This week has been nuts, my new companion Elder Conlin just came from Jeffersonville, Indiana and he calls Heber City, Utah home. He's my first companion from Utah!!! I thought I was gonna make it the whole 2 years without a Utah boy, but I guess not! Haha it has been getting colder here, it's in the low 60s and I am not a fan of the cold. I'm in the doggone South it should just be warm all the time!!! But I shall survive...maybe, I'm on a bike for my 2nd winter in a row! Missionary work definitely gets harder when it gets colder, but hopefully we'll still be able to get stuff done here in Beaumont!!
So we were working with this mission-renowned member, his name is Brother Carr. He literally works and helps missionaries, so he's awesome!! He came to help us out and bring some of Elder Conlin's things from Indiana. He really likes to talk about the gospel and he was asking us about things that have been hard for us on our missions and I shared with him that I haven't always been the most chipper fellow. Then he said this to me, "Don't let anyone purchase your joy so cheaply, you can thrive wherever you are!" And that really hit home for me. So, boys and girls, don't let anyone control how happy you are that's just giving in to them. It's much harder to put on a smile but it's much more worth it as well; in President Monson's words: "Choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong".
God Bless,
Elder Crow
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