Elder Ethan Ellsworth - Bangkok, Thailand

Hello Everyone, This is the week of May 20th to the 26th. We had a zone conference on Monday!  So we got up in the morning in a hotel. We went to a park, got there really early and played some basketball with the members and some other missionaries. Super fun. After that we got some breakfast and went to the church for zone conference. We had some really good training on teaching and getting people to church. After lunch we had interviews with president, which was fantastic because president is really good. I really like president. Then we got on a bus and went back to the old area. We grabbed some dinner with the sisters so that we could prepare for English class the next day. After that we just invited and walked home. We found a nice guy who is interested in going to English. That was a good day. The next morning we went to a member's house who is less active old and kind of forgetting everything; I guess kind of your typical, very less active man. It took a while to get over t...

Hello Everybody! All right. This is the week of May 13th, to May 19th. For p day today we went and rode some elephants finally. Yay! It's the first time I've been able to finally ride an elephant bareback and it was super fun. But it very stressful because the members that wanted to go with us kind of took over the trip and we didn't really get a say in what was going on like we wanted to and that was kind of annoying because the members don't have a time constraint, like we do. We have to get home at a certain time and so fighting to get home on time is always super annoying. Anyways, after our fun excursion, we get back at about five and this is kind of where stuff starts to happen. We got back and I started getting ready to go to work. I was already dressed in missionary clothes. My companion, he takes his stuff and he throws it all in the laundry and I didn't really realize what was going on until it was too late and realized he had thrown all his clothes in th...

This is May 6th to May 12th. For pday this week...the elders slept over at our house, so we had some fun that morning, played some basketball, got some haircuts, got some good food... white person Mexican food. :) Then we went to this temple thing with a waterfall and a fun water park that we couldn't take part in, but it looked fun. Then after that we came home and got ready for the rest of the day. In the evening we spent some time at a Mugatat, a big restaurant, and had a YSA kind of FHE activity. Before that we taught our investigator, she's so good. We taught her the gospel and the word of wisdom and committed her to live the word of wisdom. She said that coffee's going to be really hard because she drinks coffee every day. But she says that she's going to quit by the end of this week and she's doing really good. Tuesday we got up and we went to our RC's place where he is working. We reviewed what we talked about last week and my companion kind of went off...

We've had some problematic things here at home... namely a flood. Lots of mess and lots of repairs and it's just a little hairy around here and I'm behind again!! Anyhow, onward. :) Dear Everyone, This is the week of April 29th to May 5th. May 5th, 22 months! Here we go. Last p day.... What did we do? We got up in the morning at five o'clock to be exact and we went fishing for like three hours. We didn't catch anything except for the fishes that we kind of stole out of another man's net before we realized that it was a net put there intentionally. Oops. After that we came back to the house and we talked to family for a long time and then we headed over to a restaurant called the Outside Inn and it is actually a hotel. So it's a play on words Outside Inn, Outside I-n-n... fun. Also on p day we got a new desk. So I have a study desk now that I can study on. I fixed my bike so my bike's all fixed up and now I can ride it really well. Elder Milang washed h...

Howdy Friends, This is a long one folks. Ethan is being stretched on the home stretch. :) Since he has a Thai companion he probably enjoyed speaking English for a bit, even if it was just into his phone. :) I'm being stretched with these Thai words I can't spell. Hahahaha!  It's funny to hear him struggle to find the English translation for what he wants to say sometimes, he'll mumble things like, how do you say that in English?? And then after a minute he'll say, oh yeah! Thanks to all of you who support him! Hello Everyone, The weeks are flying by, kind of. I'm really tired this week. Last p-day we got up and played some basketball with a member who is the EQ president and he's way cool and his English is way good. He's an English tutor and he's a really good baller. He plays at the park all the time. It was really fun. Then we had some breakfast, went over to the computer lab for a little bit, had  lunch and then came home. We did some laundry an...

Hello Everybody! This is week April 15th to April 21st. This includes the rest of our water festival, Songkran. Monday we got up and it wasn't like a normal p day. We didn't go to the computer lab or anything because we were too busy having too much fun. We spent the morning emailing (from our phones) and there was some time where my phone broke and I was afraid that it would be forever gone. But somehow around 11 o'clock it came back up so we were good to go. We went to a member's house and we played some Songkran, which really just means participating in the nation wide water fight. We used her hose, filled up a bunch of buckets and just soaked the people that were driving motorcycles and cars, not really cars because the windows were closed, but motorcycles on the way past her house... just soaked people, it was way fun. At one point there was this old British man that was going by. At first I didn't hear him. So as he was driving by and I was getting ready to s...

A little info about this letter. 1) I have no idea how to spell any of the names he says in his voice memos... sound it out... sorry about that. :) 2) In Thailand they watch General Conference a week behind the live broadcast but this year the week behind fell over Songkran (a big National Holiday- 3 days worth) which made it crazy. He sounds like a kid in a candy store when he talks about the buckets of water they threw around. :) I'm all caught up until tomorrow! Transfers were last week and Ethan has been transferred to Ubon. They have whitewashed the area and he is training again. Dear Everyone, It's the week of April 8th to April 14th. Last Monday we had a shortened p day because of the water festival that was happening here this weekend. So all we did was get up and go to the computer lab, register for classes and get stuff ready for the next week. Then we headed over to an investigator's house and he cut our hair for free which was way nice of him. After that we got...