Called To Serve: July 9, 2012

We had the priviledge of going to Elder Belliston's report on Sunday. What a sweet and humble kid. We enjoyed listening to some of his experiences. It was crazy for me to think he had just been with Kelby (they worked together on Monday)!! He had some very kind words for us about Kelby and even though they had not served together he knew the kind of missionary Kelby was trying to be......once again soooo blessed as a mother!! :)

Hello family!!
Wow this week has gone by so fast and it has been such a good week for us here in Minnesota! I don't even know where to start but I'll start on Monday.....Elder Lor and I went to stop by a former investigator that we had found in our area book, so we knock on the door and it wasn't the same guy that the teaching record said but the man let us in anyway! it was pretty funny the guy really liked me allot cause I was "Mika" (white) and I spoke Hmong.... he was really impressed and he shook my hand like 7 times I swear!!! ha ha but it was a very good experience. He has 5 kids and goes to church and really likes us. We are really excited to work with him more and get them in the water!

Tuesday we had to say goodbye to Elder Mearns and Elder Belliston. It was sad because Elder Mearns was my trainer and I really liked him allot!! They were such great missionaries and it was so good to get to know them and work with them!

On Wednesday Elder Lor and I had to got to the mission office and pick up Elder Thao, our new companion. He is so sweet and funny! He speaks hmong so good and usually speaks it instead of English. He was born in Thailand and came here when he was like 4 so he is really good at Hmong.

We have had so much fun this week together! This week for 4th we played sports at the church with all the YSA and some investigators. We went to one of the YSA house and had a BBQ it was allot of fun, I really enjoyed the 4th but we didn't get to watch fireworks:( but other than that it was great!

Lets see what else..... We went to this part member family and had dinner. We helped them catch chickens and then kill them!! It was crazy.... but cool! We ate them oh and we also ate pigeon! It was different but good. The mom is not a member but she was talking to me and told me I was handsome and that she wants me to marry a Hmong girl. I was like "I don't know, we will see"... it was funny she was like "I know allot of girls that you can marry. I will help you!", and I was like, "maybe after my mission" :) It was funny! We call her auntie because she is like an aunt. It's so cool!!! We have had so much success this week!! We taught about 26 lessons this week which is allot and we are excited to keep working together!!

Well that's about it from me here in Minnesota. Tell me how you guys are doing out there!

Love you all,
Elder crandall