July 16, 2018

Greenie Power is REAL!!!

Hola hola Y'all, 

     I hope you've had such a happy week. We had such a good one and just saw so so many miracles. Wow it's cool. 

     Well the beginning on the week Hermana Jones and I we went to our lesson with Concexion. He had come to church on Sunday and it was nuts. We were nervous like "oh no.... He's gonna have so many questions." He ended up telling his whole household we would be coming and we taught them all. It is him, his 14 year old daughter, his sister and her 4 kids, and one of the kids boyfriends. It was so intense and we were so pumped. During the lesson we were just focusing mainly on Concexion at first and gave him a Book of Mormon and were talking to him. I was sitting next to his daughter Elia and honestly it was like she was burning next to me. The Spirit was so strong and so I asked her if she would like a Book of Mormon too. She was so quick to say yes, she was just waiting for me to ask and just soaking up everything we were saying. We gave them all Book of Mormon's and they are all progressing and are doing really well. They've been really prepared and we are really hoping something great will come from them! Keep praying for them!

     On Wednesday we finally got in contact with Nicole again. She had told us to stop coming by, but we knew she'd just had a rough day and so we gave her some space and now she is doing really well. She was so happy to see us and talk with us again. We also went to visit a member that's less active, her daughter is having a hard time, and her other daughter has had interest in being baptized. We went over and brought extra cupcakes from my birthday, it just so happened to be one of the daughter’s birthdays and such a tender mercy. They were so so grateful.

     Woot woot we went to Columbia with the Burbanks to pick up Hermana Champlin. Pretty much she is a boss. She speaks Spanish really well and is just pumped to get to work which makes us really excited. I've always been companions with older missionaries and so it's so so fun to be with someone new and just learning the ropes. It made me realize like.. woah.. I've been out a while. She's from Logan Utah and She's awesome. We have a lot of fun together and we have had a lot of success. There is power in 3 because we can teach anyone and go anywhere. We do have a kinda small apartment so we're all in each other’s back pocket but that's fine. Training is good. She was really prepared so it's just fun. 

     We had a day just full of a bunch of contacts that we needed to make. We were on the edge with a lot of the people and were deciding if we were going to have to just focus on other people. EVERYONE was home. EVERYONE let us come in and talk to them. It was honestly nuts. Hermana Jones and I had tried a couple of times and just really were so stoked that it all worked out. 

     Saturday was just a full Spanish day. We went out and had a lesson in a park. His name was Edgar and he was pretty legit. He had reached out to us through Facebook and so we met him at a park and he had a lot of questions and is really open to learning. It was kinda weird and we think he might be a preacher or something in a different church but we'll see. Hopefully the Spirit can touch him and he can learn for the right reasons. 

     Afterwards, we went and taught Roman. He's so sweet and really just wants to know what's right. He was so sad he couldn't come to church because he had work. We sang him a couple of hymns during our lesson and it made the spirit really strong. We were in that same area and going to our next appointment and were just talking to them outside. One of their neighbors came out to listen too. The neighbor really just wanted to Bible bash or prove us wrong. Hermana Jones and Champlin talked to our people and taught them about baptism and the spirit was really strong and I just talked to the neighbor and tried to keep him at ease so they could teach. It all worked out but I really just wanted to slice this guy. He was just drunk and picking a fight with me. Don't worry peeps I kept my cool and the lesson with the people went really well. 

We got in contact with our person Fernando. He's been working so much and then we haven't been able to see him because his wife wasn't home and we couldn't find a member so we couldn't go in... Until we got our Trio. It was really cool.

     Sunday we had all these people at church!!!! We had tons of less actives we have been trying to contact and a couple of potential people to teach!! AND DAVID!!!! He's from English Class and so promising. I really think if someone is baptized soon it will be him!!!! HOLY MIRACLES THOUGH!!!

    God's the best and he is always looking out for us. Sorry this email was super long and sporadic God is just super good to us. 

I hope y'all have a blessing week and feel lots of love from our Savior.

Con amor

Hermana Crofts

The posterity line!! Hermana Bowers went home on Friday with part of my heart. I'll miss seeing her lots.

Las Hermanas (minus a couple)

More birthday pictures from when I turned 20

Thanks to Abby & Dev for the presents

Transfers. We got to pick up our new hija, Hermana Champlin along with Elder and Sister Burbank

I met this guy in the YSA and he looked at me and asked "Do you know Amy?" I about died!! He served his mission with my sister Amy so we had to do the typical Japan picture pose.

Myrtle Beach, SC

A member brought us this cake. It was beautiful and tasted like a dream.