I've never seen beautiful, like a journeys end...

...when nameless faces become my best friends.

well....its the last one. weiiird! i cant believe it! we're emailing from brandon on our way down to winnipeg! i love brandon! its good to be back for a short while.

i couldnt have asked for a better way to end my mission! i feel sooo blessed and i am soo grateful for everything that ive been able to learn and see. this week we had zone conference. Elder Kevin R. Duncan came and taught us. hes really great! he looks a lot older then his pic. haha he said just the right things. the things we needed to hear. at the end the returning missionaries had to get up and bear their testimony and let me tell ya....i lost it. i dont even know why....welll yeah i guess i do...but it just bugs me so bad! i just wanna get up there and talk but no....haha that crozier curse again! haha ;)

then, one of the best days ever on my mish! Arianne was baptised! it was the most powerful and spiritual baptisms ive ever been to. in fact thats what everyone else said! there were sooo many ppl there from the branch to support her. everyone loves her! i got to sing I Feel My Saviors Love and sister smith played the piano. she did a really good job! then arianne bore her testimony! man oh man! there was not a dry eye in the room!! shes amazing and powerful. she is definitely a choice choice daughter of God. i am soooo grateful for this chance i had to meet, teach and see her make covenants with Heavenly Father. shes sooo excited to go to the temple and is already planning a trip to SLC in oct 2012! :) it was really really hard to say goodbye to her! :( but she is in such good hands and shes got her testimony built on the most solid Rock!

I really cannot wait to see you all. im going to miss canada soooooooo much. my mission is sacred to me. ive seen the hand of God out here and i know He is in this work. its His work why wouldnt He be. i love my Heavenly Father sooo much for giving me so many blessings and opportunities to serve and help His children. i know this Church is run by Jesus Christ. this is His church. the one that is founded upon apostles and prophets. and it holds all of what we need to live in true happiness and ultimately to return to Heavenly Father. i know Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and today we have a living prophet. Pres Monson is one of my heros. i LOVE the book of mormon!! it means everything to me. if it wasnt for that book i couldnt be here right now. i love it so much! it gives me the strength i need. it taught me more about my Savior then any other book and it has brought me closer to God. family, i love you sooo much!! i cant wait to see you!!! see you in a couple. ;)

love,

Sister Crozier

She's coming home!

You read that right. Sister Alicia Marie Crozier will be arriving in Arizona this Friday and we can hardly stand the anticipation! She will be speaking this Sunday, with an open house that evening. If anyone needs any details feel free to comment and I'll get back to you. As a family we are so thankful for her service for the Savior and the blessings we've seen in return. It's no doubt that she has been one of the Lord's greatest missionaries. I'm not sure if Sister Crozier will be able to write today, since it's Thanksgiving in Canada today. So the next you'll see of her is the real deal! Ahh...we can't wait!!!!

This work is gonna fix what don't work any more

whata week!!! conference just boosts me up soo much!! im ready to go now!!! not home...just ready to go on with the work haha. oh man its hard not thinking of home when im not bus, the best part is we're always busy so its not that bad! haha :)

so last week i got kicked off so i wanted to continue with what happened last week.

LAST WEEK INFO

i had my final interview with president paulson.. that was weird considering i still had 3 weeks at that time. it went really good. he gave me some counsel and told me what to saty away from when i get home like debt and things like that. then he gave me a blessing!! thats what did it for me. i just caved in. cried my little eyes out! in it he promised me something really really special. he said i will see a baptism before i go home. At this time arianne didnt have a date and there was no way her parents would support her. (thats where i started to cry) and no more then 2 days later the miracle happened and her parents called saying they support her. :) i love LOVE this gospel. and the power of the priesthood is real!!!

so there is a very well known story here about two sisters who picked up an apple and an onion on the street and it ended up leading them to this produce shop down the street and to a man who ended up learning and is now baptized. so...sister smith and i were walking down the street and we saw a kiwi. at first we were like yay...free kiwi but then we decided to knock on the doors that were near by just to see if another similar miracle would work. haha so...the first door the guy looked at us pretty crazy and shut the door...that was a no. then we went to the next door. this young man who is Chinese (love them) answered the door. we tried to explain the kiwi things but he didnt understand. so we just told him we taught ppl about God and thats what sparked him. haha. he is now learning from the elders and hes great!! :) i love random fruit on the sidewalks in saskatoon!!! :)

THIS WEEKS INFO

GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS AMAZING!!!!! i loved every bit of it!!!! elaine s daltons talk was amazing! i loved it!!! i just love knowing that Heavenly Father still speaks to us through His prophets, just how He always has!! :)

next week is canadian thanksgiving so i dont know when ill be emailing or if i will at all. just a heads up.

Arianne passed her interview on sunday with flying colors!! shes sooo ready! shes asked me to sing at her baptism. sister smith and i are doing an arrangement of the Lord is my shepherd/more Holiness give me. its going to be really pretty!

so this saturday something great happened!! it was 830 at night and the elders just got out of priesthood and invited us to join them for wendys frostys. i was all for it! i wanted to celebrate a wonderful saturday with some yummy ice cream. but sister smith being amazing as she is said its probably best to keep working for the last half hour. i probably fought going back and forth of going and not going like 10 times! but i knew she was right. so we kept working (and the street we were on was dead esp at that time of night) no more then one block after i decided to stay we met a young lady by the name of aliah. she is from iran. we were so close to the church so we showed her around in the chapel and talked a lot to her about Jesus Christ. when we mentioned repentance and never being too far she broke down and cried. she said she really needs that in her life. she said she felt really good and wants to feel it more. we explained that to be the spirit. we invited her to learn and to come to general conference the next day. she came and we are meeting with her this week!!! thank goodness for a faithful companion! :)

well family i love you sooo much! and im sooo excited to see you! please do all you can so we can live together forever!

love

sister crozier

I Stand All Amazed, All the Time

"i cannot say the smallest part which i feel" -Ammon, Alma 26:16

what has happened this week and the miracles ive seen really make me weak with gratitude for the love that our Heavenly Father has for each and every one of us. oh man! so Arianne. the one who is set for baptism on the 8th texts us and tells us her parents are fully against her being baptized and told her to choose between them or God. so we meet with her and she tells us she had to explain to them that she would choose God b/c they dont understand. but they said she can continue learning but not be baptized. we invited her to fast with us to have her parents hearts softened. but as of that day (thurs) she wasn't going to be baptized. so that day was also my presidents departing interview with him. he knew the situation. at the end of a departing interview he always gives the missionary a blessing. and in the blessing he blessed me that i will see a baptism before i got home. sister smith and i were really shocked and surprised. so sunday roles around and we are all fasting. Arianne walks into church and she tells us she has good news. she said her parents called that morning and told her they will fully support her in her decision!!!!! oh man!!! i couldnt help but be completely overwhelmed with gratitude!!! i love this work. i am getting kicked off but i will share more miracles next week. i love you all!!!

sister crozier

The hardest thing I've ever loved to do

ohhh boy!!!! this week has been crazy busy/amazing!!!! sooo many miracles and things to say!

first of all we are teaching this girl from china. her name is arianne!!! shes amazing! our first appt with her she said she doesn't know anything about God or Christ. we taught her about the plan of salvation and invited her to be baptized. so, on oct 8th she has decided to be baptized!!! :) oh man! i am soooo happy for her!! she said life is so much easier with faith and belief. even her school work. :) oh man! Heavenly Father has blessed us soooo much!!! she is amazing!

Chinese people are amazing!!! just last week this man named sheen got baptized and he decided to do it in the river!! it was soooo great to be able to watch it! he is from china and is about 7'8.....sooo tall!!!! so we were out street contacting on university bridge when we started talking to this other Chinese lady. we were trying to set up a time when she could meet with us and she shes super busy, but could meet right then. so we did. on the park bench. she expressed how she was going to start a program to become a catholic, but was still unsure and had some doubts. we taught her about Jesus Christ and how His church is established on apostles and prophets. (eph.) and as we were teaching a wedding came out of the hotel that was right there and decided to go right in front of us to take pictures. so sister smith and i were pretty distracted...i mean c'mon, it was a wedding!!! we LOVE weddings!!! :) so we decided to walk. ive never quoted the first vision while walking across a bridge before. its amazing how the spirit is still strong though!!! :) Lizzy is sooo excited to come to church next week and wants to bring her friends! :) i absolutely love this work!!!

then, on thurs. we had plans to go find on the bridge when the elders called and said they found someone for us and we had an appt with them in about an hour and a half. so we decided to go and find around that area just before the appt. so we did and we found a lot of really great ppl. even one who was gonna meet with us the next day. so after we go to the appt and she wasnt there. :( BUT Heavenly Father knows where those who are ready are gonna be. the next day we went to the appt with Chandini the girl we met on the street. she is from india and is Hindu. but grew up in a catholic school. we taught her about the restoration and she loved to hear about how there is a prophet today to lead us. why wouldnt there be one today? she says. yup, thats why we're here. :) it was just great. i know we were lead to that street to not only find her but the others we were able to talk to while out there. :)

my last week here...so in 3 weeks we are having zone conference and elder kevin r duncan of the 70 is coming. its gonna be great and im really excited about it. something im not excited about it this thurs president is coming to saskatoon for zone meeting and while he is here he is going to do my departing interview!!!!! ahhhh!!!! man! i have 4 more weeks....i dont wanna talk about home with him. (no offense family) but really? oh man! :(

hahah speaking of going home-funny story so the other day in the ysa ward we just went up and told our favorite hymn and then sang it. so someone said the hymn God be with you til we meet again. sister smith my companion pats me on the back...kinda like a see you later. then elder green, an elder from Australia gets up and says i like hymn 26 for this and this reason, but also b/c its how many days elder lui and sister crozier have left. hahahahaha so we sung it!hahah it was soo funny, now that i think about it i didn't sing it, i was laughing too hard! :)

well family i love you a lot and i am sooo happy to be out here!!! thanks for your prayers and love, i feel it!!!

sister crozier

Rockin-N-Knockin on a billion doors

oh man!! i was spoiled this bday!!! seriously!! ever appt we had they had cake or some type of goodies for me!!! i am sooo taken back by how kind everyone was for me. one member even had a little mini surprise party for me. ahah and i got 4 pair of ear rings from ppl and 3 from my family!!! oh man!!! soo kind. ive been on this earring buzz lately! i love them!!! i guess ive just turned into a girly girl! haha but it was a wonderful bday and i was spoiled!!

this last week has been super hot but starting today its cooling down!! oh man its gonna be soo nice! only 19 degrees today and i think tomorrow is gonna be 15!!! that will be nice. im happy ill be gone before the -40 days though. haha

so before i left on the mish my stake pres gave me a silver dollar and told me to give it to someone who is going to go one a mission. BUT you have to wait til the spirit tells you who. sooo....i waited and waited and waited....and FINALLY in my last transfer i felt prompted to give it to a member here. her name is macey. and the weird thing is is she isnt planning on going on a mission. then one night after FHE after i had decided to give it to her (nobody knows yet) she came up to me and said she had been told by her cousin that she should serve and she was considering it. oh man!!! wabam!!! no way!! i knew i had to give it to her. so during our next appt. i did and it was really special. she shared some experiences with us on how she knows the church is true and how much its blessed her! man i love that girl!! its such a testimony to me to see these members doing all they can to have the spirit in their life! i love being here in saskatoon and being able to find those ready here!!! i love this work and its definitely gonna be the hardest thing to leave!! i love you all and thanks for your love!!

sister crozier

broncitis

yup.....i got bronchitis again!!! oh man! it came to me when i was driving to winnipeg...10 hour ride as just a cold then by the next day i was really sick...sister smith drove most of the way thankfully. the dr has givin me drugs but they dont seems to be working so i might have to go back hah...oh fun hey? its kinda funny though b/c two other elders got really really sick at the exact same time. so i dint feel too bad.

so the ride to winnipeg was good. we got to stop in brandon and see the sisters there!!! oh man i miss brandon then in winnipeg we got to go out with the sisters! it was way fun!!! then we drove back haha. thankfully i had a really REALLY good cd to listen to called a tribute to missionaries!! ;)

so i now have sister smith back!!!! yes!!! im sooooo happy about it! we teach sooooo well together!!!! its ridiculous!! i love her so much shes so fun and im happy its her killing me off!!! we have seen already some really really great things. but one thing that really stood out to me this week was when we were street contacting on 22nd...not the safest street but its all good. we started talking to this man sitting on the front porch steps and he wasnt really talking to us, or looking at us. he didnt seem interested. but we kept talking to him and we asked him if he had a faith in Christ and he finally looked up and his eyes were pretty red from crying. we ended up finding out that he had just lost his baby and he was lacking faith. we got to bear our testimonies of the atonement and the plan of salvation and he wanted to meet with missionaries after that! it was such a great experience and im sooo grateful i got to be apart of it. the Lord really is aware of us and he definitely placed us in this mans path that day!!! i love this!!!!!

thanks for all you do family!! youre amazing and i love you!!!

sister crozier