Nyob zoo,
Hello family and friends, wow its been a crazy week with responsibilities and just a million things going on all the time! It is crazy but I always find peace in the work and in the Savior.
This past week has been really weird... but great, it started out with p day and then on Tuesday we had a Leadership meeting in Bloomington and the Mission Home. It was so great!! All the Zone Leaders and District Leaders in the mission attend them. It is a all day training about how to be a better leader and what we need to do and the responsibilities we have, and a way to gauge how the mission is doing. It was very helpful and I received alot of personal revelation there. It lasted pretty much that whole day from 8:40 to 6 in the evening. That night I had a conference call with the District to prepare themselves for District Meeting which was the following day. We do a thing before every District Meeting where the night before, on the call each area gives 2 investigators and tells us about there concerns and then 1 person in the District will study for that person and the following morning we discuss as a District how to help those individuals. So everyone will study for someone else's investigator. It's a very effective thing we have implemented in the district! On Wednesday was my first District Meeting as District Leader, it went well. I trained them on how to teach people and not lessons and I compared it to the story of Ammon and King Lamoni. It was a great meeting. I hope helpful for the other Elders. After District meeting I went on exchanges to Minneapolis with Elder Ly, it was good being back in Minneapolis so I could see all the members there and the people there! We had a great exchange and a powerful interview at the end so it was very great! I wasn't in my area this week for like 3 days! We exchanged back on Thursday night at Coordination meeting with the Ward Mission Leader and the Branch President. After that the week settled down and we had some crazy experiences!
We were riding our bikes on a bike trail and in the middle of the trail was a guy, drunk and passed out! So we went over to help him and he was fine, he got up and started walking and almost fell over a couple of times. Later on in the day we saw the same guy and he talked to us and he looked at me and was like I will remember you.... you have really nice eyes! I was like uhh are you hitting on me man?... that's weird.. but anyway that day we were tracking a bit and we were talking to a girl and all of a sudden a little hmong kid come running out of their house and he was butt naked and just sat there while we talked to her for like 5 min it was so funny!
Well we are all excited for our Mission Conference this week it will be so awesome and so great!! I'm excited for it!
I wanted to say how much I appreciate my mom in all she does for us. She is a women of so much strength and I am amazed at her and how she over comes trials in her life. I know we have had some hard times with the family over the course of my mission but I just want to let her know that I will always love her more than anyone else and I will stand up and be by her side! My mom is my hero and I love her so much! love you mom!!
Love you all!
Elder Crandall
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