Pictures 5/14/12

We went on a hike and found clay that indians would use for war paint! baha!

This is at brother Micklesons house. With his guns!

Brother Micklesons BIG GUNS!

Elder Marquez' Sister sent us ties! They are our best friend ties

This is when the elders and high priests shot skeet! Look at that dude with a walker! BAHA!

First Week of the New Transfer

Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:23:11 -0700
 Subject: First Week of the New Transfer
 From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net

 Hello family and friends! How are you? It'd be good to hear from all
 of you! haha Anyways! Here's my week really quick...
 
 
 Monday 4-30-12
 You pretty much know everything that happened on monday... Transfer
 calls and stuff. Not a whole bunch else happened! So... moving on!
 
 Tuesday 5-1-12
 Elder Damuni left the apartment with his ward mission leader early in
 the morning. So i started throwing EVERYTHING away. For some reason
 he didnt like to throw stuff away and just reaked havoc on the
 apartment and tossed about 2 garbage cans FULL of junk. Not to
 mention another garbage can full of expired nasty food. It was great
 to de-clutter our apartment.
 
 Then we went to District Meeting. We got Kenny Gouff to take us. I
 love that guy. He loves the outdoors and loves fishing. he says he's
 never been ice fishing before so i invited him and he said he would
 actually really like that. So i'm super stoked, sittin on the ice
 with the bros and dad and joe and muscles AND bro gouff.. Who could
 ask for anything more? He is such a stud. I'm sure you guys would
 think he's as cool as i do.
 
 Then i got Elder Wood. And while we were at transfer meeting we
 watched the dying missionaries bear their testimonies... It was sad
 because i had to watch Elder Graff go home :( i'm gonna hang with him
 when i get home. He is so awesome. He's the guy that made up
 "Ghostbusters" with me. And let me tell ya, that phrase is going
 through the mission like WILDFIRE. Its so cool. I should have
 copyrighted it ;)
 
 Then we came home and brother Gouff got us Carls Jr. And he was
 cracking me up all the way home! He's so funny.
 
 We came home and got settled in a little bit and did a little bit of shopping.
 
 We went to dinner at the Delbars (Ward mission leaders home).
 
 Wednesday 5-2-12
 I dropped a package off at the post office which i was told made it to
 its destination.
 
 Then we went to district meeting. We have a small district. Only 6 of
 us... but its ok. They are all pretty cool.
 
 Then we went to costco after District meeting because they have one in
 San Louis Obispo. And Barry (from Simi) gave me a gift card there and
 so i used some of it to buy a whole bunch of maple bacon!!! MMMMmmmmm.
 I'm hooked on Bacon egg burritos!
 
 Then we came home and made bacon egg burritos!
 
 We went and taught Gary. He's doing really good and his prayers are
 doing a lot better. He asked me to baptize him and since Elder
 Marquez is still in the area he asked him to Confirm him!
 
 Then we saw Brother Stokes (LA) and he hurt his shoulder. Tore
 tendons in his shoulder i guess digging post holes. So i told him we
 would come over and dig the rest for him and that i would bring him
 my horse liniment.
 
 We saw Sally (Referral) and she was just about to leave the house. We
 set up an appointment though for the next day.
 
 We then talked to Kevin (potential) and invited him to the McCauley's
 Skeet Shoot. They do a skeet shoot at their house every year on Cinco
 De Mayo. And they have a big dinner too. We invited him to come and
 he seemed really stoked to go but he didnt show up :(
 
 Then we had Dinner with the Krugers. They invited Kenny Gouff over
 which was sweet. We sat around and played Yahtzee for a little bit.
 
 Brother Mattice (Ward mission leader of Atascadero 1st ward) was sick
 with Pnuemonia and so we cancelled our ward correllation.
 
 Thursday 5-3-12
 We went to the Schibers in the morning and did a lot of weed wacking.
 They fed us lunch and then spoke to us... A LOT. So we had to dash
 out of there because we were supposed to be at Sally's house. So we
 got to Sally's and she wasnt there :(
 
 So we were supposed to go to the Gouff's but we didnt get a call back from them!
 
 So we went to dinner at the Vance's house and Sister Vance Made us
 Zuccini Bread again! AH! I LOVE IT!
 
 Then we went to david and laticia's (Investigators) they werent home
 for a set appointment :(
 
 Then we visited the Murrays (LA) and shared a message. Found out that
 he might need some service so we told him we'd be over in the morning
 to help him.
 
 Friday 5-4-12
 We went to Brother Murrays house in the morning and helped him with
 his backyard. He lives on a really steap hill and has a hard time
 doing any work or getting anything up or down from the yard. So he
 had plans to build a deck in back there so we were knocking out
 concriet and started taking it down the hill in a wheel barrow
 attached to a rope so we could take it down the hill slowly. The hill
 he lives on actually used to be a dump and you can walk around and
 find Bottles on the hill that are from the early 1900's. Its sweet.
 He's got a way cool collection. He also told us a funny story about
 how he was taking a load of stuff down the hill and above him is the
 deck that wraps around the house probably... 10 feet above where he
 was. Well his son was up there who is about 3 or 4 was like "i'm
 gonna pee on you" and he didnt think much of it because why would his
 son do that? But all the sudden he was getting wet hahaha! That kid
 got in BIG trouble.
 
 Then we went to lunch with Sister Mortorff and she took us to the
 Cowgirl Cafe again. I love that place. Its pretty tasty!
 
 Then we had a lesson with Gary. He's a little nervous about the
 Baptismal interview because he thinks its gonna be a test haha. I
 think he'll do great.
 
 Then we did service for brother Stokes digging those post holes. He's
 a pretty cool guy, who loves fishing. He has some pretty good
 stories. He wants us over for dinner which is a big improvement
 because i guess his wife is the reason they dont go to church and she
 usually avoids us but we got to talk to her a little bit and warmed up
 to her just a bit. So that was good. I also left him with my horse
 liniment, i hope it helps him. It sure did help me.
 
 Then we went to brother Gouff's house (rod gouff) and did a whole
 bunch of weed wacking for him. Since he's got 7 acres. and they fed
 us dinner. Ordered up some pizza for us. Poor brother gouffs eye was
 almost swelled shut because he was removing a bees nest from a tree
 and they started stinging him and one got him in the eye.
 
 Saturday 5-5-12
 In the morning we had a lesson with a 7 year old girl at the Mortons
 home. We taught her the Plan of Salvation... It was ok. The little
 girl has a hard time Concentrating on what we are saying but the
 people there helped a lot.
 
 Then we went to go visit a bunch of people around atascadero because
 we hadnt done a whole lot there! And we couldnt really connect with
 anyone! It was pretty rough! We met one potential guy and spoke to
 him outside his house and elder Wood totally killed any opposition he
 had.. Every question answered with the restored gospel. Elder wood
 was killin it! He's a way good missionary.
 
 Well then we came home and did our weekly planning and ate lunch. We
 didnt do planning on friday so we did it saturday instead. And after
 that we went to the Skeet Shoot and since we're not allowed to shoot
 the guns i decided i'd launch the clay pigeons for them. We got some
 good pictures. It was a high priest group activity and elders
 activity and it was funny because one of the high priest walks out on
 the range with a shotgun in one hand and a walker in the other. I was
 dying laughing. We also had John Miller (investigator) show up and
 that guy is a stinkin dead eye! He was hitting everything. And my arm
 was dying because i launched about 2.5 boxes worth of clay pigeons!
 It was way fun. Then there was a dinner in their backyard and they
 have such a stinking sweet view out their back yard. It was sick!
 And then after that we went to our other wards party, but they were
 just cleaning up and we ended up getting a ton of left overs... gosh
 it was sweet!
 
 Sunday 5-6-12
 We went to church from 10:30am-4pm
 
 We went to a retirement home after that to give a lady a blessing.
 
 Then we had dinner with the Nichols family. They are lots of fun.
 After dinner we went outside and played with tenniss balls and raquets
 and i launched a ball way high and one of their kids, David, was going
 to hit it but got right under it and got smacked in the mouth. Ah
 man, i just watched him drop haha i felt so bad. But he was ok and
 really wanted to keep playing. And then after that we dropped some
 stuff off at brother Stokes house and then came in!
 
 
 So its been a pretty good week everybody. this week should hopefully
 be pretty good as well! I look forward every week to emails so the
 more that are in here the happier i am! So write me :D I love you
 guys tons and miss you all tons! Hope you are all doing well!
 
 Elder Samuel Crapo
 

Transfer Calls, Big Changes

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:38:52 -0700
 Subject: Transfer Calls, Big Changes
 From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net

 Hello Everyone!
 
 I got quite a few emails this week! It was the best! With the promise
 that i will be getting mail this week which is also the best! And it
 seems that there has been a lot of good news going around in most of
 the emails! So its good to hear that. Things are really starting to
 pick up here too. The ward members took a really long time to warm up
 to us and now we have gotten our transfer calls and are making some
 changes to our area! But they are REALLY good changes. So, i guess
 i'll tell you about the transfer doctrine. So Elder Damuni has been
 here about.... 9 months. His time has come. But he got a call from
 the AP's last night to tell him that he is going to be training. Then
 this morning the ZL's called and told us that he is being transfered
 back to Simi Valley, i think the same ward he used to cover (i think?)
 and he'll be training. So he'll be white wash training. Tough stuff!
 I think he might be a little upset about it but we havent seen him
 all day... He's been out with his ward mission leader. And then my
 news was that i was Staying! YES! Which is what i wanted because this
 past week we've established some really good connections with Members
 AND we set an investigator with a baptismal date! His name is Gary,
 he is STOKED to be baptized! He is going to be baptized May 12th! So
 i'm really happy i am staying. And my new companion is Elder Wood. If
 you look on my blog he is the one in the pictures who is pushing my
 nose... and i am pushing up my glasses.
 http://missionarysam.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-02-14T07:41:00-08:00&max-results=7
 He's a cool kid, i served around him in Simi Valley! He's quiet. But
 i like him a lot. So then Elder Marquez got his transfer doctrine,
 they told him that he would be White Washing Atascadero 2nd ward!
 BAHA! and he is getting elder Lifungula. When i was in tehachapi
 elder lifungula was born in bakersfield and was in my district. If
 you've seen any of my pictures in the past he's the REALLY black
 elder. haha he's from the Congo! He's awesome. So me and elder
 marquez are still together in a sence... just not as companions. And
 also! Elder Hernandez who i stinkin love! Is coming to be the new
 spanish elder! Its going to be a great transfer!
 
 Now lets see how much of my week i can get typed!
 
 Monday 4-23-12
 We did our studies and laundry.
 
 Elder Damuni asked if he could put some whites in my laundry since i'm
 so good at keeping my whites white, he wanted to see if it would help
 his.. So i let him. I learned two things through sharing a load of
 laundry. Dont share gum, and dont share loads of laundry. Because he
 left the stick of gum that i gave him in his pocket and it turned some
 of my clothes pink! So I washed them a lot more to get it out. They
 are ok now. Only some pink dots in some places.
 
 Then we went to church and did emails
 
 Hung out at the apartment and cleaned...
 
 Ate Lunch
 
 We have a lot of cats, wild cats, wandering around our apartment, so
 we set up some bait and opened our windows and shot them with rubber
 bands... we were really bored and really low on miles haha...
 
 Then we went to develop pictures and look around at thrift stores. My
 companion bought a tuxedo... what for? I dont know? But he felt very
 inclined to do so.
 
 Then we went to dinner with the Leavitt family. They are super cool.
 Brother Leavitt is a dentist. Their kids are genious' and are
 insanely smart and cute!
 
 Then we did some shopping and as we were looking around i saw some
 posters for The avengers... Question... Is the guy who played captain
 america playing the captain america in the Avengers? Because in all
 the posters he looked different.
 
 Then i saw the box for Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol! And on the
 back it shows a picture of them getting out of a really nice car... MY
 DREAM CAR!!! THAT I THOGUHT NOBODY KNEW ABOUT!!!! THE BMW VISION
 EFFICIENT DYNAMICS!!!! Gosh! That must be an amazing movie because of
 that one thing!
 
 Then we roamed around ross for a little bit. Of course i cant buy
 anything because i'm broke, but my companion wanted to look around. I
 found some SICK Adidas high top shoes, Elder Marquez wanted to buy
 them for me but i told him no. He kept bugging me to take us back so
 he could buy them haha but i wouldnt let him.
 
 Tuesday 4-24-12
 We went to brother Micklesons. He's bought a new gun. A sub machine
 gun that looks just like his AR-15 except without a stock. Its SICK!
 I'll take some pictures with his guns next time i'm there. The gun
 had a red dot scope on it and he wasnt sure how to use it so i showed
 him how. Then we did some pruning and he gave me a pretty sweet
 hat... its the second one he's given me. It says "the rocky mountain
 elk foundation" on it. And he says its a really special hat.
 
 Then we waited for Damuni to get home but he took too long so we left
 and contacted some members. Found a guy named whos wife is a member
 but not active... she served a mission too... but he was pretty cool.
 He is budhist and was telling us weird stuff about how jesus was
 budhist and stuff.... Yeah he's slightly confused but a really nice
 guy none the less.
 
 Then we went to the church and taught Kameron our Recent Convert!
 
 And then we had dinner with the Krugers. And i just realized that
 brother Krugers' first name is Fredrick.... Put the two together i
 think you'll see what i saw. Anyways i love that family! They are
 super cool.
 
 Then we went to David and Laticia's home for an appointment... but
 they cancelled at the door. The wife was feeling sick.
 
 So we went to the Church and Played a little basketball.
 
 Wednesday 4-25-12
 We went to district meeting and it was kind of... boring but it was good! haha
 
 Then a couple in Elder Damuni's ward wanted to take us out for sushi,
 and a lot of sushi! There is a new place that opened up called "CRAZY
 SUSHI FEVER" and we went there and ate a ton of way good Sashimi and
 Sushi! It was DA BOMB! It made me miss Suehiro!
 
 Then we went to Brother Gouffs place and we helped him split some more
 wood. Which was great!
 
 Then we got changed and went to a referrals house, but he was not
 there. Then we went to ward correllation and that was good!
 
 Thursday 4-26-12
 Early in the morning we helped brother Mattice set up for his sons
 wedding reception. I had some REALLY bad allergies! and then we went
 to brother Kenny Gouffs house. (brother Gouffs brother) So earlier in
 the week we saw Brother Rod Gouff and we saw Brother Kenny Gouff...
 ANYWAYS. both of them are pretty much my favorite guys ever. Kenny
 has had a really good/hard life. He always looks really sad but peps
 up whenever you talk to him. One of the most humblest men i've ever
 talked to. A really hard worker and a stud when he was younger. He
 was captain of the football team when he was a junior. And was a
 smoke jumper for the forrest service. And right now is retired but
 sells a product he invented that helps kill gophers. He is the
 president of his company. He's an amazing artist and cartoonist! The
 dude is a stud all around! He's had a rought life because he's
 divorced and his family means a lot to him. So we went to his house
 and helped him with weeding, and making a trench and laying pipe. He
 asked if we could stay for dinner so we did. He thanked us so much
 and would like us to stop by occasionally because he gets lonely. He's
 so dang funny though! He was talking about the dinner he made! he was
 like "i hope it tastes good! you never know how old it is when you
 find it on the road" hahaha or he told us a joke that said "a man had
 a friend over for dinner and gave him some dishes and he said sorry
 your dishes are dirty, their as clean as cold water could get them.
 well after dinner the friend said well let me give you a hand cleaning
 the dishes and the man said, just set em down cold water is probably
 around here somewhere" bahaha! and then he told us a personal story by
 saying "yeah my cold water died just last week, i really miss that
 dog, he was 15 years old and loved him so much.... so how'd he taste?"
 hahaha! The guy is so quick with his little one liners its so great! I
 hope to be like that when i'm older.
 
 Anyways we went home and got changed and went to correllation for our next ward.
 
 Friday 4-27-12
 We did our weekly planning in the morning. And then we went all over
 town and tried to contact as many people we could because we had done
 a lot of service and not a lot of missionary work haha. So we
 contacted a lot of people.
 
 At 5 we had a lesson with a little girl and her mom. The girl is 7
 but getting close to baptism age and the bishop asked us to teach
 her... so we are. It was ok, the little girl is kind of crazy... but
 hopefully she'll settle the more we meet.
 
 Then we contacted some more people in templeton area, we had dinner
 with the Hockman family who are pretty awesome. They are a young
 family and the dad is a CHP. They have 3 small kids and their kids
 have the coolest names ever. Their sons name is Mason and their
 daughters names are Honey and Royal. I thought that was pretty
 coooooooolio.
 
 After we ate we went to Gary's house and we had a lesson on the Gospel
 Of Jesus Christ. He is really excited about the Gospel and Set him
 with a date to be baptized May 12th COMING UP QUICK!!!! Looks like
 i can tell you all about it on mothers day!
 
 I also called our mission doctor to see if i could get something for
 my allergies and he prescribed me some nasal spray stuff. So i got
 that and it helps my nose... thats about it. Which is good though
 because thats the worste part. So i still need to take my zyrtec too
 otherwise my eyes get really itchy. I think he gave me Flonase? It
 smells like i'm squirting liquid flowers up my nose... its strange.
 but works... i think?
 
 Saturday 4-28-12
 We went to Atascadero Lake Park for the mormon helping hands and did a
 whole bunch of service there. Raking, painting, digging... etc. It
 was good.
 
 Then we went to our apartment and ate some lunch. it was good.
 
 Then we went to 2 different members houses to pick up weed wackers and
 took them to a house in Atascadero 2nd ward who need weed wacking
 badly. So we did their whole front yard. they still need a ton more.
 
 Then we Got changed and dropped elder Damuni off at Barber Dan's place
 and then we went to dinner. It was a wedding reception up at a fancy
 members house. The Moores. They are super cool. We hung around
 there and it was sweet. They fed us dinner and we helped them clean
 up and we left and returned the weed wackers we borrowed.
 
 Sunday 4-29-12
 We went to 8 hours of church again. We didnt have a teacher so we
 found brother nichols walking the halls and he was like "what
 bishopric authority should i excersize today?" and i was like "you can
 come raid the fridge with me" and he was like "GREAT IDEA" so we went
 and ate some ice cream in the Kitchen. It was sweet. Then we went to
 dinner. The Weavers. They are super awesome. They invited Gary and
 his mom over to their house for dinner. We taught them a lesson
 there! It was great! We stayed a long time too talking about pretty
 much everything. Their old family stories and stuff. It was a lot of
 fun.
 
 
 
 
 WELL thats pretty much it! I hope you enjoy this extremely long email!
 I hope to hear back from you all! I miss you guys tons and hope you
 are all doing well! If you have any questions about anything i do out
 here let me know... i dont know if i'm missing anything out...
 
 OH! I better answer this question since mom always askes the "hows the
 weather" question. The weather is warming up! Its usually always
 cloudy here or its in the high 80's or low 90's! The weather is SO
 NICE! This place is growing on me!
 
 
 
 
 I love and miss you all!
 
 ELDER SAMUEL CRAPO!

Pictures 4/23/12

Kameron Roberson

Savannah Ballesteros

Back to the Long Long Long Long Long Emails

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:21:13 -0700
 Subject: Back to the Long Long Long Long Long Emails
 From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
 
 Hello Family & Friends
 
 So its has been a week already since last Monday... its crazy! Time
 flies so fast... This week was a really good week! For the most part!
 And i actually wrote in my journal to tell you all about it so let me
 get started!
 
 Monday 4-16-12
 It was p-day!
 
 We went and did our emails and we then went home and had lunch... Same
 old mac n cheese! But it was good! No complaints. Then we went back
 to the church and had a little zone activity. We played Basketball
 and Volleyball. I played Volleyball for most of the time because I'm
 stinkin sick of basketball. But At the very end i played a little
 B-ball and Elder Damuni taught me how to dunk... its actually pretty
 easy. But then i dunked and split my middle finer on the rim! Took a
 big ol' chunk of skin of my finger. It was bleedin' all over. But
 its much better now. Our zone Consists of... 13 Elders. 4 in Paso.
 2 for Spanish. 3 in Atascadero. and 4 in San Louis Obispo. So it was
 pretty cool.
 
 Then we went shopping. and we sat in the apartment for a while. When
 you're in a three man you cant always do all the things you want. So
 we stayed in and cleaned and just hung out for a while.
 
 Then we went to dinner at Brother and Sister Budrow's. They are
 pretty cool. They are in the Templeton ward. He is the guy that is a
 CHP and used to be a fire fighter and kind of convinced me to be one
 too... who knows what i will be? Anyways we just ate Loaded Nachos
 outside in the backyard. It was pretty good. I also got attacked by
 their puppy... he's a big puppy and he's being trained to be a police
 dog. It lost its mind and just went crazy on me. Started biting my
 leg and tie and stuff ha ha.
 
 Then we were supposed to go to the Miller's home but they canceled our
 appointment. So instead we went to contact a referral who wasn't home
 and then we went to Atascadero 2nd ward area and contacted some people
 there. We met a really cool guy, Brother Carpenter who had just
 bought a pair of Vibrum Toe Shoes. And he pulled up the website of
 all the different styles and stuff. I want some SO BAD! They are
 sweet!
 
 Tuesday 4-17-12
 We did service for brother Mickelson. We pruned some more palm trees
 and some other trees in his orchard. Then we went to the Budrow's
 house because sister Budrow needed some help planting a ton of flowers
 in her yard. So we went to help her with that. Took a little longer
 than we wanted to. And Elder Damuni was upset because he thought it
 was a waste of time and he had a pretty bad attitude about it all. He
 wouldn't help with the service and he didn't eat the lunch she
 offered. Anyways we came back home and got changed and stuff and when
 we were getting ready to go out Elder Damuni blew up at me... I told
 you in a previous letter that the kid is a hot head and just was
 yelling, and accusing, and blaming, and judging.... but i don't argue,
 i don't fight... But he got over it and kind of apologized. Whole
 bunch of flippin' drama.... i don't put up with that... its so dumb...
 
 So then we went to Kameron's baptismal interview. He did good and we
 stayed at the church and our dinner appointment came and brought us
 In'n'out. And we ate it with them at the church.
 
 Well then we went to go see our next appointment and they weren't home!
 
 And then we went to play basketball at the church but we didn't play
 much because Damuni was supposed to go on an exchange with the Zone
 Leaders that night. So we dropped him off at the Spanish elders
 apartment. And the Zone leaders picked him up that night. So me and
 Elder Marquez got to work on our own in our area the next day without
 the third party.
 
 Wednesday 4-18-12
 We woke up and i realized the ties i dry cleaned, i didn't get all of
 them back. So we went back and picked the rest of them up. thank
 goodness they were still both there.
 
 Then we drove to district meeting and it was... boring... but OK! We
 decided to stay around in San Louis Obispo to eat lunch. And we found
 "The Habit" Famous burger place that i love and i hadn't had it in a
 while so we stopped and ate there, it was a pretty busy street and
 kids all over! Since Cal Poly University is there, there were tons of
 people everywhere.... I've never seen so many ghost busters on my
 mission! But the food was soooooo gooooooood. Then we went home.
 
 We went to Templeton and visited some people. One guy we are visiting
 with might be ready for baptism here pretty soon! His name is Gary.
 He is the Son of a member.
 
 Then we drove to dinner and we ate with the Kruger's. They are one of
 my favorite families out here! They are awesome. They have a
 tradition of playing Board games during dinner and so its almost like
 being home. They have a Less Active daughter who is always there too
 whenever we are there and so its good to be able to fellowship them
 and encourage her to get back to church.
 
 Then we waited for Damuni at our apartment because he said he would be
 home soon and we needed to be there so he wasn't left there alone. He
 was a little off on his timing though because we waited a stinkin'
 hour!
 
 But then he showed up and we did our planning for the next day.
 
 Thursday 4-19-12
 We got a ride from brother Schiber in the morning to go to his house
 and do some service. He needed some weeds pulled and some 4 foot tall
 weeds mowed. And so thats what we did.
 
 Then he dropped us off at home. We changed and made lunch. Bacon and
 Egg Sandwiches/ burritos are the BEST!
 
 Then we got our baptismal programs all together and saw some people in
 Atascadero 2nd ward.
 
 We dropped elder Damuni off at his ward mission leaders house and then
 we went to the Schiber's for dinner. Where i found out that Sister
 Schiber's son is the VP for the L3 Communications in Santa Carlos? i
 think? And he specializes in the Predator. I was like, my dad MUST
 know him... so I'll have to ask dad! The guys name is Michael
 McCallister.
 
 Oh... earlier in the afternoon elder Marquez got an easter package
 from his sister and she hooked both of us up! She gave us both a ton
 of candy and gave each of us sweet yellow ties which we are both
 wearing at the moment.
 
 Then we went to the basketball playoffs for the wards because 90% of
 the guys that show up to those games are not members so its good to be
 there and talk and play with them... Well when we first got there
 Elder Damuni's team had just won their first game and there were 2
 other teams playing for the final playoff. And whoever won that game
 was going to play elder Damuni's team. Well the team that won was the
 team that was like 100% non members, and they are all really good.
 Elder Damuni's team began to play them and Elder Damuni got kicked off
 the court in the first half for runnin' his mouth... he's good at
 that. And then his team lost by 10 points...
 
 But cool thing was, was i was sitting next to a kid who's family lives
 in Tehachapi, his parents were in my ward. He was going to Cal Poly.
 So that was cool.
 
 Friday 4-20-12
 We went to the church to help set up for a stake potluck and then we
 did our weekly planning.
 
 We had lunch with Sister Mortorff and her Daughter at the Cowgirl Cafe
 again. It was super duper good.
 
 Then we got home and i had a package from mom waiting for me. Inside
 were some Awesome pants which fit perfectly so thanks mum! And also so
 granola bars and a card with money... thank you very very much!
 
 Then we dropped Damuni off at his mission leaders house again and we
 went and ran some errands and saw some people.... not a whole lot of
 people home but we got to just talk with a few people at the door.
 
 We went to the stake potluck and it was fun but it was for old people.
 I sat at a table with a guy named "Barber Dan" (Dan Phillups) if you
 serve in Atascadero you cant not know barber Dan, he gives us donuts
 on p days and he's hilarious! we just sat around at the party cracking
 jokes. Then we helped clean up the potluck.
 
 We drove to pick up our programs for the baptisms the next day and
 then we went to a disabled womans home (Cathy) and helped her fix a
 fan because it was a hot night.
 
 Saturday 4-21-12
 We woke up early and got suited up. We went to the church and started
 cleaning it because they were low on people to help them.
 
 We went to Paso Robles and helped the other elders fill up their font
 and get ready for their baptism. The water heater wasn't working so
 we microwaved bowls of water and boiled big pots of water to warm up
 the font. That was funny. The lady who was baptized was well over 80
 and the water was really shallow so it was hard to get her all the way
 down in but Elder Peacock did a great job.
 
 Then at their baptism we sang Love at Home with the Ukulele. And
 everyone loved it even though we sounded awful.
 
 Then we went to our church and started doing the same thing. Our
 water heater had been broken for a really long time too so we had pots
 of water boiling as well. But our water heater kicked in so it was
 good.
 
 We had two baptisms! One in Atascadero 1st ward and one in Atascadero
 2nd ward. Kameron's brother/uncle baptized him and elder Damuni
 baptized a girl named Savannah.
 
 After the baptism we took elder Damuni to his mission leaders house
 again. Then we went to dinner with a really cool Less active couple
 for the first time. They are super cool.
 
 After dinner when we were leaving sister Moore called and told us she
 had a left over cake that we could have. So we went over to pick it
 up and the cake was HUGE. It was a 7 lbs cake! It was crazy and then
 they gave us a tub of ice cream and then a gallon of carrots. So that
 was super nice of them :) I love the Moore's.
 
 Then we went to get Damuni and ended up staying at his ward mission
 leaders house and watched a video with them.
 
 Sunday 4-22-12
 We had 8 hours of church.
 
 Kameron asked me to Confirm him so i did.
 
 We set up a lot of appointments.
 
 And had dinner with Bishop Haselhuhn's family.
 
 
  
 Well thats pretty much it. Sorry it has taken so long to get you a
 nice SUPER DUPER LONG email again. I hope you like it! I'll try and
 send some pictures! Hopefully they can get posted on my blog soon. I
 think it needs a little updating ;) I love and miss you guys tons! I
 will see you in 9.5 months! :/