another new area

Knock, knock..... Who’s there? EMERGENCY CHANGES!


Yes, it happened again. I have had emergency changes again.... ya, I know I'm hitting my fifth one. Either I offended someone or everyone in the entire mission needs to feel the amazing spirit of Elder Cranford . . .oh and to top it off I've been put into a trio.

I have Elder Law who is actually an Elder from my district in the MTC and we get along well enough. Then there is Elder Viruses. They seem nice enough but I am so bummed that I had to leave my last area, we were really doing good, especially with Hugo and his wife. My ward was the coolest. Oh, and my companion Elder McAffee--was probably my favorite companion since Elder Smith (shout out to Smith). Anyway, so I told a few of you that I was sick a while ago and well, I'm fine now. I don't know what it was. I was having a difficult time breathing but I am better, so thanks for all of the prayers.

I have a funny story: Elder Mcaffee and I were walking around looking for a reference when this guy waved us down to talk. He told us that he was a member from a long time ago. Then went on to tell us that he knew English, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, and some other one that I cant remember, and without taking a breath told us the origin of the name of Jesus Christ, which was interesting and all and even sounded like it could be real. And then he got all crazy on us and told us that he had talked to some brothers about this (so we were thinking like brothers in the church) but he then said form other universes. He went on to tell us that he had talked to aliens from other galaxies, and that he has witnesses. One of his witnesses was a member that we knew every well. He said that he also knew where Jesus lives... Do you guys want to know? It’s called "Uhmm" like the chant of monks, and he had some crazy reason why it was called that. And he told us a ton of other things like how he could concentrate and figure out (through Jesus) what my name was before this life. It totally made my day because I totally played it up with him.

So I am missing all of you, especially this week! I want to send a shout out to my family, (Cranford and Harding) my friends Hailee, Kristy, Kelsey, and everyone else that write me still ha ha.

The Church is true, Joseph smith prayed and his prayer was answered, life is hard but we can do hard things, God loves us even when we are stupid (thank goodness for that, right?). We are all so blessed to be in the Church and sometimes we take that for granted. I love you all.

God bless America,
Elder Cranford