The very fact that the rest of the family is now
together and I’m the loner out here in El Salvador just blows my mind. The
Welcome Home picture did make me just a tad baggy but I’ll be ok, haha!
Hopefully everything goes well for ya Sista. I’m sure it’s beyond different for
ya right now but I’ll be praying for you! This week was crazy, so here’s a
little of what went down...
Last Tuesday we had our
zone meeting and I had an experience super powerful. We always do a lot of
practices to help us, so two elders that both have a ton of time in the mission
were chosen to show us how to invite to baptism with date and stuff. So they
chose me as the fake investigator and started their 5-minute lesson. I just sat
there and started listening a little but not taking it very serious because it
was just a practice. But once the two elders got going I was totally
captivated. They bore such powerful testimonies and read the perfect scriptures
for how I responded to their questions. I could literally feel the love they
had for me and the desire they had for my salvation, even though I wasn’t even
a real investigator. It left me thinking the entire rest of the day. The whole
CCM I always told myself that lessons with people that aren’t real don’t help
at all but, boy oh boy, was I wrong. There is power in practices and power in
testimonies. That’s for sure. All we have to have is a strong testimony and it
doesn’t matter the situation, the spirit will be there.
This week It just really
hit me how wrong I was using my cell phone as my scriptures before I came out
here. I always loved just carrying my phone around and not worrying about
scriptures, but really I can tell you guys from having experience on both sides
that every single person should use at least the BofM and Bible in good ole
fashion books. Yes it’s awesome using technology for all the manuals and stuff
and people should use it, but I really believe there is power in actually
carrying the scriptures, marking them and making them your own. So my challenge
for you all is if you have a habit of only using a cell phone for your
scriptures, you should really consider using at least the scriptures as books,
It’s so, so much better. I’ve used both and trust me, the actual pages of the
BofM carry something special, so we need to take advantage of it.
This week we found a guy
named Daniel that has two brothers that are members but he has always been
Catholic and has never had a desire to learn more about the church. He’s
rejected countless missionaries and so when we got there and found that out I
was just thinking in my mind, ‘Oh this is for sure gonna be a waste of time’,
but we decided to teach a lesson to him anyway. So we teach a pretty dang good
lesson but then he just flat out tells us, ‘Hey I’m grateful you guys came to
visit but I’m totally happy with being Catholic and have no desire to change
that. Thanks.’ So, I’m just like in my mind, ’Knew it!!’ But we decided to bear
our testimony before leaving. My comp
started and gave a great one, then I bore my testimony and well... it was
pretty sweet too, I think, haha. And the spirit was just so, so strong after
that. I then explained to him that our only invitation for him was to read the
BofM to see if what we teach is true. All he wanted to do was tell us why the Catholic
church was better, but I remembered how in PMG it explains we just need to use
the power of the BofM. So we bear testimony of that and he’s like, ‘Ok, I’ll
read. Well, long story short, he liked it and went to church on Sunday. He’s
still super far from being baptized but it was just awesome to use the two best
tools we have to bring others to Christ, the spirit and the BofM.
The last thing I want to
tell you guys is that I read the talk called “Choose Wisely” by Elder Cook this
last conference. I forgot how awesome the talk was and seriously if there is
any male between the ages of 15 and 30 that hasn’t read, marked up and applied
this talk they are missing out big time! It’s so sweet and has so many things
we need to use in our life to be worthy priesthood holders. So read it.
That’s all I have time for
but love you guys so much and have a great week!
Elder Crump
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| With his companion....doing who knows what. |
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| Nahuizalco Zone |
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