Dear Family,
Life is marvelous. E. Campbell is possibly the funniest man I know. I've spent the last week laughing my head off. It was pretty great. If I were to name this week it would be: The Week of Dropped Appointments. We had at least 2-3 appointments fall through each day. It was awful. Consequently, a lot of our investigators were put on the shelf (aka dropped). It was pretty frustrating. The worst was this lady who we had an appointment to meet on Saturday. We stopped by her workplace 20 minutes before we were supposed to meet to confirm the appointment. She said she would meet us. She didn't come. Nuts. The worst part of canceled appointments is feeling like we wasted the members' time. It is the worst.
This week we served B. ป้อม (Pom). We made the trek to his house and helped him cut wood. It was pretty fun. His outfit was the best. He looked like a dwarf from Snow White. Classic. #Badnewsbears: While chopping wood, the axe bounced off the wood block and nailed my right shin. It hurt like crazy. It cut to the bone. Blood was everywhere. Since B. Pom lives so far out of town it took a while to get to the hospital and I fainted from blood-loss. 2 hours and a few blood transfusions later I regained consciousness in a thai hospital with a very sore leg. Don't worry though, the doctor said after a month of resting I should be as good as new. Definitely put a damper on the day. PSYCH. Don't worry mom...I didn't actually chop my leg in half. The real story: I'm going hard in the paint on this wood chunk axing it to pieces, well trying to at least. Finally it splits in two. Unfortunately, one piece jumps up and nails me right in the knee. It hurt. BAD. It was that kind of pain that makes you nauseous. I had to set the axe down and walk it off for a few minutes while doing yoga breaths to soothe the pain. So in the end, I don't have a prosthetic leg. Just a bruised knee.
#TastyBusiness: E. Campbell likes to eat Hi-so (stands for high society, thai people use it all the time). Which means we have been checking out the fanciest restaurants in Chiangmai, and boy are there a ton. We ate at: G Long Burger (tasty and plays good music, smallest serving of french toast ever though), Paradise Pizza (HUGE slices), 3 Little Pigs (New Orleans style BBQ, aka Yum), F Full (banana pancakes, rumor has it Jack Johnson ate here and then wrote a song about it), El Diablo (Oh Baby that was a tasty burrito), Fai Bakery (don't need to go back...ever), The Dukes (takes the cake). The real challenge will be eating like this every week and still having money at the end of the month.
So Thailand is great. I love it. The church is true. The Book of Mormon is still true. The Liahona is the best magazine ever. Life is good.
Much Love,
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
#Hashtags:
Went on a cave tour this morning full of Buddhist lore and "dinosaur fossils." #nowaythatsadinosaur #bogusbusiness
New Liahona this week. #hallelujah.
package requests: not chocolate, hamburger helper.
Life is marvelous. E. Campbell is possibly the funniest man I know. I've spent the last week laughing my head off. It was pretty great. If I were to name this week it would be: The Week of Dropped Appointments. We had at least 2-3 appointments fall through each day. It was awful. Consequently, a lot of our investigators were put on the shelf (aka dropped). It was pretty frustrating. The worst was this lady who we had an appointment to meet on Saturday. We stopped by her workplace 20 minutes before we were supposed to meet to confirm the appointment. She said she would meet us. She didn't come. Nuts. The worst part of canceled appointments is feeling like we wasted the members' time. It is the worst.
This week we served B. ป้อม (Pom). We made the trek to his house and helped him cut wood. It was pretty fun. His outfit was the best. He looked like a dwarf from Snow White. Classic. #Badnewsbears: While chopping wood, the axe bounced off the wood block and nailed my right shin. It hurt like crazy. It cut to the bone. Blood was everywhere. Since B. Pom lives so far out of town it took a while to get to the hospital and I fainted from blood-loss. 2 hours and a few blood transfusions later I regained consciousness in a thai hospital with a very sore leg. Don't worry though, the doctor said after a month of resting I should be as good as new. Definitely put a damper on the day. PSYCH. Don't worry mom...I didn't actually chop my leg in half. The real story: I'm going hard in the paint on this wood chunk axing it to pieces, well trying to at least. Finally it splits in two. Unfortunately, one piece jumps up and nails me right in the knee. It hurt. BAD. It was that kind of pain that makes you nauseous. I had to set the axe down and walk it off for a few minutes while doing yoga breaths to soothe the pain. So in the end, I don't have a prosthetic leg. Just a bruised knee.
#TastyBusiness: E. Campbell likes to eat Hi-so (stands for high society, thai people use it all the time). Which means we have been checking out the fanciest restaurants in Chiangmai, and boy are there a ton. We ate at: G Long Burger (tasty and plays good music, smallest serving of french toast ever though), Paradise Pizza (HUGE slices), 3 Little Pigs (New Orleans style BBQ, aka Yum), F Full (banana pancakes, rumor has it Jack Johnson ate here and then wrote a song about it), El Diablo (Oh Baby that was a tasty burrito), Fai Bakery (don't need to go back...ever), The Dukes (takes the cake). The real challenge will be eating like this every week and still having money at the end of the month.
So Thailand is great. I love it. The church is true. The Book of Mormon is still true. The Liahona is the best magazine ever. Life is good.
Much Love,
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
#Hashtags:
Went on a cave tour this morning full of Buddhist lore and "dinosaur fossils." #nowaythatsadinosaur #bogusbusiness
New Liahona this week. #hallelujah.
package requests: not chocolate, hamburger helper.
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