Hola Familia!
Sooo Mom I finally got your
letter in the mail today...I needed some stamps and couldn't find the ones that
I had until today so I sent it in the mail, I am super grateful for the package
and the letter haha...My first thought was "no she didn't get into my
house" haha...But the message really helped so thanks.
Once again I don't have a ton
of time to email because transfers are tomorrow and we are meeting with
President here in half an hour to finalize some things and then later tonight
we will finish everything between 6-11 at night so it will be an adventure.
So there is this thing called a pre transfer checklist that a couple of
the AP's made in the other mission a long time ago and we use it just to make
sure we have done everything before transfers...at the end it used to say
"God loves you so much!" in big bold letters. However, we changed it to say "Now that you are all done you can go
ahead and eat the Dominoe's pizza you ordered 2 hours ago" because that is
what happened last time haha...I am going to leave specks of my personality
everywhere...For example Elder Brickey is now the choir director for our
mission, by the way- we have a mission choir now and we had a devotional this
past Sunday and I picked out the videos for the fireside. We put it on for one
of the stakes of the mission and we sang songs and watched those videos and
there were some recent converts and less active's that have recently come back
shared their testimonies so it was legit. You should watch the movies I put on.
They are on mormonchannel.com..The first one was ("The Good
Samaritan" the second one was "Rescued By Christ" and the third
one was "Lifting Burdens") you should watch them, they're money! Anyways
Elder Brickey is directing the choir since he has been doing music stuff all
his life and remember how I told you I started matching my pen with my tie in
the old mish? Well now elder Brickey is doing it and it was spreading in our
mission- so thank me later for that one once it hits Bry’s mish too haha :)...
So we heard all about the BYU
and UTAH game all week haha and then we heard all about it on church on Sunday.
Everyone asks me who is my team because they know I like sports, that is a very
dangerous question around here haha..I have made the decision that Oregon is my
team because I don't like WSU or UW and I have always liked Oregon but now it
is going to have to be the official fave, haha. So I was wondering if Bry
could pick me out a super legit Oregon Football shirt so I can represent,
safely haha.
We have been super busy with
transfers all week trying to get everything ready for tomorrow. We have 17
missionaries coming in this transfer so that is making it kind of busy.
We had to create 7 new areas which means finding houses phones and what
not so it has been great haha.
Speaking of football, we were planning for
November the other day and we had everything all on the board and then
President left real quick and I noticed that something very important was
missing from the plans for November on the calendar. So I added the
"Turkey Bowl" to the calendar and then sat back in my chair.
When President came back into the room he reviewed the calendar and said
“Now wait a second, what is a Turkey Bowl?” hahaha. So I had to explain it to
him and he thinks someone will get hurt but I assured him it would be alright
haha :)..
We have been trying to focus
on finding people to teach right now. We are getting to teach a lot of
returning members but we are trying to find friends that they have so that when
they are coming back they can bring those friends with them too. We have
2 baptisms coming up. The next one is in 2 weeks for a lady. Her
boyfriend is one of the members that was less active for a time and now is
starting to come back and they are both doing great. She had never ever
been to a LDS church before two weeks ago and then she came two weeks ago and
said that she felt something different during Sacrament Meeting that she had
never ever felt before in any of the other Christian churches she had been to.
We helped her recognize the Spirit and we taught her the Restoration to
help her understand why this was the only church that had that special feeling,
and the reason why it's the only one is because it is true. The Spirit is
going to testify of truth and that is exactly what happened in her case here so
it was pretty cool to see how she could tell the difference of the church the
first time that she went. Then the next week which was this past week she said
that she came to church with a couple doubts still about getting baptized but
she said when she came to church during Sacrament Meeting she felt the Spirit
super strong again and all of her doubts are gone now. It just goes to show ya
how important and powerful Sacrament Meeting can be. For her, one Sacrament
Meeting changed her life because in two weeks when she gets baptized she will
unlock the power of the Atonement in her life. If she wouldn't have felt
the Spirit during that first Sacrament Meeting she went to she might not have
ever committed herself to get baptized and receive all the blessings that are
going to come from that.
It made me start to think
about how many Sacrament Meetings I have had in my life and in how many of
those did I actually feel the cleansing power of the Atonement and the Spirit
and how many times was I just going through the motions. Every Sunday
when we go to Sacrament Meeting we need to prepare ourselves so that we can
have a spiritual experience and feel the power of the Atonement in our lives.
So that is my invitation for you this week, is to really prepare
yourselves for the Sacrament so that you can have the same type of experience
that this awesome lady had.
Well I gotta go cuz President
is here but hope you have a good week. Love ya!
Siempre Crean,
Elder Creer
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