Hey Family!
This week has been an adventure.
It started out with a funeral. B. Direk from
Nongkynonks lost his daughter this past week. He asked the elders and
President Senior (they are from the same stake in Arizona) to help him put a
service together. So we did. I never thought I'd be planning a
funeral on my mission. We rounded up as many of the elders who have
served in Nongkhai as we could and headed to the mortuary to show our love to
B. Direk and his family. The service reminded me how great the Plan of
Salvation is, how blessed we are to know about it, and how urgently we need to
share it. Others don't know. It's our job to tell them.
Later in the week, E. Davies and I were sent to Ayuthaya to
conduct exchanges. I was with E. Gibbons for the day. MTC reunion
baby! It is nuts to think that I was with him in the MTC. Part of
me thinks it was just yesterday. Part of me thinks it was a life ago.
Highlight of the day: I wrote in concrete. Real talk.
I wrote "Jesus Christ lives" in this shopowner's driveway.
We were riding by and I saw the concrete man smoothing out the stuff.
I stopped and asked if I could write in it. He said ask the owner. So
I did. She was all for it. But then the concrete man said we'd have
to come back later when it was more dry. So we did. Turns out
writing in concrete is really hard. I kept hitting pebbles that would pop
out leaving a fat hole in the middle of the letter. After some serious
sweating it looked ok and I was pleased. Now her driveway will announce
to all her customers that Christ lives. Yeah Buddy.
Yesterday. I got my Thai driving license. The
test was a joke. Seriously. There were 4 parts. Part 1: This
lady had us identify the color of the bulb on the traffic light. Red.
Yellow. Yellow. Green. It was pretty nerve-racking. Part 2:
we had to push this button that moved a pole until it was inline with the other
pole. I think it was testing our depth perception. Easy. Part
3: My favorite. We pressed on the gas. The light turned
green. When it turned red we had to switch to the brake. It tested
our reaction time. This one lady failed twice in a row! She either
couldn't press the brake with her 4 inch heels or has the slowest reaction time
in the world. Super funny. Part 4: we had to put our face in this
little device that had lights in our peripherals. Again we had to tell
the employee what color we saw. Nutshell: all the tests have made me
increasingly fearful of Thai drivers. Anyone can get a license here!
Well. I love you. Let the Spirit guide.
When the Holy Ghost speaks, it is the one voice you can't answer with a
"Don't tell me what to do!"
Elder M. Riley Creer
The Only
Mom...Do I need to worry about BYU business? Housing
business? Have you found me a 2 month program to become a master welder?
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