I have still been feeling under the weather, but I have said
a lot of prayers for strength and energy this week that felt as if they were immediately
answered. One second I was falling asleep in the middle of planning, the
next second we were knocking doors getting attacked by a vicious dog.
Nothing wakes you up more than when your life flashes before your eyes! haha
Elder Burke and I about collapsed from laughing so hard once we were out of
danger haha! Be careful for what you pray for sometimes;)
We have been doing a lot of things with my recent convert
Tray lately. She is so pumped about the Gospel! It was her Birthday
this last week and I was happy she invited us to come and celebrate with
her. She is so stoked about sharing the Gospel with her friends and with
living the commandments to the fullest. She joined us in 2 lessons this
week in which her testimony was so stellar and really invited the spirit.
No doubt I was ment to come and teach Tray in this area. I know that we
are gonna be life long friends!
One of the times I felt the spirit the strongest this week
was in a lesson we had with a family we have been teaching a lot lately.
We were discussing how when you feel the spirit it is so vital that you act on
what it is telling you. I shared an experience that I had in High school
that I haven't shared with many people. I went to a special needs mutual
for a year and I was paired with a buddy named Kam Wilhite. It was the
first time I had really spent any time one on one with someone with special
needs. After about 4 or 5 times going I had a huge revelatory experience
that I owe to all of the special needs people there. I felt the spirit so
strongly while we were doing an activity and it pointed out to me a specific
thing that I need to repent of. I had denied that prompting many times in
the past but this time it was different. I looked around at all the special
needs people that I had come to know and love and I realized that they were all
going to the celestial kingdom.... but I on the other hand was not doing things
that would lead me in that direction. I decided right then and there to
act on the prompting I had and I changed what I needed to change in my
life. That was one of the times I felt soooo close to my Heavenly Father,
my Savior, and his choicest spirits (special needs). I shared that
experience with them and the exact same feeling of peace, love, and warmth were
ever present in the room with us. God does speak to us... but what good
is that if we don't listen.
Also, that same family is working on getting married... and
when we talked to them about it the first time they weren't too set on
it. The very next time we saw them before we could even sit down they
told us they had picked out a date to get married on and already bought a
wedding dress!!! Not to mention they want to make it a double wedding with our
other investigator family! Sounds like I am going to have more wedding dates
than baptismal dates for a little bit! haha. They all came to church this
week and loved it. They are probably going to get married at our church
which will give the ward a great opportunity to do missionary work and get very
involved with the family! Woot!
Shout out to the missionary with the same name as me! Elder
Crandall (papa bear) I love you. I am grateful to be part of your
posterity. We are so lucky to have the plan of salvation. I can't
wait to live with our awesome family for eternity!
Love Elder Crandall the Vandal
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