Kenneth signed a "ministry contract" with Kru Pram Wari to go to seminary training and return to be one of his pastors. Ku Pram was a very personable man, but the plan never worked out. Kenneth does not know what became of the man.
Kenneth had his first service in the Chinese language in August 1929. The Chinese were delighted and "could even understand me." It was a strange experience for him to be taken for a "babar" (half Chinese). He was the only white man to speak both…
Kenneth wrote a letter to his mother who had sent him a songbook. He owned several musical instruments. He was in Sengora where he expected to stay for a month or so. It was a very disorderly city. The Chinese were astonished at Kenneth's language…
Kenneth reads a letter to his father in response to news about his mother's death and burial. He tells of his appreciation for the way the funeral was done and talks about Peggy's birthday, and his father's needs.
Kenneth wrote a letter to his father concerning a gift he was sending him for Christmas. It was a little engraved pendant for his watch, with the title words "won chai" (victory day). He tells about his 22 miles walk through the jungle with his…
Kenneth wrote to his father that his mother, Mae's ruby ring came to him safely. Kenneth received and treasured it, before he gave it to Peggy who now owns it. He tells the story of him buying the ring (he always made more money than his brother…
Peggy often had a sore throat, and Kenneth would ask her to open her mouth so that he could see her beautiful tonsils. One day the Landons had guests and Peggy was trying to entertain them. Suddenly she realized that she had something special to show…
Kenneth reads his letter in which he talks about riding on a train with Mrs. Seigle in Nakhon. She visited the Landons for a week and enjoyed the visit. He refers to Margaret wearing the Ruby Ring that once belonged to Kenneth's mother Mae. Kenneth…
Once Kenneth returned home and found the Bovee family well established in the Landons house. They had come from Singapore and did not have money to contribute to the expenses of the household. Kenneth also wrote father about having communion in…
The Landons were planing to leave for the US on furlough in a year and a half. He mentioned travel plans and where in the US they might be staying, his interest in a business course, his impressions of the human nature and the church worldwide. He…
Kenneth was going to be in Phuket on the West coast of Siam to evangelize and distribute Gospels. He writes his father about his travel plans and his age.
Kenneth wrote from Phuket and was hoping that Margaret and the children would come up. He met Dr. Toy who was in charge of the local Chinese church. He was looking to God to support him, which Kenneth agreed with, but he found Dr. Toy's support…
Kenneth met a lot of people he knew while on evangelistic tour in Pnang. He talks of the books of Scripture he memorized (he was hoping to memorize the New Testament), his encounter with the governor who took him on a day long tour in a Sussex…
Kenneth writes to his father that he had received the will he had written and was keeping it in a safety deposit box. He talks about his mother's death and how he wondered about his father's bills. He mentions that Margaret's mother never shared her…
There were two Chinese Christian men that were on opium. They had tried to quit opium but could not. Kenneth arranged with them that they should go to the chapel at the time they were to smoke their opium pipes and sing and pray, sing an pray, and so…
Kenneth went to Nakhon to meet a preacher down from Bangkok. This was, in his estimate, the best preacher in Siam. He died during the war bombing of the ship he had sailed on. Kenneth describes the process by which he was processing his photographic…
The Landons inherited from E. P. Dunlap a book in which were the names of people in a village where Dr. Dunlap had worked. Kenneth used the book to retrieve the people in the village and began to address them by name. He visited the village several…
Kenneth ordered a mimeograph machine from Bangkok and was planning to send letters to many Christian families scattered in the Peninsula and to other interested people.
The hospital was built on low pillars, and Kenneth needed to get the cartwheels that were under it. He went under it at night with his flashlight, and suddenly came face to face with a black panther. He thought he was dead, but eventually realized…
Kenneth and Dr. Bulkley had an exotic dinner with tiger, crocodile, elephant, monkey, cobra, and rat meat. They decided that the cobra meat was the best; it tasted like chicken.
Kenneth wrote about troubles on the mission field, talking about modernism as opposed to fundamentalism. Most of the missionaries lived in large cities where they could have a good social life with the slightest amount of business effort. The Landons…
Kenneth tells of the coming of Charles Hak, a Eurasian evangelist in Petchaburi, a very orthodox pastor who studied at Moody Bible Institute. He came to Trang at Kenneth's invitation. There was no money for his support at present, but Dr. Bulkley and…
Kenneth comments on Peggy's "grandpa dress," her beautiful spirit, her sense of cleanness, and her constant desire to help either Kenneth or Margaret. "She's such a darling. You don't have to say things twice for her to understand them. She has a…
Kenneth was sending out his letter once a month, at the first of the month, in all three languages. He explains the process of doing this and his need for more mimeograph supplies at a reasonable cost.