Good afternoon from the foothill of the Appalachians,
I pray that you each had an amazing week and a chance to improve; if neither of these things happened for you, make 'em happen!! Each week in the life of a missionary is successful or not, joyful or not, and worthwhile or not. Each one of these circumstances is ultimately affected by one person: me. There were some hard times this week but there is nothing that a smile, a prayer, and some biking can't fix! Now you don't need to get on a bike necessarily to be happy (although it wouldn't hurt) but it's worth any effort to be happy. Something that was pretty awesome was doing a few hours of service for an older sister in our congregation, saving some baby bunnies from her sneaky little dog, and naming them Steven and Earl...but that has NOTHING to do with missionary work haha it just made my day (don't judge sometimes the only thing left to comfort me is a baby bunny).
Well this week has taught me soooo many things. First is that the Lord really does work according to the faith of his children (Moroni 10:7); that is to say, I can't pray in the morning to talk with 25 people that day and teach 1 person about the gospel then go sit on the couch! The Lord blesses us with what we faithfully ask for when we faithfully work for it. We stopped to talk to a woman going into her home and asked if we could come by and share a message with her and she said we could. When we went back, her husband and her uncle were there too! We taught them about how Jesus Christ restored His original church to the earth and has called prophets again to the earth out of love for us (after all everything He does is for us) and they enjoyed the lesson. They all 3 agreed to work towards being baptized on May 22, not because of anything I did but because of the good Lord above.
Then we got to watch General Conference this weekend! For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a broadcast of God's modern-day Prophets and apostles and inspired leaders speaking to us to let us know what Heavenly Father wants us to be doing. It is amazing, if you'd like to check it out, go to lds.org ! It never ceases to amaze me how much our Father in Heaven loves us. He loves us SO much! There is nothing He doesn't want to help us a with, a prayer He doesn't want to answer, a trial He doesn't want to walk with us, He just loves us! I have no idea why He cares so much for someone like me, but I know He does! I know there are many of His children who feel so alone, so unloved, so unwanted. That's why I'm here. If I can do nothing else in this life I want to heal every broken heart and shattered soul I meet. If you ever have felt, or now feel like, you are meant to be eternally hated and alone, let me say this. You're wrong. it's that simple. YOU. ARE. WRONG. There are 2 people up above who smile down upon you every day and one of them gave His own life and split His blood so that you could someday know for the rest of you life that YOU ARE LOVED! I know that is true. If I were to die right now there are 2 things I would take with me: A smile and my faith. There is nothing that can take those 2 things away from you except for yourself.
To end, I stand with Mervyn B. Arnold when he said, "I know He lives! I know it!", God bless,
Elder Crow
We
found a couple of bunnies, we took some pictures before letting them go. This one is Steven, he is cool. We found them
while we were doing some service and the member’s dog tried to eat them
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| saving bunnies |
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