From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
Hello Everyboday!
Time For email time! Thanks to those that sent me emails and letters. Sorry if i dont write you back, i only get a limited time on the computer... :( But i try to drop a quick line when i can! But here is my week!
Monday 7-11-11
We had transfer calls! Woo Hoo! They called and asked me to stay in Tehachapi! YES! I love it here! Elder Summers got transferred to Camarillo! So now i'm with Elder Winward! This guy is awesome!
Anyways, besides that not much else happened on monday... some YSA showed up but there were only a few people and we didnt do anything because Elder Summers and Snarr wanted to pack.
So after P-day we went out, saw ANOTHER fire and went over to see if we could help again. I guess this one was a little more crazy, in between houses and stuff, they had helicoptors and airplanes dropping water and all sorts of stuff!
Then we said goodbye to the Bennetts and the Bethke's!
No Mail :( but it figured because i knew i'd get mail from the Mission office the next day :D
Tuesday 7-12-11
Woke up at 5! :( You know me! I love the morning....
Drove to Ventura with Brother Miller. That was pretty fun. I kinda fell asleep so i didnt know what was going on, but hey, we got there right?
I saw Elder Haynie down there! It was awesome! I miss that guy so much!
Then i got my new comp, he's pretty dang awesome! Elder Winward. He's from Mesa, Arizona. He played tons of sports in high school and got a full ride scholarship to a school in Arizona to play football but he turned it down to go on his mission and they didnt hold it for him. Kid is awesome!
Then we came back, did a little shopping and unpacked everything.
Then we went to the Laynes for dinner, that was good because sister Layne is the Coolest! He got to have a game of Ping Pong with her!
Then we came back and took the other Elders Shoppings. Elder Carrera is now with Elder Nyland. Elder Nyland came out the same time as me but we were in different districts in the MTC so i didnt know him. They are both kind of... nerdy. But hey at least Carrera is happy now. He goes home next month!
Then we did some planning for the next day and did some workin out and went to bed!
Its weird because even though the transfer before was really rough and i was struggling, i still get the stomach ache... i think its just because of the change. I have to start all over with Elder Winward. Kind of take control of everything again... But the stomach aches are gone now, before when i got put with Elder Summers the Stomach ache lasted about 2 weeks! Worste two weeks ever!
Wednesday 7-13-11
Had the Chiropractor! It was great! He told me that i need to go see a Nerologist, because i have something wrong with my arm, and if i lift it, it goes numb. So he told me to do that... Something is wrong with my nerves i guess?
We went and watched some MORMON.ORG!!!!! ...boring
Then we went tracting for about 2 hours. That was pretty sweet. We found one guy, as soon as we knocked on his door he opened the door and held a book up, and all i could see was "Holy Bible" then i kept reading "Book of mormon, Doctrine & covenants, Pearl Of Great Price" and i was like YES! FINALLY! and he said that a neighbor in the Golden Hills ward gave it to him, he's been really interested and has been reading for quite some time. His exact words were actually, "I've been reading this for a while now and i really like i'm just not mormon yet" haha! YES! We are going to try and go back and teach him so that he can be Baptized.
Before we went tracting we had dropped off the truck, the brakes were really bad on them... really squeeky! So we had to go get new brake pads. As we were walking back to the tire store, we saw another fire! But i think this one got a house cuz it was a ton of black smoke!
We stopped at our apartment, ate some grub, took a snooze! (...which is probably what you're doing right now because this letter is so boring)
Then we went to the store and bought some last minute stuff.
Then we ate with the Warings for dinner.... Elder Winward agrees with me on them... they are a bit.... odd.
Then we came back in and worked on updating both Area books...
Thursday 7-14-11
We went to the church and made some CD's for the car ride down to bakersfield. We didnt have any music, but Elder Winward had some on some jump drives so we burnt them onto some CD's
Then we went to Bakersfield for district meeting. I had to conduct the "Get to know you" it was pretty sweet... There are a few more new elders, and i took pictures but i totally forgot to bring my cord to plug them into the computer so maybe next week if you write me lots of letters.... But we got a black missionary from Africa, he's so cool! We also got Portable DVD players! How weird is that? We get to use them during study time. We can watch any church approved movie... i can see this going really bad. Some retard missionary is either going to ask someone to send him stuff or just going to buy it himself..... Who knows, we'll see. I like the good old fashioned study better anyways.
We then ordered a HUGE PIZZA! HUGE!!!! I took pictures! And we took it back to the other elders apartment and ate it there. Elder Jarvies told us some way funny stories. About how he got sick last week and they were out tracting and had to go #2 really bad, like way bad! haha and he didnt make it.... It was so funny!
Then we went back to Tehachapi and got mail. I got that Army stuff mum sent which was way cool. I guess you guys want me going into the army eh? I think i might... i just dont know what i'd do? I kinda want to save people instead of kill people, but i dont want to go into the medical field... who knows what i'll do? We'll see when i get home.
We went to dinner at the Holloways! They are so cool!
Friday 7-15-11
I forgot to write in my journal for this day... i'll have to try and remember what happened.
We did Weekly planning which went pretty quick.
Then we went to "Grandmas" house and did a whole bunch of service for her. Cutting down branches off a tree and stuff.
Then we went to the Kings house and did some service for them, that was really cool to go there and do service, John and i were trying to figure out the knot that dad taught me to tie when we would bundle corn stalks.... i could not remember it was driving me NUTS! So dad needs to mail me back ASAP to tell me how to do it!
Then we had dinner, we didnt have an apointment, so we just ate a pizza that grandma gave us, it was pretty tasty.
Then we went out and contacted a boat load of people. Took some AWESOME PICTURES! Too bad i'm a retard and forgot my cord! Gah!
Saturday 7-16-11
Saturday morning we went to the Leishman's house! She made Crepes! They were pretty good. Then we did some service for them.
Then we went with the Tehachapi elders and did some roofing with them. That was pretty sweet, really dirty, but awesome and fun. We'll be going back tomorrow to help them put up the new shingles.
Then we ate at the Grease pit called Frosty King...
Went out to Bear Valley and contacted some peeps, not a whole bunch of people were home :( So we did some driving up on the roads that went along the mountain sides, took some MORE PICTURES!
Then we went to the Bethkes and had dinner with them, had a big fire and called it a night.
Sunday 7-17-11
This was a LONG day...
We had to go the the Golden Hills ward PEC meeting. Which stunk because we had to be up at 5AM to get ready, so we were at church for 9 HOURS!!!! i felt like an employed worker... not getting paid. Anyways we had to because we had to fix some things in the Golden Hills ward. We have been going through the Directory, contacting everybody! and there are about 25 Do not contacts... that is ridiculous! NOBODY has home teachers! and the bishop got offended that we brought it to his attention, i think i got offended because we were telling him, basically, how crappy of a job he's doing when there was a room full of other men. So he was making up all sorts of excuses about the DNC people, like "well this guy moved" ok... GET RID OF HIS RECORDS THEN!!! it was driving me nuts... gave me a head ache.... so i started my day off with a head ache and still had 8 hours to go. So it was a long stinkin day.
We didnt have a dinner set so we called the Bennetts and they had us over. After dinner we tied the calf dummy.. That was way fun. I'm gettin good, i'll be a cowboy yet!
Anyways, that was my week pretty much. I'm super stoked with this transfer and loving the new comp. I hit my 5 month mark 2 days ago... i'm almost 1/4 done with my mission... how nuts is that? Its going to be crazy. Anyways, i miss you all very much. And love ya! Hope you are all safe! Spread the gospel.
Love
Elder Crapo
P.S. i still havent received any pictures yet from life before the mission. I want Family pictures, friends pictures... all pictures on my facebook and stuff! I regret not bringing any with me so send me some yeah?
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