Sister Heather Crofts

June 11, 2018

MYRTLE BEACH

Hola hola fam, Wow I hope y'all are doing great! I am in Myrtle Beach. :)) Well here's what y'all missed...

I got transferred and had to leave Boiling Springs... ahh it was so sad. I really loved it there. It was just a small ward so you knew everyone and they loved us. It was really sad to say goodbye to everyone. They really all just felt like family. It was especially sad to say goodbye to Hermana Jensen. 6 months together will totally give a person separation anxiety. Anyway, we said goodbye to all our favorite peeps which always makes my heart so so sad.

MYRTLE BEACH!!! Woot woot. Well we have been greeted by the heat and received a nice warm welcome from the mosquitos. I currently have 27 bites. Also, it is SO HOT. I think about how it's only going to get hotter and want to cry a little. We go outside and we're literally dripping sweat. People answer the doors and we're dripping sweaty and people don't even question it, they're like "yeah.. It really is that hot." I am with Hermana Jones, she's from St George and we've been out about the same amount of time. We get along really well and are constantly laughing. She loves to work hard so we're gonna see some milagros.

We white washed in and took over the English Sisters area. We are now doing English and Spanish work... Honestly.. It's so hard. (Also, this ward is huge and I am trying to remember everyone but it's totally going to be impossible. There is also always tons of visitors on vacation so keeping track is insane) I am so incredibly awkward when I talk about the gospel in English. And people aren't always very nice. #biblebelt. It's just been interesting because we came into the area with tons of potential investigators and people we are teaching and working with. English work really is just so different than what we've been doing. We tried to do the same thing we did with Spanish... It's been a lot of trial and error. We are figuring it out slowly. President Innes told us he wanted us to do 50/50 Spanish and English. We came in with nobody in our area book that spoke Spanish. We are building from the ground up. We have been hunting down where they live and trying to build a teaching pool. Ahhh good times. We are finding all day every day. I honestly have never worked so hard. Good news is things are picking up. We are starting English classes and took them to the Tiendas all over the city. We have a lot of people who have called us and are planning to come. We are starting them on the 20th and are so pumped!!

Well background on the area. There used to be a Myrtle Beach Spanish branch and it was dissolved about 3 years ago. There are only about 3 Hispanics now attending church. We are on the hunt to track them down and hopefully start something up here. We translated sacrament on Sunday which was awesome. Our first Sunday here was fast Sunday!!! It was sooo cool and one of the most spiritual meetings. Bishop Latham got up and bore his testimony about personal revelation. He talked about how he felt impressed that something had to be done for the Spanish members. The mission president had the same impression, both Hermana Jones and I had wanted to come help, and that is why we are here. The whole meeting was then about Spanish work and missionary work and what we are going to do to get it started. The spirit was so strong and everyone was pumped. Also, just knocking we've met a lot of potential people!

Well I'll just give you the highlights. We have had a lot of failed contacts but that's alright. Our first day here we were doing a bible referral. We both don't know what we're doing with English and God literally just helped us all day. He gave us knew investigators and success with our investigators, I think it was him giving us some encouragement.

TEMPLE!!! I didn't email last week because we got to go to the temple as a mission. They split us up in 4 groups and it was so cool. We went on Wednesday morning and it was so special. I hadn't realized how much I missed the temple and the spirit that is felt there. I was beyond happy. It was also really cool to be there with all the missionaries, to hear them pray for us, to feel the spirit together! All the Spanish missionaries went in the same session and that was so cool. I got to see Hermana Bowers. Pretty much I took the temple for granted before the mission and hope all of you can go often and love it. It really is the place that we can go to be in God's presence.

So last night, it's the end of the night and the end of the week. We had done finding practically all day every day and had not found anyone!!! We both were like no way.. Heavenly Father, we are not going home until we find someone. We ended up street contacting and knocking during our dinner hour and we found Hugo. He was sent straight from God. We saw a lot of little miracles yesterday. We were walking and this guy kept pulling up next to us to see if we needed a ride (not in a creepy kidnapper way, but in like the really friendly it's WAY hot outside kinda way) he came back around and gave us his number, water, and a huge thing of cookies. We were out finding so we just had to stuff everything in our bags but it was so cute and sweet.

Well folks I have no more time today.

Com Amor,

Hermana Crofts

New direct mailing address in Myrtle Beach
Hermana Heather Crofts
531 Hinson Dr Apt 322
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
29579

Boiling Springs

Tim is a recent convert and we got to teach him by the beach. Happy day.

Myrtle Beach

District Meeting

A nice southern funeral for Hermana Jensen

Hermana Jensen and I were comps for 6 months

The Hernandez family. Ahh I miss them lots. We got to meet their grandma and say goodbye. We spent so much time with them and they're a second family to us.

Colecios. Aurora made us pisole and that was so sweet. Yuri got to come too. Abril drew us pictures.

Hermana Vargas--Ultimate Abuelita

Ruby and Robert (RUBY CAME TO CHURCH) and she's like our mom.

Robert is an awesome artist and he did pictures of Jesus for us.

It was also Robert's birthday. We made him a tie and baked a cake. He was so grateful!It was really fun!

Columbia South Carolina Temple

TEMPLE VISIT

All the mission got to go either Wednesday or Thursday

Hermana Jones, my new companion

Hermana Bowers my Charleston comp

The Hite family. If it was possible to love any family more, I don't think it's possible.

Hermana Mercedes is like our Abuelita and the Hites just helped us out so much. Not to mention their kids are adorable and will give you hugs until you cry.