Hello my dearest family and friends,
Well this week has been great I'm sure you're all wondering who my new companion is. His name is Elder Moss,
He is a great Elder! We are the same age he just went to college before his mission. He is from Surprise, Arizona, he went To ASU for a year before his mission. We are doing great everyone we talked to this week thought we were brothers for some reason ha ha!
Its been a bit overwhelming being District Leader.... you're just thrown into it and expected to perform highly. but I'm getting the hang of it and I love it. I love serving the Elders in the District they're really great Elders. All the numbers though on Sunday night are a handful its like now my Sunday night are over! I'm always on the phone now and figuring everything out but it's good preparation to starting a business.
So this Sunday we found out who is going to be coming to our mission on June 15th. It will be..... ELDER HOLLAND, ELDER CALLISTER OF THE 70's, ELDER DUBE, AND BISHOP STEVENSON. I'm am really excited to meet Elder Holland again! I will make sure to tell him hi for you Grandpa and Grandma! I can't wait though to be trained by all those great men and power houses in the leadership of the church!
This week we met some really cool people! We set Precious's baptismal date this week. She is preparing for June 29th so we are getting her ready hopefully everything goes well. it been a great week although it has rained every day this week and so on the good ole bike its super fun even though we get super wet! Everything is all green and beautiful! I wished you all were here to see the beauty of it!
This week I restarted the Book of Mormon again and this time as I go through, I am marking all the scriptures having to do with grace and mercy. It's been so awesome to see how merciful the Lord is to the people in the Book of Mormon and to us in our own lives. Its been a really cool Book of Mormon study so far! I'm so grateful for my mission! I have come to enjoy studying the scriptures and its such an amazing tool God gives to us all. I encourage you all to read from the Book of Mormon each day and study with real intent and expect revelation! I have found has you expect revelation like the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament did he said" speak Lord for thy servant heareth" he expected revelation and look at what Samuel became! So I want you all to have the same attitude as Samuel
"speak Lord for thy servant heareth" it will bless and bring you great joy in your heart as feel the Saviors love for you!
Last story.... this week I got a flat tire as well and so we walked the rest of the day and we were walking around and this guy walks out of an apartment and he said "hey what you two doing?" and I was like, " umm just walking, he was like come help me clean out my truck!" it was random but we started talking and this guy is at the bottom of his life.... he is contemplating suicide and he ran into us..... we shared spiritual uplifting thoughts to him and boldly committed him to repent. We found that he smoke and gambles so we told him to quit that right then and there and it was just so amazing to be there at the right time! He committed to be baptized and this was all while we were cleaning his truck out. The thing I felt was, that I am an instrument in the hands of the Lord as it talks about in Alma 26:15. That is how I know I am a successful missionary! Not my baptismal count... it is knowing that I'm being an instrument in the hand of the Lord to carry on this great work! i have learned so much but most of all I have become a son of God who knows his potential and who loves feeling the Holy Ghost each day! I have become someone who loves the Lord and will do anything for him and that is our purpose here in life, to love the Lord and do the things he asks!
I love you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Crandall
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