I loved all of those emails about our family getting
sealed and Suanna's baptism and Lacey's baby blessing! I do wish I
could have been there, But you know. Church is still true =p. But all I
can say is Congrats I hope it was Refreshing ha ha ha ha ha!
So
today is Number 1! We were in Meijer shopping (like like Michigan's
walmart) and we were walking until Elder B saw boxes of cereal that
said 'Star Wars Posters inside"!!! I Freaked out! It was like Christmas!
We left with 12 boxes of cereal ha ha =p. It really was like Christmas
opening all of those though and getting the different posters. I was so
excited, They are so cool!
Sunburns for days!
But the beauty of it is that will change, We got the call
with how many miles we are allotted for the month and we were expecting
to have to do an extra car fast day because we went over on miles but
no, even though the whole zone is having to cut down they gave us 200
more than what we were previously allotted! =p I am so grateful for
that!
Michigan is really interesting right
now, we had a awesome rain storm and so many worms came out of the
ground! They all wiggled onto the pavement and it was impossible not to
walk on them, I am pretty sure that they are going straight to the celestial kingdom though you know because we had to kill them to do the
Lords work and all.
That and there is frogs galore around, walking next
to huge patches of trees is really funny because you can hear hundreds
of them, and occasionally a squished one on the road and side walk. We
were walking on Saturday and I saw a little fur in front of us, Michigan side walks are really funny because they randomly end
and then start again, right when the side walk ended there was the fur
in the grass. We walked up to it and saw it was a skunk and booked it to
the other side of the road. It was a Saturday too so if we got that on
us we would have to walk like 3 miles back to the apartment, last time I
crossed a skunk it was bad news for the whole mission, there was no way
I was doing that again.
This week we got a
referral from the Portland sisters. That was a huge miracle. They
already set up a appointment for us and so we showed up. That was a
super humbling experience. T was door knocked into by Sister W and
she gave him their number and said if he needed help to call them. He
put that number in his phone and he went on with life.
He was forced to
break ice in front of his apartment building with a hammer, 4 inches of
it. by the time he was done his hand he was using to brace himself was
super swollen and then he heard a crack. He went to the hospital and had
his broken bones tended to and while he was there he had a nurse tell
him that the police called and said that his house was broken into. He
returned home to nothing. His dead bolt was drilled through, and the
other door after that was kicked down.
He had no stove, no carpet, no
dishes or silver ware, no bed, no food, no clothes, no furniture of any
kind, any thing and EVERYTHING was gone. All he had was the supplies he
was given by the hospital and the clothes on his back. He no longer
could go to work because his uniform was gone, he had just spent 5
thousand dollars fixing up his and the rest of the apartments in his
building because his land lord promised to repay him, he got nothing
back.
He had nothing except his cell phone that he had with him and that
he took from the hospital. When me and Elder B went for the
appointment and we got inside all that was there was a bed and mattress a
friend gave him and a rug on the floor. I cry just thinking about it. He was in such a bad position in life he had the thought to call Sister
W and ask for help and for us to share our message. Me and T sat
on the bed and Elder B on the rug on the floor and we shared our
message.
I have never felt the spirit so strongly before we said
the opening prayer in my life, in any lesson. He said when I offered one "I
think my house has room for a book" with a smile on his face. That
lesson made his day, more than that. The fact that he was no longer
alone and could actually laugh with some one meant the world to him.
We
called the next day to get him a ride to church we spent 2 and a half
hours calling for that ride. We finally got a call back and he agreed on
taking T to church. Turns out Bro S already knew T, and he
had met him years back when he came to our church randomly. He loved
church. We have since taught him the plan of Salvation and our Ward
mission leader Bro. A sat on the bed with T while we taught from
the floor. We had dinner at Bro A's house later that night and he
filled a garbage bag of stuff for us to give to T. I gave a shirt and
tie, same with my companion for his work uniform.
We have
a lot of things happening this week! and we have gotten the members to
trust us a lot more than missionaries have been trusted in the past... Out Big
goal we are pushing for is 10 member present lessons which is unheard of
in the past 7 months here. But we did a lot of planning and it's gonna
happen. We have averaged probably 2 a week last transfer so we are going
hardcore parkor!
I get to go to Charlotte
tonight for trade offs I am excited to be by the train tracks and have
them interrupt everything ha ha. And I really hope I get to go down
Sheldon St., everytime they go down it people yell at them, I love their
Sheldon St. Stories.
Well I gotta go Bye I love you have a good day!
To Jesus Ball We go!
Don't get shot!
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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