Subject: Week 5 Done.
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
Hello Family And Friends
Another week down and i dont know how many to go? Today is my mission birthday. I've turned 17. I only have 7 Stinkin months left!??!!? how crazy is that? Man time flies. Anyways here is how my week went.
Monday 7-9-12
We had our p-day. Same old same old. Except we went out to lunch with the Barretts and their two granddaughters. It was pretty fun.
We went to Deborah's house at night and she was having a hard day. She has a lot of hard days. But she is super awesome and i love her. I dont really remember everything we did on monday...
Tuesday 7-10-12
In the morning brother Mickleson cancelled service with us. So we called up Brother Gouff and asked him if he wanted to get a head start on splitting wood. So we went out around 10 am to work on the wood. We finished off cutting the base of the tree but it was so hot outside that the Hydrolic fluid was overflowing and wasn't working in the splitter. So we hand Splitted some things and that was fun. We got it all down to a smaller job though. IT was a HUGE tree. So Brother Burgard said that he could take care of the rest on his own and he took us to lunch at Hoovers. It was good. Its like an old cowboy type diner.
After that we came home and got changed up. I cant remember what we did? Gosh my memory is horrible. i think we went to see deborah? But after all that stuff we did we came back and got the other elders to go teach a girl who was visiting her aunt from france. So she spoke good french. And lucky for us Elder Lifungula Speaks french. So we went to their house and she made us all Pho for dinner. It was really good. Then we had a really scattered lesson because Elder Lifungula kept switching directions on us but he cleared it all up with his french.
Then we went to Sports at the church. And we didnt play we just sat around pretty much.
Wednesday 7-11-12
Brother Kenny Gouff picked us up in the morning to go get donations from vons. They give us all the day old bread and stuff. So we went with him and picked it all up and took it to the Johnsons house. Usually the Johnsons pick it up but they were out of town so we did it with Kenny.
After that we dropped our load of goodies off at the house and we went to district meeting. I felt like i was getting picked on at district meeting. I did the opening prayer, the unity activity and i gave a talk on why its important to set people with baptism dates.
After that we went to the Tire store and got our car serviced. We were there for about an hour or more. While we were in there a truck that was out on the busy street flew by but something in the bed of his truck broke and TONS of books and pamphlets and papers went ALL OVER the road. So we got up and went out and picked it all up with him. It was crazy. It looked like brochures and stuff for maybe a business? He was really happy we helped him out. He would have been there forever picking it up. He pretty much closed a whole lane of traffic.
So after that we came home. And i took a shirt to be fixed at a members house and i also dropped a box of stuff to be taken to utah with brother gouff because he is going to provo soon and said he'd take stuff for me.
After that we went to dinner with the Bartons. They took us to the Thai Elephant and we ate Yellow Curri MMMMmmmmm So goooooood!
Then we went to the church and played volleyball. Only one guy showed up and elder Wood hurt his ankle before we even started playing so it was just 2 on 2. But it was a lot of fun.
Thursday 7-12-12
We went to the schibers in the morning and elder woods ankle was in bad shape so i did all the work. All i had to do was move a bunch of rocks with spiders the size of silver dollars in there and then i had to till the ground underneath. They fed us lunch and it was good!
After that we went and saw Gary and he's doing really good.
Then we saw our investigator Jessica and taught her the Law Of Chastity. The lesson actually went really well. She told us she was going to be needing our help the next day. I'll talk about that later... what a fun experience that was ha ha.
Anyways after that we came back home and tried to visit Deborah. She was having a bad day though. We were going to invite her to arp. So we went to arp and she didnt show up. But it was a lot of fun still. I love the ARP meetings. The spirit is always strong in those meetings.
Friday 7-13-12
We did our weekly planning at the church. It went really well. Got it all taken care of.
then we picked up burritos at a mexican place for lunch. It was really good.
We went to Our investigators house. Jessica. So here was the deal. Her sister, who was our new investigator, has some mental problems. Kind of bi poplar and stuff... And one day she flipped out at our investigators boyfriend and then he tried to protect himself and she claimed he attacked her and now they told her she had to move out and then she went to the hospital and said that her boyfriend broke her ribs and blah blah blah.... Anyways jessica's family was all upset with her because its her boyfriend and they are all taking the side of her sister. So she said that her sister was coming over to pick up her crap and her boyfriend couldnt be there because her sister would probably attack him but jessica didnt want to be alone while her sister was packing up her stuff so she asked us if we could come. So i said YES. So we went and the cops ended up getting called and stuff but it really wasnt a big deal.. just some drama. But it was fun! And we had a long distractful study while all that was going on. I just laugh about it all. At first i was nervous because i thought we were going to get attacked. But needless to say, her sister is no longer a investigator ha ha.
After that we went and contacted some more people. We didnt have a whole lot of luck contacting :( But we ate dinner with the Nuttals. They have relatives i know that live in Simi. Actually they lived in simi and so they know a lot of people i know.
After dinner we went to Deborah's. We visit her a lot so i can never remember what happens in the visits. I do know that she does cry a lot and that the spirit is always strong. She's such an awesome lady.
Saturday 7-14-12
We went to the Burgards in the morning and just talked to them for a while. We tried a BUNCH of other people but nobody was home. We saw the Furster family and brother furster is still recovering from Shingles! And then we went and saw Deborah. Every saturday we take the other elders with us to her house and their investigator comes too and we have a big book of mormon study. Its actaully a lot of fun.
Then we went to visit a guy named steve and he pretty much bashed with us the whole time and brought up all this stupid stuff that didnt even make sence or wasnt even true..... So we were there for a while. He's one of those born again people. "I'm saved by grace i dont have to do anything" he was worried about our salvation. He didnt think we were saved. So before we left i asked him. What does it take to be saved and he said you have to believe christ is your savior and the spirit tells you that. And i said do you have to do works? And he was like no and thats why your church is wrong, you get baptized and stuff when all you have to do is believe. And i said, steve, every member of the church believes in jesus christ our savior, so by your standards, we are saved. Are you telling me we are trying too hard? and that shut him up pretty good.
Sunday 7-15-12
We had 2 investigators show up in templeton ward. Me and elder wood both spoke on faith in the atascadero ward. and we had a lesson with LIsa from france and also had a lesson with a part member family after church. IT was a pretty good day.
So by the looks of this email... i need to get back into writing a journal. I'm forgetting A LOT of stuff! Anyways! I'll try harder..
Transfers are next week. I'm kinda nervous. I really like it here... But then again some change would be nice.
I love you all a lot.
Write me :D
Elder Samuel Crapo
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