To start off the week, we had Zone Conference! It was really an awesome reminder of how much the Book of Mormon means to me and how powerful it is in the conversion process for members of the church and nonmembers alike! The heavens really open up to us if we prayerfully study it. We are promised to receive personal revelation if we do prayerfully study it and it seriously helps us in all aspects of our life! I really love the Book of Mormon so it was really cool to talk about how it really does answer the questions of our souls and all that fun stuff. If you dont read it everyday, read it everyday! It was also really fun to meet some more people in the mission and see President and Sister Varner (they're just the absolute best). It was a great way to kick off this week!
Okay y'all. So Saturday is where all the fun really happened. We had a pretty tight Saturday schedule that we had planned out that morning and it was just FULL of people to try and see. We had started to go and try and see some people, but no one was really available or wanted to talk to us, so we had some extra time! So we decided to go over to Keylin and Katherine's place, who we've been teaching for a few months now and are really close to being baptized! We had promised the next time we came over that we'd bring our nail polishes and have a little girl time and talk about coming to church on Sunday. So we headed over with our nail stuff and we started doing each others' nails and just having such a fun time with the girls. You could really tell that it meant a lot to them that we were willing to do that with them! When we were finishing up, Yojana (their mom) came out and painted hers with us! She speaks only Spanish and I only know un pocito, but I still manage to communicate and have fun with her! We had this amazing crab/shrimp soup that she made earlier in the week and she got to show us how to crack open crab legs with our teeth! It was so fun! I would hold up the crab and look at Yojana and just ask "ummm como?" and she just helped me through it! It was such a blast!
After Yojana's place, we went to Hian and Cesar's house to visit them. They're these adorable recent converts from Hondouras who also speak only Spanish. But, I am starting to learn enough to actually talk with them, too! It's the best when you cant communicate perfectly, but you're still friends with those people! Hian and Cesar had been acting a little cold to us lately and we decided that we needed to stop by and help them just know we still loved them. So when we stopped by Hian asked if we could play Ninja with them like the sisters used to before they were baptized. So we did and he brought out like 8 espadas (or swords, those kids are really trying hard to help me understand Spanish haha) and we just ran around the trailer park playing ninja with them, and I FINALLY got to see their personalities come out and they were just so fun! It was really sweet being able to show them we still love and care for them, and just that little act of playing ninja with them showed them that.
I think a lot of times we get wrapped up in the routines and schedules of life and feel like a failure if we dont see everyone we wanted to or do everything we were planning on or whatever. But Heavenly Father usually has a way of helping us do the things HE needs us to do instead of the things we think we need to do. I really saw that this week and it was really awesome to see how none of our Saturday went according to plan, but everything we did was something the Lord nudged us to do because it was HIS will. That's what having a servant's heart is all about. Putting His will above your own, because He knows best!
So Alma 37:14 has quickly become one of my favorite scriptures as a missionary. The beginning of the scripture says " And now remember...that God has entrusted you with these things, which are sacred..." Alma is giving his son Helman the records of their people to continue to record God's dealings with their people, but I feel like this applies to everyone. Heavenly Father is entrusting you with sacred responsibilities, whether it be being a parent, being a missionary, a calling you have, the people you interact with, or anything that He sees fit to entrust you with. Why? Because He seriously just trusts you!! He trusts us that, through His help, we can accomplish or finish whatever it is He has given to us. I dont know about yall, but that brings a ton of peace to me, knowing that Heavenly Father trusts me to make the right decisions and treat what I've been called to do in a sacred manner. Isn't that just the coolest thing?
I love this work, I love Louisiana and the people here, I love this gospel, I love my Savior, and I love my Heavenly Father. This gospel is real y'all!! I love you all, have a good week! :)
Love Sister Crouch
1. Hian, Cesar, and Reyna after our ninja game
2. Yojana and us! They still let me be in the pic even though my nails weren't done
3. Nora, an incredible new person we're teaching! She's just the best!
4. Burnadette, one of the people we visit in the nursing home every week
5. Sister Varner!
6. All the sisters at Zone Conference
7. The soup that Yojana made for us. Sooo good.
8. Dede, a member that takes such good care of us missionaries. She's the best
9. Katherine
10. Keylin painting my nails!
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