No big shocker that my boy gets hungry at night!! The kid is EXACTLY like his Uncle Shawn that has to eat at all hours of the night! THANK GOODNESS his dad is a Nabisco Rep. and can hook him up! I'm sure what he is REALLY hungry for is his midnight Beto's runs with Hunter, Connor, and the boys!! :)
Just another reminder too. We got word from Kelby's Mission President Friday with a reminder that ONLY Clay and I are allowed to email him UNTIL Hunter leaves on his mission and then he will be allowed to use the email to communicate with him.
It isn't to alienate him but he only has about 45 minutes a week to be on the email and he has to write his family, his mission president, and do all his reports. He just doesn't have time. Please continue to support him through letters and if there is anything you need emailed please don't hesitate to send it to me and I will pass it along.
DearElder.com is a fantastic way to write him letters.... Use it! :)
Hey family,
I got your letters this week, thank you for them all they really mean allot to me. I love hearing how everyone is doing and I love hearing how life is back in Utah!! and yes Aunt Mandy, I will learn how to make hmong food so I can show you guys all that I eat and how tasty it is!! This week I had a big huge bowl of faum (fuh) its really good it's like a big bowl of noodles with meat and other spices in it, usually in beef broth or chicken broth!!
So this week has gone by really fast, I don't know why but I feel that my mission is just going to fly by it's crazy how fast time goes by! This week we taught our family of 7 that is getting baptized on 24th of March. They're an awesome family. I don't understand much of what they say or anything like that but they are really dedicated we have a total of 8 date sets for baptism. I committed another person named Mark to baptism the other day it was cool experience.
I really enjoy the area and everything!! oh and yes there are tornadoes here! haven't had one yet but the tornado sirens went off the other day and I had no idea what it was! My companion told me but there was no tornado they were just testing them and stuff!! This week had been good..... cold some days... then like 60 degrees the next kinda weird!
A really cool experience I had this week was we taught this kid named Vang Lee last week and he is the only member in his family. He wants to serve a mission but his parents told him they wouldn't support him through it and that he needs to just go to school and stuff so we had him set some goals and had him pray every day that he knew what he was supposed to do so the week went by and we went and stopped by his house on Friday. I guess his mom called him up on Wednesday and told him if he moved back and lived with her that she would help him on his mission.... really cool! We couldn't call him or anything cause his parents blocked our number so he couldn't talk to us but we are really excited about that! It's awesome to see the Lord work in other peoples life's and how the blessing of my mission are affecting everyone!!
This week has been good..... and hard. On Sunday, yesterday, I had to translate for Stake Conference, and all I can say is HOLY CRAP! it's super hard and I don't know any of the language ha ha but all the old hmong ladies came up to me after and told me "vajtswv foom koob hmoob rau kof kawm hais lub hmong", which means "let God bless you to learn hmong and speak it".... kinda funny!! they're really nice and really understanding which is awesome I just want to know the language already and know what people are saying to me and everything but I know it comes through time,hard work, and dedication.
I'm having a blast! My area is really ghetto but awesome!! We are always talking to drunk people or something ha ha!! I'm in down town St. Paul.. St. Paul is a bit dirty and gross but it's awesome they have a huge capital building and a crazy big and huge Catholic Cathedral. There is a gold cross on top of it that cost 1.4 million dollars... crazy!
The only thing I am really struggling with is I get so hungry at night but there is nothing to eat cause we have to save money and buy just for our meal!! That's the only bad thing! Everything else is going great!! I love it, I cant wait to get home and share all my experiences I have had and will have.
Have a great week!
Love always,
Elder Crandall (tswv feej)
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