Monday, June 14, 2010
The World Cup has arrived
we found some pretty cool people this week! we decided to tract a street that we had never seen before and we found a bunch of cool people! there is an awesome older couple who had actually talked with the missionaries a year before and have already gone to church three times. we just need them to say yes and they can be baptized! i sure hope so! we are working with the son of alfredo and edelbis and his family. they are a young family and very interested. its just been hard to get them to come to church! we´re working on it though. their 6 year old son loves to say prayers. its really cool! the sosa family has been having some struggles lately. gabrielas family have all the sudden come out in opposition to the church. and have started to call juan a crazy person for being so faithful to the church. its no good! we are working on this as well! please pray for them!
oh and guess what!? i spoke in church yesterday! haha i know shocking.. i did it! i spoke for 10 min in spanish and everything! woo hoo! sorry im running out of time but also changes are coming up this next week. im pretty nervous! ahhh hahah oh well the lord will send me where im needed! i love you all! sorry so short!
love,
hermana amy crofts
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
6/7/10
Monday, May 31, 2010
5/31/10
we also learned about our investigators courtship last night... haha ok so the giosas have a 13 year age difference between them. when she was 16 and had not talked to one boy ever in her life she met alfredo. he was 29 and determined to be married before was thirty. he saw her one day and decided that she was the one he wanted. well back in the day, her parents were crazy strict and after she had talked to him once he decided to go to her house and ask for her hand in marriage. after one random conversation! well her parents consented and they began their six month courtship in which they could never ever be alone and he had to come to her house to see her 3 times every week for an hour and always with her parents present. they were not allowed alone until they had been married the second time in the church. hahah they were married first civilly but still not allowed alone. they did not even kiss! hahah and now they are like the coolest couple ever! i love them! haha just thought id share that. i got a kick out of it! also, i guess i dont talk in my sleep... i laugh! haha my comp told me this morning that i woke her up last night because i started giggling! haha i guess i just love my life right now or something! i love waking up laughing! well i love you all! sorry for the randomness of this email but hey i am what i am! keep up the good work! GO JAZZ!! THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!
love,
hermana amy crofts
pics...
1) see mom i do eat my vegatables and i am good at it!
2)edelbis at her baptism last week
3) match made in heaven.. the giosas and i during lunch
4) me and rocio after her baptism!
ps.. we had another baptism this week of a young man that we didnt work much with but awesome all the same! yay franco!
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
5/24/2010
we also got to see a lot of our recent converts this week which is always my favorite thing to do. we went to the sosas one night to have family home evening with them haha and it was the cutest thing because when we were leaving to walk home, little valentina got so worried because she was afraid that we were going to be eaten by lions and tigers and bears! haha so as we were walking home we had to pretend to fight off the lions and tigers and bears that were trying to eat us! haha it was awesome! they are such a fun family and they have really grown in the gospel :) on saturday we tried to teach valentina how to be reverent in church because we have been having a problem with that. and she actually was a good girl this sunday! it was a miracle! on saturday also we had the baptism of edelbis giosa! she is the wife of the man that we first baptized here. she is amazing! i love her! for her baptism we sang a special number like we always do for baptisms but this time it was not so good! haha we had no time to practice before the baptism and so we just went there and sang and of course what happens? i started laughing halfway through the song! haha it was all i could do to get a hold of myself and finish the song! hahaha oh it was horrible! i felt so bad... i dont think im very cut out for singing in front of people. on sunday we got to eat lunch with the giosas and it was sooooo much fun! i LOVE them! haha it was just like being at home. she is an amazing cook and he is hilarious.. we have a lot of fun with them. my spanish is coming along too! im feeling more and more comfortable speaking.. its a miracle! oh and my comp got her dear jane letter this week! haha she took it like a champ.. im very proud of her. good thing i dont have one of those coming my way :) we`re not going to montevideo this week and so we were able to have a real p day! it was so fun! we played sock dodgeball and made apple pie... it was a blast! i love being a missionary! being able to teach the restoration so much this week has been a very big blessing for me and i feel like my testimony of joseph smith and the book of mormon has grown a lot! i love this work so much and im so glad that i can be an instrument in the lords hands!
sorry this email is kinda short but i just dont feel too much like writing today. just know that i love you all and i pray for you every night!
also friends!.. you can write me gmails to this address and they will print them off and give them to me. its super sweet and i love to get them! the address is...
urugoest@gmail.com and then just put my name in the subject line and they will give it to me.
id love to hear from you!!!!!
love you all!,
hermana amy crofts
Monday, May 17, 2010
5/17/2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
5/11/2010
Amy's address-
Amy Michelle Crofts
montevideo, uruguay 11.600
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Monday, May 3, 2010
5/3/10
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
4/27/2010
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Monday, April 19, 2010
4/19/10
love,
hermana crofts
Monday, April 12, 2010
4/12/2010
lesquiero muchisimo!
hermana amy crofts
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Monday, April 5, 2010
4/05/10
Thursday, March 25, 2010
3/25/10
ive learned how to lead music katie! hahah are you still the leader? it took me a while but ive caught on to it. my roomate is crazy! haha hna ochoa speaks a little bit of english and she has told me that she wants to eat my eyes and fingers for candy. haha i kinda believe her. she also has a big giant picture of michael j fox in her closet! she LOVES him! hahahaha its soooooooo funny! ill send you a picture on monday of that too... i get to get back on on monday so please write!!! PLEASE!!!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
3/18/10
Greetings from Argentina! Another week down and one more p-day here at the ccm left.. i honestly cannot believe it! in two weeks from now i will be getting to my first area and meeting my trainer.. haha good thing its on april fools day. woohoo! im thinkin about maybe trying to play a joke on her. any ideas!? i want some good suggestions por favor. how are you all? thanks so much for your emails and letters they are so invaluable to me. i love you all so much! and miss you more than you know! i hope everyones week was good. mine was absoluteley great! i have been very blessed by the Lord this week. as you all know, we got a new group here last week and it has been very different. i was really quite worried when they came that i was going to hate it but the Lord has truly helped me! my new companion is from uruguay and she is very sweet, she has a very strong testimony but she is also very quiet. the other two sisters in my room are from argentina and are both very nice! while i have been here i havent been speaking as much spanish as i should and ive had a hard time speaking. i can understand a lot but when it ever came to talking i just wouldnt because i was scared that i would make a mistake, muy triste. on this last saturday i went into a latino district for the day because there were no other sisters that were here that could go out proselyting. it was crazy! i had to focus so hard! and even then i didnt really quite understand everything that was being said and then it came to teaching with my companion oohh boy was that hard! pretty soon she took over most of the teaching and i just added in when i could. it was hard for the both of us. i prayed alot that day for help and i could feel it but i was very happy when my district came back and i could be with them again. on sunday i got to talking to one of the new north americans hermana smith who is actually from st. george and wh i knew before my mission. we got into a great gospel discussion and after i decided that i would pray for help from the Lord so that i will be ready to leave when the time comes. it was amazing the answer i recieved back, i had the feeling that i should write down all of my goals and make myself a mini mission statement of what i want to accomplish everyday. i have it hanging above my bed and i read it everyday now! it has helped me so much with my attitude and my spanish! on monday i had the best day here yet! i spoke amazing spanish.. its starting to really click for me! i cant believe it but the Lord has blessed me immensely! i honestly cant tell you how much i have felt him in my life during my time here. especially this last week its like everyday i grow closer and closer with him and i can feel him always.
there are two new north american sisters here that i have so much fun with! we just laugh and laugh, im convinced that they are halfway crazy.... hahah just exactly what i needed! i really love it! i dont get to see them much but its so great whenever we´re together. we help each other alot. haha one of my roomates speaks a little bit of spanish which i found out the other day when she all the sudden told me that i was going to die! hahaha and then the other day she held up her fist and said i have a present for you! hahaha im watchin my back these days! hahah its funny! i love all the teachers and people who work here.. we all have our inside jokes.. its so awesome! hna george the presidents wife pulled me aside the other day and gave me a huge compliment. she said that everyone appreciates how modest and loving i am and that she considers me to be the example to all of the sisters... holy moley who´d have thought! it was crazy to hear that. but i have to go i love you all so much! keep writing PLEASE!!!!!!! i love you!
hna crofts
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3/11/10
Saturday, March 6, 2010
3/4/2010
How are you all doing? I´ve been thinking about everyone a lot this week. It sounds like everything is going well! We got the devastating news about Chile this Saturday. I guess some of the elders felt the quake.. I didnt. I had no idea anything even happened. We have some chilean missionaries here and it was a pretty weary couple of hours when they were trying to find out whether or not their families were okay or not. it turns out no one lost anybody which shows how much the Lord is aware of his missionaries. i guess that one of the mission presidents in chile had an impression that something like this was going to happen and he was able to prepare the missionaries in the area. im sure there is probably something about it in the news. crazy that so many natural disasters have been occurring so frequently!
well this week has been rather interesting. I was somehow hit by a train of bad luck. on saturday during prosletismo i got really sick and we had to picked up about two hours in. it was not fun! there has been a bug or something going around all the north american sisters were sick. i was feeling rather bad that we couldnt be out proselyting when hermana george, the ccm presidents wife, had all the north american sisters come into their apartment and watch a movie. she wanted to make sure that we didnt feel guilty. she is such an amazingly sweet lady! we watched a movie called "i am david", it was really good and i reccomend that everyone should see it. its about the holocaust, she said she found it at deseret book. anyways so i was sick for 3 days out of this week but still went to class and everything and then i somehow had half of my big toenail fall off! dont ask me how, it just fell off! its pretty gross looking and just adds to how great my legs and toes look haha! oh and to cap it all off, i took a nap one day during lunch and after i woke up and used the bathroom i somehow ran head on into a door... i know i know pretty amazing huh? so i now have somewhat of a large goose egg on my eyebrow! i am now wearing my good luck necklace everyday and i havent run into a problem or a door since!
my companion and the group we have been here with the longest is leaving in 5 days now.. its really sad! and now that means that we will be the 6 weekers and like the seniors in high school. pretty hard to imagine i only have 3 more weeks here. (im pretty happy we only have three weeeks left cuz im going crazy). i am still trying to survive being with elders all day everyday! its hard somedays i want to kick them really bad.. i can do it though! theyre not all that bad. ive actually grown really fond of them but i can only take so much of them everyday. our teachers are all from here and now all our classes are being taught in spanish.. i never realized how much i love english! haha but the lord truly increases our understanding when we try our hardest. i love you all so much! please keep writing! dont forget.. ok? here is a little bit of my testimony in spanish.. haha errors and all.
yo se que la iglesia de jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias es la iglesia verdadera! y que jose smith fue un profeta y vio jesucristo y dios. mediante jose smith el evangelio de jesucristo fue restaurado. dios nos ama mucha y quiere nosotros a regresar con el. yo se podemos traer almas a traves sus ejemplos. le amo el evangelio de jesucristo y yo testifico que podemos hacer todas las cosas con Dios ayuda!
le amo mucho!
hermana amy crofts
ps.. im so excited for that package! YAY!!!!