So i have to give a very long update let us see. In the past three weeks the transfer ended. My companion and i were called to be trainers of the same new Elder (Elder Yoon, he's from Korea and super awesome, more later.) We taught a Korean some of the restoration. Have been asked to teach a Less Active's daughter the lessons so she can be baptized and she wants to and she also wants to serve a mission in 10 years, because she is 9 right now. We also have been able to move forward on several potentials and we now have several 'soft' return appointments. meaning they want us to come over but their schedules are to tight or variable for us to pin down a time. So we just have to keep fellowshipping them and stopping by and asking when we could come over for a lesson. We have also moved into a new apartment near the beach with a view of the ocean. the biggest plus though of our move is that we are now in our area! umm...... any question?
So the dinner with the korean investigators was awesome. So it is a mom and a daughter and they are our English class students. They invited us over for dinner. So we called them up and set a date. Then we grabbed a member ( a priest from the English ward we cover becasue Koreans were all busy. also because of the rule missionaries can't be alone with others of the opposite sex) It was awesome eating on the floor Asian style with chopsticks( which i have become very proficient at!). The greatest thing is that we didn't even have to bring up the gospel, they did. They had so many questions. the basic one was "Why is our church different from others?" Golden question for the Restoration right? So we had several pamphlets and such for them and we gave them a book of Mormon.
Elder Yoon is awesome he is 20 and will be 21 before i, or elder Kempton, turn 20. However on the mission age doesn't really matter. even sometimes seniority of who has been here doesn't either. So we have started the 12 week In-field training over. Which we had just finished with Elder Kempton. So far we haven't hit to many road bumps in the threesome. Elder Kempton and i have been able to balance everything pretty well between us ad him. So far the key we think is trusting the Lord so we trust each other and treating it like any other companionship.
So the Less Active's daughter is a straight up miracle from God, well, okay like every investigator and baptism i will ever receive will be a miracle from God because that is just how it works. We cannot bring a lasting convert into the church by our own power. Anyway, this Less Actives contacted us as we were biking he stopped us and said that his daughter wanted to be baptised and that it would mean a lot to him if we would teach her. He said he cleared with Bishop and all was good. So we talked with Bishop and he said that we had his blessing for her because he prays and hopes that it will help this Less active as well to return to the straight and narrow. So we taught her and she is shy but so smart and so ready. all we have to do is teach her and help her be ready for June 30th her baptism.
One of our awesome potentials that we want to teach but literally has no time between jobs and night school has given us an open invitation to teach her if she can find the time. However her story of meeting is cool. So we first met her because we were called by a less active that wants to come back to church and receive full membership again. So he called us to do some service and help them move in. So we did and they said thanks. Then a couple weeks later, we were able to stop by and meet the family that was in town and leave a scripture with them. They were all super open and friendly. It was amazing and awesome. Then because she is going to marinello school of beauty (is that the same type of school you went too, Aunt Clare?) we decided to have our hair cut by her. So we did and we found out that her great-grandfather was a Mormon and she was close to him so we offered to teach her what she believed and she accepted and was a little shocked that we would do that for her. So now we just have to find out when we can meet.
These are the big things. I'll keep y'all updated.
Elder Craner
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