Wed, 24 Jun 2009

HEY EVERYBODY!!!

Just wanted to be excited about stuff.

SO this week is going to be pretty eventful, considering the fact that we have 4 baptisms planned AND I'm giving a talk in the Spanish branch with Brother Maxwell from the high council. (For those of you who may remember, he's from the old stake presidency in the Sunrise stake, and his son Kellen went to high school with me. This should be fun!) Yeah, I know, that's a lot. Three in the Spanish branch, one in the English. I'm pretty much the happiest, most stressed out missionary ever. It's interesting to see how much Satan is trying to keep us from getting this done. I mean, seriously. He's trying to get us to fight as companions, to fight with our ward leadership, to fight with the investigators . . . It's all really superficial stuff that he's been trying to see if he can distract us from the goal. Stuff like needing to reschedule the baptism, or our ward mission leader canceling stuff because he thought we told him too . . . Weird stuff like that. But honestly, it's all superficial. And when you look at it from the angle of--hey, I think someone is trying to stop these baptisms--it gets pretty clear. So we're going forward. And things are looking amazing.

I know that everywhere I go, the Lord has this on lock down. I know he sent me here for a reason. I feel like I have learned more here than ever, about myself and my own issues, and how to really rely on the Lord for attention and my own self worth. I don't need justification from anyone else--I know who I am and that my Heavenly Father loves me.

You know what else? He loves you more than you know.

Last week wasn't too eventful I don't think . . . We had interviews, and mine went really well. Even though I still slack off on some things, Pres. Beck was really kind and gave me the feeling that I have been doing well. Sometimes it's just nice to hear that, especially when you feel like you do everything wrong. Sometimes I really think we missionaries fall to one of two extremes--either we think we do everything right, or everything we do is wrong. That's the source of a lot of ulcers I think.

I'm going to go now--my eyes are tired from looking at the computer screen. I love you all, and the support I get from home is sometimes the only thing that keeps me going.

Thanks STOW, for the awesome thoughts. Yeah, I can see how the body piercing foto might be misleading . . . LOL!!

Have a good day.

Peace.

--Hna Crowley