Record Breaking weeks!

Hey everybody!!!

Sorry about not being as diligent with my blog posts lately! Hopefully these are all making it onto my facebook profile as well (hint hint family lol). This week for missionary work in the Clonsilla 2 area of Dublin! Elder Topp and I taught a personal and area record-breaking 26 lessons this week! Woohoo!!!!!

Okay, so Veliana is our most solid investigator at the moment. She has a baptismal date of the 29th of September! It's great to see someone so prepared and willing to listen and accept these things that we're sharing! This will be my first baptism and I'm so excited!

Oh! So Elder Topp, Elder Mauff, Elder Akebrand, and I all got up yesterday in church and performed a missionary-only acapella quartet of 'More Holiness Give Me.' It went GREAT!!! I started it off alone, and as soon as I opened my mouth, everyone, kids and babies included, went SILENT to listen. We blended and Harmonized really well and the Spirit was definitely brought into the meeting. :) Many compliments were paid by the ward. Most of them were VERY surprised that we sounded good haha.

MATTHEW! Matthew (our polish investigator) Came to church today and brought 2 kids! Jessie who is 7 and Ryan who is 4, and they loved it! Elder Topp and I had a great time visiting with them and their mother yesterday, and Jessie taught me quite a few Polish/Gypsy words! Here's a few! Chocolate-sucrierko; plate- talejo; window-okna; Clock-Zegerko; butter-Masmo; Sausage-barufka; cup-shklaka. And they told me I was an english speaking missionary! ;)

Honestly, missionary work is such a refiner's fire, but it involves so much joy that sometimes I don't even notice the 'work' involved. As I've tried to serve these people, that's when the Holy Ghost has helped me to be the best that I can be! I've been able to develop that christ-like love for these people, and friendships are being formed which are hard to sever.

Also! Pro really surprised us this week! He says that he does most of the commandments already, so they didn't really make a difference to him. In other words, he couldn't receive an answer by doing what he already does; so he asked us for something that would challenge him and allow him to 'test God' to receive an answer. WOW, right?? So Elder Topp and I decided to teach him about Fasting (something he doesn't like the idea of) and we will be fasting with him sometime this week! It's gonna be great!

Speaking of fasting, in case I haven't said before, the Scotland/Ireland Mission is having a 40-day fast (2 companionships at least fasting each day) so that we can have 40 convert baptisms in the month of October! I'm super excited for it! Elder Topp and I are near the end, on October 10th, which is actually the next moves day. So if we move, we could be on trains or planes or ferrys or buses on an empty stomach! :p But it'll be fine.

I know that I'm doing the Lord's work. I know the Book of Mormon is true and I know that we are led and guided by a living prophet today. I can't wait for General Conference so we can hear the wonderful counsel for us from the prophet and apostles. I know that faith is the source of any knowledge of Gospel truths, and it takes action to learn them for ourselves.

Thanks so much for the letters! I LOVE responding and hearing about all the exciting things happening in your lives! See ya soon!

Love,

Elder Crosby