April 9, 2012

Hey family this week has been so great.... its been awesome!!
First off we taught a girl that is less active and her mom that is still old culture which means shamanism so yea but her mom seems really interested in the church, its really cool she made us these things that they hand sew. Its really amazing, I'll probably send them home so you all can see them they're really cool and its amazing how much time it takes them to make them and how cheap they sell them for!

But from Wednesday to Thursday I went on exchanges with my district leader Elder Lo. He is from Sacramento. He is native hmong and one of the hardest working missionaries from what I can see. Before this transfer he was AP for a couple transfers and is a really good guy! He came to my area and I had to navigate around and do all the appointments and everything. I was a little nervous but it went really well. We talked to everyone and we met a guy that believed that aliens were going to come down and give us all the elixir of eternal life... it was really funny! And then we met an Atheist that was arguing with us and it was also really funny. He told us we were wasting our time cause there is no God and stuff like that and we were like.... no we know there is a god and it got kinda intense so we just left!

We found allot of hmong people in the two days. We had found 9 new people to contact, it was really cool.

My hmong is getting better I can actually get a contact from them and stuff. Its been going good! Then from Friday to Saturday we went on exchanges with the AP's that was really cool doing English work and stuff. It was really different but was a great experience!! The AP's are so cool and such great missionaries its was a really great experience. The AP I was with is name Elder dawrimpl. He is from Orem and a really cool kid. He plays basketball.. he told me how impressed he was with me for being so new and being such a great teacher and catching on to things so fast!! It was a really good experience! Easter Sunday was really good it was like another Sunday in the field but I got allot of support from you all back home!! Its been so much fun out here and I'm loving it!! when I was on exchanges with the AP's we saw this old guy about 60 or 65 and they call him (name withheld) cause he is a member but he smokes and stuff but he is a good guy he was like are you a new missionary and I was like yes and than he was like have your ever heard the word and then said the F word and I was like what the heck.....I was so shocked and didn't know what to do but it was a great experience!! so yea my weeks been great! Today was transfer calls and all the Elders in my apartment were freaking out but no one changed so they were all happy it was really funny.

Thank you all for the support and love. I hope everyone is doing great. Love you all!

Elder Crandall