5/9/11

Hey Family And Friends.

Cant believe how time is flying I've almost completed 1/8 of my
mission already! I didnt do as well at writing stuff down this week
because i was calling home but i'll try my best to let you know what
happened.

Monday 5-2-11
It was P-Day and we ate at Quiznoz. Or Kriznoz if you're elder Snarr.
We did laundry and figured out a good way to make our whites really
white.

Then we went and visited Cyprus, who is our new investigator. She is
a girl that has been going to church since she was a little girl and
she now wants to be baptized! So lucky us!

Then we stopped by Randy's house and he gave me some advice on how to
take Protien and Creatine... So we'll see how that goes. I havent
taken any of either because i eat so much here anyways i dont think i
need any supplements.

Tuesday 5-3-11
We woke up and had a lot of service planned for the day. Except our
first appointment was a LA lady, and when we called she cancelled so
it basically turned into a full service day. We went to another LA
ladies house and she made us tons of food. Just for us, because we
fixed up her yard. Made it look way nice. I felt so fat though, i
couldnt stop eating, i ate 6 hotdogs! And i didnt even have my JAY
DAWG SAUCE!

Then we went to Brother Moynya's house again and helped him with some
service. Cutting down trees and what not.

Then we went and got the other two Elders and took them to Brother
Moat's house where we lassoed llamas! Because he bought 6 females and
now has 12. So... obviously one of them is a boy. So we roped them
and figured out which ones were the boys. My Companion whipped out a
knife and started castrating one, and it started FREAKING out! but the
knife wasnt sharp enough so we just spray painted its belly to know
that it is a boy and we sent it on its way. We tagged all the boys.

We at dinner at the Moat's house which was good, they always have
AMAZING food. And again, there were more hot dogs, and i forgot my
Jay Dawg Sauce again. I think i'm just going to leave it in the car.

Wednesday 5-4-11
We went to a guys house in the other elders ward. His name is Dusty.
He's a black guy that has parkensons disease. He is always shakey and
stuff. But he's a way funny guy. We did some service for him and he
fed us lunch. He also gave us a gas grill that sits on our porch now
:D

I went to the Chiropractor as usual, and this week was awesome, he
popped my neck in a million different places!

Then we went to Wayne and Nita's house, and their back yard is still
like a swamp so we started tilling all the ground to make it look not
so terrible. I thought i wasnt going to have a chance to till this
year but i did! And it was fun. I got a little sun burnt on the arms
and neck. So wearing a dress shirt hurts a little bit.

We then went home and changed, talked to Lorretta for a bit. She's
had a rough week dealing with a whole bunch of kids and her knew job
is a little hectic being a lunch lady.

Then we stopped by the Kills house. We talked to them for a little
bit because they are all non members, but the missionaries converted
their son and he left for a mission right before i got here. And
these people love their son so much and miss him tons and dont want
anything to do with the church but think he is so awesome for taking
two years of his life to go on a mission. And he writes home and says
"tell the missionaries there to teach you about..." and we'll teach
them lessons that way because they will listen to their son. But i
also hooked them up on the computer because he Skyped home for mothers
day and i set it up on their computer because they are computer
illiterate.

Thursday 5-5-11
Thursday was good, we went to distric meeting as usual. I led the
role play and it was on Comp. unity and i think i did a way good job.
The role play was fun and everyone had a good time because usually
role playing is stupid but i made it fun.

Then i went on exchanges with elder Murray to Bakersfield. It was so
hot! it was about 98 Degrees all day! And we went tracting for like...
3 or 4 hours! But tracting was way good. I was a teaching machine. I
found 3 potentials for them so they want to learn more! Woo hoo.

We also talked to some interesting people down there. Like these one
guys, two mexican guys out in their front yard Sippin beer and smoking
cigs. and i stopped to talk to them. They were way chill though.
They liked us a lot. They were so funny, they were like "arent you
the guys that have like seven wives? Seven wives would be a lot of
work, if ya know what i mean" and then he did some Pelvic Thrusts haha
i was laughing SO HARD. I told him he had an awesome truck (one of
those old school ones) he tried to sell it to me for 7K but i said i
will in two years haha.

We also got decieved by two girls. One came to the door and said her
parents werent home and she spoke funny, but she was way pretty and
looked about our age, so i was like "Elder Murray does that girl have
like a speaking problem?" and he was like "No, she's only 11 years
old".... I dragged my jaw home haha. and then the same thing happened.
We stopped at some investigators house and they were such an awesome
family, i got to meet them all, and then again, they had a way cute
daughter, and she looked our age, and when we left i was like "Let me
guess, she's 13?" and elder murray was like "Yep" i was so shocked
haha!

But i taught a ton of lessons and connected well with tons of people
so i think i'll be ok when Pulham leaves. But man was it hot! i still
cant believe how stupidly hot it was haha.

Friday 5-6-11
I came home from Bakersfield, Elder Jarvies had made me Mickey Mouse
pancakes and eggs though for breakfast. That was pretty awesome. WE
came home and changed then went and ate at Kriznoz again.

We went to the church and did some weekly planning. And then went to
Albertsons and bought some dinner because we didnt have a dinner sign
up. So we got a whole bunch of polish dogs to cook up som Jay Dawgs.
And some lady in line behind us bought all our groceries for us! It
was sweet!

so we went home and cooked the dogs on our new gas gril from Dusty.

We then went to see Cyprus again, and we taught the Plan of Salvation.
And it was good, we've been working on comp unity and we did really
well this time. Spoke about 50/50 in our lesson.

We went up stairs (Because we teach Cyprus at the petersons and the
Holloways live upstairs) and we went and visited the Holloways. The
Husband had just had his wisdome teeth out. And they said that their
little boy always says "Crapo" haha!

And then we went and got Enamel Strengthening tooth paste because my
tooth on the other side chipped, they're getting brittle or something?
So i had to do something about it.

Saturday 5-7-11
I dont really remember what happened this day? I didnt write anything
in my journal. But i do know that we did missionary work, and we also
had a sweet BBQ at our apartment because a member gave us food for us
to cook. STEAK! Marinated in Jay Dawg Sauce! It was pretty tasty! And
we finished all 16 of the Polish dogs we bought! SICK!

Sunday 5-8-11
Another long sunday. Only because we dont get to eat until dinner.
And for dinner we ate Pasta roni. and the last Jay Dawg. So it wasnt
so Splendid. But it was cool because i got to call my family! Yay! It
was too soon though haha. its only been 3 months. You guys dont miss
me yet ;) just kidding

Anyways, dad's doing good on writing home. I've gotten a letter for
april and may so looks like i'll be writing the rest of the month
haha! and i'm working on not saying HAHA so much but its habit, plus
you guys can know when i'm laughing...? I dont know why it bugs
you!?!? CANT I SHOW JOY IN MY LETTERS? just kidding. Anyways thanks
for all your support. The church is true. Love you all.

Love
Elder CRAPO!!!!!