Hello Family.
#Lowkey jealous of the Yellowstone trip. But no worries Thailand is still treating me well.
This week I discovered something great. It is called Sweetened Condensed Non-Dairy Creamer. Thai people throw it on stuff all the time and boy is it good. Last night we made french toast for Sunday Dinner. We were almost out of syrup. Crisis. Nope not anymore: Sweetened Condensed Non-Dairy Creamer. It saved the day. Throw that mess on your french toast and it tastes like magic. An even better combo is the SCNC with some syrup. Now you're talkin. But Thai people put it on snacks all the time. They load it on âõÕ's, it is some #tastybusiness.
Yesterday we had a family come to church out of the blue. It was sweet. On the real, we sort of gave up on them. We haven't been able to meet for a while and they weren't really going anywhere but then they just came to church! SCORE. It was a grandma, her daughter, and her 2 grandsons. The grandsons are nuts. Whenever we are at their house trying to teach, they are running around playing Dino Beatdown. They are obsessed with dinosaurs, it is kind of extreme. Well sure enough they started playing Dino Beatdown in Sacrament meeting. The youngest one was sort of roaming the chapel the entire meeting and every now and again the older one would growl/screech/roar (mix of all three) and take a swipe at his bro. It was pretty hilarious. Luckily they didn't get as crazy at church as they do at home...that would have been a mess.
So the scripture thought for this week is found in Alma 14:13. This is when Alma and Amulek are preaching to the people of Ammonihah. This verse is when Alma and Amulek are watching the saints being burned alive. Amulek thinks they should try and stop the madness but Alma says the Spirit is constraining him. Then Amulek says perhaps they'll burn us too. Alma responds, "Be it according to the will of the Lord." What a champ. He might be burned to death and he basically says well if the Lord wills that we die then we die. His submissiveness to the will of the Lord is awe-inspiring. I studied Faith quite a bit this morning. Faith is so crucial. Without it we can't receive a remission of our sins (BD: Faith). I learned that it is an abiding Trust in the will of the Lord, that His will is what's best for us. I especially like Helaman 5:9-12, if we have faith we can last through the storms that beat against us. Ridiculous Metaphor: Faith is like a spiritual back brace (allusion to past events). If we build our faith it will act as a support through rough times, helping us to stand tall when the adversary is trying to break us down. Something else that hit me this morning is how we must have patience in developing our faith. In Alma 32, Alma compares faith to a seed that eventually grows into a fruit-bearing tree. Sometimes we expect our faith to sprout up bear fruit over night or in a week, but last time I checked trees take decades to grow. The same is with our faith, we won't be a spiritual redwood in a couple days but over time with diligence and patience and with help from the Lord we can become stronger than we ever thought.
Well that is enough metaphors for the month. Life is still great. The church is still true. I still love my family.
Peace.
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
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Finish teaching a family and ask any questions. All they can ask is why one of you speaks way clearly and one of you doesn't...#ThatHurtsTheTeam
Got a shirt with a giant mustache on it...yes #missionaryswag
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