9 days

Hey Mommy!

I just sent you more pictures than I have sent this entire transfer! Sorry for the drought these last 4 weeks... H. Wahlquist doesn't really like photos and I am bad about remembering. But hey! Now you have a bunch! And each one is worth 1000 words so this email is going to be pretty short (really I just don't have much time, I was at Ellis and Liberty Islands most of the day).

The selfies with a wood room background are from a "lesson" we had with a woman we have been trying to get in contact with all transfer. She was a little high on drugs when we went over, so we didn't teach much.

The ones by the tree are from the ward/branch combined Christmas party. T'was a fun time. We sang and judged the Christmas sweater contest.

Thank you for going to Linda's baptism! It makes me so happy to think of her and Gil hugging in the font. Thank you for including that detail. It reminds me of Juana's baptism.

I love love love you!

Let me know if there is anything you need me to be thinking about this week in regards to coming home. 

XOXO

Hermana Croft

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Saturday I had the honor and privilege of attending the baptism of one of Julianne’s investigators. Linda and her husband Joe live in New York. Julianne and her previous companion H. Kim were Linda’s missionaries who taught her as she prepared for baptism over the past few months. Linda wanted a close family friend to baptize her but because he lived in Utah and health issues made traveling impossible, Linda and Joe flew to him. Julianne emailed me the details and asked if I could attend in her place. Needless to say, I was delighted! I met Sister Kim’s mother and the two of us sat together and bawled our eyes out through the whole service. What an incredible afternoon! To meet a couple who not only had seen my daughter recently, but who took care of her, fed her multiple times weekly and loved her. And then to witness this special baptism as proxy for my missionary daughter...my heart was so full!

Last Zone Conference

Hello!

Hermana Wahlquist and I had a busy week! We had exchanges with the  Middletown Sisters (I got to go back, it was fun) and then the next day had Zone Conference which we were heavily involved in. We did a Christmas musical number with the one other set of sisters in our Zone, then I gave my dying testimony, and then after lunch we gave a training in front of the whole zone. It all went really well. At one point in the training, the other sisters had to leave for some reason, so it was just us instructing a room full of 16 Elders. I felt very powerful. Haha!

We are going to Ellis Island for service on Wednesday and then I go again to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty with all the other dying missionaries on Monday. I also will go to the temple on Tuesday the 18th after transfers, then we will spend the rest of the day at the Mission Home, wake up at the crack of dawn and fly home on the 19th. :) 

See you soon!

Hermana Croft