Hey Y'alls,

Today is my last day in the MTC!!!!!!!! Next time i email, i will be in California!!!! where it is all nice and warm!!! Other than that this past week has been crazy. Between the anticipation of leaving and all the 'fun' stuff we get to do on our final week it has been a rollercoster of a week.
2 stories: First i think it is funny but for them it really wasn't.
So the missionaries all left on Monday morning and i prepared myself and was doing okay with having the people i have spent nearly every waking hour with for the past 12 weeks-ish leave. I was hanging out with one of the younger districts and they were awesome and friendly but in all honesty it just wasn't the same. So maybe some slight depression but i was coping and on the way up. However on the way to check the mail because i am still district leader and it is my job to do so, even though i knew all the mail would be for them. There they were standing out side the Travel office. I could not mentally cope with them being back it literally took me about 15 seconds to realize that they were standing there. I thought i was hallucinating. Then my mind finally made sense of it when other people started to recognize them too. and i got super happy and excited because i got one more day with my district before they all went off to Korea. It turns out their connection through Tokyo was canceled because of a major ice storm. So they ended up going to the airport and trying to check-in their luggage before they finally find out. so their was some major disappointment among them. But i was happy. Selfish i know. I'm working on it. 
2nd story Is pretty cool
So we were at our departure devotional and it was about to begin and guess who walks in the door? Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the First Presidency of the Church. He was on his way to the Marriott Center at BYU to do a Devotional For Young Adults. He gave us a few words and his blessing. Then left but I should explain a bit more. so we arrived late and were in the very back but because we had made friends with one of the usher volunteer people, his name is Brother Rail. that when one of the reserved rows opened up he waved us down and allowed us to sit there so we went from the very back all the way to the 4th row and then in walked President Uchtdorf and his wife.
All right i love you all and make sure you write me at the mission home the address is:

Elder Alexander Craner
California Los Angeles Mission
1591 E Temple Way
Los Angeles, Ca 90024-5801

Elder Craner