The biggest miracle we saw was definitely on Sunday. So, before Sunday, we had not taught a single investigator lesson. People are out of town, or too busy, etc. It's interesting too, because I feel like these people have great spiritual experiences, and then they choose not to meet with us. Near the beginning of my mission, we didn't create spiritual experiences that were nearly as powerful or at all, so I understand why people would not want to continue to meet us. It's just different I guess being on the opposite side of everything and seeing people really feel the spirit and then reject it. It can just be heartbreaking because you know exactly what this gospel can do for people. ANYWAYS, on Saturday night, Sister Fuglistaler and I just prayed and prayed for a miracle. We needed anything or anyone to come to church, or be willing to meet us Sunday evening. So, because we needed to help with the 1st ward RS lesson, we walked into 4th ward sacrament meeting pretty late. We hurried in though, and Sister Fuglistaler was like, "let's go and sit by Y, she's sitting alone." So, we slipped in next to her (I totally smashed her foot on my way across the row and felt so bad), and as soon as we did, a cute girl in front of us turned around and said, "How are you sisters! This is my friend Brother K! He's visiting church with me today!" So, we were really excited about the referral to begin with, but to make the little miracle even better, as we were talking to the nice girl, her name is Sister A, we found out that her entire family have been members for years, but she just never got baptized. She bore her testimony to us about the Book of Mormon, and the church, and basically, she is a dry member! She literally could be baptized this weekend into 4th ward with her family if she wanted to. However, there's something that must be holding her back, because she wants to be baptized, but doesn't want to put a date on it. Hopefully we can crack her concern with the spirit this week.
Besides that, our only other lesson was with our investigator Brother P Q from China (yes, this is the one that is extremely logical, but wants to be baptized.). Anyhow, as we met with him, we just felt the spirit really strongly as he talked about conference. As we asked him about his questions he had prepared for conference, and if he felt like he had received any answers, he said (and this was one of my favorite comments of the lesson!) "Every single speaker spoke about my questions. Every single speaker." So, not sure what exactly his questions were, but he said he will feel like he can make a good decision about his baptism after he finished reading conference this next week or two.
So, in a nutshell, our miracles are that we are able to have two people that may potentially be able to get baptized in the next month or so! That is a really big deal.
Our less actives and recent convert L are doing really well as well. We met with a few this week, and are slowly trying to help them strengthen their testimonies! KW is holding together pretty well, although she did not come to church this week :(.
This week, we worked with members by helping teach the "Feed my Sheep" lesson from Ezra Taft Benson. We worked with the teacher to help her understand what she can do to help the RS sisters understand their role in being a shepherd, and then we got to speak at the end about how love goes a really long way. We then passed around a calendar to have members sign up to come to our appointments. Anyhow, we are also in the works of figuring out how to utilize our ward mission leader better in coordinating our efforts with members. This way, we will be able to focus more on other things besides trying to schedule members to come to our lessons.
I think one thing I really like about Heavenly Father, is He always pushes us to be better in a loving, caring way! If there are any voices we hear that are not nice, not kind, etc, they are not from God. And, we can talk back to them by replacing them with good, wholesome, thoughts - thoughts of things we know God feels about us. Just a random thought, but I think if we could all more deeply understand how much God really loves us, and how He truly cares about us, our actions towards ourselves and the others around us would be different.
Finally, at our Zone Meeting this week, I was dubbed as "her majesty Sister Crabb, Queen of Singapore" since I have been here for so long. Basically I got to knight the new missionaries in Singapore since I have served here for so long, and that was thoroughly exciting. Besides that, I made Chicken Rice for the first time, and will probably pick up a packet to bring home so I can make it for you all! It was really, really good! And, probably not the most healthy ;). Overall, I love the gospel, and I love the members! We also got to teach a 7 year old to prepare her for her baptism, and we got to continue to meet with so many wonderful members, and encourage them to do missionary work.
I dressed up this week in a Sari, and I got my hair cut by Sister Fuglistaer - her first haircut! And that was an experience. Don't worry, I taught her what an inch is, and she cut off the dead ends only.
Love you all!! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Crabb
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| Knights of SG cups that we got at Zone Meeting...everyone got a medieval name. I was "Her Majesty Lady Crabb, Queen of Singapore". |
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| I think one of the most tender mercies I've seen near the end of my mission, is my seed planting actually doing something! These are people that remember me for one contact or one phone call, who are now, about 6 months to a year later, learning about the church/baptized! yay!! |
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| Marina Bay |
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| Marina Bay |
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| Sometimes, I feel really Asian over here! This is at Marina Bay...where we went last P-Day. |
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