2/18/10

Wow!! I cant believe another week has gone by already! This week was quite the week. so much has happened this week.. its been trying, its been wonderful, its been sad, its been funny. I never knew i could experience so many emotions in one week! well anyways, thank you for the amazing valentines package that you sent. i absolutely absolutely loved it! you have no idea! thank you for the cards, the pictures and a special thanks to lydia for the amazing necklace and pop rocks.. i love you! sounds like you all had a great time.. bbq at the park with games? not fair! but wow.. tommy is learning english just about as fast as im learning spanish it seems like. la, i loved those pics you sent and the letter thank you very much.. im going to really try to apply that talk to my life. well ok so here is what happened to me this week... on saturday i went to prosletysmo but instead of with my regular companion hermana kleinman i went with hermanas gardner and sepulveda. hna sepulveda is latin and hna gardner is freakishly smart and knows alot of spanish so... haha it was really a great experience! but it was also one of the most humbling moments in my life. this time was much different from last time. the hnas are very hard workers and i learned so much from them. hna gardner is like thee most courageous and determined person ever! every single person that we passed she talked to and when we knocked or clapped doors she made sure to do it twice if they didnt answer at first! but i felt so inadequate out there compared to these amazing missionaries. they would start teaching in spanish and i would stand there and try to think of what words were... i sincerely wanted to teach just like them but i just cant do that yet. so most of the time i just stood there and tried to make it seem like i knew what was going on. we did have so awesome expericences though.. we met a family on the street and hna gardner and hna sepulveda started to teach and they seemed really interested. they taught them the whole first lesson and i just played with the kids.. but at the end of the lesson i was able to bear my simple plain testimony but with such a power! i knew it affected them for the best! im so grateful that the lord gave me the opportunity to share with them the things within my heart! it is exactly what i wanted and needed at that time. also there was a time where i thought that this young kid was mocking us while we were teaching and i was able to bear my testimony with authority to him.. he wasnt mocking us it turns out but i think it mightve been exactly what he needed to hear... at the end of that day i was feeling down and very humbled because my spanish is not very good and then i came across the scripture that austin wrote down for me in ether 12:22-28.. it was exaclty what i needed to hear at that moment. thank you thank you austin! i know the lord will help me but i needed to be humbled first... i love that i could have this experience and grow from it. later on in the week the first three week group left. it was really sad.. its so funny how close you can become with a group of people in 3 weeks. i especially loved the hermanas! i really hope i get to be companions with hna gardner out in the field.. it would be so amazingly fun! im trying my best and working really hard on my spanish.. pray for me and my spanish! ill need it haha anyways mom youre going to be getting a few calls from hna. gardners sister and hna. kleinmans mom. hna gardner is wondering about some of my skirts.. and hna. kleinmans mom is coming to st. george, you guys should do something! please keep sending me letters or emails.. turns out i can print emails off. i love this gospel! i know the Lord lives and that through him everything is possible! i can even make a difference with as much spanish as i know.. i love you all so so much!

love,
Hermana Crofts

ps... donde está mi cartas???