Wow. You will not believe the week I have had. Like seriously it was NUTS. I wish I could tell everything but that would take ages haha I am still debating on whether or not to tell the demon dog story haha Ma may freak out so nahhhhh ANYWAYS haha so my hair is so long I accidentally sit on it sometimes. I would get it cut but it is such a good conversation starter and has helped me get in doors Im just gonna keep it!
So Monday was Pday and had Zone Conference tuesday- which was AWESOME. Have y'all heard of the Meet the Mormons movie that is coming out?? We get to go see it! Its in October holy cow AWESOME missionary tool!! Everyone go see it and take your friends kay? Then Wednesday was exchanges and Sister Crandall came and was with me in my area!! It was SO FUN she is amazin. We did some service and I think somethin in the garage we were cleanin out I was alergic too or somethin.. I kinda brushed it off and kept goin and we had some awesome contacts and met some incredible people!! Welllll when we got home that night it all came crashin on me... 4 asthma attacks later and the Elders came and gave me a blessing and then I got a cold and so I was deaadddddd oh it was bad!! But its ok!! So I woke up in the mornin on thursday and was sooo sick... but I got up and kept workin!
Sister Lieberman then was like ok youre done when we were halfway through studies and made me lie down. Cause I was pale and shivering. So I lied down and boom fell asleep. So I was sleepin for a while when Sister Lieberman came and woke me and said "umm how fast can you get dressed? Sister Carambelas needs to go to the hospital" WHAT so I shot up and got dressed and was out the door in like 30 seconds. She was having awful stomach pains oh my goodness it was so scary. We got to the ER in show low like 20 min away and I grabbed her and took her in and checked her in and sat her down we got the paperwork filled out and I turned it in and was like "Lady you need to get her in asap" so we got her in and was in there for 4 hours runnin tests and such. Thank heavens all is well and we got it all taken care of!
Welllllll then I passed out.. so we got me home and Sister Lieberman and Crandall had to go to the valley for MLC and so Sister Carambelas and I were left behind- dead and defeated. Haha we were seriously just these zombies dyin on the couches hahaha it was pretty funny. So we studied and watched the district and talked and talked and talked then Mel and Katy brought me soup!!!! Oh my goodness I love them so much!! And Mikayla Hatch brought me her guitar hot dog I was happy.
Then Friday we were dead all day. We slept in till like 8 and then got up and tried to get ready but I couldnt even walk straight so we stayed in and studied and slept and rested and talked about life and I played guitar! It was crazy. I felt like a horrible missionary because we had to cancel appointments and such and I cried because I felt so bad :( but there was no way I was going to be able to walk let alone get on a bike!
So that was nuts. Well then Sister Carambelas was havin a baptism that night and we found out that no one had made a program! And the baptism was in like 2 hours. So we got up and walked to the stake center and my goodness made the program- everything was going wrong- and we were freakin out but it was funny we were laughing our heads off cause everytime we are on exchanges something crazy happens!! but yeah we made the program and made it to the baptism. Well the baptism was awesome... from what I remember haha i kinda passed out in the back for a while. The Elders came and we standin on both sides of me at the end. I was strugglin my word I felt so dumb but hey what can ya do? So we came home that night and I fell asleep almost immediately- name tag on and all. (that happens a lot though haha)
Well Saturday WHICH IS THE DAY OF TRAVIS'S BAPTISM I woke up feelin like death still but I wasnt about to miss another day! So we got to work and went and did some service at a funeral luncheon and helped there and then we came back and practiced our song for TRAVIS'S BAPTISM!!!! oh my goodness ok so I made up a fingerpicking for Be Still My Soul on the guitar and put together a really cool arrangement for S. Liebs and I. Oh it was so good!! So then we met Travis at the church!!!! He was beamin. Family. My eyes were opened this day.
So we got everything ready and the font was filled and we took pictures then went in for the service. I have come to know Travis this past month and a half and his wife Mari and my goodness.. I love them so much. Sitting there by them and feeling of their spirit.. Before he went to be baptized we sang our song! I was still really sick so I kinda butchered the beginning but half way we were cruisin. the spirit was so strong. Then we went and Travis entered the font and was baptized. I cannot describe the feeling I felt. When he came up out of the water... He stood there with his eyes closed and a big smile on his face.. just soakin it all in... His wife looked at me and said "8 years.. I have been waiting for this for 8 years" i just was cryin and we hugged and oh my goodness I have never been so happy in my life!
The talk next was on Temples and the speaker asked Travis "You can be sealed to your wife and daughter for eternity, how does that sound" and Travis with tears in his eyes said "That sounds amazing."
Travis accepted to invitation to follow his Savior. He had quit smoking and drinking and all of that. He was prepared. Christ is the ONLY WAY we can make it back to our Father in Heaven. Seeing Travis be baptized and feeling that spirit.. was indescribable. My eyes have been opened. I cannot describe to y'all what I felt that night. But I can tell you what I know. I know I am right where I am supposed to be. I know that when we follow Christ and utilize his atonement... we can be enabled to become like our Father in Heaven. These people are incredible. I am here to find those who have been searching for this. I am here so show them that Christ is the only way. The gospel changes lives. It has changed mine. My whole outlook on the mission has changed. What if I never came? What if I decided not to come? No way haha I cant see myself bein anywhere else than right here. I only have like less than 17 months left... thats not a lot of time!!! I have so much work to do and so many people to find!! I never wanna come home haha but I know one day I will have too so I am going to give my 110% every stinkin day. I want everyone to feel what Travis felt when he received the Holy Ghost and that full remission of his sins. You dont have to droop in sin!! You dont have to live with the guilt of doin somethin wrong!! King Benjamin talked about this beautifully. Christ came and sufferered for it all so we dont have too. He came so he could stand at the judgement bar of God and say "Hey, I know what she went through was hard and she did her very best to stay righteous" and he will advocate with the Father to let us stand spotless, to stand blameless and enter into His rest. Family what more could we ask for!?!? And Travis received that. You bet your bottom dollar Im gonna give it all I got to get this message to everyone. lets go team.
So this week was phenomenal. Though I was dead for half of it, Travis's baptism was incredible. Every rejection I have had, every heartache and homesickness and fear and bad day... it is all worth it. Family I can feel your prayers. Really, I feel it. I pray for y'all too, life is so good. Everything is going to be ok.
Soooooooo now I have a challenge for all y'all!!! I want each of you to share something gospel related on facebook. Whether it be a Mormon message or a picture- POST IT and BEAR YOUR TESTIMONY. Just a quicky kay? kay. I will be following up so you better do it. Conference is coming up soon- GET THE WORD OUT!! Tell everyone invite people over make cookies i dont care. Will you post your testimony on facebook and invite a nonmember to watch conference? BOOM. you have been committed now getcho tail feathers out there and gidderdone.
Well I love y'all SO MUCH!! My life is changing as has my heart. Each of us have felt that burning feeling of the spirit at some point in our lives. Are we still utilizing the Atonement? Are we continually striving to be better? You have felt it. I will echo the words of Alma "And now behold, I say unto you, my bretheren, (my family!!) if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?"
Can you? Are you striving to be better everyday? Let's help everyone feel that too.
I love you Family!
xoxo- Sister Crystal Flake
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