Dear Family!!
Wow another week has passed by! Last week on Thursday the 7th was my 6th month wooooooooooooooooooooooow! Can I just say time has flown by it's absolute crazy how fast my mission is going but I am growing and learning more and more each day and have loved every moment of my mission.
First off.... for all my cousins or anyone who is preparing to serve a mission here is advice from Elder Crandall...
If I were all you, I would be familiar with the Book of Mormon and Preach my Gospel! I wasn't that familiar with either sadly I have to admit, but I promise you it will make you one step further in being a better missionary!
Now the next thing is, I have seen allot of missionaries go home for different reasons and most of them say it's to hard or I miss my family or things like that... well a mission is supposed to be hard!! It is the point in our lives that Heavenly Father is stretching and remolding us to be the people he wants us to be. A mission takes faith and determination and when trials arrive we all need to rely on our Savior and his atonement!
Some things I have been studying is enduring to the end. Its been on my mind lately and I can see it all over in the scriptures. But there is a certain story that comes to my mind.. the story of LOTT. Lott was commanded to leave the wicked city and to take his family away and God gave him one commandment and that was to not look back and his wife decided to look back for some reason and a pillar of salt she became! You know we need to not look back on the past and to move forward in life we need to forgive and forget the things of the past! We need to take in consideration that our future will be better than our past and that if we have faith and rely on the Lord that is when we make the change and our lives and our future will be better than our past.. it's better to forgive and forget than to be stuck thinking about our past, that's my spiritual incite for the week.
I have enjoyed this week I got a 6th month package from my mom and family this week and the ball with allot of peoples signatures on it. That was awesome! it really made my week!
Today I had the opportunity to go to the temple. I met President Hugh, one of Grandpa Hunts life long friends. He gave me the biggest hug when he found out I was Grandpa Hunts grandson!! It made me feel so loved and welcome.... it felt like family!
It made me appreciate Grandpa even more. He is such and example to all of us and has impacted my life tremendously. I look up to Grandpa and want to be just like him and have the strong spirit he has when I'm around him!
It was a great experience. President Hugh went through the endowments session with us and gave me an experience I will never forget.
This has been a great week and I love you all and wish you all the best!! I will be holding a fast this sunday for Papa hunt anyone who would like to join is welcome thanks so much for everything.
Love,
Elder Crandall
Wow another week has passed by! Last week on Thursday the 7th was my 6th month wooooooooooooooooooooooow! Can I just say time has flown by it's absolute crazy how fast my mission is going but I am growing and learning more and more each day and have loved every moment of my mission.
First off.... for all my cousins or anyone who is preparing to serve a mission here is advice from Elder Crandall...
If I were all you, I would be familiar with the Book of Mormon and Preach my Gospel! I wasn't that familiar with either sadly I have to admit, but I promise you it will make you one step further in being a better missionary!
Now the next thing is, I have seen allot of missionaries go home for different reasons and most of them say it's to hard or I miss my family or things like that... well a mission is supposed to be hard!! It is the point in our lives that Heavenly Father is stretching and remolding us to be the people he wants us to be. A mission takes faith and determination and when trials arrive we all need to rely on our Savior and his atonement!
Some things I have been studying is enduring to the end. Its been on my mind lately and I can see it all over in the scriptures. But there is a certain story that comes to my mind.. the story of LOTT. Lott was commanded to leave the wicked city and to take his family away and God gave him one commandment and that was to not look back and his wife decided to look back for some reason and a pillar of salt she became! You know we need to not look back on the past and to move forward in life we need to forgive and forget the things of the past! We need to take in consideration that our future will be better than our past and that if we have faith and rely on the Lord that is when we make the change and our lives and our future will be better than our past.. it's better to forgive and forget than to be stuck thinking about our past, that's my spiritual incite for the week.
I have enjoyed this week I got a 6th month package from my mom and family this week and the ball with allot of peoples signatures on it. That was awesome! it really made my week!
Today I had the opportunity to go to the temple. I met President Hugh, one of Grandpa Hunts life long friends. He gave me the biggest hug when he found out I was Grandpa Hunts grandson!! It made me feel so loved and welcome.... it felt like family!
It made me appreciate Grandpa even more. He is such and example to all of us and has impacted my life tremendously. I look up to Grandpa and want to be just like him and have the strong spirit he has when I'm around him!
It was a great experience. President Hugh went through the endowments session with us and gave me an experience I will never forget.
This has been a great week and I love you all and wish you all the best!! I will be holding a fast this sunday for Papa hunt anyone who would like to join is welcome thanks so much for everything.
Love,
Elder Crandall
Apparently Kelby to chorus from James Dunaway that stressed to NEVER stand with a Fig Leaf! :)
A friend of his Grandpa Hunt. They taught Institute together for many years in Cedar City.
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