November 19, 2012

HOLY MOLY!!! I'm just astonished at Hunter's Mission Call. It's going to be a very great experience for him. I am so excited for him to go to GHANA and teach the Africans.... It's kinda cool because Minneapolis and St.Paul are really diverse there are people here from all over. In our Zone there are 5 languages spoken and our Mission was the first Mission ever to receive a native missionary from the country of Napal!! Most of the missionaries in Napal go and serve in India so it's cool! There are allot of Africans from all the African countries over here, I have met a couple of people from Ghana so it's really cool... they are really nice and humble people so it will be just perfect for Hunter!!

I'm ready to hear the Mission Call of Markel as well!!! I'm excited to hear where she is going.... it's going to be awesome! Oh and also Kelsey! It just boosts my desire to serve when I hear other peoples calls and where they are going especially people I love like my brother, sister and Kelsey... they are close to me and it truly brings me joy!!

So this week was Mission Conference. It was really good! Elder Gaverett from the Presidency of the 70's cam. he is a great man and I received allot of revelation for myself and for the work here. I'm excited to get to work and find those people! 

This week when I was on exchanges in St. Paul and Elder Ly and Elder Abbott were in my area. I asked Elder Ly to go see this girl that's in a part member family. Her older sister is a member... so they went. I had met her a couple of weeks ago but we just couldn't get back in with her. Elder Ly and Abbott got back in and she had just recently got baptized in a different church as her sister and they were attending that church. The family had fallen away from the church and had recently just started their faith up again and they just went to that church. But we invited her to baptism and she was like, "so does that mean my baptism didn't count?" and we were like uhhh............ "it was a good experience because that's all the truth you had at the time, but it was not done by proper authority." she was like "oh okay sure I will be baptized again if mine wasn't done by the proper authority then why not?" We were so relieved and she is scheduled to be baptized on the 15 of December!!

 
So hmong people do celebrate Thanksgiving but not like we do. It will be interesting knowing how they eat a turkey dinner with potatoes... they never eat potatoes its always rice, so it will be interesting ha ha!! It is the big big hmong New Years celebration too, it last three days and we will be going two of the three days. We are excited for that! Hopefully we can find some people and I can experience their culture more!! 

Anyways... not to much else going on this week just working hard and doing the Lords will!! I love you all and wish you to have a Happy Thanksgiving..
Love,
Elder Crandall