well 8 down. 16 more. 33.33333333% ect. left of guatemala. wow does time move here and there...
this last week i have had an amazing expirence! made my mission. well. we started to teach a guy whos family are members and they are just waiting on him. i went on divisions with one of the Asistants. it was his previous investigator so he wanted to see what was up. we went to their house with one plan. fetcha! or baptismal date! well we went in there got to know them a little then started to teach my favorite thing! the doctorine of christ. 1. faith, repentance, baptism, gift of the holy ghost, and endure to the end.
well started going on and on we asked their 10 year old daughter what do you want your dad to do? i want you to fill the baptismal font! and then we asked what would you like for your family! before i say this i just want to bag on the states for a second. kids here mature so much faster then back home. sorry but its true. she said i want to enter into the temple and be sealed to my family for eturnity. by this time i was fighting off tears the wife was crying and the little girl was crying into her fathers shoulders.
we then asked him if he wanted to follow christ and let him in to his life and he said yes.
this has been the most spiritual expirence i have had in my mission was very grateful that i was able to have this. and its helped me everyday after that. we baptized him this past sunday. yesterday! i wish you could all of been there for it. was so special! mission is great and teaching me alot.
how are things is this area? as of right now were looking around for more people! im stoked for general conference and for all the good things that come with that.
well times up really! i love you all!!
elder crockett
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
March 21
well this past week has been a good week so far. i didnt have changes in area. 5 changes here so ill hit 7 months in this area! ugh. i really want to get out but its probably best that i am here. everything here is going great. i dont really like showing the area around for a 2nd time.
my new comp is from honduras. he has 17 months in the mission knows the doctorine and all but doesnt really know how to work. so i feel like im training. its rough. but this will probably prepare me for the time to come. hes not my favorite comp but what can you do right?
so yesterday we had a service activity. we went and chopped some wood for a family who the husbund has cancer. so us and the elders quarm went and did that for a good 2-3 hours. was great and yes i do have blisters on my hand. sucks. and after that we went to our next visit and we invited our selfs to help them load up a truck of wood and take it to their house. so yesterday was a service filled day. really felt great about it afterwords and such.
so my thoughts on this change.. well i just want to get through it. its going to be rough. dont like my comp really. but oh well. 6 more weeks i think i can pull through with it.
so march maddness is in the books. kevin told me a little bit. my bracket is in the mail. but from what i herd my bracket is messed up from the upsets... suck! but thats what happens when you have no knowlege of stats and such. but oh well. so how are things?
im just about what 7 weeks from calling home! that will be awesome and im excited for that! i miss you all and sorry for the borring email this week. this week looks a little more promising for fun!
i love you
Elder crockett
my new comp is from honduras. he has 17 months in the mission knows the doctorine and all but doesnt really know how to work. so i feel like im training. its rough. but this will probably prepare me for the time to come. hes not my favorite comp but what can you do right?
so yesterday we had a service activity. we went and chopped some wood for a family who the husbund has cancer. so us and the elders quarm went and did that for a good 2-3 hours. was great and yes i do have blisters on my hand. sucks. and after that we went to our next visit and we invited our selfs to help them load up a truck of wood and take it to their house. so yesterday was a service filled day. really felt great about it afterwords and such.
so my thoughts on this change.. well i just want to get through it. its going to be rough. dont like my comp really. but oh well. 6 more weeks i think i can pull through with it.
so march maddness is in the books. kevin told me a little bit. my bracket is in the mail. but from what i herd my bracket is messed up from the upsets... suck! but thats what happens when you have no knowlege of stats and such. but oh well. so how are things?
im just about what 7 weeks from calling home! that will be awesome and im excited for that! i miss you all and sorry for the borring email this week. this week looks a little more promising for fun!
i love you
Elder crockett
March 14
well another change down one closer to going home... ha not really. but hey im having a great time out here. how are things at home? thats rough about japan. the lord blesseth and the lord taketh. ha well brackets came out yesterday. im stoked and will mail mine in the mail. so i can take the win for once. so you should get that around the finals ha ha. but yeah
this week was alright. we put on yet another activity. a tallent show. was really awesome and the ward members loved it. this ward here is really crazy and they do. i showed one of my videos off of youtube and they were all in aw,,, with my amazing powers with a camera. ha ha it was nice. but they made peope dance and basically all the organizations young mens womens primary ect. did an act. was a great turn out and our investigtors loved it. were working hard to get them to finnally comit and be baptized. but unfortunatly changes are soon and i am about 90% sure that i am leaving and i wont be able to see them be baptized. sad but thats life i guess.
changes. yep thats what i said another one gone. this one i would have to say has gone by really really fast and its incredible that its gone... but thats what i hope a mission will be like for the rest of my precious time. things here are good and i more than sure that i will be getting a latino comp. so my spanish will improve somewhat in the next little bit! so thats a plus but a downer. still going to keep my head up of course! things could be worse!
well looks like thats another end to my week. still just chilling here in guate. hope everything is going great at home i miss you all!
love Elder Crockett
this week was alright. we put on yet another activity. a tallent show. was really awesome and the ward members loved it. this ward here is really crazy and they do. i showed one of my videos off of youtube and they were all in aw,,, with my amazing powers with a camera. ha ha it was nice. but they made peope dance and basically all the organizations young mens womens primary ect. did an act. was a great turn out and our investigtors loved it. were working hard to get them to finnally comit and be baptized. but unfortunatly changes are soon and i am about 90% sure that i am leaving and i wont be able to see them be baptized. sad but thats life i guess.
changes. yep thats what i said another one gone. this one i would have to say has gone by really really fast and its incredible that its gone... but thats what i hope a mission will be like for the rest of my precious time. things here are good and i more than sure that i will be getting a latino comp. so my spanish will improve somewhat in the next little bit! so thats a plus but a downer. still going to keep my head up of course! things could be worse!
well looks like thats another end to my week. still just chilling here in guate. hope everything is going great at home i miss you all!
love Elder Crockett
March 7
disclamer... the keyboard im using today sucks! sorry for extra spaces and what not.
well this week has been a great week of work work and just chilling at night. its getting closer and closer to rainy season. we have had a few random rain storms or in utah they would call them floods. here its getting better for work. and were still baptizing like champs! really cool to be reconized by my misson president for that and not a no name. well along with this week nothing really happened sorry to day. of the things that happend
1 i was told that im getting fat by a member not once or twice but 3 times... really made me upset and wanted to punch the lady. she fed us dinner that night and i was stuffed to the max and there still was more to eat i protested and said no... sorry lady
2. we got as mindy would say ´´two paydays´´ but yes us being honest missionaries are returning the extra $100 we ended up with ha ha . we thought we won the missionary lotto. but no
3. we got into our investigators house again and are going to be putting down a date for baptizm. so i hope to get that done next week.
and to top this all off. we have changes next week. so we will see how things go. im pretty sure that im going out. and so this week is going to be a laundry filled week and packing all my crap. seeing if it will all fit. but i have faith ha ha .
well thats all pretty much. mom have you sent my box yet? please!! if not anyone can send me one i may get it right before confrence and could have some confrence munchies! imagine that. but hope everything is going great there. be safe!
love elder crockett
well this week has been a great week of work work and just chilling at night. its getting closer and closer to rainy season. we have had a few random rain storms or in utah they would call them floods. here its getting better for work. and were still baptizing like champs! really cool to be reconized by my misson president for that and not a no name. well along with this week nothing really happened sorry to day. of the things that happend
1 i was told that im getting fat by a member not once or twice but 3 times... really made me upset and wanted to punch the lady. she fed us dinner that night and i was stuffed to the max and there still was more to eat i protested and said no... sorry lady
2. we got as mindy would say ´´two paydays´´ but yes us being honest missionaries are returning the extra $100 we ended up with ha ha . we thought we won the missionary lotto. but no
3. we got into our investigators house again and are going to be putting down a date for baptizm. so i hope to get that done next week.
and to top this all off. we have changes next week. so we will see how things go. im pretty sure that im going out. and so this week is going to be a laundry filled week and packing all my crap. seeing if it will all fit. but i have faith ha ha .
well thats all pretty much. mom have you sent my box yet? please!! if not anyone can send me one i may get it right before confrence and could have some confrence munchies! imagine that. but hope everything is going great there. be safe!
love elder crockett
Feb 28
well 7 months down... what do i have to show for it this week.... well this past weekend alot happened. we had 2 baptisms and 3 confirmations met a couple new familys. also we had an activity.
Activity you ask. well my comp did this activity in his last area. we had the members bring games and we printed off fake money. Quetzalas and spiritual dollars. from there we handed out the money to the members who led the games. we had about 5 games and 2 spiritual games with a tithing. when people won the normal games they got a quet. and when they paid their tithes they recieved a spiritual.
towards the end we told everyone alright when your done with your game that your on were going to have you have an ¨interview´´ with the bishop. was fake but people thought it was real and they left... opps. but they missed out on our message. we divided the members depending on how many spiritual dollars they recieved... frome there we had a three kindoms of glory. and then when all this was said and done the bishop ´´macheted´´ the members about putting the kindom of god first. it was really good and the members loved it.
we gained alot of confidence from them from this lesson. on Sunday after our baptism we had members offer us help and service. was a great confidence builder and i will probably do this in all my new areas.
anyways. how are things going at home. here its the same old its awesome not having to worry about all the worldly things and such. really love this. now if my spanish was where i want it that would be another things. but ists progressing everyday.
well thats it for this week. only one thing.. package has it been sent yet if not CADBERY EGGS! and REESES! the candy... not our dog. but yeah friends can help out with that too dont be shy!
i love you all have a great time!! love ELDER CROCKETT
Activity you ask. well my comp did this activity in his last area. we had the members bring games and we printed off fake money. Quetzalas and spiritual dollars. from there we handed out the money to the members who led the games. we had about 5 games and 2 spiritual games with a tithing. when people won the normal games they got a quet. and when they paid their tithes they recieved a spiritual.
towards the end we told everyone alright when your done with your game that your on were going to have you have an ¨interview´´ with the bishop. was fake but people thought it was real and they left... opps. but they missed out on our message. we divided the members depending on how many spiritual dollars they recieved... frome there we had a three kindoms of glory. and then when all this was said and done the bishop ´´macheted´´ the members about putting the kindom of god first. it was really good and the members loved it.
we gained alot of confidence from them from this lesson. on Sunday after our baptism we had members offer us help and service. was a great confidence builder and i will probably do this in all my new areas.
anyways. how are things going at home. here its the same old its awesome not having to worry about all the worldly things and such. really love this. now if my spanish was where i want it that would be another things. but ists progressing everyday.
well thats it for this week. only one thing.. package has it been sent yet if not CADBERY EGGS! and REESES! the candy... not our dog. but yeah friends can help out with that too dont be shy!
i love you all have a great time!! love ELDER CROCKETT
Feb 21
well my birthday has come and past. this past week has been a really good one! we have had a very busy week here in samala. first off tuesday we started off with a marrige! 1st one in the mission. that was really an interesting expìrence. and it was very nice to see our ward welcome them into the ward. the bishop bought a bunch of presents for the family and distrubuted them to the members and they gave them to the family. they felt the wards love in this.
well my birthday. started off by waking up and getting ready for the weekly planning meeting. me and my comp planned then went to the store to buy some food. after that we went home. there was still no power so we couldnt shower or do anything really. that was our first challenge for us here. one of the members was giving us options for where we could baptize the people... a river near by the stake center or a pool in a local hotel. well we called the bishop and he told us that he would steal the generator of the stake center so that we could use our building.... close to baptizing in a river. but it would be a sucky atmosphere for the people... so anyways we left to pick up two of our baptisms... the sister in law told us that she wasn´t there and that the day before our investagtor told her mom she was getting baptized and she freaked. she took her to a ´´spirutual circle´´ to clense here.. well that so called spritual circle is a witchcraft organization... we havent been able to get back into her house or talk to her. after that we left for the church to fill the font and then waited for our other investigators... there we waited and waited. eventually our family came! and our other one too. was really cool we didnt get our 9 but we got six...
and now your woundering why soap for the subject... well one of the familys for my birthday gave me a present.. i felt it up thinking i was a pro at feeling presents for all the times laying under the christmas tree... well i thought it was chocolate. no... was not. i opened the box all excited for candy and no... was a 3pack of soap... i know in the states that means i smell.. but here what does it mean??? well i dont know i probably do smell...
that night me and my comp borrowed the keys from the bishop and made some cookies in the church since we dont have an oven.. they were soo good. so if you have the chance to feel free to send me the cookies or muffin packs that only need water or an egg!
as for now my week have been going by really good it amazes me that i am already half way done with the change.. time is flying here. its amazing and im enjoying it! how is everything going at home? everything the same... how is the sports life going? i herd there is an up roar about jimmer in provo...
well hope everything is good i love you all stay safe feel free to drop me a letter if you want if not oh well thats how mission life goes.
love Elder crockett
well my birthday. started off by waking up and getting ready for the weekly planning meeting. me and my comp planned then went to the store to buy some food. after that we went home. there was still no power so we couldnt shower or do anything really. that was our first challenge for us here. one of the members was giving us options for where we could baptize the people... a river near by the stake center or a pool in a local hotel. well we called the bishop and he told us that he would steal the generator of the stake center so that we could use our building.... close to baptizing in a river. but it would be a sucky atmosphere for the people... so anyways we left to pick up two of our baptisms... the sister in law told us that she wasn´t there and that the day before our investagtor told her mom she was getting baptized and she freaked. she took her to a ´´spirutual circle´´ to clense here.. well that so called spritual circle is a witchcraft organization... we havent been able to get back into her house or talk to her. after that we left for the church to fill the font and then waited for our other investigators... there we waited and waited. eventually our family came! and our other one too. was really cool we didnt get our 9 but we got six...
and now your woundering why soap for the subject... well one of the familys for my birthday gave me a present.. i felt it up thinking i was a pro at feeling presents for all the times laying under the christmas tree... well i thought it was chocolate. no... was not. i opened the box all excited for candy and no... was a 3pack of soap... i know in the states that means i smell.. but here what does it mean??? well i dont know i probably do smell...
that night me and my comp borrowed the keys from the bishop and made some cookies in the church since we dont have an oven.. they were soo good. so if you have the chance to feel free to send me the cookies or muffin packs that only need water or an egg!
as for now my week have been going by really good it amazes me that i am already half way done with the change.. time is flying here. its amazing and im enjoying it! how is everything going at home? everything the same... how is the sports life going? i herd there is an up roar about jimmer in provo...
well hope everything is good i love you all stay safe feel free to drop me a letter if you want if not oh well thats how mission life goes.
love Elder crockett
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)