January 24, 2011

So i know that there are TONS of religions out here, but i ran into my first "Heathen of Satan" this week. Yeah...i know. He looked just as scary as it sounds. He answered the door and had tattoos on his face and said the he belonged to the "Wolves of Vineland"...i dont even know what that means, but he was pretty feaky lookin. He said that Christians believed in an alien??...can you believe that! haha. Geez...we just bore testimony and left. So that was a pretty interesting experience. Yesterday President Thornock (our mish. president) came out and worked with Elder Hinds and I. We went tracting, and it was really fun to go tracting with the president. He is SO bold! He doesn't beat around the bush to salvation, that is for sure. Well, i finished the Book Of Mormon again yesterday. And i put Moroni's challange to the test again (moroni ch. 10 vs. 4-5), and i've came to the conclusion that the Book Of Mormon is still true! It was awesome because i got little sparks that told me it was true, but i asked if it could be made known to me even stronger than that...i waited for a minute or so...then it felt like somebody threw a giant warm blanket over me...it was amazing! I absolutely loved it! You can't deny the truthfullness of it!! Thanks again for all the love and support, i look forward to reading the letters (even though i cant always reply to them), love y'all!
Love,
Elder Crane

January 17, 2011

Hey y'all!
This week was pretty interesting. So had this guy call us and ask for a Book Of Mormon. Elder Hinds and I were excited and we got there johnny on the spot. To start off, he lives in a pretty sketchy part of town...he invites us in and locks his door from the inside with a key, that was really odd...then he proceeds to tell us that Satan tells him to kill himself, and that he's homicidle! Can you believe that?! So as you can imagine, Elder Hinds and I got out of there! Anyways...i started talking to this guy named Chris at the library a few days ago. We got to know him, and he really knows the Bible. He invited us to his house on Friday night to have a testimony meeting...we were hesitant to go, but we did. He made chili and we met him and some of his friends around a camp fire and shared our beliefs. There was a guy there who was going to Liberty University (the baptist version of BYU), and he sincerly accepted a Book Of Mormon! It was really cool, and it was spiritual. :) Well its getting really cold here. I hope you all have a great week, thanks for all the support! :)

Love,
Elder Crane

January 11, 2011

So it was transfers this week...and im stayin in Lynchburg! Elder Hinds is staying here too, which is awesome. President Thornock said that when he got to us he just knew that we were supposed to stay together. Which is good...i never want to leave this place, i love it! :) So this week Elder Hinds got sick and we had to stay in the apartment ALL day long...holly cow, i now know that i never want to go to prison. It was absolutely brutal. haha ok not that bad, but it was pretty bad. I read forever, but you can only read for so long. So that was kind of frustrating, but hes feeling better now so thats really good. Earlier this week we had a refferall for somebody who ordered a Book of Mormon from mormon.org. So E. Hinds and i drove to his apartment and got in only to find out that he was a student at Liberty (the baptists' version of byu), and all he wanted to do is bash with us. I got a little frustrated and started to bash back...you should never do that because all it does is drive the spirit away and cause contention. He tried bringing up some doctrinal issues with mormonism that we quickly answered, then i brought up some issues with his religion that he couldn't answer. I thought it would make me feel good, but i felt horrible. I will never bash again! There are just so many lost and confused people and I want to show them the right way...but you have to show them in the right way, with the spirit. :) Let the spirit do all of the teaching! The weatherman are saying to prepare for heavy snowfall and ice...goody. The church is true, there is absolutely no way that it isn't. i love y'all!


Elder Crane