Slow week 6/13/2011

Hello Family and Friends,

This week is going a little better. Thank you for all the emails.
Sorry i dont have the chance to write everyone back seperately, we are
going to the temple on saturday, so we have to cut our P-Day in
half...
My nerves have settled, i just wasnt ready for what hit me. I was
supposed to get a fearless senior comp and got someone with a whole
bunch of problems so i had to step up to the plate and take a lot of
responsibility. Everyone says they feel like i've been out forever
because of how well i'm handling all this. They keep saying i'll be
ZL before i know it... pft, yeah right. i dont want to be ZL. I wrote
president about it all and all that happened was now Elder Summers
talks to a Dr. from Utah and he takes a prescription which he calls
his crazy pills... which is just the knock off of prozac... yeah so
these pills are the hard stuff. I dont think its right if you ask
me... if pills are keeping you on your mission, then go home. Thats
what i told president... i told him to send him home... he obviously
doesnt want to be a missionary and i want a companion that wants to be
one ya know?
Anyways in almost every letter you guys asked how my shoulder was.
Besides it hanging a little lower than the other its fine. It only
hurts a little bit. The Dr. actually said that it fixed the muscles
in my neck and i havent had a headache since... (Except fast sunday)

So here's my week...

Monday 6-6-11
I forgot on this day to write home about when we were at the Bennetts
tying the dummy calf, Elder Summers ripped the crotch out on his pants
on his second run... it was so funny. He put on some sweats while
sister Bennett sewed his pants back up. I also forgot to say that i
heard the longest fart of my life... When we were at brother Kannards
he... gets gassy. And his fart lasted AT LEAST 15 seconds long.
Continuoslly! It was nuts! I was laughing so hard.

We ate Breakfast at the Leishmans with all the YSA and then we went
over to the Church and played cames. My Comp said that it was like an
awkward day activity to a dance which is stupid because i love monday
fundya. He just sat around writing letters the whole time while were
were all having fun. He's excited that we arent having monday funday
today...

I spoke with Elder Carrera about Elder Snarr. They were having a
difficult time to start. They had to leave early to go to an
appointment.

We stayed a little longer and then left to go change the laundry, well
when i opened the door, Carrera and Snarr were just YELLING their guts
off at each other. So i shut the door and walked back to the car.
Told my comp. what was going on. Said they just need to get it out...
Well we waited a little bit before we went back and as soon as i
walked through the door Elder Carrera pointed at me and marched
towards me and said "YOU WALK WITH ME NOW!!!" and we went on a walk
and talked things out a little bit. Then we came back and got him on
the phone with president. We wasted about 2 hours of our P-Day doing
this.

We then went home and changed, picked up the other elders and went
shopping. The President called and was concerned for how this was
effecting me. I told him i was fine, because at that point i was just
like... this is stupid. All the Elders Around me are going crazy!
haha i think i'm the only normal... i think i'm normal...?

Well then he wanted to talk to Elder Summers. He spoke with him
outside the car for about 40 Minutes... and i just sat there and
listened to him tell president about how much he hates this place...

I wrote president a novel of a letter telling him what i think about
Summers. Cool guy, doesnt want to be a missionary, send him home.
that was it... except in detail.

Then we went to Stallion Springs and ate dinner with the McHenry
family, after that we went to Wayne and Nitas and shared a video with
them and talked to them a bit. It went pretty well. I love Wayne and
Nita, they are pretty much members, they just need to stop smoking.

Tuesday 6-7-11
This day was a rough one as well. Trying to find something to do...

We contacted lots of people and taught only one lesson. We contacted
Less actives, Formers, Recent Converts, Service, Tracting...
EVERYTHING! and still had time left over... it was making me so angry
because i didnt know what to do?

While we were tracting we got stuck on a porch with a guy for one hour
who told me to my face that Joseph Smith was a nut job, i wanted to
bear my testimony that i know Joseph Smith to be a true prophet
because of the intense desire i had to punch this old fart in the
face. TKO.

Elder summers got a lot of mail this day... i hadnt had mail for... 3
weeks and he sat on the phone with the president and just tore open
his mail and threw it on the ground... wow...

Wednesday 6-8-11
This was a pretty good day... better than the day before

We went to Dr. Schall and he took care of us. Sister Alvis Cancelled
our appointment.

We then went and picked up some weed wackers because we had a bunch of
service planned for the day. We went to Joe Moynya's house and he
wasnt home. So we went to the Bear Valley market and got some burgers
from there. Also got some oil for my cool cigar lighter.

We then went to a potentials house and did some yard work for her.
She wasnt home because she had a stroke earlier in the morning... so
we just did it so she could be happy when she got home.

We then helped wayne wtih some yard work, then we had a good
discussion about a guy we found on Mormon.org who told his story about
how he conquered smoking. We shared that with him and his wife and
they said it was a really good idea and a way good story. No
missionary has presented something like that so i hope to see progress
from them.

I bought some boots the day before, i needed some service boots. I
was sick of getting fox tails stuck in my socks. So i got some Texas
Steel work boots and they look like army boots. they are pretty sick!
They were only $32.

We ate dinner with the bishop at a burger place. Two burgers in one
day :( No Bueno!

WE dropped off a book of mormon and a guys house who requested one
online, he said he was curious and we set up an appointment with him
on tuesday. It made my day.

We visited sister Layne and found out that when she was married she
was only 15! and her husband was 18! and they've been married ever
since. They are two years away from their 70th anniversary!

And then we went over to the Holloways house to see how it is doing.
They have everything set up and it looks WAY GOOD.

Thursday 6-9-11
WE went to Bakes for District meeting. On our way back the two other
elders fell asleep in the back seat so while we were on the highway we
hit the brakes really hard and screamed "DEEEEEEER" and thye jumped so
high, pooped their pants i think. It was wya funny.

I got two letters. One from mom to tell me that she had been sending
emails to the wrong address, and one from a sister i met in the MTC.
so that made me a little happy.

We found an old guy and gave him a pamphlet and he was pretty cool.

We went around looking for something to do and found an old lady who
was pretty cool, has a huge front gardent and we told her we'd come
help her sometime.

Then we ate dinner at the Bennetts and watched the Joseph Smith movie.
I havent seen the whole thing in forever.

Friday 6-10-11
Times arent getting any easier, we are way over on miles, and golden
hills is dead. I'm so sick of tracting its a joke. The Golden Hills
ward needs to do their stinking home teaching because more than half
the people on the ward list are either less active or dead or moved.

We had weekly planning. It went by WAY too fast...

Travelled to stallion and saw irlene (Potential) We asked her if she
would be interested in taking the lessons and she said yes, so we get
to start meeting with her which is SICK!

WE went to brother Moats house and had some homemade ice cream, he
said to come back sometime so we can rope llammas.

We taught a recent convert lesson to the Salyers kids, that went really well.

We went to the apartment and made some calls, dinner was pushed back
an hour and so we basically just waited, biggest waste of time ever...
because elder summers didnt want to tract or anything... we just sat
in the car...

we had dinner with the clarks. Brother clark was scaring me, he
seemed way sketched out, like in his own world. it was way scary. he
was pail and looked like he'd lost a lot of weight.

Then we came in early because we didnt know what to do. Coming in
early Drives me NUTS!!!

Saturday 6-11-11
I put down that Elder Summers is a stickler on the little rules... so
we didnt get to go to the Leishmans until 10 because Elder Summers HAS
to do his studies in the morning... PLEASE. He wont even make u-turns
so we end up wasting a grip load of miles trying to find some place he
can turn around... He keeps changing routine things that we do,
because he doesnt like them and he wants it done his way... its
driving me up the wall.

We stopped by a potential, the guy lied and said that the lady we were
looking for wasnt there...

Then we tracted a way nice neighborhood and didnt find ANYBODY. Golden
Hills sucks.

WE ate lunch at Jack in the Butt.. Summers likes it... Made me feel fat.

We drove out to stallion springs and hung out with chester for a
little bit. He was supposed to be cleaning out the garage, but
instead he fixed the yard equipment and bought more junk at yard
sales. Like a big neon bud light sign. Its huge! We hung it up in
his garage. Then he called Brother Moffatt, and he drove over on his
little rider mower, it was pretty funny.

We stopped at sister Coppersmiths, less active, just talked with her
for a bit. then we contacted more people.

We went to bear Valley, looking for people on a list. Met up with a
potential and got her number so we could set up an appointment with
her. She is so cool and so is her family. She was holding a little
puppy that was all stitched up because a big bull dog got a hold of it
and just about killed it.

We then visited the Kernazitskas, and this family is like Steve Irwins
family. No Joke! They teach their kids to catch every animal and
rattle snakes and stuff. They also had a video of a bear that came
into their front yard, right up to their door.

We went to the bethkes and burnt Elder Summers hump day shirt.

Also the night before, when i was dreaming, in my dream a door bell
went off. and i woke myself up because it sounded like our door bell
and it was, someone sat outside our door for like 15 minutes tapping
on our window and ringing our doorbell at 1 am in the morning. there
was no way i was going to answer the door! We live right across the
street from the Jehovah witnesses place of worship. We're probably on
a hit list!

Sunday 6-12-11
We had a pretty good day at church besides elder Summers complaining
that its another long day... i like church, the two sessions are
good... i thought it was rough to start but get over it.

We ate ribs at the De Silvas which was way tasty..

Then we went to the kings, had a way good lesson about the gospel of
jesus christ, and then we asked them to be baptized... it didnt go
well. i think we lost a lot of trust doing so... we might never get
back in the door.... and if we dont i'll be so angry because they are
progressing amazingly. What makes me even more angry is that Elder
Summers doesnt care that it went that way... He's so used to be shot
down, he's so blunt with people because he's been dealing with the
punks in bakersfield and now that he's come to heaven where everyone
is nice he ends up offending EVERYONE, its driving me nuts, he's so
blunt, he's got dry humor, that is not humorous, more offensive if
anything, and he's cocky... how can you be cocky when you are calling
home begging to go home? I dont know if i can handle this guy much
longer. Havent looked forward to transfers so much in my life...

Anyways i guess i'm doing ok, i'm just going through a... stupid.
That's all i can think to say haha. I love you all, thanks again for
your emails and concerns. I look forward to your next emails.

Love,
Elder Crapo