THE WEEKLY UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!
Well what a good week for
little ol' Elder Crismon. With zone conference, and exchange, and lots of
teaching, my week was chalked full of fun stuff and stress! The thing that
seems to be bugging me the most is I'm just always tired and it sucks! Haha But I'm loving life. We also had some downs, we found out that one of our
investigators could be moving. She has a date! So hopefully she will be
baptized before she leaves! Which is looking like is the most possible outcome!
So pray that it happens! Also this week I officially hit my year mark. Crazy to
think that in less then a year I'll be done with my mission. It makes me
sad...
So to start off this last Tuesday was
zone conference! It was a great conference! It got started at the bright and
early time of 6:30am so we had to wake up at 4:40 to make it on
time! We had to run car checks and make sure that those who wanted flu shots
got them. It was
stressful! But lots of fun! After that madness zone conference itself began.
I was actually #2 on the docket! I gave a safeguards thought to the mission.
The safeguards are ideas that the church has given to us missionaries to help
us from falling into making a mistake using iPads. So I gave a 10 minute
training! Everyone said it was a great training! I got multiple comments on it!
I felt very good as I was up there! So thank you for all your prayers they were
definitely felt as I gave my training. Our mission president dropped a bomb on
the mission as well. He changed the music rules and we can only listen to things
on LDS.org.
So that was crazy! We actually knew it was coming, but it's still pretty crazy!
I must admit I've seen blessings already from following his council!
So the coolest blessing this week
happened! So I was in desperate need of a new suit. You see the other one was
too small and just not as nice! Well good ol' Grandpa is the man. I love that
guy! He had a brand new suit that he had never worn. He bought it three years
ago. Well he didn't want it and it just happened to fit me just perfect. It's a
super awesome suit! It's a navy colored suit with pin stripes! It's dark blue,
and it's classy! It looks like what the seventies wear when they come to our
mission! He also hooked me up with some new shoes! Grandpa is the man, the
myth, and the legend! Just so very grateful for him! He actually gave it to me
on my year mark day! It was a good present from him. A tender mercy from the Lord! God does answer prayers!
So funny story of the week. As
Zone leaders we go on lots of exchanges. Just about every four days I'm in a
new area for a day! Haha So we scheduled an exchange for this week with a
couple of Elders. And well there was a slight miscommunication.... #LOL In our
zone everyone is really spread out from each other. So we get members to give
us rides. Well we decided that they were gonna get a ride on Friday
night or the start of the exchange! So as I packed at 8:50pm and
waited for a while they just never came. Finally at 9:30 we called
them asking where the heck they were! And they had thought we were going over
there! Hahaha So we had to cancel the thing because they live a good 45 minute
drive away, and 1 and a half hour round trip! I'm actually a little grateful
we didn't cause I needed to get a grip on my new area and now I'm more
confident than I was before!
Well it's been a good week. Lots of
ups and downs. One of the highlights is on Thursday nights we got permission
from our mission president to play basketball with the Elders quorum! It's a
lot of fun and we ball hard. I'm talking #Kobe haha We have a good time!
I'm getting better and better at this whole basketball thing. Elder Doman and I
are still just loving life up here in Daytona. We've been working hard and
teaching like maniacs. We get along great and I just love serving with this
guy! Hopefully we get to do another one together! I know that the work that we
do out here and around the world to be true. It's tough, and it really is he
hardest thing I've ever done. But just as Elder Holland put it "Missionary
work is hard, because salvation is not a cheap experience." As a disciple
of Christ life is not easy but we are just paying a token of the price that
Jesus the Christ himself paid. The church is true and I know it! I wish you
all the best of luck this coming week. I'll be praying for all of you! I hope
you feel my prayers! Cause I feel yours! I look forward to hearing from you
guys! Love you all!!!
Love, Elder Crismon!
A few pictures he sent this week:
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