has happened!
So as you can tell from the title of my email this is my last week
here in E-Town. I have grown to love and adore the people in this town
and most especially the amazing ward family I have here. I have been
very blessed to serve in this area and I cannot believe how much I
have grown and changed since I stepped on that plane 6 months ago. I
have a deep love and admiration for my savior Jesus Christ, he truly
is the perfect refiner. I have faced times of disappointment and
discouragement, but I have been showered with little blessings far
greater than any trial or hardship I could ever face. Through the
thick and the think He has walked with me and lifted me up in my
darkest times, just like the daughter of Jairus in Matthew 9. He will
take each of us by the hand, raise us up from whatever iniquity or
pain we may be in and makes us anew. The hand of our savior can make
us bright and clean no matter what where we may be in our lives.
To end my time in E-Town we had 2 baptisms!! Nauje and Noriean Carter
got baptized this last Thursday and they were confirmed yesterday at
church! I'll out some pictures below from the baptism. It was quite a
memorable baptism. An hour and a 1/2 before we started, the car elders
called us to tell us that the hot water in the church wasn't working
so the font was filling with ice-cold water!!! The members we eating
dinner with freaked out and took us to the church right away. They
started boiling pots of water on the stove in the church and were
dumping them into the font as fast as they could. I was kinda chilling
in the back not worrying about a thing, I was surprised how calm I
was. The bishop came and saw what we were doing, he kinda smiled and
walked to the back of the church. Then he walked to the thermostat and
said, "You're welcome buddy" and the font water was hot! Apparently we
don't have all of the keys to the church. But the baptism was still so
wonderful and I got to baptize Nauje, the first person I've ever
baptized before!!! It was such a sweet experience for us all.
My next email will be from London, KY home to 8,000 people, 30%
baptist and 40% atheist haha. I know the work will be hard, but I'm so
grateful the Lord trusts me enough to make me work to spread this
gospel. Serving my mission has been the greatest decision I have made
thus far in my life, and I love the feeling I have when I go out at 10
am to talk with people about Jesus Christ. Like it says, also in
Matthew, I have been persecuted for righteousness' sake to preach the
gospel in Kentucky. These 2 years aren't the best of my life just
because I'm serving a mission, they are the best 2 years because I am
MAKING them the best 2 years. There isn't any darkness so thick that
it can put out the light that burns within each of us, there is always
happiness to be found in our lives. If we make time for Heavenly
Father then he will make time for us, and we will recognize the tender
mercies of the Lord in our lives.
I love you all, stay strong and shake hell (Alma 48:17)
Much love,
Elder Crow
The Carter Boys and us
District Picture
Me and Sister Thomsen
Me and Brother Owen (wearing the tie I gave him)
Me and Aiden
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