I got that letter from you Mom yesterday about
the Foster kids and This huge wave of peace and joy came over me I was
sitting on my top bunk and one of the elders was like " Elder Crockett,
Your glowing dude! What was in that letter?" They all thought that was
the coolest news ever. I went in the shower after that and while i was
just smiling about it the thought came to me " your family can now be
together Forever" I could not control myself I just wept in the shower
for like 5 minutes. I came back into my room and I told every one else
about that and they all wrote about it in their journals, The spirit was
super powerful in there for the rest of the night!
(from Jenn -the letter said that our adoption lawyer called to let us know that all our paperwork is done and we have an adoption day of November 21st for Susie, Denny and Robby. That date will likely change either forward or back depending on when the appeal is processed)
I
had the opportunity to go to the Provo Temple today and man it is a
very pretty temple. One thing that I loved about it though was there was
a picture of Mary and Joseph holding the baby Jesus and then a Bearded
Man in all white was holding him too. I thought that was super neat
painting because I always knew God had an awesome White beard! =p I was
so close to saying everything by myself in the temple today, I messed up
on one word! I realized I have such a hard time pulling myself away
from the temple. If I could I would stay in it for hours and hours.
I looked at my self in the Mirror at the temple and for the first time, I saw a Missionary.
Well So Mommy you know how I said I
haven't gotten in in fight with any elders yet.... Well..... One of our
good friends from another district came in and started rear naked
choking my companion. And in the white Bible it says that you are
responsible if you don't defend your companion. So I "showed" Elder
Shelly how to do a real rear naked choke, I picked him up off of the
ground by his throat. I only held it for 1, 2,3,4,5,6 seconds or so
before i dropped him. He then ran out of our room, and ever since then
he hasn't given any of us any garbage at all and he never steps a foot
past our doorway. =p
Well because of this people in his district found out about my whole Brazilian Ju-Jitsu thing and all the sudden I was challenged by this one elder who thought he could take me. We were having a really good conversation about wrestling and than all of the sudden he faked me out which made me flinch and then he single legged me and took me to the ground. I then pulled guard on him and then monkey climbed up his back to pull him super close to me and then I took my shoes off so i could actually do something. He was tapping out to a triangle choke in under 20 seconds.
I then was challenged by a elder who took 3rd in state in wrestling he didn't take me by surprise though. He single legged me and then I pulled guard and then I almost finished a armbar on him but he stacked me so i switched it to a triangle choke and he was really good at applying pressure to me and he stuffed my left arm so i couldn't get the proper angle to finish him. He broke out and then it went into this weird north south position where he tried like 4 submissions on me which he didn't know how to finish. He locked up and just stalled, we were there for like 2 minutes so I called off the fight. Man I felt horrible after that because all of the elders that were leaving was giving my district tons of cookies and brownies and stuff so I almost threw up on the kid during the fight when he tried some type of submission on my back but he was just squeezing my stomach.
All of those Elders are gone now
though and my Zone leaders when around and told all of the new districts
not to mess with me because they wouldn't be the first elders I beat up
on. So every one in 12M is super nice ha ha ha! So ya Hamilton I don't
have to whoop out PMG to tell them to repent, all of the Elders here are
super chill now.
Yesterday I had a meeting
with about 200 other Elders and it was 9 hours long! Man that was ...
And because of it me and my comp had no time to study for our lesson
that we were going to be teaching to our TRC investigator. We went
straight from a class to the Lesson with the investigator. We had NO
PLAN. We got there a little late and there was a few sisters in there
with our Investigator already so we knocked and in like 6 minutes they
came out. Instead of the regular 25-30 minutes that I had we had 13
minutes left.
Our investigator has a strong testimony of the Bible (shes a real one, I found that out, shes not a actor) And she likes to ask big profound questions about things that people don't normally think about. I went in there and she asked one and i said "I am sorry we are on a tight schedule, but heres what you can do with your questions" and then I whooped out Jacob chapter 4:6 and then just opened my mouth and the spirit guided everything I said. My comp (who has been super sick and was barely saying anything) then Whooped out another scripture and then bore testimony and then I bore testimony and invited her to come up with these questions but to write them down and search the Book of Mormon to find the answers to them. We then knelt and she said the prayer. DANG! I almost cried because how powerful the prayer was, She felt something and I know it.
The people who taught her after me are the 3 sisters in my district and they said that she was struggling in the next lesson because she knew that she felt something different and it testified of the Book of Mormon. Every one else had a lesson prepared before they went in their lessons, and me and my comp went in prepared with the spirit. And every one told us how bad their lesson turned out after wards, I said like 9 prayers to thank Heavenly father for all that he gave me in that short time.
Our investigator has a strong testimony of the Bible (shes a real one, I found that out, shes not a actor) And she likes to ask big profound questions about things that people don't normally think about. I went in there and she asked one and i said "I am sorry we are on a tight schedule, but heres what you can do with your questions" and then I whooped out Jacob chapter 4:6 and then just opened my mouth and the spirit guided everything I said. My comp (who has been super sick and was barely saying anything) then Whooped out another scripture and then bore testimony and then I bore testimony and invited her to come up with these questions but to write them down and search the Book of Mormon to find the answers to them. We then knelt and she said the prayer. DANG! I almost cried because how powerful the prayer was, She felt something and I know it.
The people who taught her after me are the 3 sisters in my district and they said that she was struggling in the next lesson because she knew that she felt something different and it testified of the Book of Mormon. Every one else had a lesson prepared before they went in their lessons, and me and my comp went in prepared with the spirit. And every one told us how bad their lesson turned out after wards, I said like 9 prayers to thank Heavenly father for all that he gave me in that short time.
Man
so I have been so blessed here! I really prayed for a good companion
and a good district before I came and I got much more than I pleaded
for! I love all of these Elders and Sisters here. Elder C when we got
back from the Temple stated that he needed a blessing to help him focus
on the Mission and forget home. I felt that I was going to be the one to
say it so I read the verbage and then Elder C came up to me and asked
me to give him one. There are several Elders in my district that haven't
ever given a blessing and so they wanted to get a good view of me and
they focused on ever single thing I did. Elder C Came up from the chair
afterwards and told me how powerful it was and that it was more than
perfect for what he needed.
Miya, I think you'll have a son.=p
Hannah
it's really funny here in the MTC because my district gets easily
distracted and so we loose people often, when ever some one is lost they
throw up their goose until they spot mine. ha ha ha =p
Man
I have been memorizing things like none other here, I don't mean to it
just happens and then when the spirit is with me I straight up remember
almost all 76 scripture masteries that I memorized the year before I
came here. I definitely think that was a inspired thing on my
bucketlist. And man because I spent all of that time memorizing
scripture masteries It's so easy for me to remember the outlines of
lessons and such and so when ever I go in a lesson I don't need anything
besides my scriptures unlike every other Elder or Sister in my district
who has to take notes and draw out a outline for everything. Sorry I
feel like I am now boasting but it's true learning all of those
scripture masteries has helped alot in several ways (hint hint , Ella)
Alright
well I gotta head out I have a appointment at the salon so i can look
super attractive when I head out of here. My waves of the ocean on my
head are back!
Aight well I'm heading out of
the MTC on wednesday at 4:30 am for my flight, so if you wanna reach me
My P day will probably be monday but you can always "Dear Elder" me
somethin.
I love you all!!!! Good luck! Don't get shot!
--
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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