of when I was back in Primary and how little 7 or 8 year old would give a talk. When it was Gan's turn to go up, she stood up and stared straight at her Mom and waited for her to come up to the stand with her. Once up there, they both stood at the pulpit and Gaw, Gan's Mom, told her everything to say. I felt a little embarrassed because there was our 14 year old investigator sharing her testimony like a Primary kid. Haha it was kind of funny because she was SO scared when it wasn't even a big. But she got through it and it ending really good. Elder Young shared an amazing arrangement on the piano of If You Could Hie To Kolob and Praise to the Man. Everyone was mesmerized at how good it was! Its nice having him around ha ha.
Well I got to go. I love you all!
Steve
> The other week had 2 more of our investigators baptized. Their names are Gan and Big. Gan is the Girl and Big is the guy. It was a really good baptism. Big has been preparing for this day for the last 6 months. He has had a problem with work and not being able to go to church on Sunday because of it. But we finally got him to talk to his boss and get Sunday off and he has gone ever sense! We had trouble finding him someone to baptize him though because he didn't just want anyone to do it. It had to be someone who he thought was spiritually close to God. So he picked the District President to just so happened to be in our Branch. But unfortunately he was going to be out of town the week of his baptism. So he had to pick someone else but could make up his mind. He asked if we could do it but we told him we wanted a member to do it instead. It was a huge dramatic event picking someone! So we told him that the 1st counselor in the Mission Presidency is also in our Branch and he could do it and he said OK! I think he didn't want anyone that didn't have the position of President to baptize him. Luckily Gan didn't care who baptized her so we just said hey President Samad is baptizing Big, do you want him to baptize you to? She said sure, why not! So that all worked out and the baptisms went well up until Gan had to bear her testimony in front of everyone. Usually after a person gets baptized, they will go up and share their testimony or something quick and Gan was terrified out of her mind! Her testimony reminded me of when I was back in Primary and how little 7 or 8 year old would give a talk. When it was Gan's turn to go up, she stood up and stared straight at her Mom and waited for her to come up to the stand with her. Once up there, they both stood at the pulpit and Gaw, Gan's Mom, told her everything to say. I felt a little embarrassed because there was our 14 year old investigator sharing her testimony like a Primary kid. Haha it was kind of funny because she was SO scared when it wasn't even a big. But she got through it and it ending really good. Elder Young shared an amazing arrangement on the piano of If You Could Hie To Kolob and Praise to the Man. Everyone was mesmerized at how good it was! Its nice having him around ha ha.
Well I got to go. I love you all!
Steve
Friday, July 10, 2009
Hey,
Tomorrow we have Moves Meeting and yesterday we found out that I am moving out of KhonKaen. It feels like I just got here but Ive been here for 4 and a half months! Ive been here just as long as any of my other areas but this area seemed like it went by a lot faster. But it will be fun to move to a different area. Ill miss this place though. I saw a lot of miracles and had a blast here!
Yesterday we had an activity where we went up a hiking trail called "Elephant Colored Rock" and it was so much fun! We haven't really seen mountains in a long time so being able to go up there was amazing! Ill send some pictures from the activity.
Well Today I don't have to much time to write much because I have to go home and pack for tomorrow. Next week Ill let you know where my new area is and all that good stuff but at least I hope you guys like the pictures this week! I love you all and Thanks for all your support!
Steve
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