Hello everyone,
First off, shoutout to Sister Lougee who is now in the MTC lpreparing to serve in the North Adriatic mission!I am writing all y'all from the teeny town of London Kentucky! An area inhabited by Appalachian Americans( hillbillies isn't too nice of a word haha) and good ol southern folk alike. The people here are SO nice(except for the sour pickle in the cucumber bunch), it blows my mind! I feel like this is the hardest part of a Bible Belt mission, the people couldn't be nicer but they feel like they already have everything they need to know about Jesus Christ. But I promise you that no one will ever know enough about our savior, we should be learning and growing every single day. Far too often we think we've grown s much as we can, but we are like the current bush that grows to be what it wants to be but not what the great gardener wants (The Will of God-D. Todd Christofferson). Heavenly Father knows exactly what He wants us to be, but less you feel like you are only here to be a puppet, let us all remember something. Heavenly Father knows exactly WHAT we can be, and in becoming what He knows we can be, we become what we desired to be all along. Put your trust in God and He will lead you down the straight and narrow path and guide you through every storm throughout this seemingly endless sea we call life. He knows the way home and He has given us the map to return to Him someday. Don't we all want to hear those words, "Well done thou good and faithful servant", we all want to go back home and feel His loving embrace.
First off, shoutout to Sister Lougee who is now in the MTC lpreparing to serve in the North Adriatic mission!I am writing all y'all from the teeny town of London Kentucky! An area inhabited by Appalachian Americans( hillbillies isn't too nice of a word haha) and good ol southern folk alike. The people here are SO nice(except for the sour pickle in the cucumber bunch), it blows my mind! I feel like this is the hardest part of a Bible Belt mission, the people couldn't be nicer but they feel like they already have everything they need to know about Jesus Christ. But I promise you that no one will ever know enough about our savior, we should be learning and growing every single day. Far too often we think we've grown s much as we can, but we are like the current bush that grows to be what it wants to be but not what the great gardener wants (The Will of God-D. Todd Christofferson). Heavenly Father knows exactly what He wants us to be, but less you feel like you are only here to be a puppet, let us all remember something. Heavenly Father knows exactly WHAT we can be, and in becoming what He knows we can be, we become what we desired to be all along. Put your trust in God and He will lead you down the straight and narrow path and guide you through every storm throughout this seemingly endless sea we call life. He knows the way home and He has given us the map to return to Him someday. Don't we all want to hear those words, "Well done thou good and faithful servant", we all want to go back home and feel His loving embrace.
Each and every one of us has the divine potential to do so, to someday look up and see His smiling face beaming down at us. No matter what you may think, our Father in Heaven will ALWAYS want us back home despite our shortcomings. There isn't a mistake in the world that our Savior doesn't want to forgive. His love is everlasting, His mercy eternal. His atoning blood can always wash over us and make us clean again, for "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows" and "he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (That's in Isaiah 53 for you seminary kids) Jesus Christ suffered the greatest agony possible so that He could know perfectly how to strengthen us and build us up.
We strive every week to talk to talk to everyone we see, so I've met so many people who feel like they aren't worthy of the sacrifice Jesus Christ made, but that couldn't be more wrong. The atonement will always be available to sum we just have to live worthy of it and sincerely seek it. No matter what you have done, You. Are. Loved. A song came to mind, which is what inspired this title. "You are more than the choices that you've made, you are more than the summer of past mistakes, you are more than the problems you've crated, you've been remade." I testify that H love each one of us and there isn't anything He doesn't want to help us with, just ask him for it in prayer and then go out and show your faith! I love you all so much, I will tell you more about London net week I'm still getting used to it haha. Especially being in a car, it's very different! God bless and take some time for your family's is week!!
Much love from a soldier in God's army,
Elder Crow
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| Saw Elder Caskey, an old missionary pal going home |
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| The Byrnes family |
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| The crazy Harper family |
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| The Carters |
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| Saw Elder Koenig one last time, love that guy |
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| Me and elder parks before we went out to work, on our bikes!!! |
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