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

August 15, 2016 Hey y'all, I didn't take too many pictures but I do have some stuff from our hike today!

Me and Brother Joseph, an awesome member from Corbin who had to move to

Me and Brother Joseph, an awesome member from Corbin who had to move to

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2016 February 29 God Cares

Hello everyone I hope it's nice and sunny wherever you are, it's in
the 60s today!!!
I really hope this sunshine sticks around, I'm tired of being cold!
This week has had its ups and downs, but that's the case with any week
I guess. But I've found that when you put a smile on rather than a
frown, you can get through anything a lot easier. I think that when we
keep an upbeat attitude, we show Heavenly Father that we trust in Him
enough to know that everything will work out in the end. The joy and
comfort of the Holy Ghost comes to those who desire it and keep their
hearts humble enough to listen to him.

I've come to learn that whatever we may think, God does care. He has a
love so infinite and eternal for each and every one of His beloved
children here on the earth. Why wouldn't He want to pour out His
blessings upon us all? We can feel the love our Heavenly Father has
for us as we show our love to Him. How do we show Him our love? We
learn how in John 14:15: "If ye love me keep my commandments." So what
do we have to do to show God our love? Keep the commandments. Will we
be happy keeping the commandments? Absolutely, because we know we are
putting a smile on Heavenly Father's face. Will we be blessed for
keeping the commandments? You betcha, it just might not come the way
you expect it or when you want it, but the blessings will come.

I can promise that doing our best to live a Christlike life will bring
bliss and happiness that can't be found by doing anything else. It
doesn't matter to our Father in Heaven if it is the smallest testament
of our faith or the boldest testimony, He smiles and rejoices every
time He sees us trying our hardest to be more like Him. As a
missionary of the Lord Jesus Christ, I understand now more than ever
that I will never be anywhere close to perfect. But giving my all to
my God every day for 16 hours, 7 days a week, for 24 months is the
greatest decision I could've made. It isn't always easy, and the work
is very hard, sometimes I feel like the worst missionary on the face
of the earth, but I know my Heavenly Father is pleased with my
efforts. And I know that He loves each one of you so much, He weeps
when we suffer and fall off the straight and narrow and He rejoices
when we start back on the right track. We've been meeting with a
family who hasn't been to church in almost 5 years, and I love this
family to death. The oldest kid, of the 6, is the same age as me and
he has the biggest heart ever! We got to hang out with him this whole
p-day and he told us how he had been praying to be happier and he
wanted to be closer to God. And the day after he said that prayer, we
met with their family for the first time. God does work miracles,
because He does care, I can truly testify to that.

God bless all y'all this week,
Much love,
Elder Crow

Elder Crow with Joseph, London, KY

Elder Crow at Sander's Cafe in Corbin, KY