Elder Kasey Crafts

Dear Friends and Family,

 I'm officially staying in Fort Hancock for a little while longer! wahoo! I'm really excited because I love this area. A lot of really great things are going to happen this next transfer! my address and everything is the same. I'm also officially out of training now. New missionaries have a 2 transfer or 12 week training program to learn how to be a missionary. When missionaries are in training they have about another hour of Companion Study in the morning to learn the "ins and outs of missionary work".

This was sure a great week full of miracles! We have tons of great members that love to go out and help teach the gospel. There are about 7-8 that come out with us quite regularly. This is very important because when members have an opportunity to share the gospel with people it strengthens their testimony, their family, and eventually the branch as a whole.

One thing that happened this week that was a miracle was we were praying to find an investigator that we could go teach because we had time that wasn't filled. We were driving and we saw a non-member friend of Tyson. We stopped to talk to him and he said he was going to Tyson's right now if we wanted to come teach him! it was great. He's already been to church a few times, he just needs to have the lessons.

We've been working a lot also with less active people. One thing we're going to try and do is have some less active people come out with us and help us teach some lessons. Nothing will strengthen your testimony of the gospel more than sharing it with others. And after that hopefully their testimony will rekindle.

One thing we've also been focusing on this week is The Book of Mormon. Because in reality that is the key in finding out if what we are saying is true. Sometimes we'll go to an investigator and they haven't read, and we'll just read with them because the only way to know Joseph Smith really was a prophet is by reading The Book of Mormon and taking God up on His promise in Moroni 10. The only way for someone to make lasting commitments in the church and to serve faithfully is they have to know The Book of Mormon is true and a strong testimony. If they don't, a little whistle could blow their testimony over.

I love ya'll a lot and I hope you have a great week!

Elder Crafts