Yes
the band "Cage the Elephant" describes how I feel, Little do they know
The Elephant King does not stay trapped behind any lock =p.
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Yes
I must either be pretty Wicked or something else was messed up with me
since I will now have to go through the 12 week program again. I got my
transfer call and I am training another missionary. =p #round3. on
9/11/14 The first day I was in Michigan a Elder who lives in Gilbert AZ
went down the line and pointed at each of us and tried guessing what we
would do. He pointed to Elder T and said Zone leader, Yes he is a
zone leader. He Pointed at me and said " he will be a district leader
and train 7 missionaries" I feel like that statement was rather
prophetic Since I am still a district leader and I will have soon
trained 3, one of my "Boys" (as other missionaries call new
missionaries) Has trained since, I have "greenie busted" 2 missionaries
now, and I will have 2 more transfers after this which is exactly
enough time to train again. haha, he was inspired! But it's good to
train so I can brainwash new missionaries on my thoughts on missionary
work.
We didn't expect to be transferred though
that was a little bit of a shock. We never even busted out the Boxing
pads! He wouldn't let me trade him anything for them either...But it's
alright because this week we explored our building a little and I found
out our apartment complex has a gym!!! Elder M was so mad that no
one told him about it! I am sad that he left, We were getting along
great too! Our friendship exponentially got stronger the week before
transfer calls.... Well... what ev.
18 months.
Mom, the MTC is changing their training and instead of it being two
weeks it will now be 3 weeks and so Every one who doesn't go home
tomorrow gets a extra week added to their mission so that way it doesn't
ruin every transfer in the world. SO this next transfer will be 7 weeks
instead of 6 weeks. So I guess I will actually be going through the 13
week program this time around. Yes Mom Your count down is inaccurate I
wanna say I will be coming home on the 31st of August or in September.
The
sisters I came out with on my mission are going home tomorrow, it was
sweet being able to be Sister T's District leader before she left.
It was a great miracle for me because she was like my best friend in
the MTC.
I really don't have much to say about
this week, But it has been full of tender mercies for me! So many
little miracles that just made my day! I could spend for ever writing
you all about it but it would mean nothing to you so ask me in 6 months
if you wanna know and I will gladly throw up loads of information on you
in person.
This next week will straight up be
a vacation for me! Well I will still be in my area and I guess that
might be a little hard on me since I don't know the area as well as I
would like to. But I have a temporary companion until thursday where we
will drive up to Lansing and then spend all day there getting our new
companions. Then In Kalamazoo All of the missionaries are going to see a
musical called "Lamb of God" which was written by members of the
church. and then the next day I am going back up to Lansing with my
current temporary companion for MLC for the whole day. =p h aha. I have
so many appointments I need to re Schedule!
We
went to try a potential we got while door knocking and when we showed up
for the appointment we found a book all torn up and in the snow by her
door we kicked it over and it was a triple combination! That said
"Portage ward library" on it. We took it because they obviously didn't
care about it But it's in bad shape.
This week
was our one week off of for car rotations. And yes the day we got rid
of the car it started snowing again.... For Realzies every one else has
gotten beautiful sunshine for the most part, our whole week was terrible
weather wise. We got like a foot of snow at one point and it was also
freezing rain. We door knocked for 6 hours straight and walked for 1
hour one day this week and it never stopped snowing. Except we had a
BALL door knocking that day! But we only got 1 potential from it all,
and yes that was the first door we knocked on.... and yes I did randomly
get a bloody nose and ended up bleeding all over the 7/11 that we were
next too at the time. But we had so much fun! and I am not even joking.
The
best part of this week was the investigators at church for our
district. we had 3 there in total but they all had awesome experiences
while there. Our was the same as last week she brought her "Keyids"
along again as well. The Sisters brought a guy they door knocked into
and he was super touched by the spirit and was so excited and was loving
every second of everything that was brought up in church.
I talked with
him in the hall way and I had to start going "Spirit, Spirit,
Spirit!!!" but he already recognized that it was the spirit testifying
of truth. He was so touched by the 8 year old who went up and bore his
testimony of the spirit. he said "I have been thinking and there is only
one word I can use to describe the spirit.......MAGIC!!!!" and he threw
both of his hands in the air when he said magic ha ha, it was so funny
and everyone felt the spirit. I don't think I have ever heard some one
so young bear such a sincere testimony before. And when I went to see the
K1 Elders as they were coming out of their sacrament meeting one of
their investigators who I had taught before came out in tears saying how
much she loved church and was so glad that she finally came. Her
husband had an amazing experience where he died and was sent back by the
savior and 2 angels. The Missionaries knocked on their door that week. I
love his description of the savior, it matches the one Grandpa Crockett
has in the picture on his wall by the stair case.
I
wish I had more good things to tell you but thats about it, and I don't
think next weeks will be too exciting either with my long meetings in
lansing.
Bye I love you have a good day!
Don't get Shot!
Love
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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