Subject: News From Elder Crapo
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
Hello Family & Friends!
How are you all doing? (that questions entails that you will write me an email to tell me how you are doing)
This week has been a pretty good one. We have had some new stuff happen that makes the work pretty fun! So here's how my week went.
Monday 6-18-12
We did our normal P-Day stuff. Shopping, email, Sports, etc. IT was a pretty good p-day.
We had dinner with a Less Active member. He's a really cool guy. His wife is not a member. So it was super awesome to finally get into their home and share a meal with them. His wife made THE best Corn Beef & Cabbage i have EVER had. No joke. I had so much of it.
That was pretty much it for that day. It was a really good day though.
Tuesday 6-19-12
In the morning we went to brother Mickleson's house and it was really good. We took the other two elders with us and we thinned apple trees again. It was great! He is such a good guy. He appreciates our help so much and says he will miss us so much when we get transferred. I'm going to miss that guy too. When we were getting ready to leave he slipped a flippin $50 bill into my hand. We aren't supposed to take money. But if you decline he gets so angry with you. So we went to In'n'out on brother Mickleson. It was good as usual. We tend to eat their a lot. At least once a week ha ha! It was way funny though because while we were there we were eating outside and there was some strange old man going from table to table eating with the different people. And talking with them. And he had a bird on his shoulder.. Well he got to a table by himself and a young girl maybe 15 was walking by and he was like "Excuse me little girl, could you hold my bird while i go inside and get some napkins" and it was so funny because that bird did not want to get picked up and when she finally grabbed it, it started biting her and the girl was freaking out and like, crying. She dropped the bird and the old guy was like "SHE NEVER DOES THAT!! BAD GIRL BAD GIRL (at the bird) I'M GONNA FIX YOUR WAGON!!" and took the bird to the car and put it in a cage. It was so funny. We were laughing so dang hard.
THEN.... i don't remember what we did? I think we went tracting... But it was no good. Tracting here didn't work so swell. We knocked a whole street. 2 doors answered. One door slammed in our face, the other one some old guy bashed with us for about 30 minutes. Super progress!
Then we had dinner with another Less Active family. Who were really cool.
We went to Gary's house and had a lesson with him and it went good.
And then we went to the Millers home. They are a part member family. And we watched the "Together Forever" movie with them. And it went really well.
Wednesday 6-20-12
Early in the morning we went to our Neighbors apartment and helped them pack up their things. They had a U haul truck in the front yard so we asked them if we could help move them and they said yeah. So we did. It was good. The guy is kind of a kook, but it was a good time. They got us Donuts and he also brought us some more at 6:30 this morning! They really appreciated it. They are not members.
After that we got all ready and went to the Johnson's home and picked up some food. Like always.
We went to district meeting to share it with all the other elders and they loved it.
We came home and ate lunch and got changed into Rec clothes and went to go play Frisbee with some kids that we saw the week before. I pulled over and asked them if we could play and they said yes, they play every Wednesday and Friday. So we went to go play but nobody showed up... :( So we left. We went back home and got changed back into proselyting clothes and went to work. We went to contact a guy who was across from the high school and in the high school field we saw the Frisbee kids! I was upset because i wanted to play so bad! A HUGE GROUP OF NON MEMBER KIDS PLAYING FRISBEE!! THIS IS WHY I WAS BORN! ha ha. But we went out and worked. Did some more tracting.
We had dinner with the Kruger's and introduced them to Skip-BO. They kind of liked it. But we killed them. I don't know how that happened? The game is all luck!
After the Kruger's we went over to Brother Mattice's home for Correlation and it went pretty well.
Thursday 6-20-12
In the morning we went to Brother Schieber's House. And it was good. We did a whole bunch of odds and ends around his land. I used a tiller which i haven't used in FOREVER. So it felt kind of nice to use one of those again. But we did all kinds of things. Pulling weeds, moving dirt, Tilling. ETC. They made us a really good lunch and then we went home.
We called up Kenny Gouff and came over to do work for him. Just loading up a truck full of wood that he cut the other day. And we also transplanted some myrtle into a dirt bank in is backyard to make it look good. Then we drove over to Rod's house and dumped the wood off into his wood pile.
Then we got home and got all changed and clean and went to an appointment with a Referral. It went REALLY well. The Referral came from an investigator in the other ward and she was there too. It is a lady Named Deborah. She is super Awesome. Has some things to work on and get over. But she is looking to change and already committed to being baptized. I asked her if i were to give her a bracelet would she wear it? and she said yes. so i gave her my W.W.J.D. bracelet and she saw that i had had it on for a really long time because the tan line was BAD ha ha and she just started crying and she said that no one had been that nice to her in a long time. So now she wears it all the time as a reminder. She's so awesome i love her already. She went to an ARP meeting THAT night! And she said she read the book of Mormon all night. We gotta go back today to see how she is doing!
Then we went to dinner with the other two elders. We went to the Damry's in their ward. The Damry's are awesome. I know them pretty well. Since I've been here the longest.
Friday 6-22-12
We had weekly planning in the morning which was good. And then... unfortunately. We had in'n'out AGAIN! AH! Brother Mickleson just gave us so much money that we had to use it up. I don't know why we went there though? And then we went home and got changed because i was NOT going to miss Frisbee this time! So we went and it was really cool. The kids were awesome. They are actually playing on a league down in SLO and so they were pretty extreme.... I was way out of shape! Plus i have gotten for the first time in my life... SHIN SPLINTS!!! and they hurt A LOT. But anyways the Frisbee guys start with warm ups, stretches and then they played 1 and a half games. It was way fun but WAY exhausting! They ran us to death but we were all super grateful because we all need the exercise.
When i got home i asked elder Lifungula how to help my shin splints and so he told me you have to push the muscle back onto your leg and do leg exercises and so froze a bottle, cut the bottle off of the ice and rolled it pretty hard on my legs and you can feel what its doing because you feel pops and bumps all on my legs. Elder Wood rubbed my legs for a while with the ice and it hurt SO BAD. But it felt a bit better after.
We went to dinner out in Templeton at the McNeil's. It was SO good. They made Thai. A lot of people make Thai around here. Its super good. It was so funny because they have an autistic boy and right after we said amen to the closing prayer he said "Great! Now fetch me some bread woman!" to his mom! ha ha ha! I was laughing so hard. But he got told off.
After dinner we went to the Church because they had a dance. For 14 year old plus! And we have non members show up. They went last time and were very displeased because nobody knew what they were doing. Very unorganized. They love to dance too. They were really good and everyone was wanting them to teach next time. But they really don't want to teach. So this time we went, the instructor didn't even show up! It was a disaster. But i got to see our less active and his non member wife do some dancing and they are GOOD for being how old they are!
Saturday 6-23-12
We had sports in the morning with the Youth. It was great. We played more ultimate Frisbee. I was SO SORE from the day before. It was good. We had about 5 non members show up. It was so much fun! We went home and made some lunch. I had left over curry and then we got changed into service clothes. Drove to Santa Margarita and Brother Phillip's took us to Pozo. We did a whole bunch of things around his ranch. Pulled weeds, moved pipes, pruned trees, moved stones, etc. Then after dinner the daughter took us out and she shot some squirrels with her 17. It was pretty sweet. She is a way good shot. It was fun.
Sunday 6-24-12
The Templeton ward was a pretty sad day. Because we found out that my ward mission leaders 19 year old son suddenly died :( Carl. Carl was awesome. Very quiet and kind of depressed but was cool. He'd pick us up for dinner and stuff. But on fathers day he killed himself i guess. The bishop read a really good Eulogy of him and it was just a sad day. Keep the Delbar family in your prayers. On the good news though. Gary received the Priesthood. He was very excited. The other ward was about the same as usual. Except that i found out that Kenny Gouff is in the hospital! :( i hope he's OK! He said he thought he was having a heart attack.
After Church we went to the Carvalho's (Gary's house) and ate some Thai food there. But they weren't our dinner appointment. After eating the most amazing home made egg rolls of my life, we went to the Colleran's home and ate dinner with them. It was good though. I can eat a lot more food than i used to... I don't know if that's a good thing though... so far I've gained 40 pounds. I weigh 195 and i left at 155. Which is good because i feel good. Besides the shin splints. My legs are super bruised because of rolling the ice on them... ha ha but they feel a bit better...
After all that we went to the Houseman's and gave them ALL the Tupperware that was in our house. And they gave us key lime pie in return. And then that was pretty much it!
Well i think that is all. I did get two packages this week. One from mom and simon which i love a lot. I sent you a thank you card. And one from the Guidos. They sent me letters and pretty much everything in their Junk Drawer. ha ha. But it was a good package none the less.
Thank you guys so much for all you do. Mom i found some jeans in the apartment that fit. And i dont need any white shirts. I'll just get these tailored into Short sleeves soon ha ha! They will last! I WILL MAKE THEM LAST! ha ha ha.
Anyways i love you guys a lot. I cant believe how fast time goes. I've got less than 8 months to go! CRAZY
Love,
Elder Crapo
