I would tell you how much I weigh today but i don't think it's any more than what it's been the last time I told you, that and my companion got mad once the scale told him he gained more weight even though hes trying so hard to loose it, he kicked the scale into the wall, and now it gives me kinda unbelievable numbers, ever since that happened I am 200 lbs all the sudden...
Those pictures I sent you home in the Letter are for Ella, so she has something unusual to draw or paint. I don't know how i feel about the first two but especially after general conference I think that she needs to draw the one with the feet on it. " oh how beautiful their feet will be upon the mountains" or somethin like that, I loved how that was brought up in general Conference in Elder Hollands Talk where he talks about Thomas s. Monson how he gave up his shoes off of his feet for some one who needed them. If i'd advise drawing any of those pictures I would do the feet one. All of the notes on the back are just details of how I image it the picture is to give the visual to work off of.
Did any one else notice Hamiltons Trainer in the World Report in
between conference sessions? They talked about an Elder from Chile in it
and it totally shows a picture of Elder Larson.
Something
else that I thought was interesting about conference is that all of the
big red chairs has a tissue container built into the arm rest because
they know that the apostles and such are going to cry.
So
this week has been insane! I started out on with trade offs to Gaylord.
And me and Elder A are both new he is 4 months old as of next
week I wanna say. But we woke up and made our beds and did every thing
we could to be exactly obedient, because we've been told being obedient
brings blessings, but being exactly obedient brings miracles.
They had
really been struggling with investigators over there in Gaylord and
actually so is every one up here. But we worked hard going to former
investigators houses and talking to them and teaching them according to
what we were prompted to. By the end of the day we had taught 5 lessons
and we had 4 specific return appointments. Because we were exactly
obedient they had 4 new investigators by the end of the day!
We
then had Zone training where we had really good lessons from the Sister
Training leaders and the Zone leaders and President Hoover. But we also
got to watch the new movie "Meet the Mormons" ! That movie is awesome I
really think it will help with clearing "The MORMONS!" name and make
people more open to missionary work, sadly the only place in Michigan
that it's going to be played is in Lansing so it's not going to help me
all to much at the moment. It was SO nice to be able to see other
missionaries! There was about 9 sets there at Zone training, several of
them had to travel over 200 miles just to go to that meeting though.
I
said a prayer while I was on the way back from Gaylord and asked or the opportunity to get better at running because I felt like I don't get
enough practice and I don't want to loose my abilities.
After
that Since our Zone leaders are so far away from us they used that
opportunity to do a blitz in my area so I got to go and do work with
one of the Zone leaders.
When we were out
knocking doors Elder R talks to every one even if he has to yell as
they ride their bike away, and he also waves to every car and he is
really good at starting a discussion at the door step!
But while we were
knocking on a door a runner ran by and Elder R yelled "could we
talk to you for a moment about Jesus's restored church on the earth" and
the runner yelled back "if you can catch up!" we then looked at each
other and abandoned the door step and started booking it after him.
I caught up first and started a conversation with him and about the
church and then Elder R came up a while later, and we ran about a
half a mile trying to teach him as we ran, dude it was hilarious!
We
finished the run with him and we gave him a Mormon.org Passalong card
with our number stamped on the back of it and invited him to go on the
website and to learn more about us and to give us a call if he had any
questions. We were busting up laughing after we left that guy it was so
funny, us trying to teach as we were breathing so heavy, running down
the street with a book of mormon in our hands and in our white shirts
and ties.
While
I was in Gaylord I was looking through the Area Book with Elder
A and we came upon a page that said all of the active members and
all of the inactive members in the branch there and there was over 300
inactive members in the Gaylord branch! These are mostly all people who
has been baptized who were made deacons, priests, elders, etc. But only
about 45-60 people go to their branch each week... that inspired me to
check that out in my area book and it was around the same and all the
sudden I knew what me and my companion needed to do,
My "Criminal mind"
as i like to call it snapped on and brilliant ideas just started coming
to me. I talked to Elder W about it and he was trying to throw me
off of the idea and convince me that was all the members duty and
we just need to leave it to them. And so I searched PMG to try to find
something that says the Full time missionaries need to help in bringing
back inactives to the ward but I couldn't find anything on that topic. I
gave up and as I was fasting for conference made sure to pray about
some guidance or help or something on that subject.
General
Conference first session in every talk they talked about us needing to
help the inactives come back to church, and Chi Hong (son) Wong said
specifically that Full time missionaries need to work side by side with
the members in bringing back inactives to church. I was so happy!
Because not only was that a answer to my prayer but it was encouragement
to do that, that really was inspiration and all of the ideas that I was
getting was to help them come back. I am now SO EXCITED to go to branch
counsel or PEC so I can bring up that talk and ask all the ways we
could help and to start talking about some of the ideas I had.
Any
ways I gotta head out, were going to go and visit some light houses
today and we have to get going if were going to get our laundry done and
get me an electric piano so i can continue to practice (thats all i
did in between conference sessions, I am dying to be able to play it
well with two hands in sync)
Alright well I gotta go Bye love you! have a good day! Don't get shot!
love,
-Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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