Hey Family,
Wow I can't believe it's really September, man time is just flying by. I seriously wonder if I'm even alive because time goes by so fast. We weekly plan every Friday and every time we have too weekly plan I'm like, "dude I swear I just did this like yesterday", its crazy!
So this week we were on exchanges pretty much all week long. It was really fun but also you just have that feeling that you just want to go back home and work in your own area ha ha. So at the first of the week we stayed in our area we just did some great work and taught "Bill" (name has been changed) He is from Laos and such an amazing guy! I'm so glad I have had the chance to meet this guy towards the end of my mission. He just astounds me every time I talk to him. He really wants to teach me Laotian, or Thai so that's kinda cool haha!! I really want to learn one too but we will see. But just the faith and the desire he has to learn more about God is amazing!! He grew up Buddhist and then went to church after that. He is just amazing and he really wants me to come visit him in Laos. So we have set a baptismal date with him for October 26th, so we are excited for that!
The work has progressed allot and its going really good and we are picking up allot of new people.
So this weekend we got to go on exchanges with the Ap's and they're a bunch of good Elders! I will be going home with both of them and they are such good guys. We are good friends. I went with an Elder from Vegas and he is a track star. He is really cool and we had a great time. We had a crazy experience, we were talking to this guy.... he was so drunk and he was like "come here" so we went over and I guess the Elders knew him so we just started talking to him. He was like, "come check out my little friends" and so we go by an old rusted truck and there are hundreds of wasps in there and he is like, "they're my friends" and sticks his hand in a hole and pulls out like 4 wasps on his finger and he is like, "they don't hurt me they're my friends!" and we were freaking out because there were like 50 or so wasps just flying around our heads..... it was pretty funny and scary ha ha!
The next crazy thing that happened was on Sunday there was a funeral for an older lady in the Branch. Her family decided to do it through their church so another church was doing the funeral service and Pres. Hawton the Branch President was suppose to go and speak there but he couldn't. So he was like last minute, "hey Elder Crandall I want you to go take my place and speak and share the Plan of Salvation with them". I was like...." uhh..... okay." So we go there and there is honestly like 100 to 200 people there. I was like, "oh my gosh, I'm the only white guy here and I have to share a message to them about our church in hmong"!!.. Man I was scared.... mostly because of how many people there were. But the ward came and sang so some people where there and the 2 councilor in the Branch Presidency was there. I was like, "why didn't he just ask you to speak? You're Hmong and you know all the culture things and all that".... but I ended up doing it and it wasn't scary. Before the people were kinda talking and then they see this white kid go up and start speaking hmong and it went silent immediately. They were like mesmerized that a white guy was speaking such good Hmong to them ha ha!! But after my 30 min sermon ( yeah I felt like Jesus then) a ton of people came up to me and was just like, so glad you know Hmong and everything and it was just a cool experience that was for sure! But yeah that was the week here in the 651 or in Minnesota ha. Well I love you all and hope you all have an amazing week!
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