Here's a rundown of a few people we are working with:
K B: We were able to meet her a few times this week, and serve her quite a bit. Things are going pretty well with her, and she has a cute family with a couple kids. She felt God's love this week, and is increasing her faith, so that's really good. Also, after fasting for her this week, she texted us randomly this morning and told us she is coming to church!! This is a huge deal.
S M: She is Japanese, and has been investigating forever! She told our member though that she knows she will get baptized someday, just not sure when yet. We are hoping for sooner rather than later since she has had all the lessons now. She came to church on Sunday, and that was really good.
R: He is a Seventh Day Adventist, and meets us every week. He is willing to change religion if he feels like the church is true! We tried to have a really short, powerful Restoration with him since it's really important to have the spirit there to teach. Logic, bible-bashing...nothing works except the spirit. We still need to work on it, but it was better this week.
We have a couple less actives....one family that is from New Zealand and they have lost almost all belief in God. We are working with them to figure out if God really does exist, and I'm excited to study why God lets bad things happen to good people, because it feels like a theme in this area and at this time to me. That is a little bit of who we are working with and how it's going! I love all these people so much, and am so grateful I get to be working with each of them.
Let me give you some fun highlights :)
President Simmons is literally the best! He and his wife are so young, and energetic, and down to Earth. President Simmons served in Taiwan, and Sister Simmons in Spain. They have so much advice for us, and they love talking to us! I think they are absolutely incredible. My favorite part of the week was when we were spontaneously called by the STL's to go and fill in for them and pick up a couple sisters from Malaysia who just got set apart, and take them to dinner! While we were there, so were the Simmons. We got to sit and talk with them for literally 40 minutes about how they got called to be mission presidents, and it was the funnest thing ever. You just get randomly recommended, and then you get called by the Quorum of the 12 apostles and get interviewed, etc. You could get called to serve really soon, or wait for 10 years or so I guess. I hope this makes a little bit of sense...but it was so fun! Also, it was really great to be able to talk with the Sisters from Malaysia as they started their mission. They are so nervous, but they are going to be great! They will actually be back in Singapore next week at transfers. I also got to see Sister Fuglistaler this week! She is STL in west Malaysia, and so she slept at our house this week. She is one of my best friends, and I love her.
Also, besides that, I curled up on the ledge of our 10-story building (please don't panic mom...I'm fine) and looked out on the city and just relaxed and thought about how much I love it here.
We made so many wonderful wire balls with K this week to serve her, and got to teach her 3 times which was super great. K is doing really well right now, and it's so fun to be around her. She is struggling with Lymes disease, but she is fighting hard through it!
We went to a Navy family for dinner, and this was a sort of miracle! We talked to our Stake President as we were leaving our house and the chapel, and he told us that he has a referral for us, and that if we asked the Money's about it, they would be able to set up an appointment. So, sure enough, as we went to the Money's, they had a referral for us! It was someone who is going to listen to a discussion because the stake president was willing to serve him. It will take some time to set up the appointment, but that was really cool!
We have some great plans to have a youth program where the youth in our ward follow us around for a day, as well as some fun social media things. We get to kick this off on the 5th Sunday in August when our ward is back. We want our ward of 'Boise, Idaho' members to have some missionary experiences in Singapore, so we are going to 'embark in the service of God' together :).
I will speak in sacrament meeting soon, so that will be super fun!!! The ward is so small right now...it's literally the white people branch. Except, that we have dinner almost every night this week. #love
Anyways, the fourth was super super fun! We celebrated with really bad Burger King, and then European llaollao's. Not the best, I know, but I still loved it! Then, we saw fireworks at the American school, and got to contact some people! I dressed up all patriotic, and it was just super fun. Much better than last year! Our whole house is American, and so we were able to sing so many patriotic songs together!!!
To finish off this letter, we went and ran around in the rain for exercise on the fourth of July. We usually run around downtown in the morning - which is really enjoyable! And it was pouring the morning of the fourth. Me and my companion related it to us going through the storms of life :)
Anyways, I need to go! Just know, the work is hastening, in so many small and big ways here in Singapore! I am so happy and blessed to be a missionary. It is the best part of my life, and I don't ever want it to end. There's something so special about serving God.
Love you so much!! Happy Fourth! God Bless America!!!
Love, Sister Crabb
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| Sister Roberts and Sister Crabb at Merlion Park on P-Day |
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| With peacock... |
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| P-Day |
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| P-Day |
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| Selfie on the bus |
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| There is a literal Chico living in our house, and it scared me so bad, I went and grabbed the broom so I could kill it. Unfortunately, it lives behind our air-con, so I never got him! |
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| Group of Sisters |
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| "This is the motorcycle that the Chinese man in the Children's Museum had us sit in. He gave me a coke to pose with so naturally I drank it! He lifted our legs from the buggy on top of the motorcycle - hope that gives you a better visual, from the story I emailed you." |
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| Posing with a mic at the Children's Museum |
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| "The South East Asia Games came to Singapore!! It's basically like the Olympics of South East Asia, and it only happens once every 22 years! Unfortunately, I couldn't get anyone to come with me to an event on P-Day" |
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| Sister Roberts and Sister Crabb |
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| "Look at the clouds! And the laundry hanging out the HDB's. Got to love Singapore!" |
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