Week Ending 1-6-13

Greetings and Salutations!

Happy New Year Everybody!

 

Wow! This New Year has brought MANY changes already, all of which have been wonderful!

First Off. My time with Elder Griffin is at an end, he has moved on to bigger and better things and has gone over to The Limerick Zone in Ireland to whitewash and area! (Whitewash means that instead of keeping one missionary there and sending in one new one, they replaced them both at the same time-- so basically they have to start with no knowledge about the area haha.)

 

As for me: *drumroll* I've had the opportunity to be called as a trainer for a brand-spankin-new missionary! On Wednesday morning, me and some other missionaries walked through the sleeping Glasgow City Centre to catch a train at Central Station headed towards Edinburgh. After getting there, we had our 'Trainers Meeting' with President Brown, and I discovered that 5 people from my group are training! Myself, Elder Holm, Elder McCarthy, Elder Tinsley, and Sister Hopkin! Trust me, as we met the new missionaries climbing off the mini bus and as we sat on the 'trainers' side of the room, we shared how we were just doing the same thing yesterday! 6 months has FLOWN by.

 

As is the tradition for the new missionaries and their trainers, we all got into 'real people' clothes and hiked up Pratt's Hill in the Centre of Edinburgh. It wasn't at ALL like the first time I did it 6 months ago. When I went, we were practically in the middle of a monsoon and you couldn't see the bottom of the hill (it's a big hill, 900 ft or so); but when we went this time, it was beautifully sunny and very windy, and I enjoyed going up there so much!

 

After many a meeting and interviews and such, we finally got to find our new companions. I have Elder Johns from SLC Utah! He's GREAT! I'm really enjoying showing him the ropes and he's learning so fast!

 

Along with the new companion has come a LOAD of New Investigators! We've contacted tons of people and gotten 4 new investigators in the past 4 days! The most exciting was finding this young couple named Sean and Lisa. They have DEFINITELY been prepared to receive the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. That's been a real testimony builder for me in the past week. God is TRULY preparing people to receive our message and he is leading us to them at just the right time. It's just amazing.

 

Well, that's all for this week! I hope that you've all made some resolutions and that you KEEP them! My advice? Pick 3 things. That's it. 3 things and STICK to it.

 

Tara!

Love,

Elder Crosby