Greg's meal
Easter
8 years ago
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Happy Easter!
I'm staying in Truro! Who would have thought? I did. Well it was just one of those things where I just felt like I was staying. It is kind of insane to stay in one place for this long, but I figure that there's something that I haven't done yet that I need to do, so once I figure out what that is I'll do it and get out of here! Just kidding, I really do love Truro. Everyone was so happy that we are staying. Some members didn't believe me when I told them I was staying. Our investigators were thrilled and I think the best reaction came from Sister Mingo. We told her and she screamed and said she was going to cry she was so happy that she had prayed all night that we wouldn't get transferred and told Heavenly Father that Truro needed us and we were doing such good work that we shouldn't get moved. I was in shock that it meant so much to her that we both stay. When we told Heather, our investigator she said something similar that "pray works" so there you go, prayers are answered. :)
Here's some exciting news: GREG IS ON DATE! yay! He's getting baptized May 14th! So Heather and Wanda will get baptized on the 7th and the following Saturday Greg will get baptized. I'm so excited. I wasn't sure if Greg would get baptized while I'm here or not. He gives us the hardest time and jokes every 2 seconds, you just can't take him seriously, but we asked him to pray about it and then came back and he says, "ok." WHAT?? there was silence after his answer and I looked at Sister Glenn and said, "did he just say yes?" I couldn't believe it. Greg also made us 2 meals this week! He just called us up at 3:00pm and says, "are either of you vegetarian?...ok good come by and pick up your dinner at quarter to 5." The first day it was pork and potatoes and the second day it was french onion soup. It was so nice of him to feed us and it tasted good too!
Heather and Wanda are the best. They tell the funniest stories and we bust up laughing every appointment. Last Tuesday we could barely get through the lesson. We were talking about feasting on the scriptures and I said something like, "I don't think Nephi means to literally eat paper but to..." and bam they were laughing hysterically. It really wasn't that funny but in the moment apparently it was. Oh dear, I'm saving my humor for when I get home, it's no good to me here, I'll never get anything done! They are excited for their baptism and take the initiative to ask people for the program and the confirmation. I'm so excited for their day!
Sabrina, Casey's sister, came to church! I was so excited to see her! We haven't been able to teach her for a while so it was exciting that she came. We're going to teach her today which should be good. Our other investigators are so hard to get ahold of! yeesh! but we keep trying and we are teaching a lot and getting appointments with new people which is exciting.
So have I ever talked about junk day? It's the best. Once in the fall and once in the spring they have junk day! This is where everyone puts out on their front lawn any junk they have. So at this time of year you drive down the street and typically see gross couches, (they call them chesterfields here) broken lamps, toilets, shelves, lawn chairs, stuff you can't recognize, clothes, yada yada. It's ridiculous the amount of junk that lines the streets. People go and scavenge other peoples junk and take stuff home. And then one day it's all gone! We had a nasty toilet on our front lawn for a week or 2, thanks to our neighbors, I was happy to see that go. Sister Glenn and I also managed to pick up a nice piece of junk for our apartment. It's this giant picture of a lion. We were just driving by and saw it and we new instantly it was a treasure. :) We're still trying to figure out where to hang it.
Apparently now that the weather has gotten better people notice us more. We get honked at and whistled at like nobody's business. It's ridiculous and really grosses me out. The only time I get whistled at and I'm a missionary. Weird? I think yes. We've had some really great experiences knocking too. The other day we knock on this door and 2 women answer we give our schpeal and they say no and so we walk out, well one of the women follows us out and stops us. She starts to tell us that she is very concerned for our souls and that we should really pray about our church and see if it's all it's cracked up to be. She said she did admire our conviction but then she almost started to cry as she told us that she would pray for us. WOW. I assured her that I had prayed about it and that I was positive it was true but appreciated her concern. When she was talking to us I felt sick to my stomach. Instantly I knew it was the adversary. (Not her, but her words). It wasn't until we walked away that the sinking feeling in my stomach left. It was nice to have it be so black and white like that.
Oh ya It was Easter this weekend! Happy Easter! I gave a talk on the Atonement in church, I think it went pretty well. I also played the piano for a little girl in the branch, Taylor. She sang "I lived in Heaven" it was really cute. Saturday one member, Sister Reyes had an Easter party and invited us because she has some non-member friends that were coming and she wanted us to talk to them. We had an Easter egg hunt and of course I won. ok well you can't really win....but I gave those kids a run for their money. After it I traded with all of the kids and got the good candy, it was a good experience.
I am so grateful to be serving a mission! It's so much fun to help people and see that I'm making a difference. I love wearing this name tag and boldly telling people what I believe in. This week I'll get to meet Elder Golden of the seventy, he's going to talk to us on Thursday. I'm so excited to hear from him. I hope you all have a great week! Thank you for your prayers and support!
Love,
Sister Crane
Here's some exciting news: GREG IS ON DATE! yay! He's getting baptized May 14th! So Heather and Wanda will get baptized on the 7th and the following Saturday Greg will get baptized. I'm so excited. I wasn't sure if Greg would get baptized while I'm here or not. He gives us the hardest time and jokes every 2 seconds, you just can't take him seriously, but we asked him to pray about it and then came back and he says, "ok." WHAT?? there was silence after his answer and I looked at Sister Glenn and said, "did he just say yes?" I couldn't believe it. Greg also made us 2 meals this week! He just called us up at 3:00pm and says, "are either of you vegetarian?...ok good come by and pick up your dinner at quarter to 5." The first day it was pork and potatoes and the second day it was french onion soup. It was so nice of him to feed us and it tasted good too!
Heather and Wanda are the best. They tell the funniest stories and we bust up laughing every appointment. Last Tuesday we could barely get through the lesson. We were talking about feasting on the scriptures and I said something like, "I don't think Nephi means to literally eat paper but to..." and bam they were laughing hysterically. It really wasn't that funny but in the moment apparently it was. Oh dear, I'm saving my humor for when I get home, it's no good to me here, I'll never get anything done! They are excited for their baptism and take the initiative to ask people for the program and the confirmation. I'm so excited for their day!
Sabrina, Casey's sister, came to church! I was so excited to see her! We haven't been able to teach her for a while so it was exciting that she came. We're going to teach her today which should be good. Our other investigators are so hard to get ahold of! yeesh! but we keep trying and we are teaching a lot and getting appointments with new people which is exciting.
So have I ever talked about junk day? It's the best. Once in the fall and once in the spring they have junk day! This is where everyone puts out on their front lawn any junk they have. So at this time of year you drive down the street and typically see gross couches, (they call them chesterfields here) broken lamps, toilets, shelves, lawn chairs, stuff you can't recognize, clothes, yada yada. It's ridiculous the amount of junk that lines the streets. People go and scavenge other peoples junk and take stuff home. And then one day it's all gone! We had a nasty toilet on our front lawn for a week or 2, thanks to our neighbors, I was happy to see that go. Sister Glenn and I also managed to pick up a nice piece of junk for our apartment. It's this giant picture of a lion. We were just driving by and saw it and we new instantly it was a treasure. :) We're still trying to figure out where to hang it.
Apparently now that the weather has gotten better people notice us more. We get honked at and whistled at like nobody's business. It's ridiculous and really grosses me out. The only time I get whistled at and I'm a missionary. Weird? I think yes. We've had some really great experiences knocking too. The other day we knock on this door and 2 women answer we give our schpeal and they say no and so we walk out, well one of the women follows us out and stops us. She starts to tell us that she is very concerned for our souls and that we should really pray about our church and see if it's all it's cracked up to be. She said she did admire our conviction but then she almost started to cry as she told us that she would pray for us. WOW. I assured her that I had prayed about it and that I was positive it was true but appreciated her concern. When she was talking to us I felt sick to my stomach. Instantly I knew it was the adversary. (Not her, but her words). It wasn't until we walked away that the sinking feeling in my stomach left. It was nice to have it be so black and white like that.
Oh ya It was Easter this weekend! Happy Easter! I gave a talk on the Atonement in church, I think it went pretty well. I also played the piano for a little girl in the branch, Taylor. She sang "I lived in Heaven" it was really cute. Saturday one member, Sister Reyes had an Easter party and invited us because she has some non-member friends that were coming and she wanted us to talk to them. We had an Easter egg hunt and of course I won. ok well you can't really win....but I gave those kids a run for their money. After it I traded with all of the kids and got the good candy, it was a good experience.
I am so grateful to be serving a mission! It's so much fun to help people and see that I'm making a difference. I love wearing this name tag and boldly telling people what I believe in. This week I'll get to meet Elder Golden of the seventy, he's going to talk to us on Thursday. I'm so excited to hear from him. I hope you all have a great week! Thank you for your prayers and support!
Love,
Sister Crane
Monday, April 18, 2011
One more thiiing!
I just found out I'm staying in Truro! So I'll be here for at least 10
1/2 months of my mission. Isn't that crazy? I'm happy to be staying
with Sister Glenn. Hopefully we'll have a lot of baptisms this
transfer!
1/2 months of my mission. Isn't that crazy? I'm happy to be staying
with Sister Glenn. Hopefully we'll have a lot of baptisms this
transfer!
April 18, 11
To All:
Hello! I thought it was supposed to be spring, but we still have snow flurries. What is up with that? It's time for it to end. I was sick this week. Such a bummer. Seriously, I hate being sick on my mission. This is the 3rd time now and every time it's the same thing, an extreme cold or something. gross. Anyways I feel much better now, but lets just say last week we didn't get as much done as we had planned, due to that. But this week will be so much better, I hope. I'm currently waiting for the phone call to tell me if I'm being transferred this week or not. Yeesh. All of the members think I'm leaving since it's unheard of to have someone stay in Truro for 9 months. But who knows, no matter what it's what Heavenly Father wants, I just would like to know already!
So Heather and Wanda's baptism is being pushed to May 7th because Wanda has an ear infection and can't go under the water for a few weeks. She called us 3 hours before her scheduled interview....we were kind of freaking out when she said, "I'm going to have to cancel my baptism." But after hearing what her doctor told her it's understandable and now they have more time to prepare. They even took the initiative and asked the branch President if he would baptize them both on the 7th. Heather had her interview already and Wanda's having hers tomorrow. Heather was so cute she came in and shook Elder Burr and Elder Gammell with her left hand and then she whispered to me that she had to go wash her right hand because she had cheesies. (cheetos, they call them cheesies here...weird I know). She said, "well I was so nervous and I couldn't have coffee so I had to do something!" So funny. She came out of the interview looking so relieved. She did great and I'm so excited for her. Wanda is so smart. Seriously, I ask in yesterdays lesson what they remember about Nephi and she comes out with all of these facts about him that I didn't even know she knew. I'm so glad she's been retaining what she reads. It's exciting to see them learn. In the closing prayer last night Heather said, "I hope that the Sister's get to stay for our baptism." awww. I'm so glad they like us! :)
Greg is hillarious. At church on Saturday they had this big branch clean up where they were going to deep clean the whole building. We didn't invite Greg or even tell him about it, but he heard it announced in church and just showed up! We didn't even know he went until the Branch President mentioned it on Sunday. I think he thinks he's a member already, and I think everyone else thinks he is too. We talked to him about praying about June 11th to be baptized and he told us that he feels like maybe it should be sooner! YAY! That's what we were hoping for. He was sick on Sunday but hopefully we'll get to teach him this week and get him to decide on a date finally.
We had members feed us this week! hooray! That's always nice! I love the members here. I'm learning so much from them. We got a new investigator this week, Corina. We knocked into her last week and when she opened the door we saw her daughter Payton. Immediately I knew that I knew that little girl and then it dawned on me that she goes to day care at one of the members homes! So I asked her if she knew Sister Reyes and we talked for a minute about that and then she invited us to come back. We did and it was such a good lesson. You can tell that she's really trying to turn her life around, she's going back to school to get her grade 12, and working part time. She's a single mom of 2 and is 22 years old. When she told us how old she was I was thinking, "what?! I'm 22! weird...." She's been searching different religions and you can tell she just wants to find the right one. We're going to go see her tomorrow and I'm really excited for her.
After being sick for a few days it was hard to get back into the swing of things. Yesterday I was finally feeling 100% again. As we went and taught I just felt so happy. I love teaching people. I love that the Spirit can take whatever little ability I have and magnify it. I have been out now for 9 months! I'm over 1/2 way there! It's just crazy. I can see such a huge difference in my own life in just 9 months, I'm so excited to think about the person I can be after these next 8. I know that the church is true! The gospel is truly good news and has the solutions to any of lifes concerns. If we stick with it, the gospel can bring so much happiness to each of us! Thank you for your prayers and love!
Love,
Sister Crane
Hello! I thought it was supposed to be spring, but we still have snow flurries. What is up with that? It's time for it to end. I was sick this week. Such a bummer. Seriously, I hate being sick on my mission. This is the 3rd time now and every time it's the same thing, an extreme cold or something. gross. Anyways I feel much better now, but lets just say last week we didn't get as much done as we had planned, due to that. But this week will be so much better, I hope. I'm currently waiting for the phone call to tell me if I'm being transferred this week or not. Yeesh. All of the members think I'm leaving since it's unheard of to have someone stay in Truro for 9 months. But who knows, no matter what it's what Heavenly Father wants, I just would like to know already!
So Heather and Wanda's baptism is being pushed to May 7th because Wanda has an ear infection and can't go under the water for a few weeks. She called us 3 hours before her scheduled interview....we were kind of freaking out when she said, "I'm going to have to cancel my baptism." But after hearing what her doctor told her it's understandable and now they have more time to prepare. They even took the initiative and asked the branch President if he would baptize them both on the 7th. Heather had her interview already and Wanda's having hers tomorrow. Heather was so cute she came in and shook Elder Burr and Elder Gammell with her left hand and then she whispered to me that she had to go wash her right hand because she had cheesies. (cheetos, they call them cheesies here...weird I know). She said, "well I was so nervous and I couldn't have coffee so I had to do something!" So funny. She came out of the interview looking so relieved. She did great and I'm so excited for her. Wanda is so smart. Seriously, I ask in yesterdays lesson what they remember about Nephi and she comes out with all of these facts about him that I didn't even know she knew. I'm so glad she's been retaining what she reads. It's exciting to see them learn. In the closing prayer last night Heather said, "I hope that the Sister's get to stay for our baptism." awww. I'm so glad they like us! :)
Greg is hillarious. At church on Saturday they had this big branch clean up where they were going to deep clean the whole building. We didn't invite Greg or even tell him about it, but he heard it announced in church and just showed up! We didn't even know he went until the Branch President mentioned it on Sunday. I think he thinks he's a member already, and I think everyone else thinks he is too. We talked to him about praying about June 11th to be baptized and he told us that he feels like maybe it should be sooner! YAY! That's what we were hoping for. He was sick on Sunday but hopefully we'll get to teach him this week and get him to decide on a date finally.
We had members feed us this week! hooray! That's always nice! I love the members here. I'm learning so much from them. We got a new investigator this week, Corina. We knocked into her last week and when she opened the door we saw her daughter Payton. Immediately I knew that I knew that little girl and then it dawned on me that she goes to day care at one of the members homes! So I asked her if she knew Sister Reyes and we talked for a minute about that and then she invited us to come back. We did and it was such a good lesson. You can tell that she's really trying to turn her life around, she's going back to school to get her grade 12, and working part time. She's a single mom of 2 and is 22 years old. When she told us how old she was I was thinking, "what?! I'm 22! weird...." She's been searching different religions and you can tell she just wants to find the right one. We're going to go see her tomorrow and I'm really excited for her.
After being sick for a few days it was hard to get back into the swing of things. Yesterday I was finally feeling 100% again. As we went and taught I just felt so happy. I love teaching people. I love that the Spirit can take whatever little ability I have and magnify it. I have been out now for 9 months! I'm over 1/2 way there! It's just crazy. I can see such a huge difference in my own life in just 9 months, I'm so excited to think about the person I can be after these next 8. I know that the church is true! The gospel is truly good news and has the solutions to any of lifes concerns. If we stick with it, the gospel can bring so much happiness to each of us! Thank you for your prayers and love!
Love,
Sister Crane
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
April 11, 11
Hello spring! The days have been going by crazy fast. I don't even remember what we did this week, it feels like a blur. We had some pretty funny experiences, and yesterday I feel like we spent all day with members. They are what make Truro so great. We got fed which was really exciting because are calander for April is completely blank, no one signed up. hmmmm...we'll have to fix that. We went out knocking with a member again, Jackie Mingo. It was hillarious. There was this lady who we gave a pass a long card to, the one for the Finding Faith in Christ DVD. She took one look at it and said, "that is not my Jesus, he doesn't look middle-eastern at all, he's too caucasion" and gave the card back. She shut the door in our face and I was so taken back I didn't even know what to say. I busted out laughing. That was definately a first. So funny. I love knocking, it makes you feel so good and you always get the best stories. The other day we knocked into a guy and I was telling him about the Book of Mormon. I said, "It can answer any of life's questions, like where did we come from? why are we here? and where are we going?" He stopped me and said, "wait, you can answer those questions?" I said, "YA! I can!" He said "ok so start with the purpose of life, why are we here?" I said, "We are here to recieve the gift of a body and prepare to one day return and live with God and be like Him." He goes, " oh I just think we're here to live." haha what? ok good answer. Pretty sure we're here to live, but for what purpose!?! It's so interesting to me that this is the whole reason we are here, yet the world is so distracted with everything else that they don't stop and ponder those questions. Kills me.
So anyways Greg came to church. He's had this thing about the Sabbath Day. He thinks that it shouldn't matter if he wants to work on his house, or go buy milk on Sunday. In General conference the very first talk was on the Sabbath Day and he looked at us and asked us if we told the speaker. I said, "Yes Greg, I called up a member of the Seventy and told them you didn't believe the Sabbath Day was a commandment and that's why he's talking about it." He's so funny. So in church on Sunday we were singing this one hymn about working today, it's one of those weird one's that no one really knows how it goes. The last line says, "prepare for tomorrow by working today." He immediately turned around and showed us the last line and said, "work today! that means Sunday!" haha I laughed so hard. I told him that was talking about a different kind of work. Oh Greg, he really is hillarious. He's going to have us over for supper next week with 2 of his friends in the branch, the Mingos. He's making onion soup. It'll be a party! In our last lesson with him we asked him to pray about June 9th for his baptismal date. He said he pray about it. We were shocked. He has this thing about not setting a date until he's fully comfortable in the church, I could feel the Spirit so strongly as he asked us why June 9th? and I replied, "We prayed about it and know it's right." I know he'll feel it too if he'll just keep praying about it.
Heather and Wanda are getting ready for their baptism on the 23rd. Jolene oppted out, she feels it's too soon and is being...well a teenager. She's tuning us out now and gives us one word answers to everything. We're giving her more time to think about everything and prepare her more. Heather and Wanda are so great. I just love them. They laugh at everything I say, which is always nice. But they are so humble and sweet. On Saturday we asked Wanda to give the closing prayer. She started but then stopped right at the beginning. Her face turned all red and she turned away from everyone and said, "I can't" we waited and tried asking what was wrong and could tell she was going to cry. She said it was nothing and with Heather's help finished the prayer. After the members left we talked with Wanda and asked her if everything was alright. She said that it was, and she didn't know what happened, just that this strange feeling came over her that she never felt before. She felt chills and she couldn't even describe it. We asked her if it was a bad feeling and she said it wasn't, but it wasn't anything she ever felt before. She said normally she cries when she's sad, but she wasn't sad. Immediately Sister Glenn and I knew what it was, it was the Spirit. We both smiled and explained that what she was feeling was the Holy Ghost telling her our message is true. It was so neat that she felt the Spirit so strongly.What an amazing experience, one I don't think she'll ever forget.
Well there you go. I feel like I have so much more to write, but nothing at all. We find out transfers next Monday. I think I'll be staying but you never know. The members think I'll spend my whole mission here. One member said when I go home and someone asked me where I served I'll say Truro, Nova Scotia. Instead of Halifax Canada. I think she might be right :) I love the feeling I get being a missionary. There's nothing else like it. Whether you have success that day or not, knowing that you were out there talking to God's children and planting seeds, you just feel so good. You feel so fullfilled doing the Lord's work. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve and have these experiences. The church is true! Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Crane
So anyways Greg came to church. He's had this thing about the Sabbath Day. He thinks that it shouldn't matter if he wants to work on his house, or go buy milk on Sunday. In General conference the very first talk was on the Sabbath Day and he looked at us and asked us if we told the speaker. I said, "Yes Greg, I called up a member of the Seventy and told them you didn't believe the Sabbath Day was a commandment and that's why he's talking about it." He's so funny. So in church on Sunday we were singing this one hymn about working today, it's one of those weird one's that no one really knows how it goes. The last line says, "prepare for tomorrow by working today." He immediately turned around and showed us the last line and said, "work today! that means Sunday!" haha I laughed so hard. I told him that was talking about a different kind of work. Oh Greg, he really is hillarious. He's going to have us over for supper next week with 2 of his friends in the branch, the Mingos. He's making onion soup. It'll be a party! In our last lesson with him we asked him to pray about June 9th for his baptismal date. He said he pray about it. We were shocked. He has this thing about not setting a date until he's fully comfortable in the church, I could feel the Spirit so strongly as he asked us why June 9th? and I replied, "We prayed about it and know it's right." I know he'll feel it too if he'll just keep praying about it.
Heather and Wanda are getting ready for their baptism on the 23rd. Jolene oppted out, she feels it's too soon and is being...well a teenager. She's tuning us out now and gives us one word answers to everything. We're giving her more time to think about everything and prepare her more. Heather and Wanda are so great. I just love them. They laugh at everything I say, which is always nice. But they are so humble and sweet. On Saturday we asked Wanda to give the closing prayer. She started but then stopped right at the beginning. Her face turned all red and she turned away from everyone and said, "I can't" we waited and tried asking what was wrong and could tell she was going to cry. She said it was nothing and with Heather's help finished the prayer. After the members left we talked with Wanda and asked her if everything was alright. She said that it was, and she didn't know what happened, just that this strange feeling came over her that she never felt before. She felt chills and she couldn't even describe it. We asked her if it was a bad feeling and she said it wasn't, but it wasn't anything she ever felt before. She said normally she cries when she's sad, but she wasn't sad. Immediately Sister Glenn and I knew what it was, it was the Spirit. We both smiled and explained that what she was feeling was the Holy Ghost telling her our message is true. It was so neat that she felt the Spirit so strongly.What an amazing experience, one I don't think she'll ever forget.
Well there you go. I feel like I have so much more to write, but nothing at all. We find out transfers next Monday. I think I'll be staying but you never know. The members think I'll spend my whole mission here. One member said when I go home and someone asked me where I served I'll say Truro, Nova Scotia. Instead of Halifax Canada. I think she might be right :) I love the feeling I get being a missionary. There's nothing else like it. Whether you have success that day or not, knowing that you were out there talking to God's children and planting seeds, you just feel so good. You feel so fullfilled doing the Lord's work. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve and have these experiences. The church is true! Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Crane
Thursday, April 7, 2011
April 4
Conference was the best! Sunday afternoon was my favorite session. (If you're allowed to have favorites :) ) I especially loved the talk on the difference between doing and being, and Elder Christofferson's was so good too! This week we got 2 new investigators! yay! The first one is Margaret. We knocked on her door and asked her if she was interested, she told us she needed a lot of praying and invited us in. We sat down with her and had such a good lesson. Apparently her cousin is a member of the church and she's familiar with the Book of Mormon. She's been through a lot in her life and still is facing some battles. She said that she has felt like something has been missing in her life, and here we are! It was so nice, during part of the lesson, she told us that we had an inward glow that made us beautiful, she said she knew that only God could do that. I was so touched, but even more amazed that she was in tune with the Spirit to notice that there is something different about us, and she can have that too!
The other investigator is Larry. We had made appointments with Larry in the past but each time he cancelled, we thought we should try one more time but, to be honest, we weren't expecting much. Surprisingly he was there and it was such a good lesson. He talked about how in the past God had helped him over come trials and he doesn't know why he stopped going to church but he feels he needs to go back. Yet again someone who was realizing there's something missing in their life. I'm really excited to teach Larry, I think he really needs this.
We had interviews with President and Sister Simpson. They are so great! Our mission covers the northern tip of Maine and President Simpson was going there for their interviews shortly after ours so he asked us if we would like anything from the US, any comfort food. I told him a REAL kit-kat. The ones here are made by nestle and just don't taste as good as hersheys. A few days later we find a bag hanging on our door with a package of kit kats, a giant hersheys chocolate bar, hershey chocolate bunnies and 2 snickers eggs. I couldn't believe they had gone out of their way not only to get it, but to deliver it to us. It totally made our day. They are the best!
Greg, Heather, and Wanda came to conference. Greg loved it. He said he was holding back tears most of the time. Heather and Wanda thought it was a little slow, I think they were bored. But it's ok I'm just happy they came. They like more interactive learning, so I'm amazed they came to 2 sessions! A less active family, the Chown's, came to general conference too! We met them last week and had a really good lesson. They haven't been to church in a long time but both wanted to come back. We invited them to general conference and they came! It was amazing! I guess some people just need an invitation. They are out their waiting for someone to just say, "Hey we miss you, please come back." Sister Chown hugged us at the end and said, "Thank you for coming into my life." What a sweetheart. I hope they continue to come. At least we're off to a good start.
And there you go. I feel like this past week was a blur. We've been working a lot with the Branch President lately on getting the records all neat and tidy. We went through the whole list and called all of the less active members. I'm excited to meet some of them and hopefully help more people come back!
Oh here's a good story for the day. Yesterday we were out knocking and we come to this door and their is this really old bearded ruff looking man who answers. He had almost kind of a crazy look in his eye, I wasn't sure how to approach him. I asked him how he was and he replied, "Terrible!" I said, "oh no that's not good, well we've got some really great news to cheer you up!" He suddenly looked interested and said, "What's that?" I started with "We're missionaries with the Church of..." He slammed the door in our face and said some explicitives that I won't repeat. I laughed so hard. I was going to tell him that the church had been restored, but he didn't let me get that far. Too bad. I have to say that was one of the best reactions I've had at a door though. It all happened so fast and I was surprised at how easily I could let it roll off my back. It is so sad when people don't accept, but if I felt sad after every rejection I'd be depressed. So somethings you have to laugh at.
Well the church is true! I'm so grateful for a living prophet. What a blessing to have President Monson to lead and guide us. This conference for sure strengthened my testimony of him and I'm grateful for it. Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Crane
The other investigator is Larry. We had made appointments with Larry in the past but each time he cancelled, we thought we should try one more time but, to be honest, we weren't expecting much. Surprisingly he was there and it was such a good lesson. He talked about how in the past God had helped him over come trials and he doesn't know why he stopped going to church but he feels he needs to go back. Yet again someone who was realizing there's something missing in their life. I'm really excited to teach Larry, I think he really needs this.
We had interviews with President and Sister Simpson. They are so great! Our mission covers the northern tip of Maine and President Simpson was going there for their interviews shortly after ours so he asked us if we would like anything from the US, any comfort food. I told him a REAL kit-kat. The ones here are made by nestle and just don't taste as good as hersheys. A few days later we find a bag hanging on our door with a package of kit kats, a giant hersheys chocolate bar, hershey chocolate bunnies and 2 snickers eggs. I couldn't believe they had gone out of their way not only to get it, but to deliver it to us. It totally made our day. They are the best!
Greg, Heather, and Wanda came to conference. Greg loved it. He said he was holding back tears most of the time. Heather and Wanda thought it was a little slow, I think they were bored. But it's ok I'm just happy they came. They like more interactive learning, so I'm amazed they came to 2 sessions! A less active family, the Chown's, came to general conference too! We met them last week and had a really good lesson. They haven't been to church in a long time but both wanted to come back. We invited them to general conference and they came! It was amazing! I guess some people just need an invitation. They are out their waiting for someone to just say, "Hey we miss you, please come back." Sister Chown hugged us at the end and said, "Thank you for coming into my life." What a sweetheart. I hope they continue to come. At least we're off to a good start.
And there you go. I feel like this past week was a blur. We've been working a lot with the Branch President lately on getting the records all neat and tidy. We went through the whole list and called all of the less active members. I'm excited to meet some of them and hopefully help more people come back!
Oh here's a good story for the day. Yesterday we were out knocking and we come to this door and their is this really old bearded ruff looking man who answers. He had almost kind of a crazy look in his eye, I wasn't sure how to approach him. I asked him how he was and he replied, "Terrible!" I said, "oh no that's not good, well we've got some really great news to cheer you up!" He suddenly looked interested and said, "What's that?" I started with "We're missionaries with the Church of..." He slammed the door in our face and said some explicitives that I won't repeat. I laughed so hard. I was going to tell him that the church had been restored, but he didn't let me get that far. Too bad. I have to say that was one of the best reactions I've had at a door though. It all happened so fast and I was surprised at how easily I could let it roll off my back. It is so sad when people don't accept, but if I felt sad after every rejection I'd be depressed. So somethings you have to laugh at.
Well the church is true! I'm so grateful for a living prophet. What a blessing to have President Monson to lead and guide us. This conference for sure strengthened my testimony of him and I'm grateful for it. Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Crane
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