Seven month mark

What a great week! We had leadership training and it was awesome! It was a 2 day training where President and Sister Simpson come and our whole zone meets right here in Truro and President gives us as much of his wisdom as he can. I love it. Our zone saw so many miracles because of what we learned and Sister Glenn and I did too. Let me tell you about one of them. So after training ended we were totally fired up about finding a new investigator so we did everything he told us to and set a specific goal and prayed with faith and planned a TON. We were about to go out knocking and I thought that maybe there was somewhere else we needed to be besides where we had planned to knock. After praying about it we picked a different street. We got to the street and the 1st 2 doors didn't answer, then we knocked on the 3rd and not only did someone answer, but she immediately invited us in. Her name is Durga, she's from India and her 9 year old son Rajeesh sat in with us and we taught them both about the restoration and got a return appointment. It was so cool. Sister Glenn and I were in shock, we had practiced during training A LOT and planned a ton, and it actually worked! It was so exciting. The rest of Durga's street wasn't as pleased to see us but I didn't even care, I just felt so blessed. One man on the street interupted me with, "do you believe in the religious right to smoke marajuana?" ...."....uhhhhh" "It's a yes or no question!" He yelled out. "uhhh no?" "well go read your Bible! see ya!" haha I was so taken aback I had no idea what to say to him. Right before we went in that night we met a girl on the street, it was dark and as we started talking the rain just started to pore. I was bearing my testimony to her about a living prophet, it's cold, I'm now soaked, and it's dark, and all I could think was, "I am so happy!" I don't know why something like that would make me so happy but I just felt like a real missionary! It was so cool. It's so strange, I wish I could describe the happiness I feel when I'm out doing the work, but it's so hard. It's a different kind of happiness than I've ever felt and I just love it!
In other news, Casey moved her baptismal date to March 12th. We all feel really good about it and she seems so fired up about it. Sister Glenn experienced what it's like to get dropped. Poor girl, she was calling our investigators to invite them to our church activity and 2 calls in a row she gets a "you know what, I've decided I don't want you to come back." Luckily it was the same day that we got 2 new investigators, so it made it a lot better, but still it's so sad when people decide they don't want to talk with us anymore. Darn agency.
On Saturday Sister Glenn and I hosted the branch activity! We had a family games night and members invited their friends, it was awesome! I was so surprised at how well it turned out! It's so exciting to see members do missionary work. We played Bret's favorite game, the 3 rounds of charades, I didn't know the name of it so I told everyone it was called Crane Charades. They all really liked it, whew. And then we shared a message about Preach My Gospel. Sister Glenn and I are now going to go to each members home throughout the month and make sure they have a Preach My Gospel and show them how they can use it. They all come out to lessons with us all the time so we figure they should know what we're teaching so they can be prepared. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed just thinking about all the work that needs to be done in Truro. I have so much I want to do here. There are so many members who have children, or parents, or siblings, who are inactive and to think of the joy they could feel from having their family members come back! ah! I just want to help them so much!
Our other investigators are doing well. Greg is awesome. He jokes around with us a lot, but I think he really likes us and you can just tell he wants to be baptized and feel forgiveness. He will! He just is stubborn and wants to take things slower. yeesh. why wait?! Oh well we love him and we'll do whatever we can for him to get there. He said something to me at our last appointment that a few of our investigators have said to me. They all say, "oh well your life has been so easy! You didn't have to go through what I have." At first I used to disagree with them and say, "oh no my life has been hard and p.s. you don't even know me!" But now I have realized how easy my life has been. Truly, I have been so blessed and have been given every opportunity to be happy in my life, it is my absolute responsibility to help them have what I have. Greg specifically last time said that he can see the cleanliness we have and he wants what we have. You can have it greg! And he will have it, I just know it.
Alain is so awesome, he says he hasn't prayed so hard in his whole life till now, he just wants to know if it's true! Too bad he's crazy busy and it's hard to meet with him regularly, but I know he'll get his answer and we're going to help him every step. Amy and Alyssa are still on date for March 12th, but they haven't come to church yet. Soooo this week we are going to get them there! It's happening!
And there you go...that was my week. I am so grateful to be in the Lord's service. I feel so grateful for the training, sometimes I need those kind of reminders to remember the importance of my calling. Today is my 7 month mark. Can you believe it's been that long? I feel like it's been forever and just yesterday since I left, all at the same time. It's crazy to think that I have less than a year left. I almost want time to just stand still so I can soak it all in....maybe I should wait for time to stand still after it stops snowing though. :) Thank you for your letters and prayers!

Love,
Sister Crane