Let me give you some highlights of things that I learned this week, and things that happened. First of all, I increased my faith in prophets and apostles being called of God this week. I spent a small portion of my Sunday morning reading conference talks before church to prepare myself to take the sacrament (something I've been doing recently is trying to be better at preparing for the sacrament) and as I was reading and praying, I came across a talk in 2000 by Ronald A. Rasband. As I looked at his name, I felt the spirit so strongly confirm to me that he had been called to be in the Quorum of the 12 Apostles. I had no idea at this point who had actually been called. However, the spirit was so strong in that moment for me, that I cannot deny that apostles and our dear prophet are called of God.
Besides that, I've been working on feeling God's love more, delegating (I asked the sisters what they wanted to have shared at MLC...I didn't want it to just be my thoughts and opinions, because I'm really only there because I represent them), and I've also been really SEEKING revelation. I sit in MLC sometimes and think, wow! How do all these awesome missionaries come up with these ideas. Then I realized, why not me? If I really want to seek out ways to improve as a missionary, I've got Preach my Gospel, I've got the scriptures, and I've got the spirit. There is NOTHING stopping me except myself. So, I decided that in the next little bit, I am going to actively SEEK revelation. It helped this last weekend, as I felt so guided to passages of the Book of Mormon for our investigator J, as well as in our lesson with the B teenagers. I've never felt more guided during a lesson than during that lesson! We came in, all planned and ready to put them on date. Then, they hadn't really had a great experience with the Book of Mormon, so we just read Lehi's dream together, and it was SO powerful. We had a couple prospective missionaries there with us, and they got to bare their testimonies, and it was just a fantastic lesson. One of the 'prospective missionaries' mothers actually told us on Saturday that she is super, super grateful that her son came with us, and that he had a great experience.
Besides that...L got her patriarchal blessing, and we worked with members to be able to hopefully set up a great service project that will help 4th ward fulfill their mission plan!
The biggest miracle of the week? A lady named T came to church last week with one of our members, and she is open to hearing a little bit more with her. So, we came from the pouring rain of our P-day activity to our member’s house and were able to teach her the Restoration. I'm so grateful that we are able to have miracles in this work, because if I was supposed to do this by myself, nothing would really get done!
I love this work, I love our investigators.
As far as less actives go, we have a few that we are actively working with, and Sister K W was able to come to church on Sunday! She said that it felt great, and that she hadn't been in a long long time. She is super sweet, and is such a special part of my mission. I hope we can work with her husband, and help him get baptized :).
Love, (from my little section of the vineyard...)
Sister Crabb
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| So, this is just a classic missionary photo I HAD to take :) |
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| I got to hold a bald vulture this week! It was really scary actually, it weighed 5 pounds, and is from Africa. Her name was Hazel, and they put a nice piece of steak in my hand and then she flew and landed on my hand with the giant glove. Basically, being blonde haired and blue eyed has it's perks here in Singapore :) |
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| "It is better to Look UP" |
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| We got to have Sister Simmons come out with us for a night since we are the STL's, and it was WAY fun :) |
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| We did a really awesome talent show to celebrate Sister Carson's last Sunday night! I got volunteered to do the hokey pokey, and then we did Harry Potter puppet pals as the final act. Super fun! I was Dumbledore in that if you care:) |
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