Well another week down! This week was pretty
great.
We didn’t have the best
numbers but we still taught some real quality lessons, so that’s good. We
seriously walk so much now because we are visiting like four different cities.
I imagined that I would be walking a bunch before my mission but I seriously
didn’t think it would be this much, to be honest haha. It’s all good though! At
least every night when I go to bed I fall asleep within literally two minutes.
So that’s good. We had a baptismal date fall so that was sad, but we are pretty
sure it will happen next week instead. Here’s a list of random things from the
week.
- The testimony meetings
here are sooo different than those in the states. The bishop starts to say
"the time is now yours till five after the hour" and it’s literally
like a massive wave of people flocking to the pulpit to bear their testimony.
The meeting then lasts like almost two hours, no joke. Cool stuff.
- I got a little mad at my
companion this week for using my towel and eating a box of my cereal and it was
crazy the effect it had on us the rest of the day. My companion just said it
wasn’t him that used the stuff and such but I was still kinda frustrated when
we left for the day. Our first lesson was total trash and after that we gave a
sister in the ward a blessing and you could just feel the power not in the
room. After that we talked it out and it was unreal to see the difference in
the spirit when we didn’t have any more contention. It really made me realize
the importance of loving my comp.
- In 2 Nephi 2:1-5 it talks
about how Lehi tells his son, Jacob, sorry for all the tribulation he has had
in the wilderness but how he knows it’s all for his benefit and that he will
appreciate it later. The scripture really helped me a lot.
- So this week as I have
been going about normal missionary life and I thought a lot about something one
of my sister’s friends wrote about in his email home. He is serving in Brazil.
He called it “The eternal search for happiness”, and it really hit me this week
exactly what he meant when he sent it. This week has gone a lot better with my
comp and our lessons and stuff but I still have had the attitude of more
enduring the mission instead of enjoying it. Every day I just say, ‘Oh the next
change will be a lot better than this one and so I just need to endure this one
and the next will be a lot better.’ This is exactly what my sister’s friend
wrote in his email. Throughout life we always have this hope that the next step
in our lives will be better and that the part we are living right now will end
shortly. On the mission we just endure, because life will be better at college.
In college we just endure, because it will be better when we are married. When
we are married we just endure because it will be better when we have kids. When
we have little kids we just endure it because it will get better when we have
grown up kids and so on and so forth. In life we always think the next step
will be better when, really, we need to learn to live in the moment and enjoy
the things we have been blessed with right now. So this is my goal for the week
and my challenge for you guys. Live in the moment and be happy. Sure you might
think there are better things on the horizon, but for now enjoy the things you
have.
That’s about it for the
week. Hopefully everything goes well for you guys. I’m always praying for you
all. Have a great week!!
Elder Crump
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| Overlooking one of his areas. Yep, that's a volcano in the background. |
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| Along the jungle path. |
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| A beautiful soccer field. |
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| Preaching the Gospel - Samuel the Lamanite style. |
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