Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Jan. 3 2012



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this week has been great it's the same as normal nothing different really, just doing the same stuff over and over again it gets boring sometimes but its all good... I saw Uncle Shawn on Tues it was amazing seeing some family and see some outside world right haha.. New Years was good... I got a Subway from my mom which was amazing the MTC food gets a little old sometimes... we all went to bed at 10:30 so really wasn't much of a new years but it don't matter... the first fast Sunday as a missionary was great so many great testimonies shared in our sacrament meeting... our district is still way close and we all get along so well, I feel like they're just all my friends from back home doing the same stuff but instead learning about the gospel and preaching it... I saw Sam Pedro and see him quite often. It's great I love having some of my friends from back home in the MTC... there is this elder from Minnesota in our zone he is going to Cambodia... crazy but he has been telling me allot about it and about the Hmong wards and stuff there sounds great he and I are really close he plays sports at Southern Virginia University he said that I should go play basketball there ha ha, but he also said that the missionaries aren't aloud to proselyte if its -30 below so that's good but even if its - 20 that's not good never felt cold like that... there is this elder that is amazing at beat boxing tell Hunter and anyone else to look him up on YouTube his YouTube channel is called "PKeliteBeats" search that in YouTube its crazy but anyway yea nothing much has happened around here just the same ole same ole.. Dad will you tell Grandpa Crandall to send me Travis and Brooke's Address cause the elders that room right next to us one of them knows Travis really good because he went to Mt. Crest... he wants to write him and send a picture of us so if you could do that that would be greatly appreciated, everyone in gym calls me Sacajawea cause I just drain threes from way out and they call me rain man and jimmer so its funny there is not much competition in the MTC..... I thought there would be more but oh well,
Some things to send,
My lebron jersey:)
send me a Jimmer jersey ha ha from the Chinese website.
Dr pepper would be so nice to have
oh also I really want you to send me a ukulele cause this kid that rooms by us is poly and he said he will teach me how to play it if i get one so that would be nice cause i want to learn ha ha....
Camera Memory card 8gb
Oh also there are about 4 native Hmong speakers here in the MTC one rooms right by us and is in our zone so we try and talk Hmong to them it doesn't work out very good ha ha they speak so fast and we don't understand most things ha ha..I also found out a little bit about Hmong culture there beliefs are shamanism so kinda weird they worship there ancestors so that's crazy cause it talks allot about my ancestors in my patriarchal blessing, they do like rituals and stuff.. Hmong is a dialect of Chinese its spoken in the northern parts of Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand so we have to take a trip to Laos when I get home that's where my teacher said we could understand most of what they were saying in Laos, cause in the other countries they mix it with Thai, and Vietnamese, so idk but they also speak it in south east China its really different though o idk if i would understand it, he said its really close to Mandarin Chinese. I told him that I knew how to read Chinese and so he helped me with some sounds in Hmong that where related to Chinese so when I get home I will learn Chinese to so that me and Hunter can start our own business with his business skills and my language what more do you need so be ready Hunter cause we will be on Forbes magazine some day haha ha. 
Mom I will send those pictures back as soon as I have a chance to write on them.. will you send me another memory card and I will just send the one I have now home when its full:) everything is going great family thank you for all your support and prayers I pray for all of my family including my extended family every night so don't think I'm not praying for you cause I am.. Trevor and Owen are amazing little boys such sweet spirits I got cards from them and I hear they are praying for me every night I cried when I heard that.. I love those boys so much.  Love all you guys have a great week talk to ya then.
                                                                          Love,
                                                                                    Elder Crandall  (Tub Txib Leej) Hmong name 
 anyway sinb tsib tua (goodbye)

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