July 2, 2012

Well this week was a great week and a week where I have grown allot and had allot of great experiences. First off I'll tell you about this morning... it was transfers so me and Elder Lor will be staying the same and Elder Thao will be joining us in a three Elder companionship. I will be the only white guy now and I'll have two native hmong companions. I'm really excited! We will be taking over the Frogtown area to so we are gaining my old area back, so I'm really excited to see the people again back in Frogtown. It will be nice though because we have a car and I won't have to bike there ha ha! Elder Abbott will be going to Minneapolis. There is only two Hmong areas now that are open... we are in charge of all of St. Paul and the other Elders are in charge of Minneapolis. I am hoping to learn allot more hmong this transfer with two native companions. This will be my first time meeting Elder Thao. He has been in Wisconsin ever since I got to Minnesota so I'm excited to meet and work with him this next transfer. 

This week was really fun week and had allot of great experiences. Elder Lor went on exchanges to Minneapolis so I stayed in our area and Elder Belliston came and worked with me. He is a great missionary! He is going home on Wednesday and is from Salem so we knew allot of the same people. He played basketball there and he is really good at basketball too! It was fun talking with him and working with him once before he left. He is a great guy and missionary!! 

The next day we transferred back at District Meeting and then we went on another transfer with the zone leader and Elder Call one of the zone leaders came to the area again so I pretty much was doing everything for the week. I grew allot and really took charge of everything, so it was a great experience! I was the only one who could speak Hmong at our dinner appointment and I was really scared but it went great and I didn't understand everything but it went well!! Oh, Aunt Mandy I asked the old grandma to teach me how to make Pho which is my favorite now and so I learned how to make it so I can make it for you guys when I get home!! 

Saturday we went to this big Hmong sports tournament called J-4. Allot of Hmong people come from around the country. There were probably 10,000 people there. It was crazy.  We just went and contacted people.... kinda cool cause I was like the only white guy there and the rest were Hmong. It was cool experience!! They have booths like a flee market and they just sell Hmong stuff. It was cool.... it reminded me of Fiesta days back home but this was 3 times as big. It was such a cool experience and we meet allot of cool Hmong people and watched some sports ha ha!! That was probably the highlight of the week. I got videos of it and some pictures but I forgot my cord so I will send some next week! 

We have p day on Wednesday for the 4th of July so we just get to email today! That was my week. It was a great one. Let me know about all of you!! 

Love you all,
Elder Crandall