Craig and Krag

Hey y’all!

It’s been a kind of slow week but it is all going well! I hope all of your first week of 2018 was good and that you are still keeping some of the goals you made 8 days ago ;)

So this week we had dinner with a less active family and we got a lesson set up with them once a week so that’s good!

Haha probably my favorite part of the week was finding and taking care of Craig.

Once upon a time, it was a bitter cold early morning in Welsh, Louisiana. Elders Wood and Kent were taking out the trash. They had to walk across the street from their apartment to get to the garbage cans. After they dumped the garbage they turned to walk back to their apartment but to their surprise there was something very unexpected blocking their path. A small, grey and brown, shriveled up anole was frozen to the sidewalk ahead of them. All life had left his body for he was cold-blooded and the days in a row of freezing temperatures were not very giving to his small reptilian body. So, Wood and Kent picked up this small lizard and took him to their car where they started to warm him up and resuscitate him. They named him Craig.

Haha after Craig came back to life he was super chill. We didn’t know how long he had been frozen but he turned back to bright green like he was supposed to be. He literally just would chill on our shoulders or hands or anything whenever we wanted. We made a little habitat for him in our little compartment on our car dashboard and he was a happy little anole.

Craig peeking out of shirt pocket

Now we still had to do missionary work and stuff so we would keep him in his little home in the car when we went to appointments and tracting and stuff. I slowly hand fed him back to health and he was a good anole. We made him a bigger habitat with a Tupperware box and we put soil and bark and some plants and we kept it in the sun so he could get UV rays and I would spray and mist his habitat every once in a while. So I guess you could say I’m a master anole keeper.

Anyways, while this whole Craig thing was happening we had exchanges with J-Crowe and I went with Elder Howard for the day. We had dinner with the W*'s, who are a family who come from Sulphur to help our ward, and they took us to a buffet place and I kept Craig in my shirt pocket the whole time and his little head was peeking out and no one noticed except for the other Elders.

Thursday it warmed up outside so we finally let Craig back to his home :(

"Now they were desirous that salvation should
be declared to every creature...."

Craig wearing a hat made out of Silly Putty

On Friday I taught a meth dealer who is also a pimp lord so that was cool I guess. We also had district training and the ZL decided to have it at our apartment and it went well. Haha there was a time where Elder Gill was telling us about how if we say yes to commitments with our words but not with our actions then our eternal salvation is at risk and Elder Anderson said "Well, I'll be damned" so that was pretty funny. :p

Saturday we went to Elton and taught a less active and then went to Iowa for the S*'s and then our correlation meeting with Bro D*. Also on Saturday we found another anole on someone’s porch that was frozen. But as soon as we warmed him up he was super mean. He tried to bite me a ton and he had these big black markings behind his eyes that made him seem half velociraptor. We named him Krag and he was NOT a good anole. We set him free as soon as he warmed up.

Krag

Sunday we had 51 people in church. And since President M* left, we got a new branch president. His name is President B*. He is moving to our area from Sulphur. I guess people say he is pretty cool. It’ll be good to get to know him.

Anyways, that’s about it for my week. I hope you all are doing alright and that you continue to see Christ's love in your life. If you are not reading your scriptures every day and praying then how can you expect for God to change your life for the better. Puny effort brings puny miracles. Show God that He is worth it to you by your everyday actions and you will be greatly blessed.

Thanks for everything you all do!

Love,
Elder Wood