I got to go on exchanges with my STL, Sister Jenkins who was in my district my 2nd transfer! It was so fun to go on exchanges as older missionaries and just hit the ground running. We even got to visit people IN PERSON and IN THEIR HOMES!!!! It was so amazing! It was the first time in months I felt normal! I loved it! It was so fun to get a new perspective on how to spend our time and get back into the groove of visiting people. Sister Jenkins also taught me how to use Facebook groups to help the posts we make reach more people. I am not the best at finding on Facebook, so I decided to try out the whole groupz thing where i share posts to them! So to test the groups, I shared "I'll Turn to You" that Sister Craddock and I wrote last transfer from my Zone's facebook page to the Worldwide United group! That group has almost 600K members from all over the world and people with all sorts of religious backgrounds! It's an uplifting group where anyone can share stuff about God, Jesus Christ, hope, or basically anything uplifting! So I shared the song Tuesday night when it had less than 1k views. It now has gotten 47k views and has reached over 100k people!!!!!! Its absolutely crazy! So many people have reached out to tell me how much they loved it or how it helped them and gave then strength! A cool Dutch band in the Netherlands is doing a cover of it since there isn't a ton of gospel music in Dutch! It's just absolutely insane! It has almost 500 shares and it just blew up! It was so humbling to see how our efforts aided by the Spirit were able to affect people. That was a huge miracle. It was such a cool experience!
Friday we had a film day with the district for Facebook (because that's a huge part of the missionary work now)! Some members in Biloxi came to the church with their ~fancy~ equipment and I got to make another video! It'll be posted soon, so stay tuned! But to me that video was a huge miracle! I decided to be very open about my struggles with self-confidence and body image insecurities...something I don't talk about very often! But I felt prompted to share my struggles and I was so nervous to film because I had an audience of straight up elders!!! And Sister Young of course...but also elders! It was pretty intimidating, but I just prayed that the Spirit would guide my words and that's exactly what he did. I'm really excited to share it! I felt the Spirit so strong making the video, and I'm excited for people to feel the Spirit as they watch! Stay tuned folks!
Sister Young and I got to teach the Plan of Salvation to some amazing boys we are working with! We talked so much about how God's plan for us wouldn't work without Jesus Christ because He is the only way we can get back to the Father. A few days later I shared 3 Nephi 27:14 with someone and it says "And my Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me, that as I have been lifted up by men even so should men be lifted up by the Father..." and it hit me! Jesus Christ was lifted up to give us a boost to our Heavenly Father if we choose to come to Him. That's grace! Having Christ's help the whole way until we get back to our Father. He makes it so we can reach what we, ourselves, can't reach on our own! I'm so grateful for the grace of Jesus Christ that helps me every day!
I'm so grateful for my Savior and for all he has done for me! I love Him so much! I challenge yall to share your testimony of Him with someone you love this week, whether that's in person or on social media! I love my Heavenly Father for sending Jesus Christ to help us one day come back to Him a little more heavenly. I love yall and I hope yall have a great week!
Love, Sister Crouch
1. What Sunday devotionals look like in the Pascagoula ward lol
2. The Dutch band from the Netherlands sent me a clip of them working on our song and it's SO GOOD!!!
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