My Two Year Service To The Lord: He Must've Been Sicker (more sick?) Than We Thought

(As he is famous for, Elder Crider here shares only the END of a story instead of the complete story. So, your guess is as good as ours! )

(CLUE #1) Well, it turns out I`m not allowed to fast anymore as a missionary....I`m supposed to eat every 2-3 hours, drink 2-3 Liters of water daily, and get 30 minutes more of sleep than I am right now. Why do I have such a fast metabolism?? :/ (ummm, son, not just metabolism, but perhaps not eating enough calories to keep up with walking 10 miles per day!)

Anyway, this past week we had an awesome miracle happen: We visited Familia C (my first time visiting them outside of when they give us lunch) and we had the following lesson:

In this time of the year, many people like to set some goals. However, the majority of those goals don´t make it past "Day 2". So, what can we do? We can set goals than aren´t just a "one-and-done" sort of goal, but we can set goals that become habits. For example, Read one verse of scripture more today than you did yesterday until you are reading a chapter a day. Then I passed out notecards and encouraged them all to write a goal that can become a habit. They wrote them, then the mom asked if everyone could share their goals. You know what happened? Every single one of them (the mom(55), dad(60), daughter(35) and son(18)) all wrote goals that would help them become active in the church again! But that wasn´t the miracle :) The miracle happened on Sunday, when, for the first time since I`ve been here, ALL 4 of them came to church!! :D When the Spirit is present, hearts change :)

I hope everyone is doing well and behaving themselves ;) Haha If you can, please pray for my comp and I. Patience and love are sometimes difficult attributes...

Aaaand....yeah, that´s about all I´ve got to say this week. (CLUE #2) Not much happened cuz I was in bed two days, and the third and fourth we only worked a half-day because I still didn´t have all my energy back. Stupid metabolism....

Lots of love,

- Elder Daylon Crider