I hope everyone is doing well. I'm almost to the end of my training which is crazy but awesome I just realized because I'll start the year as an Independent ... there's a much cooler word for that but I'm blanking on the name. Unfortunately I'm not sure how independent you can be when there's a language barrier the good news is that my understanding even when people talk fast has increased I still can't quite match or replicate them though ... one day.
Monday: Always a great day - we went shopping at the plangke as always but we scheduled our day a little differently and so we finished shopping around 6 which is the same time it gets dark and apparently the same time tricy's go home ? Crazy thing so these crowds of people were standing at the four way street and when a tricy drove by they'd rush to pile in hahaha sister cabaraban and I weren't able to follow suit because of our groceries but it was a little scary to think we weren't going to be able to get home. We then saw a member tricy driver and recent convert pass us aka we were given 2 signs to act but they both passed pretty quickly to make a long story short patience is a virtue.
This day I also made two solid contacts. In this mission we have a goal of 30 contacts a day. We introduce ourselves and testify to 30 people a day and it can be difficult but I saw a man with a missing leg dusting his car and I offered to help then contacted him and it was awesome. Nothing too special about that story but the lesson I learned is you feel good when you offer to help someone and they appreciate the effort whether it's accepted or not. Maybe that's how I'll phrase my contacts like we all need help. This gospel is that help.
Tuesday: My eye kept twitching and IT RAINED. It's been raining and I love it. Sister Cabaraban said she needs to shower or she'll get sick so I was thinking the rain had something in it but no she just needed to get warm ... She took a warm shower! By boiling water. So the next day I did the same thing (boiled water while exercising) and I don't think I can go back to the cold water again.
Wednesday: ZONE CONFERENCE that's when a bunch of zones meet and hear from the Mission President. Unfortunately I forgot my nametag but there were missionaries who brought 2! Assuming no one reads those things I put it on and then I had to introduce myself to new people who would read those things ... it quickly came off after a couple introductions. We got a cook of mormon apron which I find so applicable to my mission experience because here I've learned how to cook: rice, french toast, adobo, sinigang, and pansit. Catch me in the kitchen folks!
Friday: The previous night Sister Cabaraban showed me a movie about John Tanner and I highly recommend everyone check it out because it really makes you want to increase your faith. Quickly: John Tanner had a leg that was going to kill him but he didn't want to remove it and through faith and the priesthood the leg was healed. Anyways the next morning I got to the thinking about the movie and we have an investigator who is partially paralyzed and so I turned to sister Cabaraban and asked "do we lack faith" In all seriousness and she was thinking about the work and I was like no could we heal sister Tecla? Anyways it all sounds crazy but like really by and through faith miracles are wrought and I wish we all could be in a position similar to mine because it really allowed me to ponder about faith. I mean what would happen if we said she is healed and nothing happens? At that point we'd have to chalk it up to it's not Heavenly Father's will but still really interesting.
I recorded me talking about my investigators but forgot the tape today ... so I'll quickly tell you about this cool find. We are currently teaching people who sell coconuts and homemade peanut butter so after teaching them we're given coconuts -bonus!
Last week I began my spiritual thought but didn't get to finish it. As I read the Book of Mormon verses about us being sheep have stuck out to me and there are a lot of them. So this Christmas season we should ask who is our sheppard? I'm not sure which scripture it is but theres one that says we can't be the sheep of the good and bad sheppard. But Jesus the good sheppard is calling out to us and is still calling out to us (Alma 5:37-41) we need to hearken to Him. We can't serve two masters (3 Nephi 13:24) but how can we know a master we haven't served? If we simply desire to be the sheep of the good sheppard then we're given the incentive of being protected from wolves (Alma 5:60)
Here are some other verses I didn't write quick things about 3 Ne 18:31, Mormon 5:17, Mosiah 14:16, Mosiah 5:13-14. Jesus will call us by his own name and if we do not know him we aren't of his sheep and he can't protect us. Let's become Jesus's sheep.... ps: if you love Him you'll feed His sheep
Love and miss you all - have a very merry christmas
SIster Crawford
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