New Mission President

Hello everybody!

Thanks everyone for the emails and if you wrote me a letter thank you
for that as well :D Those are always goooooooooood... This week has
been good. And we got a new mission president... So let me tell you
ALLLLL about my week.

 Monday 6-27-11
I didnt write anything for this day... i think in my last email i let
you know everything.... So... SKIP 

 Tuesday 6-28-11
We went and helped a new family move into their house. It was pretty
fun. they had a HUGE piano and a HUGE wardrobe... so it was pretty
heavy lifting but it was no match to my missionary madness.

Then we went to the McHenry's and chatted with brother mcHenry while
sister mchenry picked up the lady we were teaching. I have some
pictures of brother mchenry's garage, he's got some funny stuff, but
i'll post them another time... i've got a dumpy computer. But we ate
lunch with the mchenry's and the lady we were going to teach, then we
taught a lesson, well we tried, but the lady kept falling asleep,
like, her face went into her pasta salad, oh man, you know me, i
couldnt keep the laughs in.... She just cant afford her meds and so
she has some sleeping problems... poor lady. and after that we went to
her house and did some service, it was bad, i made a dustdevil with
the lawn mower, had dirt in every crevise!

Then we went to another investigators house and did A TON of weed
wacking! TONS! it kind of stunk, but it was ok because they really
appreciated it.

Then we ate dinner with the Stewart family. That was pretty fun.

Then we dug a trench for sister bethke. she wants to put gopher wire
into the ground so they cant get to her grass. So we dug some of it
for her.

I was SO tired when i got home. The Shower was pure mud coming off my
body hahaha NASTY! 

 Wednesday 6-29-11
I woke up and made a big ol' list of people to go see for the day.

Ate a bowl of cereal and an omelete. I dont know why i'm getting so
hungry in the mornings? I used to never eat breakfast. I feel like a
fatty! I came out weighing 155 and now i weigh almost 180! its so
cool! And Logan sent me a picture of him, THAT KID IS SKINNY!!! its so
funny.

Then we went out and contacted TONS of people.

Introduced a good finding idea to brother waring, and now that is under way.

As we contacted we found 25 DNC's! That's crazy! (do not contact)

We finally got our fans, it is a huge help, some nights.

I got the tie and card from mother, thank you very much, i dont have a
red tie so it made my day :D 

 Thursday 6-30-11
We had district meeting, it was pretty funny because we had an object
lesson with cool aid and everyone got a drink, but some were made with
sugar and some were made with salt, haha a kid spat his cool aid all
over the relief society room because it was so gross.

We then ate lunch at Crap in a box, i dont like that place.

Then i got to go on exchanges with the District Leader. I think it
went really well. First time i havent been bothered by my companion
in months! :D and i told him the whole situation and he had no idea
what was going on and i told him my thoughts so hopefully this
transfer will bring lots of change :D

Throuout the day we did all kinds of stuff. Contacted people, helped
brother Moffatt take his snug top off his truck.

Then we ate dinner with some members and the ward missionaries, they
invited a lady who is not active and we asked her to be baptized, she
said yes haha it was nuts. So it was just a soft set, but the next
time we see her we are going to set her with a date! BOO YA!

Then we came home and the new president called, said he wanted to talk
to my companion and i had to tell him he was in bakersfield so he
called him. But the guy sounds cool, just a little... foreign haha.
But it was a really good day. 

 Friday 7-1-11
Had a good morning chatting with elder Mecham

Drove to arvin to get my companion back

My comp wasnt feeling well... i guess he had thrown up earlier?

We went back to drop off his stuff and i got mail from a lady that
doesnt know me and i dont know her, but she says she lived in the
ventura area and now lives in american fork. And it was a strange
letter but maybe she read my blog? Noticed i wasnt getting much mail
and took pity? haha

Then we went to the church and did some weekly planning. The Jacobson
kids saw our car and came to talk to us. They also wrote all over our
windows... that happens a lot out here. So we went to the car wash and
fixed all that.

Then we went to the Wagners and helped them out with some service,
taking some green waste to the dump and what not.

We kept a whole bunch of his wood to burn at the bethkes the next night.

So we came back in and ate dinner then went to the Salyers home to
continue the Recent Convert lessons. And it went well, we got their
hometeacher to come too.

Then we stopped off at the bethkes and dropped off the wood.

I had to buy another gallon of milk too. I drink like a gallon in 4
days... haha i dont know why? But its good! And Cold!

My bed is all messed up, the box spring mattress has broke, like every
peice of wood to hold my bed up has snapped, but i finally found a way
to fix it, so i guess its ok now.
 

Saturday 7-2-11
Sister Leishman had to cancel breakfast

But i got mail from WAWA!!! i really enjoyed the cookies and the
letters, it was hard to read sarah's letter because it was in NEON
PINK! haha but thank you very much!  Then we went to brother Kannards to help with service, he also fed us
lunch. The service was way hard, he cut down a huge rotted tree and
we had to haul the wood to the top of his hill and split it. Drained
my energy because it was way hot too. Never sweated so much in my
life. I also am proud to say that my trainer trained me well, i can
rope really well now. i roped the kannards dog while it was running at
mach 10! haha!

Then we came in and showered and then went to brother warings and
correlated with him.

Then went and took some pictures on skyline and then headed to the
thomas' where we watched some mormon movies. Then they took us to the
country club which was way nice, but still.... too fancy for me, but
right out the window is the community pool and we saw so many members
out there... some i didnt want to see in their swimming suits, but
hey, now i got black mail ;)

Then we changed and went back to the bethkes and helped them finish
the trench, working out there with the misquitos was no good, i was
COVERED in mosquito bites! its stunk! i looked like the elephant man
hahahaha i took a picture.

And there are tons of people around for the 4th of july.. i'm so jealous 

 Sunday 7-3-11
Not a whole lot happened, just had lots of church then went to break
the fast with the YSA and then contacted people not a whole lot....

Anyways that's my week. I'll let you know how this week goes. Next
monday should bring "Change" haha but i'll let ya know. Thank you so
much for all the emails and support. Sorry if this letter is short, i
dont have much time! Love you all very much and i miss ya!

Love

Elder Crapo