I got hit......‏too!

Well hello family,

It has been a very interesting week that's for sure...I don't really know where to start.. 

Well this Tuesday we had a specialized training in Oakdale that's when President comes and gives a special training to us. It was really good we talked about how the Book of Mormon gives us more of the doctrine of the atonement that the Bible does not have, so it was really great and I learned allot! It was cool because President started talking about some deep doctrine ha ha so were were all amused by that! 

This week I went on exchanges with Elder Hardy, the one Markel got to know pretty good in the MTC, so I went to Minneapolis with him and we had a great time. We are like brothers I swear! We are the same.... we do the same things and it just reminded me of all my friends back home! We had a great time though we taught allot of people and had allot of success and WE EVEN ATE CHICKEN and WAFFLES! It was my first time! :) We ate it at a park in Minneapolis on a big hill and you could see the skyline of Minneapolis it was really cool! So I was with him for three days but we had a great time. I really love being District Leader! I get to have close relationships with all the Elders and I just love serving them and helping them become better missionaries and men!

Having a little fun!

We found this park with an AMAZING view!

So I got back to my area and my first full day was Friday. Friday was the craziest day of my mission by far! So we were teaching our last appointment that night and we just heard huge thunder and rain like crazy! We were like "oh man! we're 3 miles away from the apartment...dang!" but we got out and it stopped raining but the power was out everywhere! Trees fallen over.... it was just a crazy storm. Right before we got home I GOT HIT BY A CAR on my bike. So yeah I was crossing an intersection and the street light wasn't working, so I looked both ways and the car had stopped. So I was like "okay lets go, he stopped" so I started to go and he just started going and drilled me and I went flying off my bike like 10 feet and my helmet flew off. I did a helicopter spin in the air and landed on my stomach and I was just laying there like...."oh man my wrist kills!" and then I heard the guy freaking out, cussing, and he was so scared! So I thought to myself like "man this guy is freaking out"! so I just jumped up and went and gave him a hug and said "don't worry man, it's all good!" He was still freaking out and I was like "don't worry!! I'm good!" so we walked the rest of the way home and I was just like...."holy crap I just got hit by a car!" but we got home and I checked myself out and I got scraped up and bruises everywhere...my knee is pretty bad but I made it alive....so its all good! 

When we got home some people in the apartment were like "the garage is flooded from all the rain" and so we went down and it was like 3 feet deep everywhere, it was insane how much rain we got in just 2 hours.

That's my week for you all. Hope you had a good one and also I would like to give a shout out to Amy Huhtala for writing us!! It's great to read how the ward is doing! Thanks for everything. 

Oh and the Missionary Broadcast was crazy good!! Cool how the new rules are enhancements to missionary work!! We are excited and waiting to get the go ahead and apply those in the future!

           Love,

  Elder Crandall