Dear Family,
How's everything out in good old Utah? Easter for us here in Bloomington was fantastic! It sounds like you all had an amazingly beautifully Spring Day just like us. We had an amazing Sacrament Meeting with a lot of musical numbers and great talks on the Atonement. We have recently been studying over the last month with a bunch of different talks and scriptures about the Atonement as a mission like I said last week, and it is so amazing to me how infinite that is! It is the greatest blessing I know in my life to have the Atonement and the hope that that brings to all our lives. We had a chance to discuss this in our Gospel Principles class yesterday and when we all started to share our definition of the Atonement and what that means to us I talked about that same principle of hope that is universal to all because of the love of Christ. In one of the talks I recently read by Elder Holland he talked about the hope that we all have because the tomb was empty for Christ that it will one day be empty for us as well. That is a concept I had heard all growing up and believe in but one that I never really thought about in that context. We have an investigator now working to get baptized who is disabled with a disease called LS or something like that. It's similar to Lou Gehrig's Disease and is a very frustrating thing for him to have to deal with on a day to day basis, but the love and hope that the doctrine of the Atonement and resurrection will bring into his life will literally change his whole outlook on his situation and essentially change his life. It's so amazing to me hos central that doctrine is to all the other things we teach in the church and what we do as missionaries. It's no wonder that that one event is the meridian of all time for all of human history. I am so thankful for that hope that it brings into my life!
This week has been so great for us by way of investigators too. We have been in the building process combining our two areas still, but we have recently found a lot of great potential investigators and are working with some great people who we are excited to see progress. We had a few of them show up to church yesterday and they really enjoyed the meetings. It's crazy to think it's another transfer gone, but we are looking forward to what can happen here in the next few weeks and are also hoping that this transfer doesn't fly by like this last one.
I'm glad that some of you got to meet the Youngs and that my package made it home. Sorry it took so long to get to you, Brady and Camie, but when the chance to save some money by hand delivering it came up I waited a couple days to send it that way. I'm glad that you liked it so much. It was almost as great as what Nick sent to me. Once I get a chance I'll have to take a picture to send so you can see it. haha
Sorry there's not much else to write about, but it was so great to hear from all of you! I love you and pray for you always. Thanks for all your love and support! I look forward to hearing from you again.
Love, Elder Craft
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Monday, April 25, 2011
Easter
Hello Craft Family,
Sorry that this might be a little short but there isn't a whole lot to report on form here in food old Kasson or to respond to.
Thank you so much for the letters and package from everyone! Elder Judkins didn't get his "Easter" package until this morning so we shared mine for Easter to make it kinda traditional for both of us. All the candy in there was great! I really like the pictures I got and your letter that Dad supposedly his Mom. :) haha You guys really are the best! Easter really did seem to have a lot more meaning this year for me. We gave lessons to a couple families this week and one to some members yesterday about Easter and the Atonement. It's such a powerful, incomprehensible, infinite sacrifice that I am so eternally grateful for and only just beginning to try and understand and appreciate the true magnitude of it. Mom had asked about Easter and Christmas being much more powerful and spiritual while I'm on my mission, and that is so true! I tried to focus on the true meaning of Christ's birth and the Atonement at those times of year when I was home, but all of you that have served missions, and as Brady will soon find out, know and have seen that it's much different when you are set apart from the world and the other things that can distract from those true meanings. Not only trying to teach people about the power of what Christ's Earthly ministry really means for all of us as God's Children and have them accept it, but trying to accept that and relying wholly on Him for myself at this time in my life is what really helps me try, as I had mentioned, to understand and appreciate the gravity of it all. It's just amazing to me!
It's sounds like you all had a pretty good time for Easter too I'm assuming. That's good! Our Easterlike I said was really good and we even got to eat at some members house and have a traditional Easter Dinner complete with ham. She let us take a bunch of the stuff home too so we can complete the tradition with left over ham sandwiches for the next couple days. Sadly however, we didn't color eggs this year so that will just have to wait a little while until I get home. :) Even though i did mention that Easter and Christmas are more powerful and spiritual on a mission I still think that Christmas and Mother's Day are my favorite ones because I get to make long distance phone calls! I'm pretty excited for this Skype call! Who all is going to be able to get on it? That way I know who I need to talk to separately. I'm going to get my account set up hopefully this week or next. I have to talk to the Josephson's, the people that let us stay in their basement, because they have a web cam and had the missionaries do it at their house for Christmas. They've just been kind of busy recently or else I'd have it done to give you the account. Their son Steven, our Branch Mission leader, had been packing and getting ready to go back to college for the past couple weeks. He left this morning to make the long drive back out to Colorado. So some news to come might be who our new Branch Mission leader is if we get one haha.
Man what's with you guys and car accidents all the sudden though? That's pretty crazy to hear about and see the pictures of! I'm so glad that everyone's doing fine and no one got hurt in either one of those. I will say this though at least now all evidence of any piece a certain Rodeo took out of the Sentra bumper will now be erased. The bad part is that we're just having to pay and replace it haha.
As for the weather it sounds like you're not doing much better then we are here. I'm not going to mention any more predictions about it getting warm though because the past 2 times I've done that it's snowed the next day. And that's what happened here Tuesday and Wednesday! So I'm just as sick and tired of the cold and wet as you guys probably are. I'm hoping since it is almost MAY we might get a change and start to have some leaves or flowers growing here. Hopefully. haha
Well I don't have much else to report on here from the land of Perma Frost. haha I hope that besides the craziness I've already mentioned that everyone's doing great! I'm going to respond to all your letters today and hopefully get some pictures sent if the stupid machine at Wal-Mart cooperates. Thanks so much for all the continued love, support, and prayers fron you guys! It means alot and i know that they help! I love you all and can't wait to talk to you again!
Love, Alex
Sorry that this might be a little short but there isn't a whole lot to report on form here in food old Kasson or to respond to.
Thank you so much for the letters and package from everyone! Elder Judkins didn't get his "Easter" package until this morning so we shared mine for Easter to make it kinda traditional for both of us. All the candy in there was great! I really like the pictures I got and your letter that Dad supposedly his Mom. :) haha You guys really are the best! Easter really did seem to have a lot more meaning this year for me. We gave lessons to a couple families this week and one to some members yesterday about Easter and the Atonement. It's such a powerful, incomprehensible, infinite sacrifice that I am so eternally grateful for and only just beginning to try and understand and appreciate the true magnitude of it. Mom had asked about Easter and Christmas being much more powerful and spiritual while I'm on my mission, and that is so true! I tried to focus on the true meaning of Christ's birth and the Atonement at those times of year when I was home, but all of you that have served missions, and as Brady will soon find out, know and have seen that it's much different when you are set apart from the world and the other things that can distract from those true meanings. Not only trying to teach people about the power of what Christ's Earthly ministry really means for all of us as God's Children and have them accept it, but trying to accept that and relying wholly on Him for myself at this time in my life is what really helps me try, as I had mentioned, to understand and appreciate the gravity of it all. It's just amazing to me!
It's sounds like you all had a pretty good time for Easter too I'm assuming. That's good! Our Easterlike I said was really good and we even got to eat at some members house and have a traditional Easter Dinner complete with ham. She let us take a bunch of the stuff home too so we can complete the tradition with left over ham sandwiches for the next couple days. Sadly however, we didn't color eggs this year so that will just have to wait a little while until I get home. :) Even though i did mention that Easter and Christmas are more powerful and spiritual on a mission I still think that Christmas and Mother's Day are my favorite ones because I get to make long distance phone calls! I'm pretty excited for this Skype call! Who all is going to be able to get on it? That way I know who I need to talk to separately. I'm going to get my account set up hopefully this week or next. I have to talk to the Josephson's, the people that let us stay in their basement, because they have a web cam and had the missionaries do it at their house for Christmas. They've just been kind of busy recently or else I'd have it done to give you the account. Their son Steven, our Branch Mission leader, had been packing and getting ready to go back to college for the past couple weeks. He left this morning to make the long drive back out to Colorado. So some news to come might be who our new Branch Mission leader is if we get one haha.
Man what's with you guys and car accidents all the sudden though? That's pretty crazy to hear about and see the pictures of! I'm so glad that everyone's doing fine and no one got hurt in either one of those. I will say this though at least now all evidence of any piece a certain Rodeo took out of the Sentra bumper will now be erased. The bad part is that we're just having to pay and replace it haha.
As for the weather it sounds like you're not doing much better then we are here. I'm not going to mention any more predictions about it getting warm though because the past 2 times I've done that it's snowed the next day. And that's what happened here Tuesday and Wednesday! So I'm just as sick and tired of the cold and wet as you guys probably are. I'm hoping since it is almost MAY we might get a change and start to have some leaves or flowers growing here. Hopefully. haha
Well I don't have much else to report on here from the land of Perma Frost. haha I hope that besides the craziness I've already mentioned that everyone's doing great! I'm going to respond to all your letters today and hopefully get some pictures sent if the stupid machine at Wal-Mart cooperates. Thanks so much for all the continued love, support, and prayers fron you guys! It means alot and i know that they help! I love you all and can't wait to talk to you again!
Love, Alex
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