Monday, November 26, 2018


November 26, 2018

Thanksgiving tacos 🦃🌮

     Happy thanksgiving y'all!! I hope that it was a good one and that you enjoyed being with family, and eating wayyyyy too much food! It was such a good week and kinda funny too. 
     We had Mission Leadership Conference and it just felt like we were receiving revelation from on high! We also got to meet with Lisette. She is from Spain and she is in high school. We actually met her when we were in Columbia. She was taught by the missionaries in Spain, and has run into them so often in the last year. She told her mom about it, who still lives in Spain, and she said "I think God is trying to tell you that this is his church for you!" She is so so cute!
     Thanksgiving was so fun. We went finding all afternoon and just saw miracles. We were walking around and talking to people about Thanksgiving, most of them didn't celebrate like we do, but they had the family all together! We also shared the Light the World videos because Christmas is upon us! It was so cool because it was a really nice day and people were outside, and they were stopping us to talk to us!! We had this group of men stop us and literally just handed us a big piece of meat in a tortilla, the next street over the sweetest lady gave us a full thanksgiving dinner to go and it was like we were food knocking. We went back a couple days later and they all sat and talked with us. Holiday milagros. We had dinner with the Vidros, it was awesome. So so awesome and yummy. 
     Friday, we had a branch temple night! We usually aren't able to go, but got it approved for us to teach Ruben in the waiting room. He usually talks a lot and he has something to say about everything, the spirit just washed over all of us! It felt like every word that was spoken was inspired and you could watch as something physically and spiritually changed in him as we taught him. I mean, could you ask for a better teaching environment? He is now praying about a baptism date and softened his heart so much!! 
     For those who have been asking about my knee, don't worry, it has gotten lots better!! My knee looks normal. This week it’s gotten exponentially better!!!!!! I was trying to keep it on the DL. On Tuesday at MLC I wore a long skirt, but still wore the brace. My mission President literally caught it through my skirt. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Don't worry everyone. Everything is good and my knee is doing good. There was a day this week that it was kinda rough, but I think I had just overstretched it as I was working out. Not a lot of pain right now. It is still a little stiff. It doesn't feel great when I kneel on it. I have been doing the elliptical (I forgot to tell you that our apartment complex has a gym and it is so ridiculously nice. They changed the rules on us using the gym a couple months ago and I have been feeling blessed.) 
     So as Sister Trainer Leaders we are covering the West Columbia zone. We are over 7 other sisters. Hermana Bechtold and I are also on Spanish council which means we are over following up with the other 8 hermanas in the mission. There are currently 22 Spanish Missionaries in the mission. It's been really... really... busy. 
     I am so thankful for all of y'all! I know that God is blessing us and that he loves us. Have the best week and enjoy the start of Christmas. WOOT WOOT. Go watch light the world and start putting it in to action. :) 

Con amor
Hermana Crofts

Happy Thanksgiving!

The sweet lady that gave us food while we were out tracting.
Decorating the Christmas tree with Mary and the ninos

Thanksgiving with the Vidros

English class and pie

Funny story. I have really hard time in weekly planning. It is so long and it's just like AHHHH every week. We found a new method. The treadmill worked miracles!

Teaching Ruben at the temple


Mission Leadership Conference



Thursday, November 22, 2018


November 19, 2018

The Blind Leading the Blind

Buenas tardes fam!! 
      I am coming to you live from good ole West Kolob (West Columbia). We are really close to the mission home. I am doing sooooooo good. 
      I LOVE HERMANA BECHTOLD. I am so so so so happy. We get along very well and we get along so well. There have been several times where we just look at each other like... wow... this is so nice. I really like you. Hermana Bechtold is awesome. I love her so much. Is it possible to love her too much? I will keep you updated. She's from South Dakota and she's been out for about a year. We are the same person. Our lives have just been very similar and it's been a fun 5 days! We are the blind leading the blind with the calling to be STL's. Tomorrow we are going to MLC and it'll be good hahah. As an STL we are over the other sisters in the zone, it will probably be exchanges about once a week or sometimes every other week. We are only slightly over the other Spanish hermanas in the mission and as of now I won't be returning to old areas but we will see what presidente says.
     You will be happy to know that I am alive, and do not have bad news. My knee is doing a lot better!! A LOT. I have been wearing the brace that John gave me every day and it's been helping tons. It is still a little swollen where the bruise is at. It's doing much better and the swelling has gone down a ton. I have really tried to rest it, I sat out during soccer night this week. I have just been praying it would heal. I feel stable! I can walk normally on it. I am not quite comfortable jumping on the treadmill and jump rope, but I feel like in the next couple days I could. I will do better about icing it and elevating it while in the apartment!
     West Kolob is awesome and I understand where the nickname comes from!! We have a branch and it's just full of so many awesome members. At church, it was the primary program, so you can imagine that I died! All day I just felt like I was 100% exactly where I needed to be.      When we came for the hurricane a couple months ago, I really felt strongly that I was going to finish my mission here, but didn't know if it'd ever happen, God is good people!!
      It's been a good week and I have just been trying to get to know all of the members and the people we are currently teaching and it's been really good!
I love being a missionary and Heavenly Father is so aware of us and who we are and our needs. I LOVE Y'ALL!!!
Hermana Crofts

Transfers and getting my sweet new companion, Hermana Bechtold

Hermana Perez

A fun thankful hands lead to prayer lesson

Thank you to the Crofts fam for the birthday pinata. I literally died. I love alligators and died laughing.




Last English class in Columbia


Signed the Columbia tortilla press


All the Hermanas in the mission

All the Spanish speaking missionaries. When we went to the temple a couple weeks ago, we all got to go together.

South Carolina with the family!

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