RAIN - Calarcá, Colombia

Okey dokey so i kindof forgot to write and it's past 6:00 so ya, I'm alive, i got my work visa so i can contact now, it rained literaly the entire week exept for the two days i remembered my unbrella, and I'm following my aunt Teresa's advice and just not puting the time at all :)

I know God loves all of you, he wants you to come and live with him again after your life on earth, and the way to do that is through the restored gosple of Jesus Christ. Yep. That pretty much everything, if you have any questions, thoughts, or just want to talk I'm here, love you guys, i'll write more next week. Probably. Yep. 

Byeeeeeeeeeee

Elder Crenshaw :) 

Mission Email Week 11.5 - Calarcá, Colombia

 Yes Figured out how long I've been on my mission, the problem is, I started on a Thursday and P-days are on Mondays. I could do it by weeks in Colombia but we arrived in Colombia on a Tuesday. So the question for you all is, How should I mesure??? I could start at MTC, Colombia, round up, round down, use fractions, just measure in days, or just skip it entirely and just put something random in the title each week. If no one has an opinion I'll just rotate through the options. If somone does have an opinion, I might do that. If I remember. If more than one person has an opinion, and they are different I don't know what I'll do. I guess just put all of them.

Ok so this week. Overall very good. I finaly had Dracula. (type of ice only available in October) In each one there is a little toy and I got Dracula which is aparently kindof rare, my companion was kindof mad that I got it my first time ever trying it lol. ALSO I've discovered the wonders of Jet Chocolate. It's this kind of chocolate in Colombia and in each bar there is a sticker. in total there are 256 different stickers. From what it looks like almost all of the gringos have collections, on the elders in my CCM district (he's in mission Bogotá Sur) got 96 in the first two weeks! compared to him I'm slacking, I only have 8 and it's been 6 weeks lol.

Spiritual thought for the week, (I'm going to try to do one of these every week, don't let me forget) The Book of Mormon is literaly amazing. If anyone hasn't read it yet DO IT :) Actualy though, The Book of Mormon is such a blessing in our lives. It realy is another testament of Jesus Christ on the earth. As I've been teaching people about this book and in general the gosple of Jesus Christ my testimony has gotten so much stronger already. The Book of Mormon is especialy cool because it is proof that our Heavenly Father realy does love all of his children! I like what it says in 2 Nephi 29:7-9

     7 Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?

     8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.

     9 And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.

I know that God loves ALL of his children and wants us to learn and come back to live with him again! Just like the Bible talks about Prophets, commandments, and Christ's ministry on the other side of the world, the Book of Mormon is about the same things, in the americas! All of 2 Nephi 29 is cool and I hope you guys read it some other time, its not even that long, I know you can do it :D

I want to end my saying that I know this is realy the restored gosple of Jesus Christ on the earth today. I know that Joseph Smith realy was a prophet, called by God to restore the gosple to the earth in the latter days. He realy did translate the Book of Mormon, a "book... written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation." This book realy does testify of Jesus Christ and the best part about it is that we can all know for our selves that it's true! (See James 1:5 and Moroni 10:3-5) 

The gosple has brought me so much joy in my life and I'm exited to share it with others for these next two years :)

You guys are the best, I expect answers about the subject line and any questions you have. lol

BYEEEEEEEEEEE

Elder Crenshaw :)

Mission email week heidogjwysugleebflswjejqlsñddmsñsñsjflfodhshdnfu :) - Calarcá, Colombia

Hi everyone, don't worry I'm still alive, I just forgot to write the email last week. We had problems with the phones and by the time we figured it out I forgot to write :) oops. It's ok tho because I FOUND THE ' KEY ON THE SPANISH KEYBOARD!!! I can write words like I've and I'm and I'll and don't and it's and haven't and all the other words!!! It's where the -_ key is on the english keyboard. the -_ keys are on the ?/ key, the normal ? is shift + -_ and I have no clue where the / key is. :D

also yes ' is different than ´

I'm and Ím

The last two weeks were good, we had a baptism, General Conference, I helped give a blessing to a lady in the ward who has a hurt back, we had a multi zone conference with the other zones in the Eje Cafetero (I think that's how it's spelled) and interveiws with President Florez. Other stuff happened too but those are the highlights. I listened to General Conference in Spanish and I actualy undersood almost all of it! I'm studying the talks again tho because I missed some stuff but ya that was cool. The baptism was great. Jenny is now a member of the Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días 

I TOOK PICTURES

like a lot.

like 100

in the last two weeks

:)

Over half of them were in one day tho because the hermana we gave a blessing to has a huge garden with lots of new plants and flowers. I'm gonna put the best ones in the Google Drive with the pictures because it would be a lot to put them all in the email. I'll put the link to the dive folder at the end of the email tho and if I forget it's in one of the earlier emails too. 

The multi zone conference was good, I got to see some of the other Elders from my MTC district. everyone's spanish is improving and we had cake after the meetings so that was good. The meeting was good to. It's fun to see President Florez talk about missionary work. He gets so exited.

This is the last Pday before transfers so there is a small posibility I won't be able to write next week if either me or Elder Camacho gets transfered. Hopefully that won't happen because I don't know where everything is in my area yet but we'll see.

ok thats it.

I think.

ya.

ok.

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:)

Byeeeee.

(More pictures of food and plants in Elder Crenshaw's GOOGLE DRIVE ALBUM in the Calarcá folder)