Blessings.

Wow!  This week was incredible.  I don't even know where to begin.  I hope that it was the same for you guys! :)

I feel so blessed you guys.  We are so blessed!  I don't even know... first.  I feel way blessed to have Sister Mac as my companion.  She is so good at being a missionary!  She is a really selfless example, and she really stretches me to be better every single day!  Haha... yesterday I told her that I feel a little bit rebuked by her example every day!  Definitely in a good way... I see ways that I can improve, ways that I can do more to strengthen the members, to think about other people more than I think about myself.  Ways that I can use my time better!  She's just an awesome example!

Other blessings.  We are so blessed to have President and Sister Senior as our mission president and wife!  Wow they are amazing! :)  Before my mission, Jessica's 1st mission president told me that he was the hardest working mission president in the world!  He is both the stake president of a bunch of almost stakes.  And the mission president over missionaries scattered all over the country.  I can't even imagine how it's possible to do everything that he does.  He is really stretching us and helping us prepare Thailand for the blessings of a TEMPLE.  Since I've been here the mission has accelerated and changed a lot!  We are setting goals and working as hard as we can... and then the Lord is blessing our blessings!  In some ways I'm not even quite sure what we're doing differently.  I feel like our prayers have gotten more sincere.  We kneel together every morning at 10:00 and pray for each zone individually.  And we also pray all day every day :)  We go inviting people to be baptized for 2 hours every day.  And the Lord is helping us achieve our goals.  This month... we have a goal to have... 200 baptisms in Thailand!  It's DEFINITELY gonna take some stretching.  But the Lord is blessing us in every way.  He blesses me when I get discouraged in inviting.  He blesses us when we don't know what to say.  He prepares those we are teaching.  And somehow... through miracles!  More and more people are getting baptized!!

This week we were blessed to have physical evidence of how the Lord is blessing us.  Sister Pet received the gift of the Holy Ghost in sacrament meeting!!  One of our investigators, Brother Fame, got baptized along with three other investigators.  How incredible!  I am seriously stunned.  The Lord is hastening is work!  And I feel so incredibly blessed to be able to see it happening so closely.  I honestly... don't even know how to describe it.

Oh my goodness.  Wow.  Ahhh.  I wish I could reach out and shake you all by the shoulders.  I just got an email from Sister Peterson, in Phitsanulok.  She told me that Brother GAP is getting baptized.  I don't know if you even remember him.  But.  He has been an investigator for 2 years.  And was expecting to have to wait for another 3 to get baptized. Wow.  I am so stunned.  That is incredible.  I had a feeling I might hear about that soon... but I had no idea how.  That is absolutely incredible.  If you hear some angels singing on the 18th of January. It'll be because Brother Gap finally got baptized.  I think he might die of happiness.  I am so happy!

I love you so much!  Wow.  I am still stunned.  I hope that you have an incredible week!  God is so aware of us.  This life really does have a purpose.  Miracles really. REALLY do happen.  This is God's work.

Love,

Sister Croft