Subject: I feel like i was just here... in this spot... writing you an email.
Well another week has flown by! I'm now 10 months out! Just hit the double digits... ugh, how unfortunate! I cant believe how fast everything is going. Makes my stomach hurt thinking about it! Man! Oh well... Here's my week for ya!
Monday 12-12-11
We did the usual stuff, cuz it was P-day, so you know what that consists of, laundry, shopping, email... the works.
Then we printed up some pictures and i bought some christmas cards. I sent possibly 25 cards out! haha it took forever to write up and to get stamped and goin! That'll probably be the only christmas present i can send... i'm b.r.o.k.e.
Then we were supposed to play volleyball. but nobody really wanted to play. So we just went shoppin'
Then we came in wrote christmas cards and had dinner at 6! Then we went to the Guidos home for family night. Which is always a good time.
Tuesday 12-13-11
We did service in the morning for that crazy lady who has the amazon for the backyard! It was cool... she got a little emotional because she saw we were cutting stuff down... but it had to be done.
Then we ate lunch and went to Sister Starns home, chatted with her for quite a while at the door.
We thought we would go contact some of our potentials we havent seen in a while. We went to this young girls house who said she would check out the church. She actually went i just didnt see her i guess? Her, and her mom, and her grandma. Her mom didnt like it but her and her grandma did, they say they want to go back and hopefully we can begin to teach them the lessons! BOO YA! That would be Santa Susana's first real investigator since i've been here...
Then we did some tracting, of course no success.
We went to the Bickmores for dinner and it was great, they had their bedroom in their living room because they are remodelling their room. it was pretty funny.
Then we went with Brother Walter on splits. As usual. Not much to say there.
Wednesday 12-14-11
We had district meeting. and sister Hoggan, the crazy lady who is a hoarder showed up and actually taught a lesson. It was a pretty good lesson i guess? Then she fed us lunch, which everyone was worried about because she hoards food in her house too... remember when i told you she has two fridges because one got too full and started to raught so she bought a new one to start over, and it resides in her living room haha yeah, so i was a little hesitant in eating, but it looked ok and we all said extra prayers for it. During lunch she did something called Graphology, and its where she can tell what kind of person you are by the way you write, and she was pretty accurate on all of us and she doesnt even know us that well. She even got a missionary who is usually pretty quiet to start bawling like a baby because by the look of his handwriting she said he was suffering and needs to seek help and stuff like it was pretty powerful... inspired, probably not, but it was cool.
Then we went to Brother Penrods house and chatted with him, it had been a while since we'd seen him. My companion always falls asleep at his house and it offends brother Penrod. I dont think he likes him at all... Its so embarrassing to try and cover for my companion when he just decides to be mean and not care about anyone. People always ask him questions and he'll IGNORE them!?!?! I'm usually having to answer his questions for him and people look at me with the look like "is he ok?" and then look at him like "gosh what the heck is your problem" haha seriously! Its so annoying! I wish in my letters home i could say "i love my companion he is the best, we get along and are gonna hange out after the mission" but when that day comes the angels will appear out of the heavens and sing songs of rejoicing...
Then we went to sister starns house, she was super stressed over some stuff so we helped her do some odd jobs around the house. She really appreciated it. We were building trust up until she asked bullard a question and he ignored her... great haha.
Then we went to dinner at brother Skinners house, he made us some bear meat! It was way good! Then he gave us a pack of meat and taught us how to season it and deepfry it! Our very own pack of bear meat!
Then we went Caroling with Goudy and Searcy! they told me that we were going to go caroling with their ward... but then when we got picked up i was like "so where is your ward meeting you" and they said "we arent caroling WITH our ward we are caroling TO our ward" so four of us went to their ward member homes and sang... it was fun though. Getting kind of chilly here. VERY Windy, just a little wet now and is pretty cool... Some days its still nice! Like in the 70's! But for now those are rare.
Oh and if Natalie is reading this letter, i got your letter today! Thanks a ton, i responded to it this morning so look out for my letter in the mail!
Thursday 12-15-11
WE went to a less active ladies house and showed her the movie "Joy to the world" it was good, she really enjoyed it. She seems like she might be a little lonely during the holidays so i thought i would share that with them.
Then we went to the church and made some copies of some very important papers.
Then we went home and i had a package from stuart and amy! I probably shouldnt have opened it, i probably should have saved it for christmas, but i couldnt help it! So i opened it! Thanks so much! There was candy and a Pillow tie! haha there i a missionary in our mission who's brother in law invented that place so he has TONS of those ties. I like it, you can blow up your tie and use it as a pillow! Baha! I took it to church, everyone liked it! So thanks!
Then we ate lunch, i'm begining to grow fond of Spongebob macaroni and cheese... NOT, i've had mac and cheese like 4 or 5 times this week!
Then we went with the erringer elders and did service at the crazy ladies house again. It was funnish, just running out of room to put the left overs. I often wish i was still able to use the things i had back home, the tools, the truck all that stuff, cuz this job would be done by now haha.
we showered and changed and then went to Anne's house and watched Joy to the world with her and her boyfriend, her step dad came in and saw the part about joseph smith and took interest, i asked anne if she would ask her step dad if he would like to take the missionary lessons she said she would find out!
Then the Andersons picked us up and took us to a place called tommy's, they serve chili stuff. So Chili burgers, dogs , fries. IT was way good. Brother anderson had us try some "hot peppers" and my companion just about died, i ate about 2 or 3 and he had mabye 1 or 2 and had to run to the bathroom... his face got prettttttty red haha!
Then we went to the church, where we were supposed to go on splits but our ward mission leader was running late, so we just hung out for a while. The relief society was having a christmas party. They kept trying to get us to eat food. Then they did a white elephant gift thingy, and it was pretty funny to see our ward women duke it out for a pair of hand towels.
Then our ward mission leader showed up and took us out to see a few people.
I made some notes on this day though... here they are.
1. i will probably be sending a small box home with a memory card in it
2.I bought some horse liniment! ITs great! But pricey.
3.I havent gotten any packages from mom or dad yet, i think because you might have not sent them priority mail, so they cant forward it to me, or something? Maybe you didnt put "california ventura mission" on the address without that they cant forward stuff. But i will get them this wednesday.
4. i might need surgery. Haha on my shoulder, remember how i messed it up in Tehachapi? Well now i think it is effecting my neck, it hurts to turn it and its been like that for about a month and a half... i will talk to the president s wife and see what she says, mabye i'll go see a doctor and see what he says. We have an ER nurse in our area and she said that if my shoulder was to be fixed then i would probably need surgery, hopefully it doesnt come down to that, but i dont want it messin with my neck, might as well get it fixed asap.
Oh and i also stated thawing the bear meat for lunch Friday! MMMmmmmm
Friday 12-16-11
I hit my 10 month mark!
We went and did our weekly planning at the church. Then we came back and cooked up the bear meat. we ate ALL of it! It was sooooo gooooood. When you deep fry it it shrinks so it didnt seem like there was that much there. But it was MIGHTY TASTY! We also saved some for sister starn and her daughter and also for the guidos. I dont know if either of them ate it, they were pretty intimidated by it.
Then we went to sister starn's house and spoke with her and her daughter for a while. It was good. They are pretty awesome.
We smelt really bad, like deep fried meat, so we ran to the Guidos and they have this wash spray that makes you not stink anymore, so they sprayed us down before we went to our next appointment.
Then we went to our appointment with Chelsea and Jordan. We taught them the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. Jordan seems to get it more and is more on the spiritual side. But at least they are both taking thelessons.
Then we went to the Regis' home and spoke with them for a little bit.
After that we went to the Guidos and helped them get ready for a christmas party they were having, with a ton of non members and stuff! And they were running late so they gave us all these chores to do, i was in charge of making cookies, i must have made over 100 cookies. It was pretty sweet. Tons of people showed up and we had a lot of fun!
Sat 12-17-11
WE did service for the crazy lady again! All we did was take the vines and palms and branches and cut them up for garbage bin size. When she came out she wanted to talk to "the nice one" (She doesnt know our names) but "the nice one" was not me, she said i was "the mean one!" haha i am so nice to her! Reguardless of her craziness. Anyways she filled us out a check for $100 and i ripped it up. Not in her face to make her upset, but later on i did.
Then we ate lunch and got changed.
We went to sports, today was soccer, it was good. Me and elder Bullard were the only onesthere who had members and non members show up... i wonder if the other elders even invite other people? But it seems that we are the only ones really working out here. I guess our numbers for our district have been REALLY bad, we are the only ones keeping simi alive... But we had Jean Regis show up, he liked it. And it was a good time! The Rain cut out long enough for us to play!
Then we went to the guidos with a change of clothes, they needed us to put some more christmas lights up. So we did and when i say we i mean I did haha and then we got changed and while i was changing elder bullard had been talking to one of their daughters and she came up to me and said why does your companion hate you so much...? Man, he's telling members that i'm teh root of all his problems... its so hard to keep trust with the members when they think that i'm a big bully to my comp, i'm not even quite sure what he tells them? I just know he doesnt like me and doesnt mind telling EVERYONE, he makes up some pretty good lies though to dramatize it... anyways Barry came and picked us up in his new car. It was sweet. Toyota corolla S. He took us to a mexican restaurant and brought us to his house where we watched some LDS Christmas movies. He keeps telling me he wants to throw me a big birthday party, but he's not sure if it will work since i could be transferred in a week... we'll see haha.
Sunday 12-18-11
We had church and then we went to the Guidos. Plan was to go caroling and then eat dinner, which is what we did. We went to an old folks home and sang to them. Thats probably one of my favorite things to do at christmas time because they are all happy and start to sing with us. We even sang to one lady who was sitting alone and she started bawling :( awww poor old lady! But it was great! Then we went back for dinner. Sister Guido loves me and was like "Alright elder crapo, you need to be in the family, so since Ariana is too young you'll just have to settle with Theresa, i know you guys have your differences but anything is possible!" haha it was so funny, her daughter was like "SHUT UP MOM" hahahaha! i was dyin' cuz i was laughing so hard. She kept gonig on and on and on about her plans for us to get married, then they started telling me all the good things about Theresa and how she likes me and started asking me questions to see if i am worthy. haha! it was way too funny. Then we watched parts of the christmas Devotional, i was doing their dishes so i didnt get to see much of it. I always do their dishes because they always have a ton to do, and i dont like having the person who cooked have to clean the dishes too...
But that was pretty much it for my week! It was an ok week. Only one more week left till the end of the transfer, and then there will probably be some major changes! We'll see, one can only hope haha. I love you all! I hope you are all well especially for the holidays! I hope you all get my Christmas card i sent!
Love,
Elder Crapo
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