Hello Family
Life is splendid. Way splendid.
We had a baptism on Sunday! Her name is Lue (I have no
idea how to spell it in English, you say it like queue but with an L).
She bore an awesome testimony about prayer. It was marvelous.
I love hearing recent converts testimonies. Hearing them share
life-altering experiences with prayer is priceless. Just last night we
asked her to help us teach some investigators from English class. She
nailed it. She bore a sweet testimony of prayer and giving up Buddhism for
something better. Nutshell: Listening recent converts' testimonies are my
paychecks. Worth far more than money.
The mission is exploding with miracles right now. This
month is really an inflection point. Things are changing. The Lord
truly is hastening His work...so are we. Up and up from here. It is
exciting to be here in Asoke working with President. We get to hear all
the miracles and stellar stories.
Our November goal of each companionship with a baptism (aka
Bovember) is unifying the mission. Districts and zones are pulling
together to help out the companionships that haven't had a baptism yet.
We are becoming one. We are realizing that this is God's work not
our own. And we want everyone to be successful laboring in His vineyard.
aka: The mission is killing it right now. Oh baby.
That hurts the team moment: I was riding the MRT (subway)
with E. Davies. We were coming back from a teaching appointment near
Chinatown. The train was packed. I had talked to everyone in my
immediate vicinity. No success. I saw a small gap in the masses
with a teenage girl on the other side. I felt like I needed to talk to
her. So I slipped through the gap and started a conversation about being
cleansed from sin. After explaining, I asked her if she would like to
wash her sins away. Before she could answer this woman behind me taps me
on the shoulder and asks, "Are you bothering her?" Taken back I
answered that I wasn't. Not satisfied she asks the girl with whom I was
speaking. The girl responds similarly. Still not satisfied she
asked me, "Have you asked her yet if you are bothering her?" So
I asked the girl. She said I wasn't. So the interrupter turned
around and went back to her iphone. It was bizarre. I wish I would
have sang that song "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter or turned and started
asking if she wanted a better life through baptism. Perhaps it is better
that I didn't. Anyway, the whole exchange was awkward and left me baffled
that she would get so upset that I was talking to a girl about remission of
sins.
Miracle Moment: We went to Bangbuathong (west BKK) to
help them find someone who wanted to be baptized. I went with E. Pyne to
declare repentance by a market. We were there for a couple hours.
They were a rough couple hours. We got rejected the entire time.
Either they didn't want to be cleansed from sin, didn't have sin, or
thought they were cleansing sin by praying to their statues. Feeling a
little disappointed we boarded a bus to head back to the church to meet the others.
On the bus I sat there praying, asking for help, asking for miracles,
when opened my eyes and looked up. The first thing I saw was a man
sitting in the front of the bus with space next to him. I got up and
moved to talk to him. I pulled out a baptism picture as I went.
Amazingly the girl sitting next to him whispered, "baptism by
water." I was stunned. 99% of Thai people think the guy with
his arm raised is going to whack the other one, or he is checking his pulse. They
never know what it is. So after I talked with the man I originally saw, I
turned and chatted with the girl. They were both willing to meet again
and talk about baptism. The Lord answers prayers. Pray without
ceasing and you will see miracles without ceasing. Holler.
Don't forget. The Book of Mormon is the word of God.
It testifies of Christ. So do I. He lives.
Lotsa Love
Elder M. Riley Creer
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