Why does everyone else get weekly emails from there missionaries? I only seem to get them periodically?
O.K, I do admit that I did receive a letter in the mail this week, with pictures. But was also hoping for an email today.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Dear Family,
I Don't really know how this always happens, but I never seem to have enough time to write what I want. This past week was super good. I can't really remember what happened at the moment, but it was good. We are teaching some really really awesome people right now. One her name is Allison and she really wants to know if the church is true. Also there is a guy named Quin who is really cool. He has been to church twice and last night was the first time we taught him. He wants to be baptized and I am super excited to continue teaching him. We had district meeting this Monday and I am not going to lie I felt a little overwhelmed with everything that is required of us. But hey I will just do my best and leave the rest to the Lord. Oh so funny story the other night we taught a man named Ferral. He is a black guy probably in his 40's or 50's and anyways that night after the lesson he called us at 12 while we were sleeping to tell us he loved us! He was drunk, but it was just really funny. Don't worry dad we are letting the Elders teach him now. It must scare you sometimes to have your daughter so far away from you!! J/k sorry I just wanted to make you worry for a second. But don't cause I am super safe and protected. I will be here in Halifax for the next 4 weeks just in case you were curious. Anyways things in the mission are going well I am super exhausted every single day, but hey I guess that means I am working hard. :) I just want to thank you all for the support and love that all of you show me. By the by thank you for sending me pictures of Grandpa's wedding how did that go? Well Like always I have to run so I will talk to you later! Love ya
Love,
sister Crofts
I Don't really know how this always happens, but I never seem to have enough time to write what I want. This past week was super good. I can't really remember what happened at the moment, but it was good. We are teaching some really really awesome people right now. One her name is Allison and she really wants to know if the church is true. Also there is a guy named Quin who is really cool. He has been to church twice and last night was the first time we taught him. He wants to be baptized and I am super excited to continue teaching him. We had district meeting this Monday and I am not going to lie I felt a little overwhelmed with everything that is required of us. But hey I will just do my best and leave the rest to the Lord. Oh so funny story the other night we taught a man named Ferral. He is a black guy probably in his 40's or 50's and anyways that night after the lesson he called us at 12 while we were sleeping to tell us he loved us! He was drunk, but it was just really funny. Don't worry dad we are letting the Elders teach him now. It must scare you sometimes to have your daughter so far away from you!! J/k sorry I just wanted to make you worry for a second. But don't cause I am super safe and protected. I will be here in Halifax for the next 4 weeks just in case you were curious. Anyways things in the mission are going well I am super exhausted every single day, but hey I guess that means I am working hard. :) I just want to thank you all for the support and love that all of you show me. By the by thank you for sending me pictures of Grandpa's wedding how did that go? Well Like always I have to run so I will talk to you later! Love ya
Love,
sister Crofts
Saturday, July 10, 2010
half of Sister Crofts
Sister Crofts and Sister Olsen possibly debating which way to go (just kidding)
Sister Crofts
Sister Crofts
Sister Crofts with one of their investigators Margaret Kelly and Sister Olsen
Sister Crofts and Sister Olsen wearing some CUTE hats!!!
Sister Olsen and Sister Crofts
Sister Crofts and Sister Olsen
Ashley aka sister crofts at the beach
Sister Crofts and Sister Olsen at the beach on p day
P day at the beach with Sister Crofts Zone
Sister Johnson, Sister Crofts, and Aliesja MacDonald at her baptism.
Ashley and her new companion Sister Johnson
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Summer days in Nova Scotia
Dear Family,
Thank you so much for everything you do for me! I love you all so much!!!!!!!! I was so happy to finally get letters today and see what was new! That is crazy that Sammi is married, Kallie has a boyfriend, Ashley Walker is pregnant again, Grandpa is married, and the list goes on and on! Its fun to hear everything that is going on. Tell me more about what is going on with you! I want to know dad are you having a hard time giving up alcohol? How is work? How is Rico and the rest of the zoo? Oh I almost forgot Shawn will be home on the 14th of this month! I told him to come see you, just so you have a heads up. Family I love you all so much and I want to thank you again for everything you do.
Alright, so the mission....Sister Johnson and I are getting along GREAT! She is so much fun and I love being a trainer. We have a pretty good teaching pool right now and so we have been super busy! last week we taught 14 lessons which was such a blessing seeing that usually we teach 7. I must say that being a missionary sometime I feel like a social worker. Everyone tells us there problems and they expect us to know how to fix them. Its crazy! For instance the other night we get off the bus and start to walk to one of our appointments, well you know me and my bladder I had to pee, so we decided, hey why don't we stop a Alicia's house, its on the way. So we go to her house and your roommate opens the door and yells to her telling her we were there and telling her that he pretty much hates it when we come over. So she finally gets to the door and she doesn't look good at all. We went into her room to talk and she spilled her guts on everything that was going wrong and that she was having suicidal thoughts. By this time I was like man I did not sign up for this. But thank heavens there was F.H.E. that night so we made her go to that and she ended up talking to one of the branch presidency members and they sent her to the hospital. Yeah crazy stuff. And then we find out a couple days later that one of our recent converts has an alcohol problem. Man sometimes things are so crazy. But hey this is a really good learning experience and I am grateful to be here. The other day we ran into this guy named Steve he is an atheist and it was so great. We talked to him for a long time and the spirit was really strong when we were talking to him. He agreed to read the Book of Mormon and We are going to call him at the end of the month to share more! It was a really cool experience that happened. When we are promised that it shall be given us in the very hour what we should say, it is so true. I am so grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are teaching a guy named Virkci Harri he is Hindu and he really wants to know Jesus Christ and everything about Him. He is a very honest person with a kind heart. And I am so excited to share more with him. Also there is this guy named Quinn who i met on the bus he has been to church twice and he loves it! He is really busy with work so we haven't seen able to meet with him yet, but it will come. Something I am learning very quickly is that I need to be patient with people. I sometimes see myself putting expectations for others on my time line when really it is all about the person and what they need so matter how long or short it takes. I am learning so very good things out here and I know that the Lord will continue to help stretch and mold me into what He know I can be.
Love,
Sister Crofts
p.s. mom you asked me to send stuff I would need/want for Christmas well I would like crest white strips, and money that's all. :D But you can get me what ever you want. I don't mind.
Thank you so much for everything you do for me! I love you all so much!!!!!!!! I was so happy to finally get letters today and see what was new! That is crazy that Sammi is married, Kallie has a boyfriend, Ashley Walker is pregnant again, Grandpa is married, and the list goes on and on! Its fun to hear everything that is going on. Tell me more about what is going on with you! I want to know dad are you having a hard time giving up alcohol? How is work? How is Rico and the rest of the zoo? Oh I almost forgot Shawn will be home on the 14th of this month! I told him to come see you, just so you have a heads up. Family I love you all so much and I want to thank you again for everything you do.
Alright, so the mission....Sister Johnson and I are getting along GREAT! She is so much fun and I love being a trainer. We have a pretty good teaching pool right now and so we have been super busy! last week we taught 14 lessons which was such a blessing seeing that usually we teach 7. I must say that being a missionary sometime I feel like a social worker. Everyone tells us there problems and they expect us to know how to fix them. Its crazy! For instance the other night we get off the bus and start to walk to one of our appointments, well you know me and my bladder I had to pee, so we decided, hey why don't we stop a Alicia's house, its on the way. So we go to her house and your roommate opens the door and yells to her telling her we were there and telling her that he pretty much hates it when we come over. So she finally gets to the door and she doesn't look good at all. We went into her room to talk and she spilled her guts on everything that was going wrong and that she was having suicidal thoughts. By this time I was like man I did not sign up for this. But thank heavens there was F.H.E. that night so we made her go to that and she ended up talking to one of the branch presidency members and they sent her to the hospital. Yeah crazy stuff. And then we find out a couple days later that one of our recent converts has an alcohol problem. Man sometimes things are so crazy. But hey this is a really good learning experience and I am grateful to be here. The other day we ran into this guy named Steve he is an atheist and it was so great. We talked to him for a long time and the spirit was really strong when we were talking to him. He agreed to read the Book of Mormon and We are going to call him at the end of the month to share more! It was a really cool experience that happened. When we are promised that it shall be given us in the very hour what we should say, it is so true. I am so grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are teaching a guy named Virkci Harri he is Hindu and he really wants to know Jesus Christ and everything about Him. He is a very honest person with a kind heart. And I am so excited to share more with him. Also there is this guy named Quinn who i met on the bus he has been to church twice and he loves it! He is really busy with work so we haven't seen able to meet with him yet, but it will come. Something I am learning very quickly is that I need to be patient with people. I sometimes see myself putting expectations for others on my time line when really it is all about the person and what they need so matter how long or short it takes. I am learning so very good things out here and I know that the Lord will continue to help stretch and mold me into what He know I can be.
Love,
Sister Crofts
p.s. mom you asked me to send stuff I would need/want for Christmas well I would like crest white strips, and money that's all. :D But you can get me what ever you want. I don't mind.
Friday, July 2, 2010
No email this week
This is the first week we have not received an email. Wish I knew what was up. Even an email that said sorry to busy to send an email would be good.
Mom
Mom
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
BEST FISH AND CHIPS EVER!!!
Dear Family,
HI! How are you? Okay first of all mom I totally tried the zesty chicken that you make in a crock-pot and man was it Delicious! Thank you so much for those recipes! I am so grateful and it was super easy. Second today we ate at this place called "Your Fathers Mustache" and I had seriously the best fish and chips ever!!! I think that all of you should come here someday cause I know you would love it! So I want to give you an update on how I am doing . :D I am doing super! This past Monday we had a zone conference and Elder Pieper of the seventy came and talked to us. It was really, really good and I walked away with a better understanding of missionary work. so yeah zone conference was really good and I was spiritually fed. But the funny part was some sister's spent the night at our house because it was a combined zone conference. And to be honest I wasn't very impressed with the way they acted, but hey who am I to judge. Anyways sorry....so the funny story is that while we were getting ready for bed one of the sister had put a pop-tart in the toaster and she forgot about it (our toaster is broken) and the next thing you know the pop-tart is on fire and smoke has filled the whole house! It still smells pretty bad in out apartment. But even worse than that the next morning our alarm didn't go off and we slept in until 7! First time in my mission and I was so not happy. But yeah those were some funny stories that happened this past week.
We are teaching some really cool people and I am excited to tell you more about them, but right now I don't really have much to tell you. Sometimes it is crazy being a trainer and senior companion, but I love it!! Sister Johnson is the bomb.com and I am so grateful for her. Canada is a really fun place, they all seem to have something against America, but really it just makes me laugh. Today we went to the Citadel and walked around and took a bunch of awesome pictures I will totally send some! So a random item of business mom could you possibly call our bank and tell them I am out of the country? Sometimes my card doesn't work and its because they think that someone has stolen it. Weird I know. Anyways I didn't even ask how are things at home? Is grandpa married? How is work going dad? Tell me everything! Also Dad I am so sorry I forgot to wish you a HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!! Dad I love you and I am so grateful that you are my father I wouldn't have any other :) I love all of you so much! Thank you for the family that you are! Please be safe and remember that I love you!
Love,
Sister Crofts
HI! How are you? Okay first of all mom I totally tried the zesty chicken that you make in a crock-pot and man was it Delicious! Thank you so much for those recipes! I am so grateful and it was super easy. Second today we ate at this place called "Your Fathers Mustache" and I had seriously the best fish and chips ever!!! I think that all of you should come here someday cause I know you would love it! So I want to give you an update on how I am doing . :D I am doing super! This past Monday we had a zone conference and Elder Pieper of the seventy came and talked to us. It was really, really good and I walked away with a better understanding of missionary work. so yeah zone conference was really good and I was spiritually fed. But the funny part was some sister's spent the night at our house because it was a combined zone conference. And to be honest I wasn't very impressed with the way they acted, but hey who am I to judge. Anyways sorry....so the funny story is that while we were getting ready for bed one of the sister had put a pop-tart in the toaster and she forgot about it (our toaster is broken) and the next thing you know the pop-tart is on fire and smoke has filled the whole house! It still smells pretty bad in out apartment. But even worse than that the next morning our alarm didn't go off and we slept in until 7! First time in my mission and I was so not happy. But yeah those were some funny stories that happened this past week.
We are teaching some really cool people and I am excited to tell you more about them, but right now I don't really have much to tell you. Sometimes it is crazy being a trainer and senior companion, but I love it!! Sister Johnson is the bomb.com and I am so grateful for her. Canada is a really fun place, they all seem to have something against America, but really it just makes me laugh. Today we went to the Citadel and walked around and took a bunch of awesome pictures I will totally send some! So a random item of business mom could you possibly call our bank and tell them I am out of the country? Sometimes my card doesn't work and its because they think that someone has stolen it. Weird I know. Anyways I didn't even ask how are things at home? Is grandpa married? How is work going dad? Tell me everything! Also Dad I am so sorry I forgot to wish you a HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!!!! Dad I love you and I am so grateful that you are my father I wouldn't have any other :) I love all of you so much! Thank you for the family that you are! Please be safe and remember that I love you!
Love,
Sister Crofts
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Patience is a virtue
Dear Family,
Sorry that I didn't email yesterday. We went on a hike called cape spit and we didn't have enough time. But the hike was totally worth it! Today I can barley move because I am so sore and I pulled my hamstring muscle, but hey it was so much fun. We were lost for most of the hike. And because we were hiking through pretty much a jungle, I graciously received tons of scratches and bruises, But it was so beautiful and don't even worry I totally took pictures! Mom I am glad to hear that you got my letter! I don't even remember was it the beach pictures and stuff like that? Anyways I found out and I am sure you already know that Kallie has a boy friend for REAL! And he is getting baptized July 11th! Things are so crazy! Its happy, but sad at the same time to see your friends and everyone move on with there lives, but I wouldn't have it any other way. That reminds me, I received sammi's wedding invitation and it is so beautiful! I love it! Will you tell her thank you and congrats for me?
So this past week Sister Johnson and I worked really hard. We and we met a lot a really cool people this past week. So I had so some personal revelation last night. So I pray for many things from my Heavenly Father and one of those things was to have patience with myself, and with those that we teach. Well for some reason I just made the assumption that Heavenly Father would just send me these gifts. It didn't occur to me until last night, that when we ask for certain things like patience, or more faith. That is when are faith and our patience is tried. Heavenly Father in His wisdom gives us things to overcome and learn for ourselves. If He just gave me patience then I would never learn the things that I need to in this life. And we know that one of our purposes in life is to become like Him. It truly was personal revelation. This last week I feel that my patience and my faith was tried. For instance: We went to visit a less active who's name is Melita and while we walked into her apartment there was a trail of blood leading to the room. We ran inside to find that she had cut her thumb really really bad and thank heavens I have taken some first aid courses. I had to bandage up her thumb and we found out that her husband had been cheating on her! I was really hard for me to hear that. She is such a sweet lady. Then next story...Terry Evans our recent convert his doubting everything he knows to be true and many other random things. But during this time of "trial" I learned to have more faith and patience, because the Lord truly does bless us, when we are obedient. I wish I could type more, but sadly I have to go! I love you all and I will keep praying for you!
Love,
Sister Crofts
Sorry that I didn't email yesterday. We went on a hike called cape spit and we didn't have enough time. But the hike was totally worth it! Today I can barley move because I am so sore and I pulled my hamstring muscle, but hey it was so much fun. We were lost for most of the hike. And because we were hiking through pretty much a jungle, I graciously received tons of scratches and bruises, But it was so beautiful and don't even worry I totally took pictures! Mom I am glad to hear that you got my letter! I don't even remember was it the beach pictures and stuff like that? Anyways I found out and I am sure you already know that Kallie has a boy friend for REAL! And he is getting baptized July 11th! Things are so crazy! Its happy, but sad at the same time to see your friends and everyone move on with there lives, but I wouldn't have it any other way. That reminds me, I received sammi's wedding invitation and it is so beautiful! I love it! Will you tell her thank you and congrats for me?
So this past week Sister Johnson and I worked really hard. We and we met a lot a really cool people this past week. So I had so some personal revelation last night. So I pray for many things from my Heavenly Father and one of those things was to have patience with myself, and with those that we teach. Well for some reason I just made the assumption that Heavenly Father would just send me these gifts. It didn't occur to me until last night, that when we ask for certain things like patience, or more faith. That is when are faith and our patience is tried. Heavenly Father in His wisdom gives us things to overcome and learn for ourselves. If He just gave me patience then I would never learn the things that I need to in this life. And we know that one of our purposes in life is to become like Him. It truly was personal revelation. This last week I feel that my patience and my faith was tried. For instance: We went to visit a less active who's name is Melita and while we walked into her apartment there was a trail of blood leading to the room. We ran inside to find that she had cut her thumb really really bad and thank heavens I have taken some first aid courses. I had to bandage up her thumb and we found out that her husband had been cheating on her! I was really hard for me to hear that. She is such a sweet lady. Then next story...Terry Evans our recent convert his doubting everything he knows to be true and many other random things. But during this time of "trial" I learned to have more faith and patience, because the Lord truly does bless us, when we are obedient. I wish I could type more, but sadly I have to go! I love you all and I will keep praying for you!
Love,
Sister Crofts
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