Hello Everyone!
Please prepare yourself for the longest email of my mission.. This week I decided to take notes on each day so it would be easier for me to remember. So here it is! For those of you still reading over a year into my mission, thanks! ❤️
Tuesday we started out the day with a lesson with Cody, who was 45 minutes late haha. But it was good, he continues to progress with keeping the commandments and building and strengthening his testimony. We also got free toquitos from UVU Institute because it's "Multi-Culteral Week"! Then, we went to a computer lab to work on signing Sister Snelson up for the ACT and to go to BYUI! Woohoo for my friends and companions going to the same school as me! Then we traveled home for lunch and right when we got home realized we were supposed to meet up with the other Sisters in our zone, Sister Rodriguez and Budd. We talked to them for a second and then went to a lesson with Jill! She gets baptized in less than two weeks and is SO excited! Later that day, we went out on Ward visits with the 19th Ward, and then had a lesson with Isaiah, the same person who was baptized three days after I arrived in this area! He has really been struggling recently, but his testimony in God and Jesus Christ and the atoning power of Jesus Christ is still there, and he continues to lean and rely on the Atonement and the scriptures. What a tender mercy when you see people you're teaching or have taught grow and learn for themselves what they need to do to grow closer to God.
Wednesday we got a call From Sister Killpack, asking us to help plan a training for all of the Sister Training Leaders for Zone Conference. We were busy doing that and working on a few other things in the morning, and then got to have an impromptu lesson with Davis! We taught him once about 3 months ago, and out of the blue he asked to meet with us! He told us that he is willing and eager to understand and know if the Book of Mormon. He is so sweet and kind and I'm so grateful we were able to meet with him again! After that we did companionship study outside, because it was over 70 degrees! I even got a slight tan! We had dinner with a sweet girl from one of our wards who is a cosmetologist and gluten and dairy free, which is something I feel I've been struggling with. So that was cool to talk to her. Then, we delivered some tiny pies to people and helped knock doors in the Assistants area. After that, we met up at the mission home with Sister Killpack and helped her plan out a training.
Thursday I started out with probably the healthiest breakfast I've ever eaten. Eggs with avacado, Greek yogurt with raspberries and Granola and some orange juice! Woohoo! Today my best friend Kayla got home from her mission.. Holy cow! I still remember when she left! What a fantastic missionary she was and is. We had our District Training meeting today, which was awesome and productive, and then we had crepes for lunch at our Senior Couples house! Then we had a other lesson with Jill, who said the cutest thing when we asked her if she feels like she's repented.
Jill: "Yeah I have, I did it the other day!"
*We all laugh*
Jill (laughing): "That makes it sound like it was something bad.. I was just wondering what it's like to repent, so I tried it! It's nice!"
She is seriously the cutest, most Christlike person I know! What a joy.
After our lesson with Jill, we heart attacked the Sisters' door, and then did our studies at UVU! I love that place! We didn't have a dinner planned, and Sister Killpack texted us right at dinner time and asked if we wanted to come eat with them! So we did, and it was delicious.
Miracle of the night on Thursday: we were knocking doors at a huge apt complex, and didn't have much time left before our next lesson. I had the thought to go visit a member in one of our wards, who used to be roomates with one of our investigators. We showed up, talked for a bit, and then she told us that right before we showed up she was sitting on her couch, about to start watching TV and cry because of hoe depressed and lonely she felt. That morning, I prayed and asked if God could lead us to someone who He needed us to help, and looking back I know that was a direct answer to my prayer, as well as hers! I am so grateful that we can receive answers from God today.
Friday we went on exchanges! I got to go with my bestie Sister Rodriguez. We have been serving in the same zone for 4 transfers now! At the beginning of the exchange, we had two Elders and a Senior couple come over and take their broken washing machine away and bring them a new one! We had some yummy tacos for lunch, and then did some finding.. All Spanish speaking so that was fun for me 😊. Someone later brought us a yummy Peruvian dinner and then we found out the toilet was broken too, so we had to have two other Elders come fix the toilet for us! (wow we are needy).
Saturday we were at the Jordan River Temple Open House all day! 7:30am to 10pm! Lots of busy scheduling, running around, and I ran into the Doty's and Chandler Lindhorst! So cool, was great seeing some familiar faces! Weird being called by my first name though 😉
Sunday was busy of course, we taught a gospel principles class and went to a few sacrament meetings! A nice member who's a chiropractor offered to adjust us and the Spanish Sisters for free at his house after that, which was so nice. I sure miss having my dad always around to adjust me, I'm spoiled! Later that night we met up with our Investigator Jill and our zone leaders for Jill's Baptism interview! She is getting baptized on April 21st and we are so so excited! Her baptism interview went great, and after that we had a really awesome experience. We said a prayer to know where we should go knock before our next lesson, and after a few times trying to visit people and them not being home, we both felt that we should go to Gateway (student housing) with one of our ward missionaries. We started looking for a recent convert who we hadn't seen in a while, and after knocking several doors to find him, we were led to his friends house. We knocked on the door and a guy answered--his name is Pierre Joseph and he's from France! He said he had quite a few questions about the church and we were able to set up a time to meet with him! Miracle! After that we had a great lesson with our recent convert, Gift, on the Spirit of Revelation.
Monday was a bit weird! We didn't have pday because we were supposed to be at the temple half of the day, but just as we drove up to the temple they texted us and told us it was too windy so they were closing the open house that day! So back to Orem we went. Only took us an hour and a half of so haha! Before that two elders in our zone made homemade churros which were so yummy. After getting home from the temple, we went to a computer lab to help Sister Snelson apply for BYUi in the winter! For dinner we went to Subway because I had a giftcard (thanks Sister Connell!) and there was this super crazy, possibly very drugged up guy who seemed like he was dancing/twitching and then the police came haha. That was interesting. Then we got to go to a combine FHE- it was a talent show filled with hilarious dancing, great singing, and just overall lots of laughs. Then we finished the night off knocking some more doors.
Tuesday we had another lesson with Jill, and then zone conference! It was so spiritually uplifting and made me really think and ponder about my purpose as a missionary and why I'm out here. I was able to reflect on why I originally came on a mission, and what my purpose was then, compared to why I'm serving now. What a difference a year and a bit makes! I truly have been changed through my Savior Jesus Christ.
Another miracle, we got a call from a guy who found a Book of Mormon with our card in it and wanted to know more!
I know this gospel is true! I love it! ❤️
Love,
Sister Crofts
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| Heart attacking with sister Rodriguez |
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| Roller skating for pday! |
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