September 5, 2016 🇬🇧Last Week in London🇬🇧

Good afternoon everyone,
Sorry for the late group email, but for the past couple hours I've been packing...packing is so tedious. I'm packing my bags because today is my last day in London! Tomorrow I will heading up and hour and a half to North Lexington, in the Beaumont (sounds like Bo-Mont) area! I'm excited for a new area and new experiences, I will be in the GKLM's biggest bike area so I'm sure I'll have plenty of them! But I'm gonna miss London and Corbin a ton, these last 7 and a half months have been so awesome, but the Lord needs me elsewhere so I'm gonna follow!

This week I was directed to an awesome talk called "Slow to Anger" by President Gordon B. Hinckley, the last prophet of the LDS church. It sounds like President Hinckley was speaking directly to me, my short temper has always been a challenge I've been fighting. He says something that summed up my childhood and most of my years on this earth, "It is when we become angry that we get into trouble." Why is it that anger leads us to do such awful, unkind things? It is because when we let contention take over, we have chased away the Holy Ghost (3 Nephi 11:29). It is because we have replaced the pure love of Christ with the foul hatred of Satan. When we are angry, we throw away any morals, standards, or habits we have previously lived by that helped us have a happy lifestyle.

I like the other option that President Hinckley poses, "I plead with you to control your tempers, to put a smile upon your faces, which will erase anger; speak out with words of love and peace, appreciation, and respect. If you will do this, your lives will be without regret. Your marriages and family relationships will be preserved. You will be much happier. You will do greater good. You will feel a sense of peace that will be wonderful." It is so much better and pleasing to be happy and kind compared to when we are bitter and hateful. After I read this talk, I was reminded of an old primary hymn my mother would often sing, " Let us off speak kind words to each other; Kind words are sweet tones of the heart." Get out there and be happy this week, happy people are awesome and stick out to others!

Much love,

Elder Crow