Six Months Tomorrow!

Hello Everyone! 

 Thanks for your emails and stuff, i didnt have as many as last week...
but maybe the mailbox will be super full when i check it later today
;) Anyways it was good to hear how things are going at home! 

 So real quick i gotta clear some things up with the llama rangling
stuff. Mum, the reason we rope these llamas is to mark them, which
you saw us do in the pictures and that way brother Moats knows which
ones are males, so that way he knows which ones to shoot and kill.
Because he only wants 6 and he has like... 10 right now... So without
the boys that means no more llamas. He actually invited us over to
help him... kill them haha. He really does kill them, we were picking
up trash around his property the other day and we saw a dead llama
laying on the ground all decayed out. It reaked! But it just proved
that brother moats is not joking when he says he doesnt care about
these animals at all! 

 Anyways! Onto my week! 

 Monday 8-8-11 

We had monday funday of course. I wasnt feeling good that day.. i
actually havent felt well all week. So that day i stayed in. I was
coughing a ton and didnt want to cough all over our investigators
haha. 

 Tuesday 8-9-11 

Went to the Leishmans in the morning to give their daughter Beth a
blessing. She is having surgery on her foot... i've seen the
aftermath... it looks really painful. 

 Sister alvis cancelled our appointment so we went to the chiropractor instead.

 Then we stayed in because i still wasnt feeling well :( 

 We went to brother moats' house later to help him with some cleaning
up his property, and didng a hole around a pipe that's leaking. I got
REALLY muddy. But they fed us dinner and it was AMAZING! They have
the best dinners over there. 

 Then we went to the kings and had smores. We also had a competition.
She told us before we came over to wear our ugliest ties. I have
inherited a bunch of ugly ties but i let elder Winward choose the
ugliest. I won the competition and she gave me a way nice tie! It was
very awesome of her! 

 Wednesday 8-10-11 

We went to Bakersfield for Zone Conference... Talk about fun... From
8:30 AM to 5pm non stop talking, teaching, training, role playing...
its pretty long. Anyways it felt like it went a million times quicker
than last time though... 

 Then i went on exchanges with Elder Lifungula. From Africa. That was
a lot of fun. I stayed there all the way till Friday Morning.
Working in Bakes makes me appreciate Tehachapi a lot more. 

 That night we taught a Less Active lady and i was able to give her
friend who just had eye surgery a blessing! That was cool! 

 Thursday 8-11-11 

It was about 100 Degrees all day in the Armpit of california. 

 We did some service in the morning and then ate lunch. 

 We contacted lots of people and had an awesome lesson with a less
active guy. He didnt understand the plan of salvation, or life, or
anything... kind of why he fell away from the church. And this was
one of my favorite teaching times because i taught him in a way that
he totally understood! It was awesome! I think he had a whole new
prespective on life. 

 Then we had dinner twice. Once at McDonalds and then when we dropped
the other elders off at their dinner appointment they invited us in
and had some meat loaf... it was strange and the family was crazy. I
literally watched the mom take a whole bottle of water and dump it on
her son while he was sitting on the couch. She was like squirting
them when they misbehaved haha. Kind of funny, weird for the house
though.. 

 Then we taught a book of mormon class which was pretty cool. We had
an awesome lesson and activity. It went well and we gave a lady a
blessing. 

 Then after that we went to a guys house who has what i have and he's
getting ready to go to the hospital. And we gave him a blessing. So
in one exchange we gave 3 blessings! 

 Friday 8-12-11 

We woke up at 6:30 and immediately left for Arvin to exchange back. 

 We went home and got ready for the day. 

 Did weekly planning at the other elders apartment because i still
wasnt feeling good :( I'm almost better! While we were there and had
nothing to do. We also invented a comic sketch. Me and Elder Nyland
are going to be huge when we get home, we will also make videos and
things when we get home since he lives in west jordan. We'll call
ourselves NYPO PRODUCTIONS! The Comic strip is called llama man! Its
amazing. 

 We went to the jacobsons and mad them dinner. Elder Winward made
french toast with home made syrup, and it was amazing. Then i made
dessert! Guess what i made? Yep! Blintzes! They loved them. They were
very impressed with our cooking skills. We also had two non members
there that we taught! Yay! 

 Then we went to the De Silvas and ate another dinner with them ugh! so
much food! Then we watched the joseph smith movie with Megan and Sven!
YES! He loved it. It was really spiritual. 

 We also came back and saw miguel and Kim. Miguel said he cried when
he found out i had left for Bakersfield! Thats going to be the hard
thing of leaving this area, there are so many people i'm attached to
that i dont want to leave :( But also i think i may be leaving here
next week... transfers are coming up and i have a feeling i will
leave. I've been here 4 transfers, 5.5 months! 

 Saturday 8-13-11

 Went and ate at the Leishmans. My comp made his syrup again! Its amazing! haha

 Me and my comp were both feeling sick so we stayed in and slept most
of the time.

 Then we went out and contacted some people. One of them being a
family that is all pretty much active except the husband and he wants
to be able to take his wife to the temple. So now he's going to take
the lessons. He has a huge house and property and four wheelers and
cars and trucks and a Bright orang dodge... i think its an avenger?
With a hemi..! ITs NICE! and everytime we go over they give us farm
fresh eggs! And they had a brand new baby Pug! And they had a dog
that looks exactly like the beast from the sandlot. And the whole
family is way awesome!

 Then we went to the golden hills bbq and it was very boring. 

 Then we went to the bethkes and had a good time eating dessert and
sitting around a fire. 

 Sunday 8-14-11

 Went to church, then went to more church, then went and gave brother
Jacobson a blessing. I guess he threw out his back working on the
car. Then we went to the Bairds for dinner and i guess Sister Baird
used to be Miranda Kunz's roomate in hawii! Crazy huh!? So we had a
pretty good time talking. Then we set up appointments and stuff and
that was it! 

 So that's my week! Write me more letters and make sure they go to the
Ventura address! Because by next week i could be gone. 

 Anyways! I love you all! Hope you are all safe and are having a good
time watching all the amazing movies coming out and stuff haha.
Anyways i will talk to you guys later! 

Love you all! miss you all! 

 Love

Elder Crapo