Subject: Crazy Week
Dear Family and Friends,
Hey family! How are you guys? i havent heard from a whole lot of you! So make sure you send me emails or letters so i can know how you are doing! This week has been a... Dramatic. Who knew missionary work was so full of drama... I'll tell ya alllllll about it righttttttt now.
Monday 11-28-11
Did the normal P-day stuff. Shopping, laundry, email.
We stayed at the church and played a game that the Jacobsons taught me in Tehachapi, its called Gator Ball. We had the whole zone show up plus some members and it was way fun to play!
Then we came home and wrote letters, went to dinner and then stopped at the Guidos and did a family night with them. Ended up playing Skip-Bo! I hadnt played that in forever! I loved it. Also their very autistic daughter Maria was running around, and she likes to Squeeze things... so she ran up to me and started squeezing my arm haha and then i realized she didnt have pants on! Baha! Way funny.
Tuesday 11-29-11
We went tracting with the spanish elders. We had a pretty good slam. We went to a door and there was a sign that said "No Soliciting" and the grumpy old grinch answers the door and is like "Did you read the sign!?" and i pretty much knew that was coming so i said "Sure did" SLAM! Highlight of the tracting period haha.
Then we ame home and ate lunch. Did some contacting through the ward list and went all the way to the tippy top of our area where we usually dont go because its up this HUGE hill. Its called Big sky, its where all the rich people live.. so we went the back way this time and found that it was so much easier going that way. On the way back down we must have hit at least 40 MPH. Could have gone faster had it not been for all this stinkin wind we've been having!
We stopped at a place called Rocket Fizz, i was looking for Guarana, they only had the diet... eh so i got it. And i got a cream soda. Rocket fizz is pretty much like Pirate O's except more sodas. The diet Guarana was WAY GROSS! DONT GET IT EVER. But Hanks Cream Soda on the other hand was quite pleasant! Then we left to go to our apartment, and on the way there my companion crashed hard core on his bike! BAHA! all i could hear was some plant making a noise and then a crash, he pretty much landed on his chest, but he crashed because he was going down the street, saw a bush, grabbed it and forgot to let go... s.m.r.t. It was so funny, there were so many people driving by! But i didnt laugh.. out loud. Didnt want to make him feel bad ya know?
Then we went and spoke with a potential lady. We made plans to go with her to the Simi Community Christmas!
*side note: While we were riding around earlier, there was a cop driving around (who is a member) but he was going through an intersection where we were crossing at, and he scared the crap out of us because as he drove by he got on his intercom and said "GO GET EM ELDERS!" haha way funny!
Then we went to dinner with Brother Anderson. Spoke about motorcycles a lot with him. he was into the Crotch Rockets... crazy dude! But he's got some good stories. He had a suzuki GRX 1000... pretty sure that the bike simon wanted.
Then we went on splits with the ward missionaries and ward mission leader and i had a letter from MUM! YAY!
Wednesday 11-30-11
We taught a less active lady in the morning then the Pinkstons saw us and took us to lunch which was way cool.
Contacted our potentials and Bullard was lagging way bad... which usually means he's having a bad day. So when we stopped i asked why and he said he wanted to go home... oh gosh. Here we go again. Thats made me realize that i have had 3/5 companions tell me that they want to go home... Anyways so i tried to encourage him a little bit, so we went to go tracting. he must have been at least a football feild behind me or more everywhere we went on our bikes. I had to keep stopping and waiting and stopping and waiting. Then when we went tracting i would wait at a door for a while so he would SLOWLY walk up and come to the door with me, and then when i was at the door he was still like 10 feet away from the door looking at a wall or looking the opposite direction. We knocked maybe 5 doors and i was like this is ridiculous. So we hopped on our bikes, i called the district leader and told him to come talk to my comp and to let me go out with his comp so we could get some work done. As soon as we walked in the door the first thing Bullard started to do was pack. Took out his suitcase and started packing. I left and went and did work. Me and elder Hernandez (who is a stud) went out and worked all the way till dinner. Then we came back, my apartment looked bare without Bullards stuff everywhere, he even packed his bedding! Then elder Graff informed us not to talk to him, that he would talk to president at Zone Conference the next day. So they dropped us off at the Community Christmas (me and hernandez) and then we couldnt get a ride back so we decided to walk, we walked for about and hour and thirty minutes (because this place was out of our area) and we just got to the end of our street and a member saw us and took us the rest of the way.
Pretty crazy day...
Thursday 12-1-11
We went to ZC. Still werent supposed to talk to Bullard. And he kept disappearing on me AT Zone CONFERENCE! How bad is it when you have to go ask president where your companion went? Zone Conference was long but good, and they made us some home made Cafe Rio. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD! We got to sit with Elder Finkle, who is the old guy who takes care of the cars, he's a dirty old man but he's HILARIOUS, our whole table was like crying because we were laughing so hard. Then at the very end we had to have interviews with president, Just me and my comp though. So We ended up having to cancel our dinner appointment because it was taking so long. But when elder Bullard was done with his interview it was my turn, so i went in and presdient basically just told me everything bullard said to him and he said that bullard basically blamed everything on me. So i told president everything i knew and he told me everything i need to do, he says he knows its not my fault, Bullard just comes from a COMPLETELY different life style and that he was just pointing fingers... So that kind of made me angry, because now i have to be nice and more patient and loving to a person who blames me for all his stress and problems... but hey, i can do this. Bullard was looking for a way out president said... he said he used every trick in the book to try and go home. But president wouldnt budge haha. So now he's stuck with me for 3 more weeks. And i am doing a lot of changing to keep this little kid happy. But i can do it! Look at the bright side, we got new Cell phones at Zone Conference haha they are pretty sick.
I also got mail at ZC, from the Johnson girls in Tehachapi, and they put something way funny in one of the letters. They too, thought i looked like Draco Malfoy from harry potter, so they sent me a picture book of "The life of Elder Crapo" and it had pictures of that Draco kid on ever page but they had a picture and then the age it would have a picture of him from the first movie and it would say "Elder crapo at age 8" haha and it worked its way up and ended with my picture at the end, i thought that was pretty funny!
Then we got dropped off at the Community christmas again and it was a way good time. They had some WAY Good performances.
Friday 12-2-11
We did our weekly planning as usual. I decided during comp inventory i would listen to what my companion had to say, and i wouldnt say anything lest i give him any more stress.... So pretty much i have a lot of changing to do haha. But i will do it.
We went out and got Anne (our recent convert) some doo dads for her birthday, cuz it was her birthday, and we left it on her door step. She really liked it!
Then we ate lunch and talked to a potential investigator and actually got into a deep discussion, she's an old lady named murtle but she has way good questions and has been going with friends to the mormon church for a while now. So we set up an appointment and will be back to teach her! WOO HOO!
Then we went to our 17 year old investigators house, and she invited a friend! And we had planned to teach the law of chastity... out of all times to invite your friend you do it then. But the girl is really sincere about learning more and believes everything in the chastity pamphlet. We set BOTH of them with a date to be baptized for December 24th!!!! They agreed... these girls are REALLY girly though so they have a bit of a fear to get their hair wet... but i think they will definitely be ready by then!
Then we saw some more peeps and went to the community christmas again (it was going on for 4 days straight) and then we went to dinner with the Spanish Elders and Barry! It was loads of fun. way good day compared to the others.
Saturday 12-3-11
We did service at that amazon house i told you about last week. I climbed up WAY high into this tree with a saw and started taking down HUGE branches haha, you can finally get some sunlight into that backyard! If you think i'm joking i'm not! We did a lot of work but didnt get much done. We still have no place to put the branches or anything, we are still waiting on getting a dumpster but hey, it looks a lot better than what it did before!
Then we went to the park to play sports because i told you last week that i had made fliers and everything for it... well only 4 other people showed up... So this week we made sure EVERYBODY got a flier! We will not have a repeat of that again! Next week is dodgeball and before we did frisbee.
Then we went to the Guidos house and i put the christmas lights up. When my companion hears the word service or work he usually hides... seriously. But funny thing was i felt like Clark Grizwald because i put them up with a staple gun... baha! We couldnt get a ride home and so we just jogged, and on the way some girls thought it would be funny to run along side us, and they were stupid annoying teenage girls so i put on the turbo boosters and hauled buns outta there, they were like "oh my gosh look at how fast they can run" Burn dust! Eat my rubber!
Then we went to Barry's house for dinner with the spanish elders, always a good time.
Sunday 12-4-11
Went to church as usual, had 2 investigators show up, 1 less active and 1 recent convert! Then we went to the Guidos house for dinner! It is always the best to have dinner with the Guidos!
Thats pretty much it. Sorry i cant write personal emails! I usually will print off any email you send and write you a response. So just look out for it in the mail. P day just doesnt allow for that much time to be wasted on the computer! But send me letters! And pictures, one of my favorite things to get is pictures! So send them! I love you all and pray for you all!
Love
Elder Crapo
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