Thanks for your sweet letters. Congrats Jeremy on getting a white coat...with your name on it! #sponsored. I bought a Thai soccer jersey and put ThugFreeWilly on the back...yeah I'll be stylin' for hecka dayz to come. K&J, I'm still waiting on your first date story. Dad: I liked your email. Thanks for the lyrics. As for Buddhist people, a lot of them get excited about Eternal Families. One investigator who has come to church a ton loves that fact that when she prays she can pray for whatever she wants instead of reading out of a Buddhist prayer book. But also, in Buddhism there is no way to be forgiven from sin. So the Atonement and forgiveness definitely float their boats. Sam...you are a chump. How many pairs of skis have you bought this season?? Jj's? Wow. You are so hi-so. Since when are you going on a study abroad to Paris?? What type of study abroad is it? Mom, good luck finding a house. Make sure it has a bell tower for when Quasi comes to stay.
Last Monday, E. Jex and I went to visit a family in the branch and have FHE with them. We took Smores stuff for the treat. They loved them...almost. The dad made one and started to take his first bite. He inhaled some cracker dust as he bit down...he started choking/coughing. Then the mom took a bite right after. She started coughing too! The dad coughed for about 5 minutes, drank some water and then coughed for another 2. Then he said they should change the name to ÊÓÅÑ¡ (which means to choke). It was hilarious. The 2 daughters really liked them though. Thai people think smores are fantastic...except when they almost choke and die.
Free Masons: E. Wilamas and I were on switch offs. We had an appointment with Richard (name has still been changed), the farang from Virginia. E. Wilamas doesn't speak English...aka I had to do all the teaching. We read an article in a recent Liahona about how we need the Church of Christ, how it is necessary. We had an interesting discussion. Then he flips to the table of contents and asks if Joseph Smith was a free mason (free masons came up I think the first time we met him and I said "my mom told me once Joseph Smith was a free mason"). I told him that my mom told me once that he was. Game Over. He goes on this 7 minute rant about how he hates Free Masons and how they are the most evil organization in the world. Way confused, I ask him if he wants to know the Book of Mormon is true. He says, "I already received my answer," as he holds out the Liahona to me. It was opened to the Table of Contents. I don't get it. So I ask for clarification. He points to a picture of a man building a cinderblock wall. Then we open to the article, it's by Tad R. Callister and about Integrity and Christlike Attributes. Apparently Richard saw the picture as a sign that the Free Masons have infiltrated the only true Church of Christ. Yikes. I don't even know who the Free Masons are?! I tried to tell him my knowledge of the Free Masons was limited to the movie National Treasure, but that got him started on a rant about how they have infiltrated Hollywood too. I testified of the Book of Mormon. He didn't listen. He was stuck on Free Masons. He is letting his hate of some random organization keep him out of the best organization in the world. So sad.
Animal encounters. E. Jex had the brilliant idea to buy laser pointers to blind the dogs that chase us on our bikes. We bought some high powered green babies from the market that may or may not be a little on the black side. They are SWEET. You can see the beam go for miles. I felt like a jedi the first time I tried it out. The best part: dogs hate it. They run like crazy when we zap em in the face. Nutshell: Our nightly bike rides just got way more fun!
Life is good.
Much Love
Elder M. Riley Creer
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