Hello Family,
I am now in Nongkhai. I was transferred. From Chiangmai.
Aka I fell from heaven. Just kidding, but leaving Chiangmai was pretty rough.
Actually both E. Campbell and I were transferred. He was ticked. It is his 4th
area in 5 transfers. Wowzers. So I still have not had a companion for more
than 1 transfer...I guess I am just too much of a trouble maker or something.
But Nongkhai is sweet. It is right on the border of Thai and Laos. Aka I walk
outside our door, look left across the river and I see Laos. It's pretty
awesome. My new companion is E. Barfuss. He is from Detroit, Michigan. He
just finished training. He loves the people here.
Highlight of last
week: Monday. P-day. We get a call Sunday night from the Zone Leaders. A
member wants to take us out to eat. Yeah buddy. It gets better. She takes us
to a hotel...with a buffet...with ice cream. Now we're talking. So all 8 of us
missionaries stuffed our faces. It was money. Pause, it gets better. That
night the district president wanted to take E. Campbell, me, S. Roper, and S.
Stolworthy (the sister mish in our branch) to the Dukes for dinner. The Dukes
is mega #tastybusiness. So of course we accepted. It was delicious. Nutshell:
We ate 2 awesome meals on Monday and didn't have to pay a cent. Holler at those
generous members baby.
After that epic day of eating, we had English
Class on Tuesday. It was NUTS. It was showcase week, which means we go hard in
the paint with the planning and preparation and play more games than actually
learn English. Well we made it Halloween themed and had 4 rooms with different
activities that the students rotated between. We had a cookie decorating room
(pumpkin style), a scary maze, a story room (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), and a
Halloween fruit basket game. We thought we had it all nailed down. Then we saw
how many people came. 123. There was 5 seconds of we're-done-for type thinking
before the let's-go-hard type thinking set in. We went hard. It was sick.
Tons of the new people were interested to learn more about the gospel. It was
legendary (as E. Barfuss would say). Then the next day I got transferred.
Dang.
About Nongkhai: Our house is sweet. It's a 4 elder house (E.
Tzanis and E. Schad are the other two). Our beds are HUGE. We're talking queen
size here folks. It is great. The downside is the shower. I feel like I can
draw the water from a well faster than the pump shoots it out of the nozzle.
Way worse compared to the brand new shower we had for 2 days in Chiangmai (shame
it was only 2 days). The branch here is smaller than Chiangmai, about 40 came
yesterday. The members are way willing to help us though. After church a
member told us she wanted to take us to see her friend. So we grabbed a male
member and away we went. We drove through a sketchy Buddhist graveyard, a pygmy
village, and a tunnel with HUGE bats. We get to her friends house and teach her
about Heavenly Father, prayer and touch on baptism. She accepts a soft
baptismal commitment saying she'll get baptized when she knows it's true and
then prays to close. Solid. If all the members here are like this sister then
Yahtzee!
About E. Barfusss: He is pretty funny. He says the word
legendary a lot. He played soccer for BYU Hawaii (sponsored). His Thai is
typical of someone on moves 3, but the members rip him apart for it. He'll get
it though.
Well life is great. Nongkhai is pretty sublime.
Love
you tons!
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
#Hashtags:
#Psych!
Didn't really see a pygmy village...or a tunnel with large bats.
Problem: too
many ties. Solution: make a tie rack...#ghetto style.
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