Monday, November 24, 2014

So, this week I have something really big coming up! I have a presentation in front of about 30-40 Catholic youth. I've been in contact with some adults here, and it's a really great opportunity to represent the church. I'm excited, and feel Heavenly Father guiding me. During personal study, I had a very strong prompting that one of the locations of our items in the skeleton of our presentation was clearly in the wrong spot. It's amazing how Heavenly Father works with His children!  It should be awesome! Please pray that the spirit will be at this presentation, and that when we speak, the youth will FEEL something. We have a great opportunity to touch lives, and it would be incredible if the spirit was there in full force!

The other night, I saw the Voice on at someone's house and it was really strange.
Also, in other news, we're trying to contact a family still! I've seen so many miracles! As we pray together as a house in the morning, we literally find family after family, and invite as many as we can. We're getting closer. We started with families who didn't even want to listen, and now we have some who will "let us come if they have time" and a couple who have given us their number. I know Heavenly Father will bless us to find a family if that is His will. That's something I'm learning as a missionary, that everything happens in God's will and timing! It's such a great experience to just be a missionary here and be loving the people around me. I'm trying to serve the best I can, and it's wonderful!

We are paper crane attacking people's houses, so that's really fun! It makes me happy to secretly drop cookies and cranes off to people when we don't have appointments. As we do, we are finding so many people that God is putting in our path! We got two new investigators this week! It's been amazing.

Also, we took an investigator to a RS activity, and they learned to make nachos. It was so great. The Singaporeans have never done it, so we talked about putting the chip upwards to catch the cheese better, letting it melt, saying it's okay to do this by taste, and a few extra beans isn't going to destroy the baking of the nachos and the bean dip. It was so exciting and made me feel like I was at home! It was also fun to have an investigator there.

I don't know how to express to you how much I love this gospel and I love Heavenly Father. As we strive to do God's will, and lose ourselves in the service of God, that is when we are truly the happiest. One quick thought, gratitude is the catalyst to all Christlike attributes. So, if you think of a catalyst to a reaction in science, and how it helps make the reaction better and faster, if you want to be more Christlike, it all starts with gratitude! Also, as I study with questions and think about the gospel more and more, it's more and more apparent that it is so simple, and so true. This life is about walking by faith, and as we do that, and try and live a "quality life" (ask Rachel about it) we are truly happy. We become converted as we follow the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sorry that was confusing, but it's time to be done.

Love  you! Have a happy Thanksgiving!!
Love,
Sister Crabb

This is her response to some of our questions/comments about the monsoon season, the investigators who came to church, the contacting change she mentioned last week, and the incident with her hair getting caught in the MRT doors:

Yes, the rain is HUGE! During church the other day, it sounded like the air conditioner was breaking because the rain was so loud. They last a couple hours. And, the umbrella helps a little bit, but mostly you get wet no matter what because of the wind and the bouncing raindrops off the ground. S was one. He's a sweet 14 year old who we're teaching. We're working on getting into his family...we'll see. Y P was the other one. And, no contacting is a new policy from our Zone Leaders. Don't worry, we can still contact as a mission. It's just a zone policy, but contacting is a struggle, it's hard! I love it though. I love talking to people more than just about anything! I'm a chatty person. I like life, I like to have fun!! But yes, people are coming to us. We contact as we go to deliver fun treats to our members. It's actually more effective, and Heavenly Father is actually putting more people in our path as we love and serve! So, we have to do service for our members instead of contacting. So, if we don't teach, we have to find ways to help our members and love them. Lots of heart attacking! J is really busy, hopefully we'll see her in about a week! Yes, it was funny. It didn't hurt, and it was so easy to get out! And, it was driving off, but I'm fine. It was really funny! Also, I got a haircut! Did I tell you??