Dear Family and Friends,
It is an amazing life. We had the baptism for Frany on Saturday! She sacrificed a lot and changed her life to be able to be baptized. She is a single mom and she quit her job to be able to come to church on Sundays. Frany has gone through a lot in her life but I think that overall she really just feels the love the Savior has for her when she lives the gospel. She is not very shy so she has already made quite a few friends in the church and the members have helped her with her difficulties more than Elder Limao and I were able to, being young as we are. Her son Francisco just barely turned 8 but I don't know how to teach a kid yet, his attention span is so short. I think it would be a good experience to teach him though, figure out how to get down to his level of simplicity because then I would be able to teach just about anybody.
This was the last week of this transfer and Elder Limao left me... He is now a zone leader in Villa Salvador and my new companion is Elder Styler from Delta Utah. He is a good missionary and has been a zone leader for most of his mission and is now our district leader. Just a tad bit different leading the different I feel like the host of a party and I am trying to inflict a good time here. But this transfer should be really good, there is a lot of work to do.
I am beyond grateful for Elder Limao and my training, he is a great missionary and a good example and we were able to get along really well. He did a really good job here in the ward, the people love him a lot, I want to be just like him when I grow up. He strengthened the ward extremely and baptized 11 people in his 5 months here. I really will miss him, we became really good friends.
We worked hard this week, as always and it really feels good. I have adjusted to living on this hill and like I said I am either going up or going down but that might help with the amount of rice I eat. They all said the food would be delicious and it is, there is a whole bunch of weird names for their food. Thursday was Elder Limao's birthday and our pension bought Papa Johns. Yeah the better ingredients, better pizza Papa Johns. I am not paid for this advertisement. We also received 5 cakes but don't tell mom.
Sorry I know you are all super sad about the lack of a voice recording this week but I didn't have time so I will leave you my spiritual message on here with boring old letters. Just read this in your head with my voice.
Elder Cook in this last conference talked a lot about humility. It goes back to the, we are nothing without God type of deal. I have seen that it is really hard for a prideful person to lower themselves down low enough to be influenced by the spirit, or humble enough to change their lives. We need to allow God to make us better than we ever could on our own and sometimes that means really submitting to his will and not our own. He has the best in mind for all of us. God changed Paul, then Saul, his direction from bad to good and for us who think we are doing good we need to allow God to change our direction upward. God cannot work with someone not willing to change.
I love all you guys and hope you know how much the Lord loves you. This is His church and we have prophets who are really his servants. I testify of all these things, every missionary testifies of these things.
Love you all,
Elder Craythorne
P.S don't forget about Light the World. Let us see who can do all 25 without learning how to love his neighbor while doing it, ready go.
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