The Last One... - Pereira, Colombia

Holaaaaaaaa, cómo están?

I know I havent writen in a while but there's a lot of stuff that's happend.

To start off, I'm going home on Thursday  Yesterday was my last day in mi área. Six of us in zona Pereira are going home and tonight we will all be in the ZLs house. We're leaving on a bus to Medellín tomorrow at 6:00am to meet up with all the 19 misioneros that are going home and we have our interviews tomorrow and Wednesday. Thursday in the morning we board the plane and I come into Chicago 6-7:00pm.

The mission has gone by so fast but it's amazing. I love sharing with everyone the love and hope that I have received por medio del evangelio. I know that this church is true, that the gosple is true, and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints is the church of God newly established on the earth. 

 There is so much that I want to say but little time to write, the zone already started playing basketball :) Thanks to everyone who supported me and helped me in and before my mission. I've seen how much I've been able to grow in my mission (spiritualy, socially, and emotionally. Only a couple of pounds weight wise and I doubt I've gotten much taller) and I can't wait to keep on growing after my mission as well. I invite all of you that are thinkinf about serving a mission to pray and talk to your bishop about it. If you serve, you won't regret it and it will bless your life forever. Love you all and see you soon.

 Elder Crenshaw :)

Transfers - Medellin, Colombia

Hey everybody! Transfers are today and I'm going to Pereira and ill be on the bus all day. Hope you guys have a great week and I'll try to write next week :)

Elder Crenshaw :)

Another one of these thingys - Manizales, Colombia

Hey everyone I'm writing an email again, I know, they should give me an award at this point.

This week has been good, honestly all of my mission has been great. It's easily one of the best things that I've done in my life, being born in the family that I'm it is probably the best thing that has happened, but I can't exactly take credit for that one so ya fue jaja.

As I said in the last email, I'm in La Alhambra in Manizales. This is the last week in the transfer and I've been here 6 months already so I'll probably go to another área. I've loved this time in Manizales tho. It's been a challenge for me but I've learned so much. The members here are amazing. There are very little of them, but they are poderosos. We've been trying to help them work with us more and it's cool to see how excited they get when they see how the gospel helps people. 

I already ran out of time so I want to end bearing my testimony about repentance. I've learned soooo much about how it can help us, in my personal experience, and in helping others to repent. Thru repentance we can come to be the people that God wants us to be. Trust In the Lord, let him guide you and help you in your life and miracles WILL happen in your life.

I love the Lord, I love this gospel, and invite everyone to come unto Him.

I'll try to write more next week, I'll make it a priority. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe not because I might be in a bus for 2 days straight without a phone  but I love you guys, and have a good week :D

Elder Crenshaw  :)

Lol I tried recording something instead of writing but it didn't work well. Let's just say I'm still very ADHD. But if you want to laugh at my incompetence, allí está jaja

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Cambios/transfers :) - Planeta Rica, Colombia

We had cambios last week! I know its called transfers, but it sounds wierd in english so I'll stick to cambios. This week I moved to the coast, I'm in a town called Planeta Rica. It's very hot here. Very very hot. Like 100 degrees with 90% humidity hot. That last one's not a joke. It actually is that hot. Yep, ok. Out of time for today. If you guys have any questions you guys can write me and I probably will respond eventually. We had to travel to montería so I ran out of time ahorita and I forgot to write earlier  

Elder Crenshaw :) 

Mission Email Week 6 First week in Colombia! - Calarcá, Colombia

Hi everyone! IT's difficult to type on this phone because  it keeps auto correcting to a spanish word or a different word in english so if there are a lot of typos thats why😂 A lot happened this week, it's my first week in Colombia! Meeting all the Elders from my MTC district was great. On the flight to Miami I sat bext to a missionary from another church, it was cool to talk to him about the church. At the end of the flight i offered him a book of mormon but he wouldn't take it, ah well, at least he knows a bit more about the church :D. I was a little worried when we got to Colombia because i forgot to print all of my papers, the coustoms people must have not cared tho because they just asked for my passport and then just let me through when they asked for my other papers and i said i didn't have them with me. After the airport we met the mission president and he took us all to Dominos for pizza. Then we droped off our bags at the mission home and went to sleep at a bunch of different missionary's appartments. Then in the mornning we went back to the mission home and ate breakfast and had our welcome to the mission thingy. We met or saw a video of our companion and found out were our first area was. My companion is Elder Camacho in Carlarca.  Inteeviews with the mission president took all day because there are so many of us. That night we went to another missionary's appartment. I was at that appartment all of the next day with Elder Meeks while the zone leaders were at zone conference. The day after that we were on the bus all day going to our areas with our zone leaders. Im really tall in Colombia so everyone i meet talks a lot about it😀 one cool thing that happened this week was durring lunch. Lunch in Colombia is very big and breakfastand dinner is small. I had trouble eating everything so that lunch i said a prayer asking for help finnishing the food. It felt like my stomach emptied😀 i need to go so i will stop here but God loves all of us and always listens to our prayers.

Love you all, byeee