As missionaries always say, "Another
fantastic week here in the mission field!!" Sometimes weeks are hard, some
tiring, some filled with success, others not so much, but practically every
time I write on Mondays I can honestly say the mission is the best! So this
week was a little bit of everything, but it was definitely like every other
week in the mission, jam packed with miracles!
We had a real quality
lesson with one of our progressing investigators named Alfredo, he had a
baptism meta... which now fell because he didn’t go to church ;( but he is still preparing to be baptized and
should be able to do it next change. But anyway, so we brought one of the teens
in our ward that is a recent convert and just asked him to bear his testimony.
He had a ton of problems to be able to be baptized because his family didn’t
support him at all but in the end it helped him a ton to strengthen his
testimony and actually have a strong testimony before he got baptized. It was
just the best thing for me to hear because like Brigham Young explains, it’s
not about the knowledge one has or the eloquence in their testimony, it’s about
the conviction and actual beliefs one has obtained. Pablo, the kid that’s the
convert, just gave his strong but simple testimony and the spirit instantly
filled the room. You could totally feel that Pablo knew, without a doubt, every
single word he was saying. I loved it. Share your testimony people, it doesn’t
matter how simple it is!
So idk if I have told you
guys this, but I haven’t seen a one dollar bill in like 5 months. They just
straight up don’t exist here. Everybody just uses the one-dollar coins and that’s
it. It really weighs down your pockets.
I miss Mom’s homemade bread
more than anything in the world but I recently found the guy that passes for
our sector of Buena Vista and now he passes for the house in the morning with
freshly made French bread ( or so they call it). It’s the best. Now all I need
is honey butter, haha.
This week we had one of the
greatest miracles ever. So I have been praying that I would be able to find a
family I can baptize and help prepare to go to the temple. I just really want
to help someone reach that goal more than anything. So last Friday I was with
Elder Evans on interchanges and we go to visit a reference that we didn’t
exactly know much about them. Well turns out he just got here from Rio Zarco
and was listening to missionaries for quite some time there. He got beat up and
almost killed there so he had to come here to Buena Vista. So he’s been
preparing to get married and baptized and now my comp and I have the huge
blessing to be able to finish their preparation and help them be baptized in
the coming weeks. It’s so awesome. He’s the humblest guy ever and understands
so much about the gospel already! It’s such blessing to be able to help families
prepare to be an eternal family and I can’t wait to continue teaching them!
That’s all for the week
folks, love you lots. Keep being good Latter Day Saints. Talk to you next week!
Elder Crump
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