Kenneth and Margaret had dinner with a family named Elder. After dinner, as he was turning the car the wires on his horn broke and almost immediately were on fire. Kenneth got a few burns but the car was fine. This was a miracle.
On an evangelistic tour Kenneth called on the head of the monks and offered to teach them about Christianity. They set up a time when the monks would come to the Landons' house. They had many of these sessions, and at the end Kenneth rewarded them…
Kenneth began taking long evening walks. He was getting used to walking several miles at the time, seeing but Siamese and Chinese, visiting shops, and talking with people. This gave him an opportunity for street evangelism.
Kenneth reads a letter he wrote about his concern for Margaret mental state, his desire to see her do something outside the home, expressing the need for her to get back to writing again and doing other things beside run the home every day.
Kenneth was gone for an evangelistic tour and visited an awful town where there was a murder about every week and bad women and men skylarking all over the place.
Ma Pawm and Ah Sim came to the Landons very poor and not so nice looking. Margaret taught both of them many things and they greatly improved. Ma Pawm was fond of Kenneth and even more so of Carol when she was born. There was a lot of work to do, and…
Ma Pawm and Ah Sim came to the Landons very poor and not so nice looking. Margaret taught both of them many things and they greatly improved. Ma Pawm was fond of Kenneth and even more so of Carol when she was born. There was a lot of work to do, and…
There was an eclipse to which scientists from around the world were coming to observe in South Siam. Kenneth wanted to go there and seize the opportunity to preach the gospel. He was always ready to take whatever occasion was available to him.
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's Siamese teacher taught him the high, scholarly Thai language of the Bible, and this turned out to make him sound funny when speaking the language in ordinary conversation. He was told that he spoke Siamese like the Bible.
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 is back home at last after six weeks on evangelistic tour. He and Margaret were so excited to get together again that they couldn't sleep. Kenneth talks about the children growing up and learning well. He recalls with amusement having a…
The second week after the Landons arrived in Siam, Kenneth preached in a Siamese church to a white congregation. On Thursday, the vacation day, they went to visit a snake farm, where they saw vipers, cobras, and hamadryads. The handler of the snake…
During an evangelistic bike tour Kenneth stopped to patch up his tire when, all of a sudden, a whole gang of gibbons came hooting down through the trees and began to crash along beside him, shouting, "Whoo whoo whoowhoowhoowhoo!" They were leaping…
Kenneth and Margaret attended a wedding dinner that was scheduled for 7:00. Naturally they arrived there early, but everything was very quiet. They found a few people and sat there eating watermelon and chatting, just to kill time. At some point…
Kenneth took Margaret to Bangkok for the birth of their third child, Carol. The busy pace of life in the capital city quickly wore him down. One night there was a dinner party with the Horsts, the Proctors, and the Seigles. Kenneth was sitting next…
Kenneth remembers he and Margaret riding bikes hom from a church service. Margaret was ahead, the two of them pedaling along, and as she looked ahead, she suddenly said, "Look at that funny star that's jiggling around up there!" Kenneth suddenly…
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…
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…
Kenneth's parish extended from the Malay border all the way up to Chumphon, a couple hundred miles. The peninsula was about ninety miles wide. And he covered every part of it. "I went by every means of transportation that's ever been invented. I…
Kenneth speaks of all the traveling he did. His parish extended from the Malay border up to Chumphon, and he really toured his parish. That meant he traveled by train, by dugout canoe, by elephant, by bullock cart, by foot, and by any other way he…
Kenneth explains how he and Margaret decided to resign from mission work. One trouble they had related to a monthly letter to their fellow missionaries that caused some resentment among them. The second was Kenneth's involvement in collecting…
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 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…