Two whole weeks

I can't believe that it has only been two weeks! It feels like I have been away for 2 months, but at the same time weeks are going by faster. At the MTC I have lost all concept of time, its so true one day seems long but then the week goes by fast...I don't know:)

This weeks has been a huge confidence booster in my language learning. The other day a man out in the hall was speaking in Portuguese to this sister after one of my teaching appointments and I just started to talk to him in Portuguese. They were both surprised that I have only been at the MTC for 2 weeks. My companion and I subbed in for two other missionaries who couldn't go to their appointment to teach the first lesson in Portuguese. So we kind of winged it as we went and did half Portuguese and half ingles. I just realized I spelled the word English in Portuguese ha-ha.

Thanks Dev and Bec for writing me! Becca it sounds like you have a great future in store for you and I am glade someone was able to see that in you.

MOM and DAD I love both of you very much and love your letters to me. Thanks DAD for the advice and letting me know that I am in your prayers. Oh mom you know that picture booklet you made for me, well we have a spotlight kind of thing my professor Irmo Halverson does were we share picture of our families and talk about them in Portuguese as much as we can. Everyone is really impressed by the awesome photoshopness of my booklet and everyone was impressed by my pole-vault pictures as well. Thanks again mom for making that for me.

Brian how's school going? have you decided to change up the environment of that other fish tank yet? If you do send me a pic.

John and Caitlyn thank you for the letter, I was happy to read your testimony. Please tell John to write me if he comes up with any more snail jokes ha-ha. Christmas time at Grandmas at the kids table you know what I am talking about ha-ha.

Heidi thanks for the letter I am having a lot of fun at the MTC and you said to look out for an elder Black and I am trying but the problem is there are about 5 Elder Blacks here ha-ha.

Oh yea to my cousins Madison and Britney thanks for the card and the slab of all deliciousness. It was funny when my district leader gave me my package I opened it an there was this slab of fudge with peanut butter chocolate chips were on it. Everyone was jealous and I told them it was the slab of all Deliciousness.

To end my email I want to share an experience I had on Tuesday. Our group went to the TRC for a teaching workshop. At which I was given the opportunity to teach a pretend investigator. His name was Josh and he lived in Hawaii and lives with his mom, and his dad left them a long time ago. He was going through a lot of trials at the time, but he hade a friend named James who was a member of the church who was kind of always there for him. I prayed for the spirit and began looking up scriptures. I found two scriptures that applied to his life and gave him a positive look on life. I gave him hope for his future and taught him how to pray for his family. I challenged him to read the book of Mormon and he accepted and thanked me for teaching him how to pray and be given new light on life. I challenged him to baptism and he said yes. The moral of my story is to trust in the lord with all thy heart because I have never felt the spirit so strongly as I taught and I was able to witness for myself the power of the holy ghost before I go out to my field. It touched the heart of my pretend investigator and he told me afterwards that I reminded him of himself when he was out in the field and how the Spirit was able to touch peoples hearts. It seems now that I am a missionary I have a more powerful feeling of the spirit. In the end there are two things that I credit to my quick learning of the language and the ability to teach with the spirit. The First is the Lord our Heavenly Father and the Second is all of you who pray for me and all the missionaries every day. My Thanks goes out to you:)

Love Elder Crandall

Até lago!