Yes. This week was pretty sweet. It was a bit of a roller coaster though. It started out way good, had a loop in the middle and ended crawling back to the station.
We served one of our investigators this week. She has crazy back pain so we cut her lawn (thinking of starting a landscaping company when I get back, I'll have plenty of experience). Well lawn doesn't really do her yard justice. I think jungle describes it better. The grass was as tall as me in places (not saying much). We attacked that mess with a hoe, a machete, and some pruning shears. Yeah...it took a long time. We were all so sore the next day it was ridiculous. It'd be a great ending to this story if she came to church and started gulping the gospel after we served her...but the truth is we haven't been able to meet her since. Part of the reason is because it is really hard to get male members to come help us, the other part is because the phone number she gave us was actually her 12 year old nephew's number. We'll see what happens this week though.
The loop: E. Heslop exchanged with E. Staten in Kalasin which means I got to work with E. Tzanis in Khonkaen. E. Tzanis is nuts. He is probably the funniest missionary I know. He is from Australia and freaking hilarious. We had a blast together and got some good stuff done. We taught one or our new baptismal daters and it was a stellar lesson. We were teaching Fern (yeah that's her name) about the restoration with our branch mission leader and some other members. It was nuts. The spirit was all over that business. Fern totally gets it too. It is awesome teaching her. But it was a powerful lesson full of the Spirit. The branch mission leader said he understood 95% of what I said #holleratthegiftoftongues. It was definitely the highlight of my week. I could feel the Spirit working through me, testifying to Fern.
The last two days: Saturday is when things started slowing down. I don't know if it is because I made the plans without E. Heslop (I planned with E. Tzanis) or just because crazy stuff happens. But we switched back and our streak of teaching a lot just dropped off the cliff. The appointments we had for that night canceled. So we went inviting...and didn't teach a single lesson. Yikes. So that was kind of a bummer. We were looking forward to Sunday though, we had 5 or 6 appointments planned. Well they all canceled except for one (humbling much?). So we invited until our only remaining appointment, rode our bikes across the city and find out the dad of the family isn't going to be home until 8. Nuts. The bad part is we didn't find out in time to tell sister นก (she was going to help us teach) not to come, so she rolls up right after we find out the dad isn't even home. It was a bummer. But sister นก was super cool about it. So yeah the last two days we haven't taught a single lesson. It was a real lame way to end the week. We have good plans for this next week though, it'll be sick nasty.
Scripture of the week: Ether 12:4. First of all, I really love Ether 12. It is champion status. But I think this verse is awesome. If we believe in God then we can hope for a better world, and this hope ties our souls to the gospel because if we want to reach that better world we need to live worthy of it. I'm not sure that last sentence makes sense but Moroni (at least I think he is the one talking) says it better anyway.
Keepin it real in Thailand,
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
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