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…
Margaret and Mrs. Bulkley visit an old Buddhist temple in Nakhon and did some sightseeing. The temple was beautiful and supposedly contained relics of the Buddha. Margaret further describes the temple and its surroundings. The history of the temple…
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…
Dr. Bulkley had a passion for animals. He really wanted to be a doctor for animals, not human beings. Kenneth tells the story of his first visit to the Bulkley's house. He noticed many tiger skulls sorted from smallest to biggest. He hunted them…
Kenneth talks about Bill, who injured his knees and had recovered, and who was bossing the servants. He also talks about Peggy, who couldn't play rough like Bill, but just loved when her father played with her.
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 could visit people in the country about once a year, and the postal system was reliable. He decided to start "epistolary evangelism" and wrote letters to the people he visited and other interested persons. This allowed him to keep in touch…
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.
Kenneth wrote that Margaret looked plump and healthy. She said that she felt better than at any time since coming to Thailand. Peggy had a "sort of fragile-looking beauty, and is very dainty in all she does. That is, she is until she decides to spank…
Every day Kenneth reviewed four chapters of Scripture that he had memorized, and memorized one new chapter. Every day he read at least two chapters of German and learned thirty new words. Every day he studied Greek and Hebrew for three hours after…
Kenneth had some bad teeth and went up to Bangkok in early September to have them fixed. While there, he did some shopping for the family. Cloth for dresses. Other articles to wear. The Sunday he was in Bangkok, he preached on the Holy Spirit.
Kenneth tells of how an elephant was dousing him and Ngiap Seng and filling their car with water when they were on an evangelistic tour. The two men were driving along the road when they saw an elephant coming the opposite direction, with a mahout on…
Kenneth tells of the first time he ever used a bathing cloth. It was on one of his earliest tours, in 1928, and Kenneth wanted to take an evening bath—rather than just throw water over himself at the Chinese hotel. So Kenneth set out with his bathing…
Kenneth tells again the story of Ken Wells and the buffalo, near Hua Hin, where the King had a palace. He had come down on the railroad to be with Margaretta and the rest of them, and being impatient to get to the beach, he had taken a shortcut…
Once, Kenneth was in a Chinese cookshop to get some cookies, and elephants and the mahout were nearby. As he was holding his cup in his hand, "all of a sudden a great big trunk came sliding in over my shoulder and sucked up my cookies. They all just…
One day Kenneth and his evangelist couldn't find a place to sleep for the night, so they decided to spend the night in their dugout canoe. Kenneth went to sleep and began to have a nightmare of sorts, a feeling that all was not well, and that somehow…