It looks like you guys had a blast at Girls Camp! I loved hearing all about it and seeing the pictures. You all look so brown! I'm glad Olivia had a good time even though her first day was a little rough and the pranks didn't go over too well. Way to dominate the water-fight though and bring honor to the Crawford name! Haha I know it wasn't as fun as usual without me there, but it sounds like it wasn't too bad.
This past week has been pretty fun. This Saturday we had what's called a zone blitz in our area, which means that all of the Elders in our zone (9 companionships in total) came into our area and visited whoever we wanted them to visit and knocked doors to find more people to teach in the Roy area. It was pretty successful and I think they got at least 25 new investigators and 2 with a baptismal date just in 4-5 hours! I was impressed. In mine & H. Hales' area they had a lesson with a lady that we had only talked to once before and they found out that she has cancer and gave her a Priesthood Blessing. She & her mom were already members but I don't think they were active, so I think the Elders helped her reignite her desire to go to church and receive all the blessings that the Gospel can offer her throughout this trial she's going through. That was awesome to hear, and I think we have a few other names of people to go visit too.
We were able to have another lesson with Michelle this week and we taught the Plan of Salvation, which went pretty well. And she & her husband came to Sacrament meeting on Sunday too! It's still hard for her to understand why God gives trials to good people and let's thieves and murderers off the hook, but we explained to her that everything will be made right in the end through the Atonement. She loved hearing about what happens after death & where her son is right now, and she did agree to a baptism date because she really wants to make it to the Celestial Kingdom with her family, but she's still got a long way to go because her faith & hope need to do a lot of growing. Also, we found out some other hard things that she's going through with her husband, which further complicates the whole thing and makes it extremely challenging to know what to say to her, but we're doing our best.
A lot of our lessons fell through again, but we did come across some new people that could potentially become investigators, so that's been exciting.
We did a TON of singing this week. On Saturday night we had the idea to go around and sing hymns to our investigators and some members as well to invite them to church the next day. They loved it! Well, a few of them thought it was a little awkward but we didn't care because we had a ton of fun doing it! We probably ended up singing to 8 different households. Then on Sunday we randomly decided to do Be Still My Soul as a musical number in Sacrament Meeting. H. Hales & I started it out as a duet (I was on alto, obvi) and then on the 2nd & 3rd verses the rest of the Hermanas joined in. It went pretty well! And then on Monday the Branch presidency randomly decided to have a musical Noche de Hogar that was centered on service and asked us to prepare as many songs as we could for it in only a day. Hermana Hales and I did a duet to Siembra Gozo (Scatter Sunshine) using the uke, Hermana Kreutzer & Hales did one to This Little Light of Mine, and then we all did one to We Are All Enlisted (in Spanish though). It was quite stressful to try to put them together in one day. Especially since a good hour of our practice time was lost because Hermana Vergara crashed on her bike and caught herself with her face & we had to go pick her up and take her to the clinic. She's ok and she just had to get a few stitches on her bottom lip, but it was still scary! But yeah so we couldn't really practice much and we were panicking a little bit but we just did it anyways and they all turned out pretty well! Our branch is awesome!
Oh yeah, and I got asked if I was Brazilian during the NDH last night by this Hispanic girl who's about to enter the MTC this week going to Montana or something. That's the 4th time! Anyways yeah so that's the jist of what happened last week! We made Cinnamon Rolls this morning with this cool lady in the branch named Hna. Fuertes, and then we played kickball with the zone, so it's been a good P-Day so far.
H. Hales is starting to get nervous/excited to go to Argentina, and I'm still cool with staying here longer. I was telling H. Hales that maybe God knows that I need some more summer here in Utah before I head out to the freezing Mendoza winter. I am freaking out a little bit though right now because the H. Hales was talking to a lady that works in the mission office who was saying that it's possible that a new visa-waiter who'll be coming in on the same day that H. Hales leaves will be put as my companion... I seriously don't know how I would handle working with a brand new missionary seeing as how I'm still not great at Spanish and I haven't really been trained- especially if she doesn't know Spanish too....... but we'll see what happens. Ahhh.
I hope you're all having a relaxing summer! Relax a little bit extra for me, because I won't be able to for about another 14 months, but it's all good. I'm happy & I love you!
<3, HermCrawf
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| H. Hales and I bought decorated our room with Christmas lights from DI a couple weeks ago |
H. Hales cutting H. Gaines' hair... sketchy.
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| Hales & I parked the other Hermanas' car in the middle of the driveway one night so that the other companionship couldn't park- we were pretty impressed with ourselves |
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| Juan and his family/some branch members & misioneras at his baptism the other week |
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| H. Hales tocando mi uke |
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| our favorite Branch member, Roman Staggs, at our ward Noche de Hogar last night (he's the son of the lady from Argentina who's married to a white guy) |
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