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

October 31, 2016 Happy Halloween

Yes ladies and gents, today it is almost 70 degrees outside and it is
Halloween!!!! Glory hallelujah there is a God boys and girls, there is
a God! I have never worn a short sleeve short so late in the year and
I am loving it! This week has been peanut nutter and crazy! I got to
try something I never thought I would try, I got a massage from a
$8,000 massage chair. I strongly considered it that is what a chair
feels like in heaven, we've got some awesome members here in Beaumont
haha! We also got to help out a lady from Peru here in Lexington, she
was really funny and she put us to work. She's going to be meeting
with the Spanish elders soon so it was pretty cool to me seeing small
acts of kindness touch someone's heart.

Ok so I found this awesome scripture in a little quote book my dad got
for me before I left on my mission, it's D&C 24:8- "8 Be patient in
afflictions, for thou shalt have many". This made me think of
something I realized in my studies a little while back, there is
nowhere that we are promised we won't have trials because we are
obedient and life will be easy because we believe in Jesus Christ;
this modern revelation literally promises us that we will have them.
I'm thankful that we've got so many things today to help us through
those hard times: scriptures, words of modern-day prophets, prayer,
family members, etc. . The world may be attacking us but we've got the
best defense there is, so we don't need to worry about anything they
can do to us 😇

God Bless,
Elder Crow