Hey Family!
What's up!
This week was fantastic. Truly Splendid.
Loved it. Yep.
So transfer meeting is tomorrow. It got moved because of
Christmas flights being more expensive or something. Anyway, we got the details
this morning: E. Barfuss is moving. I'm getting a new companion...again. I'm
praying he is Thai. But I still am yet to have a companion for more than 6
weeks. Maybe I am just too difficult to work with and all my companions request
to move. Hopefully not.
Friday...Zone Conference. It was great. We met
at the Central (giant mall) in Udorn...to go bowling. Yep. The whole zone
along with Pres. Senior and his wife went bowling. It was a blast. The alley
was playing Christmas music too! So sweet. Then we went to the church and had
the training, which blew our minds (well my mind at least). President Senior
changed the lessons key indicator. We used to count something as a lesson if we
prayed and shared a piece of doctrine. Now it counts as a lesson if you leave
them with a feeling of wonder. It totally changes the focus of the work.
Missionaries used to get caught up in praying in order to count it as a lesson
and focusing on numbers. Now the focus is not the number at all, but the
feeling we leave with people. I guess our key indicators can sky rocket now,
but the real point is that we leave people who we meet with feelings of
"exquisite wonder." So sweet. After the training we lit off some lanterns as a
zone and went to a crazy expensive buffet. We went hard in the paint there. My
house of elders agreed to pause our 40 day fast since it was our Christmas
dinner and all. Aka I went hard at the ice cream bar. Yeah buddy.
#tastybusiness.
The dinner ended up taking pretty long so we didn't have time
to catch a bus back to Nongkhai. After trying several hotels that were all full
we ended up crashing at the Udorn elders' house...aka I slept on a tiny couch.
Calling it sleep isn't quite accurate. I tried to sleep on a tiny couch. It
was a rough night.
My favorite person in Nongkhai: I love Nongkhai. One
reason I love it is because of the people. One person in particular is a
champ. She is 4 and a half feet tall. She has an out of tune guitar that she
can't play. And she can't talk. But she wears hoodrat sunglasses. She is the
best. She doesn't know how to play but she strums her heart out. She does this
little dance as she plays too. It is so funny. She inspires me, she is dirt
poor, can't sing, can't play guitar, but she still has a good time rocking on
the side of the street. Epitome of finding joy in what you
have.
Well I love you all! Talk to you next week.
Elder M.
Riley Creer
The Only
#hashtags:
That surprise moment when
you have to give the Thai equivalent of a wedding toast...#Nuts.
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