Thanks
for all of the birthday wishes and stories about me being born! I got
your package right on my birthday. Lela so you know I did get your
letter and yes i did hug the letter just like you instructed me thank
you for the much needed hug =p. The cookies that were in it was just
about all pixy dust and hard when I got them though, but I appreciate
the thought and hope you never loose the habit of making me cookies when
I get home. (Miya make me cookies =p). I have had several people
celebrate my birthday and give us stuff because of it so I have been
very blessed even though I totally forgot that I was even gonna be 19.
But
heres what happened this week I got my temporary companion from the MSU
institute building and ditched Elder B off to let him go to the
temple and go home. I had fun with the guy I was put with and we did
good work together, but he really tried to take over my area and tell me
how to live my life... But what ev it was only for about 3 days. I had
to keep shutting him down (felt bad about it, but he was trying to take
control of situations he didn't understand)
We went over to go teach a
less active member who we had been working at getting back to church and
we have gotten him to church twice so far. But we went there and my
companion goes off for like 10 minutes convincing this less active and
setting up a scenario for us to "practice teach" him. After he finished
he told me to get out a pamphlet and show him the first picture.
"well..." I threw down every thing he worked for, and told them both
that I did not leave Arizona to fake teach some one and have him fake
respond, who actually needs to understand the gospel. It happened
again later that day with a investigator who is on date to be baptized, I
shut that one down too. But I learned some really good things to better
my teaching from him!
On my
birthday I went over to the Lansing stake center to pick up my new
companion that was great. I seriously forgot it was my birthday until I
saw a huge package there for me and then also every one started singing
happy birthday at one point. So my new companion is Elder H, from
Idaho. He is about 4 inches shorter than me and 4 days younger than me
but we get along gr8 =p. I love the guy, he is so funny! He is seriously
everything that I have been praying for in a companion for like the
last 2 weeks of my life and is super pumped and "unspotted from the
world".
He waits for me in the morning so we can pray over our cereal
together so it will "nourish and strengthen our bodies" ha ha. Hes a
great missionary and does really well being out here. His only thing is
he is not comfortable door knocking and when ever I try to pass the
lesson on to him he just stares and we have a awkward silence.
But he has no problem talking to people he just doesn't know the lessons
which makes sense.
I love doing the 12 week program to
train Elder H, I learn so much from it ha ha, who knew I forget to
do so much stuff when I teach!
This week I
made the mistake of slipping in one of my prayers "help me develop
charity"... this week has shown that Heavenly Father always
answers those prayers for some reason.
We got yelled at
like every day, people were trying to bash with us, and one lady
yesterday started telling me how my life was and how I don't have a
testimony... For real I don't have a pet named peeves, but if I did.
Sorry
this email is kinda short the elders in the Family history center keep
getting me distracted, it's a "Holiday" so we all had to come up here to
email since the library's are closed.
Well, I gotta go they are calling me to go ball it up in the gym
stick it to the man!
church is true!
Bye I love you
church is true!
Bye I love you
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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