Hey everybody! This week wasn't quite as busy, but there were some good things that have happened! Last Preparation day, Elder Topp, the Zone Leaders Elder Mauff and Manning, and myself, drove up to maynooth and visited St. Patrick's College. BEAUTIFUL. The Dignified, Medieval architecture was quite impressive and beautiful! Combined with the luscious green groundkeeping, it was an impressive sight! I didn't take pictures, but I promise to be better about it! 

Well Wednesday, Elder Topp and I took up most of the day in going down into City Center in Dublin for me to get my GARDA card, basically the Irish version of a green card so I can be here legally. My picture is atrocious, but what else is new? Thursday we went out to a few houses with little success, and mid-afternoon, Elder Topp said that we  needed to get back to the flat on account of him not feeling well. Turns out we ended up spending the rest of Thursday and all of Friday cooped up in the flat as Elder Topp fought off something a 24 hour bug. It was nice because it gave us both some time to take a good rest and get ready to work again. 

He felt better by saturday, and we really wanted at this time to get some lessons in! So we ended up teaching 4 lessons on saturday, and 5 on sunday!! We taught Glory about the Restoration, and it was an excellent lesson because he listens so well and asks good questions. We also met with a new investigator named Dan who is from Romania, and who, when we stopped him on the street, asked us for a Romanian Book of Mormon before we could even offer it to him. He speaks very poor english, but we are working with him!

One of the funniest things is that we were walking through some neighborhoods sunday evening, and some kids between 11 and 17 yelled after us about getting free bibles. So we turned right around (because it was funny to see there reactions) and walked up and started speaking with them. As it was one of there only chances to talk to 'the freaky God people,' they started asking questions, and we ended up speaking with 6 or 7 of them for almost an hour! We answered a ton of really good questions, and in the end we ended up giving them copies of the book of mormon and challenged them to read it and pray about it! As missionaries, we cannot actively proselyte to kids, but if they approach us with requests and questions, we can definitely talk to them. Kids are awesome, because they know HOW to learn, and they know HOW to ask questions, and most of them said "I like what you believe, it just makes so much sense!" So we hope that eventually that some good will come from that talk. It was a nice experience, especially to let them know that we are actually pretty young, and completely normal people haha.

Well that's it for this week, letters have been taking a long time because of my moving around, but I do get them and I will reply asap!

Love,

Elder Crosby