Saphaan Sung 6.17.13

Hello family.

This week was nuts.  So nuts.  Thursday we had zone conference.  We learned about desire, diligence and duty.  I really enjoyed it.  I wore my new suit.  It's pretty snazzy.  I was tempted to wear the shorts but opted for the pants instead (maybe next time).  The training E. Thomas and I gave for our zone was pretty good.  We talked about how they need to always be finding and always be bringing people closer to Christ. We focused on the in-between time.  We wanted them to constantly be bringing people closer to Christ, even in the 15 minutes in between lessons.

At zone conference they announced a new rule.  For 2 hours a day we are to street contact.  To start it off, Friday was going to be a Dan Jones Day.  All day.  They asked us to keep Friday completely open, no appointments.  They also forbade advertising for English class (sometimes we use English class as an easy cop out instead of telling someone about the gospel) and asked us to count the number of times we testified of Christ.  I was pumped.  It was going to be epic.

After zone conference we exchanged companions and I went to Bangkapi with E. Flanary.  He is a fairly young missionary so it was a good building experience.  While planning what we were going to do on Friday, we found these sweet signs in their house with all sorts of pictures of Christ and snippets of doctrine.  Score.  We decided we would walk around all day carrying these bad boys, testifying of Christ to everyone we saw.  So we did.  It was awesome.  We hit up some different spots in their area trying to talk to as many people as possible.  We tried an exercise park (testifying to runners and speed walkers isn't very effective), a supermarket during lunch hours (testifying to starving employees rushing to eat isn't very ideal either), a sitting area at a mall (yeah buddy) and the taxi stop in front of a mall ($$$ in the bank!).  For the last couple hours of the day we got some members to go with us and we set up a table in front of this huge mall.  We passed out almost an entire box of copies of the Book of Mormon!  The members loved it, they got so excited sharing the gospel.  In the end, I testified of my Savior 54 times.  It was marvelous.

So yeah...my week was awesome.  My suit is audacious.  Christ is my Savior.

Much Love!

Elder M. Riley Creer

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