Alexa Jean Crofts: Week 52: Las Colinas and Dona Ana Wards, Las Cruces, NM

Tabitha is doing so well! She is so excited to learn more and to read the Book of Mormon! When we give her something to read she reads it over so many times. We read 1 Nephi 8, Lehi's vision, with her and it was awesome!!

I love how we take, or eat, the sacrament each Sunday. Just like eating is a basic need for our physical body, it represents how Christ is a basic need for our soul. It's true!

It's funny being in an area so long that I see people that I've met in like December and they weren't interested. We met this lady named Amanda and she seemed so different! We haven't met with her before, but it's cool how God doesn't work coincidences.

I went on exchanges twice this week as an STL I went to the Spanish area with the amazing Hermana Medina. We were at a member's house and they gave us arroz con Leche, rice with Milk. Hermana Medina is lactose intolerant, soo I had to eat both bowls. It was kinda a lot. They asked me if I wanted more and I was like, I already had two bowls haha. THEN they told us that it's lactose free🤦‍♀️. I was like Hermana.. haha

We've been wanting to do a ward activity for a while, just a low key sport one. So we did a soccer night Thursday. Leading up to it I was stressed because we couldn't find really anybody to come. But so many people came! There were lots of investigators there as well. It was so fun.

On exchanges again we talked to this random old lady who could NOT hear us at all. She was busy, so we drove away and parked somewhere. Turns out we parked in front of her house and she beckoned us to come inside, it was really funny and we were basically yelling at her cause she couldn't hear us.

We are trying to help this girl who is not a member and can't be baptized right now. She's been struggling, so we went over to her house with her mom and brother and had a really spiritual lesson. It's all the little moments of the spirit that have built me.

There is a lot I still struggle with that will take time, but I know that the small moments feeling the spirit strengthen us. Christ does this in small and beautiful simple ways.

Love yall!!

Sister Crofts

P.S. I hit my one year!!