I was looking at one of the most attractive people in the world, you know just like I do every time i look at myself in the mirror. And i realized that the scar that I have on my front tooth from me taking a sharp turn on my bike and going tooth first into the street, It totally looks like Michigan! it looks just like the glove! Man if only i realized that was a sign earlier and prepared more for where I would be going. Well yesterday at about 9am it was 28 degrees here!!! Dude it's not even Halloween yet!
But this place is so cool there is wild life every where! Which is a bad thing at times, Yesterday a skunk was hit not even 200 meters away from our apartment and that stunk up everything! It was hit before 9am and when we were back at like 9 pm it still stank and it's smell started came into our building and into our rooms.
Road kill is rather common, there is always a dead skunk somewhere, or a Nephite or Lamonite Squirrel (Nephites are brown, Lamonites are black, Anti nephi lehis are a mix but those are uncommon) Brother K was telling me that he was driving home and he slammed on his brakes because there was deer covering the road! he counted 73 Elk the vast majority of them being Bucks. Bro K owns a large amount of property and he feeds deer and bears and all manner of wildlife, but he only does it because he is a hunter, he has several tree stands where he has a perfect shot of all of the deer that he feeds and he almost raises them to be huge, and he will sit up there and let 20 or so deer walk by until he sees the Biggest ones. He has more than 50 antlers and heads in his trophy room. He always feeds us something that has venison in it =p.
My left eye has been twitching all week, IT"S KILLING ME!!!!
I
was on my way back from the city of Hillman on Wednesday And during
that 45 minute drive I was really discouraged, I felt like we wasted our
whole day, we spent the whole time at a district meeting, and then we
drove back to a go into medical facilities to read scripture with "less
actives" who would be active if they could move, and all of our lessons
fell through, we didn't go door knocking because my comp felt like I
needed to change out of my suit pants and then we had a dinner
appointment with a member. I felt like we wouldn't have been able to do
the things that we did that day in the timely manner and fashion that we
did it, But i felt like i just wasted just so much of today where I
could have done actual missionary work. BOOM! I was hit by a spiritual
Baseball bat! "your doing what your Heavenly Father wants you to do".
That really changed my out look on missionary work alot.
It really softened my heart loads towards what we were doing, my companion, and many more things.
I
was knocking on some doors and a Lady answered the door and we got to
where we asked her if she is a believer in Christ and she said ya I
belong to (a certain) church and then Elder W whoopped out (since he
actually knows things about other religions, I have a hard time keeping
up with all of the different beliefs that are here, I've counted more
than 19 churches so far in this city alone.) He asked her "Well what
would it mean to you to tell you that there is a prophet again on the
earth and he is leading our church just like Moses did"
She paused.
Looked up and said "that would mean the world to me!"
Heck YA! we started testifying to her and then she said that shes happy where she's at and slammed the door in our face. WHAT!!!!
She Legitly said that would mean every thing to her! Man it kills me when people have their own agency ha ha ha.
I
was still door knocking and I saw 2 guys and their daughters in front
of a house I started walking over across the street and Elder W followed behind me. We struck up a conversation with them and one of
them said "well since your a servant of God can i tell you my conversion
story?" you could feel the spirit.
The other guys who was Big, Black and
hilarious started telling us on how he came to feel the spirit. and
then Elder W told of a experience where he was super down and felt
the spirit really strongly. and I had to pick out one of my spiritual
experiences that I was actually comfortable sharing, and i had to filter
it down to one non members could understand. So I shared part of the
Longboarding one when we went to the parking garage and the cops came
but i felt like i needed to get out of the car and walk to the temple
instead. When i told them that the Cops came the big Black dude got that
amazed look on his face and was like "OOOOuu OUUU OUU! Man I can't
stand being around you guys! You guys make me so teary eyed! When you
guys were walking down the street I KNEW you guys were with Jesus!"
he
then said something that was was about him feeling the spirit and he
walked away to a guy who just pulled his massive truck into their lawn.
Elder W gave him a Mormon.org card with our number on the back and
started walking away and I was like that's not good enough for the spirit
they felt. I then exchanged numbers with both guys and I
said I would love to see them and talk about more things like this
again, and then I invited them to have a FHE with me and with tears in
his eyes the other guy was like "Yes! I would love to see you guys
again" Dude you could tell that they both felt the spirit so strongly
with just our presence there and they were truly sincere about wanting
to see us again. I love it when people can recognize the spirit!
My
comp woke up today and couldn't work out, his heart is hurting
him....... Me and Elder S gave him a blessing. And from what he
was telling us and from what Sister J was saying it probably has
to do with the Supplements he has been taking to help him loose weight
and gain muscle, that or super stressed, So we were told to have a very
chill day today. It's so cool, it's raining right now but it falling down
like snow does you know when it's not a storm it just kinda gently
falls every where.
Hey Can i have some pictures
that I can put on my wall like every temple in AZ (that i know, Ill
come to love phoenix later in life), Family, grandparents, cousins, John
Brzenk stuff like that.
Aight well I gotta go Bye Love you keep me updated!
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- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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