Eureka and Lilayi

We have a man from the Philippines who moved into our ward and works as an advertising producer of commercials.  His name is Rene Quero. He's very good.  Anyway, his family is not here and his kids keep asking him if he has seen any animals and his answer is always "no", so one afternoon we went out to Eureka so he could see zebra, giraffe and antelope.  We had a hard time finding the giraffe, but we finally did find them hiding in the back of the park.
 


Then we went to the Baby Elephant Orphanage at Lilayi.  It's always fun to watch the babies.  This time there was a new baby who had just arrived the week before.  He had been attacked by a crocodile while crossing the river after his mother was poached and killed.  The crock got his tail, but not the rest of him.  He was pretty sick and they were not sure until just the last few days if he was going to survive.  It made us think of the Spiritual Crocodiles that Elder Packer talked about.  We can't afford to let those spiritual crocs even get close to us because of the damage they can do, which may be spiritually fatal if we don't get help we need to repent.  It turned into a great lesson!