Cant Believe its October already!

Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:20:28 -0700
Subject: Cant Believe its October already!
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net

Hello Family and Friends!

It's crazy to think that i only have 4 and a half months left before i am home.  Scary kind of!  I hope you're all ready! ;)

Its been an ok week.  Not much has happened.  I am excited for conference coming up.  Its a good time to see other elders, get some revelation and to relax ha ha.  

This week has been slow, i'm begining to hate P-days.  We dont do anything.  We get stuck inside and are the last to email.  I need to find something to do... I've resorted to drawing tie designs on my envelopes... something to make the time go by.  Its horrible ha ha. Last week we got so bored that we invited the sisters over and we washed their car...

We saved a dog this week... We found a little dog that looked like Baxter off of anchorman and he was all scratched up and smelly and mangey so we picked him up and took him over to a members and then called animal control and they picked him up.  That was pretty cool.  Everyone was giving us funny looks driving by because they'd probably never seen missionaries with a dog before...

Work wise we havent had too much success.  Our investigator isnt really progressing.  Having a hard time quitting the coffee... She's got a lot of medical problems that are keeping her from doing anything...

We also got to go to another members house to give him a blessing.  He is a little less active, his family wishes he would go to church.  and we went over because he hurt his knee at work so we gave him a blessing.  Then their daughter demanded that she showed us Adventure Time.  That show is whack.  Brain washing the children of today!  

We went to the Durrant's this week and did a bunch of service for them on Thursday.  That was good.  We got a lot done for them.  They also took us to taco bell.  They are way cool.  They are from Tooelle.  He did a lot of the electrical work on the conference center and she actually did a lot of work at Jordan High when it was new i believe? 

Friday we did our weekly planning and ran outside to put some stuff in a mailbox and saw some members were getting trucks packed up to move.  So we threw on service clothes and gave them a hand.  They put us to work for a few hours it was good.  We got to go to a pizza party at the church after that.  I was so surprised to see how many kids in this ward love us.  We walked in and they all ran up to us and wanted us to play and talk with them.  It was funny.  After the party we went to a members house to help him lift his garage door because the spring snapped, so we helped lift it up so he could get his car out.

Saturday we went to our friend Aoese's house.  He's Samoan, big samoan family.  I love them.  They are way cool.  We stopped by to just play a game with his family but i guess we woke them all up.  So we ended up brushing leaves off his patio and scrubbing his pool ha ha!  Then he took us to get McDonalds and then we came back and grabbed all his recycling and took it to get some money out of it.  IT was a good time.  He's a good guy.  Always cracking jokes.  We also saw our investigatror, then ran over to bishops to eat dinner.  Then we went to the Durrants and gave their kids ties because they never wear ties, but we asked them if we were to get them ties if they would wear them, they said yes so we took their boys one each.

We had a really good lesson with a Less Active Part Member family this week.  We invited their home teachers and it was our first time teaching them.  It went ok.  Their home teachers like to talk a lot... But it went good.  We learned a lot about them.

That was pretty much all that happened this week.  I got a gnarley tan from being outside in the bakersfield heat all the time.  ITs great.  And... things are going good! 

I hope to hear from all of you.  I only have 20 more opportunities to email! So do it before its too late ;)  

Love you guys

Elder Samuel Crapo