MTC 3.13.12

HEY!

How is life? What is going on in America? How bout the world? Are the pyramids still there?

The MTC rocks. This week flew by. It was pretty nuts. The new Thai district came in on the 7th. They are sweet. They are learning sooo fast! They are going to be experts for sure! One of them is named Elder Cox, he is way smart #hetalkslikeanessay. But they are all pretty cool.

So last night E. Gibbons and I taught Phii Beer. We were planning on teaching him about the plan of salvation and committing him to repent, but he had a question about why some people in church didn't take the sacrament. We spent the entire lesson explaining how some people didn't take the sacrament because they had not sufficiently repented so they weren't worthy, how bishops help us repent, and how repentance blesses our life. In the end we still were able commit him to repent. It was awesome! We had this great plan, but the Spirit had a better plan. I loved it. Earlier that day we learned about teaching people, not lessons. We learned that we need to listen to the investigator but also listen to the spirit and then follow the promptings we receive. And that is what we did! It was marvelous as grandpa would say. I realized that sometimes I rely on my own wisdom and strength too much. I need to turn to the Lord for guidance and follow the promptings of the spirit. Teaching the gospel is #lowkey amazing.

On a lighter note Story time: This morning some of the English elders in our branch left for Atlanta. Elder Gibbons wanted to say goodbye to them before they left...at 3:20 AM. Being his companion, I have to go with him. So at 3:20 his alarm goes off, he wakes up and gingerly steps off his top bunk onto mine sending earthquake-like tremors through my mattress. I laid there, pretending to be asleep. I was hoping E. Gibbons wouldn't have the courage to wake me up. He did. So we get up and go to the departing elders' room. They aren't there. At this point I am thinking, "Alright, back to bed!" But E. Gibbons thinks they are at the travel office and wants to go down say by to them there. So we get there and there is not an elder in sight. So E. Gibbons asks the travel office employees where they went. They tell us they left already. So we leave. E. Gibbons is sure they haven't left yet, so we turn around and go back just to be sure they aren't hiding the elders in the back room or something. So we ask the employees again if they left already. They say yes. E. Gibbons says, "I thought they weren't supposed to leave until 4." The travel guy looks at the clock and says "yeah they left 30 minutes ago." This is when E. Gibbons realizes he forgot to change is clock for daylight savings time. So we woke up at what we thought was 3 AM to say goodbye to elders who already left. It was grand...#psych. #GoodtimesintheMTC

Oh, Sunday morning we had the craziest thing happen. Elder Engle was brushing his teeth when his jaw locked open. He couldn't move it. I guess it started hurting real bad too. As he was running out the door to go to the front desk to head to the hospital E. Gibbons asked if he wanted a blessing. So E. Gibbons annointed, and I sealed it and gave him a blessing. It was hectic. So they peaced out right after and were gone until lunch. We were all freaking out, Elder Engle is probably the most loved elder in our district. Our district isn't complete without him. But it turns out, they were about to give him a shot to relax his muscles and fix his jaw when all of a sudden he could close it again. Just like that. Crazy huh?

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"I have this 6th sense where I can sense when people are upset." #Ithoughtthosewerecalledsocialskills #Icouldbewrong

Much love all of you.

Elder M. Riley Creer

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