Howdy
Family back in the ice cold SLC! Hope everything is going well for you guys,
this week went by super slow but it was an enjoyable one overall I would
say....
First of all,
I just wanted to say how much I have been thinking about my Grandpa Crump this
week. He’s been having a rough week to say the least and I’m constantly praying
for him. We found this grandpa this week and it really made me realize how much
I love and miss my Grandpa Crump. Working with him every day for a summer
taught me so much and I am so, so grateful for the great example he is to me!
Love you Gramps!
So like I
said this week my companion and I randomly found this guy in the street named
Miguel Angel. He’s a grandpa and was walking super slow so we decided to take a
little bit of a break and chat with him. We ended up following him to his house
and taught him a lesson. Well, this whole time I am thinking he is like 70 at
the oldest but as we got talking he tells us, 'ya in four months I’ll be 100
years old.' Like, what the heck?? This guy is almost 100 and he was just treckin’
it around Nahuizalco like it was nobody’s business! He’s so awesome! We
committed him to church and he ended up going, which was sweet as well! We are
hoping to put a date with him this week now! I just feel so nice knowing that
even at 99 somebody can do something that can change their life for an eternity!
In my
personal study this week I was reading in Alma 13:28 and found a pretty sweet
scripture, marked it and kept reading, but later on that day we were teaching a
less active that we have and it just hit my companion like a brick wall, ‘share
the scripture your companion read this morning’. So we shared the scripture and
it was so, so perfect for the man. He just looks at us and was like, “Wow that scripture
is awesome.” I love it.... That experience really helped my testimony grow that
we are legit studying for our lessons that day when we are reading in the
morning and we need to listen to the spirit to know what exactly it is we need
to be studying.
Also this
week we have been contacting like every single person in sight. My companion
just wants to talk to everyone visible and it was starting to bug me a little
because we would take so much time to get to lessons and he would like starting
talking to a guy carrying a huge piece of wood on his shoulders and make him
listen to us... So anyway we are walking by a house in a newer area and there
was just a guy sitting in his house working on making baskets, so in my mind I
thought, ‘I’m gonna teach my companion and lesson and show him how much better
it is to talk to people that can’t move anywhere and aren’t so busy’, so we
enter this house and I contact this guy. Boy he is the perfect investigator, he
didn’t go to church this week but already accepted a date and we are working
hard to prepare him. So lesson learned, always teach your comps lessons by
showing them how wrong they are and you’ll be blessed... right? Haha No!...it
really helped me learn that the spirit is guiding us and when we have success
it’s because the Lord is blessing us. Because the experience was so different I
took the time to look back on it and realize how ridiculous I was being with my
companion and really do need to have patience with him. Every little experience
we go through is to learn something. That is for sure!
Finally I just
wanted to share something I loved that I read in Preach My Gospel this week
that says ¨Heaven is a continuation of the ideal home¨ When I read that I was
just like wow. That’s so awesome. I just love my family so, so much and it’s
such a blessing knowing I will be with all of them for eternity! One of my
favorite things to testify about is eternal families because it makes me so, so
happy!
That’s about all for the
week!
Have a fabulous week family!
Love you so much!
Elder Crump
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| With Miguel Angel - their 99 year old investigator :0) |
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| Study time - love the bench :0) |
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