Good-bye, everybody!

I'm not one for sappy goodbyes most of the time. But come on, this one's for two YEARS!

To my awesome friends: I can't imagine where I would be without the HUGE example and influence that my friends have been to me. You ("You" know who you are ) have been so wonderful to me, and the examples that you've set for me, intentional or not, have helped me become a worthy priesthood holder. Whether I've met you in plays, at school, or wherever, I promise that each of you have taught me something. Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow!

To my wonderful mother: I would be nowhere without you! Everything that will ever make me a good missionary, you have taught me. Thanks for putting up with me for these last few months here, and getting me ready to do this, physically and emotionally. :)

To my nieces and nephews: I hope that I can set a good example for you guys by going out and serving a mission. In time, I hope that at least you guys will serve full time missions of your own, and keep being worthy to do so. You've been great examples to me of kindness and overall awesomeness. :)

To my siblings: You ROCK. I never get together with any of you without laughing my guts out. Like I said to the kids, you've all led by example to show me the kind of man, missionary, or father I want to be someday.

To anyone else, who doesn't know what I'm talking about: See http://mormon.org !

Anybody who's stuck it out this far: You are the best!

I hope that I'll get some letters from you! I'll miss having the influences that I currently do. I can't wait to serve the people of Mexico, and I'm extremely grateful for all the support and love I've recieved from everybody.

Sincerely,

Cody O. Crabb

Good-bye...or some may say, farewell

For those of you who didn't get the Facebook invite Elder Cody Crabb's "FAREWELL" talk will be tomorrow at the Heritage 6th ward  (6772 So. 3420 W.  West Jordan) at 9am.  Anyone running on MST (Mormon standard time) shoot for 8:30am   ☺



"Everyone who wants to is more than welcome to come hear me speak (and sing!!), I'd love to see ya there!  We'll also be getting together at 12:15 at my house afterward"

So anyone still in town for the holiday weekend, come on over!

The problem with being an avid Facebook-er means that I don't write in my blog very often. 

Deal with it. (That means you, Tiffany.)

Anyway, I should post my progress. I have now almost finished the Doctrine and Covenants. Which is great, but I'm still pretty darn behind. I'm confident (read: hopeful) that I'll finish in time anyway. :) 

Also, we've reached the "one month" marker. It's getting crazily close now (29 days) and I'm SO excited. Going through the temple for the first time (oh yeah, I went through the temple for the first time) was such a real manifestation of how close I actually am. Getting this close is also making me think a lot. I posted the following on Facebook this morning:

People think a lot about the LDS church. People inside the church and outside of it. I do more than my share of thinking, in fact. The following is the product of the past few days' thoughts.

If Joseph Smith was really trying to fool everybody, why would he add so many easily debatable features into the Book of Mormon? There were TONS of little things that, at the time, were not widely accepted as fact, such as:

Ether 9:19

"And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms."

"Cureloms" and "cumoms"? Not to mention "elephants" AND "horses" which had, at the time, not been proven to exist in North America. Granted, we still don't know what "cureloms" or "cumoms" are, but elephants and horses have both been proven to exist with the Olmecs (the Jaredites) at that time.

Alma 11:7

 "A senum of silver was equal to a senine of gold, and either for a measure of barley, and also for a measure of every kind of grain."

Joseph Smith was ridiculed by critics because of passages like this, which mentioned barley. No such mention was ever found anywhere in histories of civilizations in Book of Mormon times. Modern research, however, has shown that such crops existed.

Mormon 9:32

"And now, behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech."

Skeptics have a field day with this verse. "Reformed Egyptian?" they say. "Why not Hebrew? The language handed down would have been Hebrew!"

I don't have the exact reason that they used reformed Egyptian for their writings. In fact, the point I'm making here is this: Joseph Smith was telling the truth. He could have changed SO many details about the Book of Mormon (like the ones I've mentioned) if he'd have been lying. It probably would have made things a lot easier on him.

But he didn't.

Because it's true."

I'm getting more and more excited every day. :)