Week 45: Zoom calls...more like DOOM calls...

Well, the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission has gone Facebook this week! We have had Facebook since before I got here, but it's like official now! And it's been a crazy week because of it...well as crazy as a week can be in quarantine! We have been on our phones literally so much all week so my eyes are honestly dying from all the blue light but anything for God's work! It's been really cool to see the mission get excited about this new change though and have a chance to still find people to teach! It's been awesome.

Something not so awesome about this week is Sister Craddock and I had TEN HOURS OF ZOOM CALL MEETINGS...we had meetings with the leadership in the mission to talk about heading the Facebook pages we now run and that took almost 3 hours then a mission-wide zoom call for 6.5 hours the next day!!! I was deceased but it's all good. It has been really cool to talk about our new way to proselyte. So we made a page for every zone in the mission to try and find people by posting uplifting content! It's been working really well in other missions so we are trying it out! It's been fun so far lol. A little stressful, but fun so far lol.

Easter was really so different this year but one that definitely is going in the books. Our mission did a Facebook life worship for everyone at home and it was really cool to still worship our Savior from home! And how cool was it to fast on Good Friday?! I'll be honest, that was like the hardest fast of my whole entire life! I was shakey by 11am haha. I thought to myself about how hard this fast was and the Spirit taught me a lot in that moment about how hard our Savior's Friday was. So if you struggled with your fast, you're in the best company ever with Jesus Christ! Thinking about Him all weekend was the only way I found joy with my quarantined circumstances and being away from my family, it's what got me through! Then I realized that that's what Christ did. He focused on US to get through His Easter weekend. Just some food for thought, He focused on YOU to get through what He had to go through. That makes me feel pretty darn special and loved and hopefully it makes you feel the same way! 

I'm in 3 Nephi right now with our 90 day challenge and I just read the story of the resurrected Christ appearing to the Nephites on the Americas and letting them feel the nail prints in His hands one by one. I always thought it was really interesting that He had scars since I grew up believing being resurrected gave us a perfect body (like minus scars!). I read this scripture a few months ago and it hit me why He had the scars :) 1 Nephi 21:16 "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." Christ engraved us on the palms of His hands, He always remembers us. That's the thought that's been in my mind all weekend and I hope yall were able to feel our Savior's love for you the way I was!

I am grateful that we got some time to reflect on the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for each one of us! I am grateful for His love and grace that let's me change and repent and become more like Him everyday. I'd be a different person without my Savior. I love Him and I know He is real and He lives!! I love yall and hope yall have a good week! 

Love, Sister Crouch 

1. Easter cookie decorating! Remembering the reason for the season :))

2. Trying to Facebook 

3. Hour 5 of our zoom meeting...

4. My favorite stop on our walks!