With God All Things Are Possible 3/11

This week was a really good week.  It sounds like it was a craaaazy week for some of our family in Utah ;)  Ohhhhhhhhh man.  :)  Craaaaaazy.

Anyway.  Things that happened this week... A lot of new investigators were found his week... we've been teaching new investigators.  Trying to figure out how to best teach together.  And it's been really good.  

The best part of this week for me...was probably yesterday!  We had Zone Conference.  I used to get really kind of scared of Zone Conference... haha... but... I've gotten less scared as I've been a missionary longer.  And like I said before, I always feel uplifted by the chance to listen to our mission president and his wife.  And it's just... wonderful.  Our theme was "With God all things are possible:Raising Expectations, and Becoming"  I really enjoyed it.  We talked about faith.  And what it means that really all things are possible.  We talked about raising our expectations.  Yalms and Jared... I forgot to write it to you personally... but they talked about how they thought it was impossible to run a mile under 4 minutes... :) Buuuuuut.  Anyway.  Another cool thing that they talked about was something Elder Holland said as he instructed these mission presidents was that "the message is the medium" or... that the missionary is the message.  We talked about becoming a little bit.  And that's something that I really want to focus on... yes... we can be good at... planning.  Or contacting.  Or... good at presenting a lesson.  Buuuuut.  More importantly I want to be more like my Savior!  More important than what you teach is who you are!

We had a cool experience this week when we went to go visit a less active man.  He is someone that I really enjoy visiting... except it's really difficult to see him choosing what he is!  As we talked about what to say to him... I suggested that maybe we sing a hymn.  We prepared some hymns, and when we got to his house he was kind of busy.  But... we just went in, sat down and asked to sing him some hymns.  You could tell the spirit touched his heart.  We didn't say much.  But as we sang to him the words and feelings came back to him.

Anyway.  I hope that you have a wonderful week this week.  I'm sorry that I never have very much to say. (or maybe I have too much to say... but it's always the same!)  I'm really not doing my weeks justice.  Miracles are happening all of the time.  The first baptism happened in Myanmar.  The church is growing in Thailand.  It is mostly buddhist here!  Did I tell you sometimes people say "I am Buddha" in English?  Haha... they don't do it as much to me... but they do it to my companions fairly frequently.  Anyway.  Despite what seems impossible... with God.  All things are possible.  And we really really are seeing that.  There were about 40 baptisms a month when I came into the country.  And just because our mission president helped us raise our vision, and because Lord really is preparing the way... I think there were about 160+ Thai people baptized last month.  With God all things are possible.  It's really true.

I love you!!  Have a wonderful week!

Love,

Sister Croft