Monday, March 4, 2013

Hi family!

Well another week has passed by. I bet all of you are experiencing some warmer weather.. Last week wasn't to bad we were at about 35 degrees one day which was nice and the snow started to melt but we woke up today and it was snowing so we still got winter here ha ha.
 
This week we went on exchange blitz and I got to work with Elder Meyer and Elder Lor. It was super good to work with Elder Lor again. We are finding new people and there are allot of people who we realize are in the middle of religion.... they except everything as truth so they take a little from Buddhism and some Christianity and some from shamanism so it's difficult to tell them that there is only one way and it is through Christ and through this church. I have realized that other religions are good, they just don't have the full truth. I was talking to a Buddhist priest and he was explaining more to me about their religion and stuff and I really like how they meditate and things like that. You know I find some truth in them but it's sad that they don't see that there is a place where they can experience the fullness of the truth which is through this church....so that's some of the struggles, getting people to recognize that.


This week I have had a really cool experience.. so the beginning of this starts out when I was back in the MTC and there were two sisters there that me and my companion were really close to because one of them was native Hmong and she was dating a member in the branch here. She would help us with Hmong and tell me about Minnesota...through the MTC we became really close and great friends.. and just this past week her father passed away which is a terrible thing to have happen while on a mission in Taiwan so she came home early and the funeral was actually up in Wisconsin, in a city about 1 hr from the Twin Cities. She got released actually by the one of the Stake Presidents here in St. Paul and on Sunday she came to the Stake Conference we had and it was the weirdest but coolest feeling in the world. it is weird because when I knew her, I didn't know hmong ha ha and now my hmong isn't to bad ha ha!! I just really loved seeing her and it was great!! 


On Saturday me and Elder Angeles had to translate the Saturday night session of Stake Conference and he doesn't know much hmong... I let him try but I pretty much translated for 2 hours straight.. afterwards.... oh man I was drained and my head hurt so bad from translating all those big words that hmong doesn't have in their language but it was good.... well the work is picking up here. President has challenged us all since its March Madness to have 55 baptisms in the month of March and if our mission get 55 baptisms then he said we could soak him in Gatorade. We are all zealously working hard for that.. oh and also today was transfers and nothing happened so we will all be the same after this transfer. This will be 9 months straight in Minneapolis so here we go!!!!! Well we also found out we will be getting two more hmong Elders in May as well so I possibly might be training again which I'm excited to do. I really like training, its been an awesome experience and love doing it!!   


Well that's the week for me. Hope you all have a great week and are a little warmer than here.... love ya!

Love always,
          Elder Crandall

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