Alexa Jean Crofts: Week 13; Dona Ana Ward, Las Cruces, NM

Hey again!

This week had some miracles which was awesome.

We finally met with Ramon this week, twice. He has been really hard to get a hold of lately, but we caught him at his house on Tuesday. He was feeling bad for things he was doing. We just told him that God loves him so much and is proud of effort. Everyone has struggles and he has to overcome his. I really felt the spirit and I felt how much God loves us. I don't always feel that, but it was really good. We all struggle so much, and we should never think we are worthless because of it. We have INFINITE potential. That's something I've learned this week. God is ever loving and a perfect Father. So of course He is going to always be there for us and always tell us to keep trying.

Right after we left Ramon's house the Elders in a different area called us and said that they wanted us to meet with them and an investigator in 20 minutes. They are in our area and they want to be baptized the first of January! We were like, of course! We met in the murder park at like 8 at night. We were safe but it was kinda funny. We taught the restoration and she felt the spirit so much! She said she wants to be baptized because she sees the light in members. I never really realized that people could feel the spirit around members, but it was really cool to see what a different light we have.

We met with Evan and Laura this week! We went in going to teach the restoration, because they decided they wanted to be taught the basics again. But then it changed to teaching the Plan of salvation. It went well but one thing at the end was I read Moses 1:39 and I said that we both believe in the same God and Evan thought that was revelatory that I said that because apparently no other missionary has mentioned it before. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Honestly I just do my best and sometimes I'm confused haha

Okay, so a great technique I have been using to start conversations on Facebook is," hey blank, I'm Alexa, this is random but I'm a missionary and I love to pray with people, can I pray with you?" It works soooo well. A lot of the people respond and we've got 4 new people from it this week. So many people love praying!

We also helped out at a food bank and they had 5 boxes of extra bread they gave to us, so we gave some away to our friends and missionaries haha

We had a district potluck this week, which wasn't really a potluck, it mainly was dessert. We also snowflaked our old 84 year old friend Wesley's door and he called us and said, is this the wcm? World class Missionaries haha! If we're world class then why isn't he baptized yet?? Lol he also calls himself the OG hahaha he's great.

We had another lesson with Stephanie which was not good. She was super down the whole time and felt like she couldn't change who she was and things she was doing. It made me feel sad she thought that way.

Saturday night, we ran into Ramon when he was out walking, again, we had a good hyping up lesson where we told him he can do this and we were there for him. We related to him a lot and I think he thought we were perfect, so we quickly dispelled that belief. He said he would come to church the next day and was a lot happier. But when church rolled around our member who was gonna pick him up, showed up empty handed😑 it was sad. Now we are going to take a break with him for a week and let him come to us. He has to make the choice and choose the gospel.

Lots of our friends are going through really rough times in their life right now. I'm really starting to understand what it means to mourn with those that mourn. I wish I could understand how to help them, but I don't. Only Jesus Christ does.

We also invited this guy, Christian, to church, and the only reason we had his number was because it was on his dog's collar when his dog ran away. Anyways, he saw it as a sign from God that he needed to go back to church and now he really wants to go with us and we are teaching him tonight!

God is always good, even if you don't see it. It's a fact. Everybody can change. And miracles happen everyday, even if you don't see it.

I love you all!!! I hope yall have a great week

Love Sister Crofts