Hey yall! I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving! We had a blast this week! It's been crazy here in Mendenhall! We have 2 baptisms coming up this Friday so that's kept us busy getting Izzy and Rinasha ready for that! We are so. Dang. PUMPED. It's just a great time to be in Mendenhall folks.
So something hilariously NOT funny happened that I just have to tell yall about. Something to know about the south: there is so much darn roadkill! Theres always deer, armadillo, dogs :(, possums, etc. on the side of the road all the dang time. The dogs always get me a little teary eyed. It's pretty darn sad. Well, sister Glenn is coming up on 3 months down south and she still hasn't seen an armadillo up close dead or alive. Anyways, we're driving to someone's house at 6:30 so it's completely pitch black out in the Boonies where we are. I'm driving, I got the high beams on and I see a (dead) armadillo on the way to the house on my side of the road! Well I get all excited and tell Sister Glenn theres one coming up! We don't get a very good look. Well we pass it, go to the house, and no ones home. So we get back in the car and head down the road again and I see the armadillo coming up and I slow down and stop so it's literally right outside Sister Glenn's window, all she has to do is look down. I look at her and tell her to look at the armadillo. "I'm scared. I heard they jump!" I hand her my phone as a flashlight and tell her it's dead so just look at it! "No I dont want to." "Sister Glenn you havent seen one! Just look!" "I'm scared! What if its alive!" "Sister Glenn, just look at the dang armadillo!!" So finally she rolls down the window, shines her light outside, and looks down. Guys, her jaw just DROPS. Sister Glenn looks back at me and says "You dont want to know what that is." Well I knew exactly what it was when she said that. Sister Glenn goes "ITS A PUPPY! You made me look at a dead puppy!!" ...guys... I'm terrible. I'm horrible. I felt so bad that I just lost it I laughed so hard because it was soooo horrible that it was hilarious! I felt soooo bad and i kept looking at her and saying I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry in between bursts of laughter. Conclusion: I'm the worst person/trainer/companion EVER :) moral of the story, if your companion forces you to look at the dead armadillo outside of your window, be skeptical and assume they're as terrible of a person as I am. Big fat RIP to Sister Glenn.
Other than that! This week was really good! We spent Thanksgiving at a members house and they had a darn good southern spread! We had the works for Thanksgiving! There were 60 members of their family there so it was a party. We mingled and played cornhole with everyone (didn't have the chance to kick some Mississippi behind, but the elders in our district experienced a good beating from me and Sister Glenn), played card games, and just enjoyed the day! It felt like a home away from home. The day before we baked some pies to take to people who didn't have family to spend Thanksgiving with and I realized something. Rolling out pie crust is wayyyy harder without Grandma right there telling you if it's too thick or too thin. But! They didn't turn out too shabby and it was a really fun opportunity to serve and visit those who spent Thanksgiving by themselves.
So I had the insanely cool opportunity to skype into my Great Grandma's baptism on Saturday this week and guys, it was a gamechanger for my mission. My Nana is 87 years old and has been around the gospel for years and years and has never shown interest. Then all the sudden, she felt the need to be baptized and she did! I got to talk to her before the service started and she looked at me and said "This is what missionaries can do and don't you ever forget it!" That hit me. I felt so much joy watching my Nana be baptized and I knew it would bless my family so much. Well, that's what missionary work does for other families and I think the reality of that hasn't been as prominent lately. But I couldn't help but think about Izzy and Rinasha and all the lives their baptism would affect in this life and beyond the veil. My greenie fire was starting to dim a LOT these past few weeks. But after watching my Nana be baptized and seeing the joy it brought her and me, it is BLAZING bright! I cant wait to find those ready for the gospel and bring them as much joy and this baptism has brought me!
Alma 26:35 has been on my mind this week. Ammon says "Now have we not reason to rejoice? Yea, I say unto you, there never were men that had so great reason to rejoice as we, since the world began; yea, and my joy is carried away, even unto boasting in my God..." We have so much to be rejoicing over! I love that its officially time to Light the World and celebrate the Savior's birth (even though our tree has been up for a month...) because I feel like Ammon this season. There never has been so great a reason to rejoice than the birth of Christ and all that brought to us! I love Jesus Christ with my whole soul and I know He lives. He loves us, He suffered for us, and because of Him we can return to our Heavenly home.
I love yall and I hope yall have a good week! Go out and light the world this week, serve someone and remember Jesus Christ!
Love Sister Crouch
1. Couldn't have said it better myself
2. My cute Nana and the family after her baptism!
3. Pre Thanksgiving pie prep
4. Thanksgiving!
5. Now that its officially December we are ready to light the world!
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