Family,
I have survived another transfer here in East at the Gateway Ward! Now with transfers on Tuesdays and P-Days on Mondays I will be able to tell you if I am leaving or not before I find out where I am going. But this time the verdict is less than suspenseful. Elder Reese and I will be roughing it yet another transfer here in East.
Thanks for the picture of the bulletin board! I thought it was funny that the picture you put of me up there is the one picture I have of me in my white shirt and tie and tag wearing blue jeans sitting next to a Sister and playing the guitar. I promise you all that we work out here!!!! In fact we had two wonderful baptisms this weekend!! Viola, 9, and Shannon, 30, were baptized to complete their families so that now their families are all in the bosom of the Gospel. It is an amazing experience to see families complete in the gospel.
We had an amazing week. It started out on Tuesday when we took the whole zone to Freemont and 6th just a block away from the famous Freemont Street Experience. We set up a street meeting with 17 missionaries and 3 members. Our street meeting was more of a choir performance, average at best, but still a commanding presence. And while 10 of us or so sang the other contacted people in the streets. We had some interesting responses and just an overall great experience. The great thing about talking to people on Freemont Street is the fast paced atmostphere. Once you finish one 20 second conversation you start another one seconds later and so and and so forth. It gives us an opportunity to bear short powerful testimony and work on our delivery. You really have to cut the fluff in that enshrinement.
That is so wonderful to hear that you ran into Elder James!!!! I know it must have been a huge blessing to see him. I trust he is doing well. And what an amazing experience in the Temple that day. Experiences like those are confirmation from the Lord of the importance of the work you are doing! I have a very strong testimony of service and sacrifice. When we do the will of the Father His will becomes ours. If our will is aligned with His we will always get what we want.
Once a quarter we have a fireside that is mission wide called the Why I Believe Fireside. We ask recent converts to share their conversion stories and we bring investigators to listen. This last one was very special because one of my recent converts, Tony, was invited to speak. Whats more is that we brought two investigators to listen to him. To me it was a miracle to see someone so new in the Gospel bear such powerful testimony to someone else needing answers. Our investigators loved the experience.
General Conference is this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so stoked!!!!!!!!!!! This is GC # 3 out of 4. My last conference is in April and then I will be home for Oct 2012! Can you believe it! Time is flying by so fast! Sometimes I wish it would slow down! But truly I cannot wait to come back and visit all my old areas and members and investigators. I miss them already, the ones I am no longer around. A few of them should be going to the temple soon to be sealed. That will be an an unforgettable experience.
In closing I thought I would share a few experts from my journal from this time last year:
20 Sept 2010- "For [King Benjamin's people] there was no written record of Christ having lived, they only had prophecies to base their faith. I don't think my faith is where it needs to be. This will be a goal of mine; to increase my faith."
20 Sept 2010- "found out I'll be singing in the Priesthood Choir with the MTC at Conference. I'm so excited! I cannot wait to tell my family...."
21 Sept 2010- "I realized today that my mother is my hero. She has sacrificed so much for me and she is such a strong woman."
25 Sept 2010-"I'm still enjoying the Book of Mormon. It is crazy how epic it is. There are times where I actually rejoice aloud because of what I am reading."
I love you all! The Church is true!!!
Love,
Elder Cronin
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