Well another week down and out here in good ole
Nahuizalco and this week was definitely one of the most exciting and spiritual
ones I have had here! It has really helped me see the vision we need to have as
missionaries and how we can help others gain a testimony of the restored
gospel... so here are a couple of things that happened...
Friday we had a MultiZona,
which means that like half of the zones in the mission all get together and we
get some real HQ instruction from President and his wife. It was such a
powerful meeting and the spirit was so strong there it was amazing. We are
doing a total overhaul of things here on the mission and focusing a ton on
finding and baptizing families. Like half of the numbers we report each night
is regarding families and it really makes me happy that we are pushing the work
towards creating eternal families. So one of the things that is a big rule now
is that every single family we see, no matter what or where we are, we talk to
them and try to visit them. It’s really been great to start doing and I know we
are going to start seeing a difference here in the mission. To end the MultiZona
Hna Spjut gave a fantastic talk about being cheerful and why it’s so important
to find happiness as missionaries. She used the example of her daughter who
just finished serving her mission and showed us some of the letters she would
write home. It was insane how positive and happy she was in every single
letter. Not a single thing she wrote was negative. It really helped motivate me
to work hard but at the same time, just be happy. I get too stressed sometimes
and forget how important it is to just be joyful. So that’s something I’m gonna
really be working hard to do....
So Saturday was really one
of the best days I have had here on the mission... first of all we found a
family out in the middle of nowhere but that are so, so positive it’s unreal.
The way we were able to find them and everything was so special and a total
miracle but I’m gonna write about all of that next week because I don’t have
very much time to write this week... so anyway the best part of all on Saturday
was the baptism. We were able to baptize two girls we have been teaching and
preparing for like 5 weeks, Diana and her sister Daniela. Diana is the girl
that received an answer about the Book of Mormon and from there was progressing
a lot (see last week’s letter). The actual service was so, so perfect and the
spirit was just overwhelming. The young women sang the song, ‘I know when I am
baptized’, which I totally love and still remember my sister singing it when we
were little. But then the best part was when Diana gave her testimony at the
end of the meeting. She gave one of the most powerful testimonies I have heard
and it brought me so much joy it’s like literally impossible to describe. She
talked about how she read the Book of Mormon and got on her knees and just felt
a pure love of Christ.... When she sat down I couldn’t help but have the
biggest smile on my face. In our mission calls it talks about how we are promised
to have more joy then we have ever felt in our life and Saturday night I
definitely saw that promise happen. Just hearing a testimony of a convert gave
me so much joy and has helped me push myself even harder to have another
experience exactly the same.
I have ZERO doubts that
this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and that the work I am doing here
in Nahuizalco is the Lord’s work. The Book of Mormon has so much power and the
very act of opening the book just brings tons of blessings for us. I’m finally
starting to truly love the mission and hearing the first testimony of one of my
investigators has helped me to understand that it’s such a blessing I have to
bring this gospel to other sons and daughters of God! Have a fabulous week
family!
Elder Crump
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| Daniela & Diana |
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| An actual soccer field Matthew gets to play on when they go to Juayua. |
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| Diana & Daniela's baptism. Family and the Zone Leaders |
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