Hey Everbody,
So Thanksgiving is over and that means...Christmas is again upon us
with all its glorious lights and trees and food and family time! If
you haven't already, go check out the new Christmas initiative the LDS
church put out on Mormon.org its awesome! The theme to it is pretty
great, it's all about serving others around you and that's something I
love doing! Why think about yourself and eat potato chips when you
could go see someone, make their day, and maybe even give THEM your
potato chips?! Haha Christlike, sincere service is, in my opinion, one
of the few ways we can allow the love Christ has for others to enter
our hearts and help us love them even more than we do! Another opinion
I have is that the Bible doesn't capture all of Christ's love and
service, I think the disciples still experienced it all but they just
couldn't remember it all; I imagine Jesus as the kind of man who took
every opportunity to serve a fellow brother or sister, no matter how
small the service. It's not the size of the service that matters, but
the love that goes into it. The smallest opportunity to do something
for another should not be taken lightly, we never know how much it
will mean to them!
So we got transfer calls on Saturday and I'm staying in Lexington for
another transfer with Elder Conlin! We're pumped to see what's in
store for us in the next 6 weeks, time will only tell the many
adventures of Conlin&Crow! We had an awesome Thanksgiving, and for the
first time I can remember, I didn't have turkey! Instead, we had steak
and Alaskan crab! I let everyone else go to the crab and I pounded the
steak haha it was awesome! We also tried some cabbage rolls since a
lot of the people in the family we are with were Korean, all in all it
was a good time!
Go find someone to help out, no matter how small and insignificant it
seems, I promise it'll make a difference,
Elder Crow
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
November 21, 2016
Dear everyone,
I hate the cold haha I know the missionaries reading this who are in
actually cold places are laughing, but the humidity adds in a factor
that cuts through any human-created fabric. Let me describe the
bipolar weather attitude of Kentucky: on Friday it was 76 degrees
🙌🏻, on Saturday it was 45 degrees 😅, then yesterday it was 31
degrees 😱! The city of Lexington is DEAD when it gets cold, so
talking to people is a bit harder, but we did meet some really cool
people on Thursday! We kept talking to these groups of people with
blue name badges and we were really confused because we didn't know
why there were so many of them and why they were so nice to us! Then
one of them told us they were ALL from the Idaho bible college and we
were like "WOAH that's why they're all so nice: they're from the west
and they know we're the Mormons!!!" So that was pretty cool, I haven't
talked to almost anyone from the west while I've been on my mission!
But it's ok, I stopped telling people I'm from Washington when I hit
like 6 months haha you would be so surprised how nice people are to me
when I say Alabama instead! Us southern folk stick togetha!
I read something really awesome from the teachings of one of the
prophets of the church, Spencer W. Kimball, he said "No matter how
much we say of him, it is still too little." "Him" being Jesus Christ
of course. We cannot ever say enough about our Savior! We cannot
testify of His Atonement enough, we cannot live enough like He lived,
we cannot love enough like He loved, we can always do more for our
Redeemer because He did so much for us! I challenge all of you to look
for more opportunities to share your testimony of Christ, whether in
word or in your actions. It is much harder to say "I hate" if we are
too busy finding things that make us say "I love"!
Have an awesome week and Happy Thanksgiving,
Elder Crow
I hate the cold haha I know the missionaries reading this who are in
actually cold places are laughing, but the humidity adds in a factor
that cuts through any human-created fabric. Let me describe the
bipolar weather attitude of Kentucky: on Friday it was 76 degrees
🙌🏻, on Saturday it was 45 degrees 😅, then yesterday it was 31
degrees 😱! The city of Lexington is DEAD when it gets cold, so
talking to people is a bit harder, but we did meet some really cool
people on Thursday! We kept talking to these groups of people with
blue name badges and we were really confused because we didn't know
why there were so many of them and why they were so nice to us! Then
one of them told us they were ALL from the Idaho bible college and we
were like "WOAH that's why they're all so nice: they're from the west
and they know we're the Mormons!!!" So that was pretty cool, I haven't
talked to almost anyone from the west while I've been on my mission!
But it's ok, I stopped telling people I'm from Washington when I hit
like 6 months haha you would be so surprised how nice people are to me
when I say Alabama instead! Us southern folk stick togetha!
I read something really awesome from the teachings of one of the
prophets of the church, Spencer W. Kimball, he said "No matter how
much we say of him, it is still too little." "Him" being Jesus Christ
of course. We cannot ever say enough about our Savior! We cannot
testify of His Atonement enough, we cannot live enough like He lived,
we cannot love enough like He loved, we can always do more for our
Redeemer because He did so much for us! I challenge all of you to look
for more opportunities to share your testimony of Christ, whether in
word or in your actions. It is much harder to say "I hate" if we are
too busy finding things that make us say "I love"!
Have an awesome week and Happy Thanksgiving,
Elder Crow
November 14, 2016 ☃️"Winter is Coming"❄️
Yes ladies and gents, it is upon us, the beauties and comfort of warm
weather has left us like Selena Gomez leaving Justin Bieber and we are
instead left with the shiverings and cold of the beginnings of winter.
It's really humid here in Kentucky so the cold cuts through whatever
you are wearing like a hot stick of butter through a knife (except the
butter is cold...doesn't make sense does it😆)! These city people,
especially the college kids, aren't as kind anymore so I just take
stacks of pass along cards and throw 'em in their faces!!! Just
kidding I can't do that. But I can't complain, I have gotten snowed on
yet so life is still good! Elder Conlin has been lightening the mood
by contacting people on the street in a British accent...and all of
them think he's from U.K.!!! So it's pretty funny to see a bunch of
college kids kinda look like "who the heck is this guy" when he does
that 😂
Well, this week has actually been a toughie, we haven't taught anyone
for a couple weeks and it's pretty tough when you don't have anyone
to see. I read a talk by Elder Cook of the 12 apostles today and this
section stuck out to me "Adverse results in this mortal life are not
evidence of lack of faith or of an imperfection in our Father in
Heaven’s overall plan. The refiner’s fire is real, and qualities of
character and righteousness that are forged in the furnace of
affliction perfect and purify us and prepare us to meet God." There
are many days I have a hard time imagining why Heavenly Father would
allow life to be so hard, but this quote helped me out a lot. We may
not know everything, but we know enough to keep on persevering. I wish
I could help each one of you with whatever you might be going through,
but this is about all I can do. There is someone who loves y'all more
than me, and He gave His precious blood so He could help each one of
us, personally, through our trials. I know He loves you and wants to
help you, do what you can to each out to Him and He will help you!
I love y'all God Bless,
Elder Crow
weather has left us like Selena Gomez leaving Justin Bieber and we are
instead left with the shiverings and cold of the beginnings of winter.
It's really humid here in Kentucky so the cold cuts through whatever
you are wearing like a hot stick of butter through a knife (except the
butter is cold...doesn't make sense does it😆)! These city people,
especially the college kids, aren't as kind anymore so I just take
stacks of pass along cards and throw 'em in their faces!!! Just
kidding I can't do that. But I can't complain, I have gotten snowed on
yet so life is still good! Elder Conlin has been lightening the mood
by contacting people on the street in a British accent...and all of
them think he's from U.K.!!! So it's pretty funny to see a bunch of
college kids kinda look like "who the heck is this guy" when he does
that 😂
Well, this week has actually been a toughie, we haven't taught anyone
for a couple weeks and it's pretty tough when you don't have anyone
to see. I read a talk by Elder Cook of the 12 apostles today and this
section stuck out to me "Adverse results in this mortal life are not
evidence of lack of faith or of an imperfection in our Father in
Heaven’s overall plan. The refiner’s fire is real, and qualities of
character and righteousness that are forged in the furnace of
affliction perfect and purify us and prepare us to meet God." There
are many days I have a hard time imagining why Heavenly Father would
allow life to be so hard, but this quote helped me out a lot. We may
not know everything, but we know enough to keep on persevering. I wish
I could help each one of you with whatever you might be going through,
but this is about all I can do. There is someone who loves y'all more
than me, and He gave His precious blood so He could help each one of
us, personally, through our trials. I know He loves you and wants to
help you, do what you can to each out to Him and He will help you!
I love y'all God Bless,
Elder Crow
November 7, 2016 Missionario Worko
Hello everybody,
First off I'd like to send a shout out to my bro Elder Kyle Johnson,
he's finishing up his 2-year service to the Lord in Australia this
week. Love ya Elder Johnson, God Bless you for your sacrifice and
service!
In case you were wondering, no I am not a Spanish-speaking missionary,
I'm just that good 😎 Haha I'm just kidding, I make Spanish jokes all
the time because I'm surrounded by Spanish-speakers! So it has been
getting colder and colder each day, it's officially sweater weather
and everyone is asking for cold weather, so I rebuke them and remind
them that warm weather is happy weather! Also, winter is when it gets
harder to talk to people because are smart and they stay inside, but
we don't...sad face. Good things can always come to the ones who keep
trying though, attitude makes a bigger difference than most people
realize. If us missionaries actually let everything get to us, we
wouldn't last a week in the mission field.
I read one of the best quotes I've ever heard about missionary work
from President Brigham Young, “I wanted to thunder, and roar out the
gospel to the nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up. …
Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world what the Lord
is doing in the latter days”. It's amazing, as a missionary you work
to help other people feel the love of Christ and feel the Atonement
change them, but as you help others find those changes in their lives
you can't help but develop them yourself. Now some of you may think
that my goofiness has gone away because of me being a missionary, to
that I say: no. I cannot begin to list off the ways I have been
blessed by serving the Lord and seeing those blessings come into the
lives of others, there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
God Bless and make this week supercalifragilisticespialidocious (even
though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious),
Elder Crow
First off I'd like to send a shout out to my bro Elder Kyle Johnson,
he's finishing up his 2-year service to the Lord in Australia this
week. Love ya Elder Johnson, God Bless you for your sacrifice and
service!
In case you were wondering, no I am not a Spanish-speaking missionary,
I'm just that good 😎 Haha I'm just kidding, I make Spanish jokes all
the time because I'm surrounded by Spanish-speakers! So it has been
getting colder and colder each day, it's officially sweater weather
and everyone is asking for cold weather, so I rebuke them and remind
them that warm weather is happy weather! Also, winter is when it gets
harder to talk to people because are smart and they stay inside, but
we don't...sad face. Good things can always come to the ones who keep
trying though, attitude makes a bigger difference than most people
realize. If us missionaries actually let everything get to us, we
wouldn't last a week in the mission field.
I read one of the best quotes I've ever heard about missionary work
from President Brigham Young, “I wanted to thunder, and roar out the
gospel to the nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up. …
Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world what the Lord
is doing in the latter days”. It's amazing, as a missionary you work
to help other people feel the love of Christ and feel the Atonement
change them, but as you help others find those changes in their lives
you can't help but develop them yourself. Now some of you may think
that my goofiness has gone away because of me being a missionary, to
that I say: no. I cannot begin to list off the ways I have been
blessed by serving the Lord and seeing those blessings come into the
lives of others, there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
God Bless and make this week supercalifragilisticespialidocious (even
though the sound of it is simply quite atrocious),
Elder Crow
October 24, 2016 Elder Conlin joins the Beaumont crew; Joy isn't Cheap
Hello everyone,
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
October 17, 2016 Apostles and Transfers
Hey everybody,
This week wasn't very eventful until the weekend, then things got poppin' lockin' and polka dottin'! On Saturday we had Elder Stevenson, one of the 12 Apostles, and Elder Uceda, a member of the quorum of the 70, come speak to the whole mission. I had an awesome time seeing past companions and mission friends, so many of those guys have changed my life! But it was even cooler to hear from a modern-day Apostle. Elder Stevenson is a funny guy and a powerful speaker, the Spirit was in the room the whole meeting and it was very peaceful; not overpowering, no one was passing out or getting put into spiritual comas, but it was awesome.
Something that Elder Stevenson spoke about that I really liked was when he brought up a section from Preach My Gospel called "A Successful Missionary". In it, and this is the part he talked about, he said that we don't have to measure our success based on numbers or because of how great other missionaries are doing, you can know you are doing good if you feel the Spirit. It's that simple. We, not just missionaries, make these huge expectations for ourselves that we feel we have to accomplish in order to be someone. But the Lord's expectations are much simpler than ours. In the words of Elder Bednar, "If today you are a little better than you were yesterday, than that's enough."
Oh and we got transfer news! Elder Clark is heading out to Western Kentucky and I will be staying in Beaumont. My new companion is Elder Conlin, I don't know him too well but I'm excited to meet him!
God Bless,
Elder Crow
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