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Hello family,

How is everyone doing this fabulous time of the year and day!!
 Well not much happened here this week.  Today was transfer calls and nothing is happening to us Hmong Elders so we are staying the same. This will be my 4th transfer in Minneapolis and its been great, I love the area and the people.... so its good to stay another one!

 
 This past week two recent converts who I believe all the missionary grew really close to moved to North Carolina.... I believed that has been one of the hardest moments on my mission to see them go. I had such love and charity towards these two young girls and I just want the best for them they have brought light and joy into my life and I just hope they do well where ever they are. I never thought it would be so hard to say goodbye to people but it's super hard! I don't even want to know what the last day of the mission is like but I still have a bit....so no worries!

 Lets see.... this week we taught a young man who is about 22. He had an uncle in the church so he has been to our meetings before but he is now attending the CMA church which is probably the biggest struggle I have found on my mission is the other church they go to. There are more Hmong people that go to church I believe than do the shamanism. We taught him the restoration and focused on authority at the end he was like, "I got a question?" he said, "so what you guys are saying is my baptism didn't count or it is not valid right?".
I was like oh no we can't lose him! but we testified and taught authority again and talked about how Jesus walked 60 miles to John the baptist to be baptized. He is doing good and we are going back to teach him the Plan of Salvation because he had questions about how the way we believe in the after life!!

So this coming Saturday is our branch Christmas party! We are excited for that and we have been preparing for it and inviting allot of people too. It is going to be from 4 to 8....long for a Christmas party but we are ready and excited for that!
 I did receive the Christmas letter Clayci, thank you for writing that! it was really good and I enjoyed it so much. You do have a sense of humor don't you...I wonder where you get that from? (Grandpa Hunt) 

This past Wednesday was also our Christmas conference it was so good!! I learned allot about goals and goal setting and how to make our lives successful and how it all is learned on the mission it really hit me at that training from President Clements! 
I believe the best part of the Christmas conference was President let us watch October Sky.... oh man how I love that movie!! I totally forgot about that movie then watched it and man such a great movie!! One of my all time favorites. We also found out that the actor who plays Homer Hello family,

How is everyone doing this fabulous time of the year and day!!

 Well not much happened here this week.  Today was transfer calls and nothing is happening to us Hmong Elders so we are staying the same. This will be my 4th transfer in Minneapolis and its been great, I love the area and the people.... so its good to stay another one!

 

 This past week two recent converts who I believe all the missionary grew really close to moved to North Carolina.... I believed that has been one of the hardest moments on my mission to see them go. I had such love and charity towards these two young girls and I just want the best for them they have brought light and joy into my life and I just hope they do well where ever they are. I never thought it would be so hard to say goodbye to people but its super hard! I don't even want to know what the last day of the mission is like but I still have a bit.... so no worries!

 Lets see.... this week we taught a young man who is about 22. He had an uncle in the church so he has been to our meetings before but he is now attending the CMA church which is probably the biggest struggle I have found on my mission is the other church they go to. There are more Hmong people that go to church I believe than do the shamanism. We taught him the restoration and focused on authority at the end he was like, "I got a question?" he said, "so what you guys are saying is my baptism didn't count or it is not valid right?".

I was like oh no we cant lose him! but we testified and taught authority again and talked about how Jesus walked 60 miles to John the baptist to be baptized. He is doing good and we are going back to teach him the plan of salvation because he had questions about how the way we believe in the after life!!

So this coming Saturday is our branch Christmas party! We are excited for that and we have been preparing for it and inviting allot of people too. It is going to be from 4 to 8....long for a Christmas party but we are ready and excited for that!

 I did receive the Christmas letter Clayci, thank you for writing that! it was really good and I enjoyed it so much. You do have a sense of humor don't you...I wonder where you get that from? (Grandpa Hunt) 

This past Wednesday was also our Christmas conference it was so good!! I learned allot about goals and goal setting and how to make our lives successful and how it all is learned on the mission it really hit me at that training from President Clements! 

I believe the best part of the Christmas conference was President let us watch October Sky.... oh man how I love that movie!! I totally forgot about that movie then watched it and man such a great movie!! one of my all time favorites. We also found out that the actor who plays Homer Hickem lives by the Mission Home.... kinda cool.

From the shootings in Connecticut and the Myan calendar thing we have been getting allot of questions of the end of the wold and all that!! Members asking us about the Second Coming too. Other than that this week has been pretty normal and fun, allot of weird questions that we have been asked week ha ha!!

That's about it from Minnesota talk to you all later (SIB NTSIB DUA)

love 

Elder Crandall

Can you believe all this snow?

Elder Ly and I taking a break

Oh shoot....this is not good!

Ice skating!