Sister Heather Crofts

September 14, 2017

God Bless America

Well this week is the final week in the CCM. I fly out on Tuesday morning at 9am. So of course it is only logical that I need to be at our reception office at 4 am. Right? This is Bob Crofts standard time. Meet one hour before the bus picks us up, one hour drive, 3 hours at the airport. ;) (Love you Dad) Really, I am very excited to leave but also a little heart broken. Our district has become my family here. It is like I am saying goodbye all over again. Fun fact. Me, Heather, Hermana Crofts...I am the worst at goodbyes. So wish me good luck with this one. The 3 other Hermanas in my district fly out on Monday morning.. I just want to kidnap Hermana Edwards and bring her with me. We are seriously best friends. We just love each other so much and it has been one of the very biggest blessings here in the CCM. We really are bffs. Is telepathy normal in a companionship? Because we just get each other.

Oh just a week full of lots of goodbyes. My cute Latina companion left this week. She gave me the sweetest card and candy!! It was the cutest thing of her and made me so happy. She just kept saying "Thank you for your patience" but in reality...She is the patient one. She helped me so much this week. We taught our last lesson together and even though we couldn´t always understand each other I was really glad that I got to do that.

Game day is every day people. We go play sand volleyball during gym daily. It is one of my very favorite things. Everyone has gotten so good after playing practically every day for 6 weeks so they get pretty intense. The other day we were playing and Elder Crittenden looked at me and said "Hermana Crofts, you are Ballin´today...You used to suck." It was the greatest compliment I have been given. On Saturday, we had just stepped onto the court and we planned to only play with our district today because there was spiritual thoughts for the next week on the line. Well....I had to bear the bad news to this Elder....Well...I think God cursed us that day because within 3 minutes this HUGE rainstorm rolled in. Literally it was raining buckets of water. We ran back to our casa and we could not have been more wet if we sat in the shower for 5 minutes fully clothed. It was so fun though because usually when it rains we are dressed up, but being in our gym clothes running back was one of the best things all week.

Well....I have my family of 12 here. There are our 4 Hermanas in the district and our 8 Elders. They are constantly keeping us on our toes. Monday a hummingbird flew into our class and had gotten stuck there or something. It was on the verge of death.... Elder Wilson says...."We need to put it out of its misery and kill it" HE LITERALLY ALMOST SNAPPED ITS NECK RIGHT THEN!!!!! Somehow everyone convinced him that would be morbid and they would try to save it instead. They found some sugar water and rescued this little hummingbird. The church is true folks. hahhaha if you need to you can relate it to us as a missionaries....Never give up on your investigators. ;) Long live Rico.

Something that was really awesome was a meeting I had with my branch president this week. He gave me a blessing to help me this last week and to calm my mind about leaving... There were a lot of really cool promises in the blessing and I was so grateful for it. I got this. I can do it...

GOD BLESS AMERICA. Everyone in our district is headed back to the Promised Land (AMERICA) Monday was 9/11 and we figured it was only fitting that we sing the National Anthem. Man everyone sang their little hearts out. At first, I really thought...Hmmmm...It would be cool to go out of the country. But ya know...After being here for 6 weeks, America really is the best and I am very excited to teach in South Carolina.

I will try to send a really good weekly email. Nothing really changes from week to week....So hopefully it remains exciting. I am not spending as much time emailing today so we can play volleyball all day.

LES AMO MUCHO.

Hermana Crofts

Ps. This Monday I will have Pday. And I'll be on a little bit later. Lots and lots of love.