I have gained a very strong testimony of several different things this week.
I have a strong testimony that when you see a bus fishtailing around the corner towards you, you need to get away.
My
testimony of how gross cockroaches are has also gained immensely, when
you end up crushing 10 one after another just by bouncing your leg to
the music in your head...
I have a testimony
on having a really clean and orderly house, If you in order to move into
a new house have to get out rakes from the back yard to pick every
thing up...
I have a very strong testimony of people going to jail...=p VERY STRONG
One
thing i have found very interesting about being up here is that every
one and their dog asks us to pray for them or for some one. We get calls
every other week asking for us to do that, and when we door knock too
people will ask us to pray for them or their relatives after we offer if
we can do anything for them, I can never remember the people who they
ask me to pray for so I normally say ok "we'll do it right here right
now wanna join" and normally if were door knocking I will say how grateful I am for a living prophet who has restored the gospel of Jesus
Christ upon the earth, or knowing about how our families can live
together throughout eternity, about the book of mormon. I seem to be
really grateful in those moments for those things when those people
want to slam the door on us. =p
We had a FHE last
week and a less active member while playing UNO put down a draw 4 on
Elder Adams and he only had one card left, I died when he said "OPE! Who
did that!" I didn't even use that phrase in front of him yet.
So
I was out in Gaylord this week on trade offs which I loved but the
problem was i missed 6 lessons in that time and then they got out late
from the last appointment so they couldn't make it back in time so I
stayed in Gaylord another day. Because of that I feel like I haven't been
here in a month so much happened in that little amount of time! But
While I was out in Gaylord I was driving us down to Grayling it was
about 4 degrees outside with out windchill and humidity which really
means it was below 0 some where. Well we were driving down the road and
this garbage truck comes and mud flies out from underneath the vehicle
and goes straight into my windshield. Because it was so cold it froze
immediately. I tried to squirt the windshield with water but part of the
water froze coming out so i just spilled all over the hood of the jeep
and froze. Windshield whippers took off all of the chunks after a while
but in order to see I had to stick my head to the ceiling or to the
wheel both of which were super uncomfortable for that long drive. I
would have pulled over but all that was there was the ditch on the side
of the road and trees all covered with snow so it wasn't worth it. after
we got to Grayling i got the ice scraper out and cleaned the window
and got the water squirting again. On the drive back it was a little
scary to think of how close together the lanes are at several points
with how little I could actually see.
This week
on Friday we get to go down to Mt. Pleasant and Elder Nash from the 70
is coming to give us training, Me and Elder Adams were asked to preform
our arrangement of " Savior Redeemer of My Soul" for it =p Only problem
though is we need to be on the road by 4am, and we will be picking up
several other Elders so I probably wont get to much sleep.
I
love the straight up Gander trucks you see around here where it has
rusted so much that you can see through the tailgate and the car door is
1/3 gone. I got to ride in one this week. It was a really big one with
only 2 wheel drive and with all the snow that we had and was still coming down the roads were super slick and we fishtailed at every
single corner and it would have to get to 40 mph before the car would
actually get enough traction to gain speed. Watching it back up was so
cool! only the right wheel was getting traction and the left one was
spinning at 25mph freely. But it was very scary to ride in it.
We
got another referral from Utah this week for a family that is ready to
be baptized =p. the only catch is they are like 50 miles away from
Alpena and only 20 away from Gaylord so even though it's our area it's
so much more reasonable for them to go and teach them. That and some of
the members who live out in their same city are going to the Gaylord
branch.
Forgive me but I have so many notes
that I wrote down that I do not remember at all so I don't know what I
was going to tell you about the "Ipod in my feet" i don't even know what
that refers to or means.
Well I gotta go Bye I love you have a good day!!! Don't get shot or eaten by a Wampa!
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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