I'm on Cloud 9!

Hey family!

Wow this week went so well!! It was full of spiritual experiences and full of excitement! I don't really know where to begin but I will try and find a place! 

So Tuesday all we really did was tract and go back to former investigators all day. We were talking to this former and right next door to their house is a member and she has 6 boys and they are crazy kids!!! I'm telling you! but the littlest boy is so funny and cute, I love him to death! His name is Kendrick and he is about 2 and he climbs on everything! He was climbing over the fence and his brothers are ruthless as well! His brother that is just older than him came up and punched him in the face and he didn't even cry it was crazy! But we stopped and played tag with them and some games. They always say "Goodbye my favorite Elder!" and then the little one always gives us a hug. It's funny! I will send pictures of our experience.

These 2 are so cute!

My little buddy Kendrick

My crazy friends!

So the next part of my week, I went on exchanges with Elder Abbott. It is always a great time with him. We are like brothers and so it's really fun. We taught allot of people and had a great time! We always stay up and we get talking about deep doctrine and things like that! So I was really tired the next day but oh well!

  

So the week progressed and we taught our friends that we teach in the halfway home. They just got out of prison but one of them is so set upon grace and he does not understand Justice and Mercy. We tried to relay it to him and explain it to him, but he just can't understand that concept! So we kinda bashed a little bit... but he is still doing good! He just needs to understand Justice and Mercy! He believes there should be no punishment if we break the laws of the land because there always has to be mercy just like Christ showed and if we are punished then that means Christ died for nothing.... so he has a different concept of it all.

Saturday........ the big day Elder Holland, Elder Callister, Bishop Stevenson and Elder Dube came. It was such a cool experience to meet them and have them speak to us. Elder Holland sat down with us and said that he never ever wants to see a return missionary less active!! He was yelling at the pulpit for about 5 min about that. It was crazy but he trained us on a really good principal he said, we have the same power as him. We ARE apostles...he just is an Apostle with a uppercase A! 

He said that we don't use our authority and we need to use it!  We have power to do anything, we have the same power that Moses had to split the Red Sea, all we need is to make sure that we our righteous. He wants us to be like the angel that came to Alma the Younger. When we read about it, it says that the angles voice was the sound of thunder and that it caused the earth to quake and as we teach our investigators we need them to have the earth quake when we speak to them! and that comes through the Spirit of the Lord and our authority. We need to give them their personal earthquakes.... it was cool! 

It was so amazing and an experience I will never forget in my life! I probably will never be instructed so personal by General Authority like I just was ever in my life again.

Grandpa Hunt..... Elder Holland says hello to you.. I told him you were my grandfather as I shook his hand and he gave me a hug and said, "you tell Burnell hello for me!"...... so yeah it was cool experience!

   

I'm still recovering from my personal earth quake from hearing them all speak!  Elder Holland is our Latter day Paul! He is bold in declaring the gospel. 

The MMM (minus the 4 Elders serving in Canada) and the visiting  General Authorities!

I love you all and hope you have had a great week and always remember you have power!

            Love,

                   Elder Crandall 

Our new Native Hmong Elder...he is from Milwaukee Wisconsin and is currently serving in Eau Clair Wisconsin. We met him for the first time at the conference. He is cool and we can't wait until he comes to the branch!