Subject: Thanksgiving!
Dear Family & Friends!
It was good to see that i had a few emails this week! So thanks! As for mail.... hmmmmm havent had much ofthat lately ;) Just try your best to drop me a line whenever you get a chance. Remember! Mail = Gold (to missionaries)
So this is how my week went last week...
Monday 11-21-11
We did the usual stuff, shopping, laundry, email. And then we decided to go on a little hike as a district! SUPER SWEET! haha we went to a cross that was up on a hill... i have a picture, i'll send it. The trail was pretty easy, just a whole bunch of switch backs. On the way back down i found a short cut that went STRAIGHT down and i took that, i was running full speed because i couldnt stop, and there was a lot of cactus around and as i was running my knee went right up into a cactis that was hanging over the path... that felt good. I then spent the next couple minutes removing cactus pricks from out of my leg, one of which went pretty deep! haha it was all good though.
Then we showered and shopped, I also found out at email that Kyle Patrick (the man) was sending me some Cutters (Football gloves) for the turkey bowl! I was super stoked!
We went to the Other missionaries apartment after and Elder Goudy was being a weirdo... he like shoved me into the closet to tell me something and he wouldnt let me leave... i had to take drastic measures to get away and i shoved him into the wall as he faught back haha, i accidently broke his watch and now the rest of the week he has been ignoring me but hopefully he will forgive me soon.
Then we went to dinner with a somewhat crazy family, they are young and didnt really involve us in anything they were saying or doing so we kind of just ate quietly and left haha. odd....
Then we got to work, hard work, it was FREEZING! it was like 40 degrees! But we rode our bikes all over, probably not what i should have done because i got a cold later on, but we had to, my companion went to the district leader and complained that we werent working hard enough.... I was like WHAT!?!?! We had been working hard but i toned it down because his first week here he started complaining that i was working him too hard, and then he says we arent working hard enough?!?! i wouldnt have that! So we enforced some mega rules, i'm like a nazi on the white handbook now, and we work like crazy, no more giving slack... It made me pretty angry that he would do that and not talk to me first... And trust me he does not like it... haha.
Tuesday 11-22-11
I wasnt feeling good at all. Actually really sick :( i had a cold or something.
We worked all morning tracting, visiting, contacting... the works.
Then Curtis Brown picked us up and took us to lunch at IN'N'OUT. My companion being the way he is and being grumpy because of the added work i was enforcing kind of offended this guy all day at lunch... Everything he said i was like... "oh my.. elder shut up" well i wish i could say that but i couldnt. So i'm pretty sure Curtis doesnt like him too much...
Then we kept working allllll day. and then we went on a blitz with the ZL's i went with elder Haynie, and we went tracting, it was great! Just like the old days! he reminds me of simon a lot, the first thing he said to me on the phone when they came to pick us up was "Where are those little boogers? If i was a little booger, where would i be?" haha and then when he saw me he was like "Whats up little dude?" Me and elder Haynie are going to hang out after the mission, we get along really well.
Then we ate at the Pinkstons and they sent me on a mission to ask mom what the name of the person was who told her he knew the pinkstons out here! So mum if you could get back to me on that as soon as possible that'd be great.
We then went on splits with the ward mission leader and contacted TONS of people. It was pretty good.
Wednesday 11-23-11
I didnt actually write or do a video for this night.... but what i did write was that at 10:20pm We got a call saying we werent allowed to play turkey bowl anymore!?!?! After we were told all week to go ahead and do it from the ZL's and then after we had invited like... 5 Investigators who expected us to play! I was needless to say upset! its tradition pllus its harmless, we made sure all the rules worked hand in hand with the missioanry guidelines and now they tell us last minute we cant play...
Thursday 11-24-11 THANKSGIVING
So i woke up and did my best to get special permission to play football. Because of our condition we kind of deserved it... We called pretty much everyone and the only response we got back was, we could go, BUT we could only go in proslyting clothes and we could only watch... So we did that, except we played all time quarter back on both teams... and it was a ton of fun! Could have been better if we could have thrown on our cleats and gloves and KILLED the other team... But i noticed something... all the kids who have like scholarships we were playing with... i was better than them... gave me hope to think maybe i could still do football when i get back? Maybe go play for a Jr. College when i get home? I dont know? What do you guys think? I think if i was a little more devoted than i was in high school i could do well...
Then we went to the Pinkstons house, where we were just going to hang out for a little bit. We had plans to eat Dinner with Barry Thomas at 4 so we didnt want to eat. But they took us to their grandparents house and there was no saying "no" we had to eat. So its 3 and we eat... then we left and made it to Barry's and we ate again at another members house he took us to. I was stuffed! i mean full... stuffed is bad. Then we went to Barry's house and watched "17 Miracles" it was pretty good. Kind of confusing because it didnt explain some things real well but still a god story.
SIMON THIS IS A NOTE FOR YOU: last christmas you and i were looking for some good christmas music to listen to, a member showed us one look up "Family Force 5" on youtube, they do modern music versions of like every song... so ENJOY. and you're welcome.
Friday 11-25-11
We did our weekly planning and then went to Goudy and Searcy's apartment where they wanted all the missionaries to bring their left overs from thanksgiving and put them all together and have a feast... unfortunately we didnt get any left overs so we all ate the small portion of their food they got haha!
Then we got to talking on the phone with some other elders and set up a day we will have sports. A set time and sport and place and we can invite anyone and everyone! Its sweet! We also made the flyers and is now ready to go!
Then we contacted a TON of people... nothing real interesting ever happens doing that.
We left our bikes on the other side of town and got picked up by spanish, we split up with each others companions and went tracting. I took the Green Elder Hernandez, he was like worshipping me because on our first house i gave out a book of mormon, invited them to a church event and they said they would come and it just went really well... he was like "DUDE! I LOVE TRACTING NOW" haha
Then we went to dinner and it was a family that makes this really good sweet bread, and they make LOTS, and they put thanks giving leftovers in it and make hot pockets, they cook them then pour gravy on it! ITS SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD Amazing! My comp ate 3! The kid who lived there said he's never seen anyone eat 2! haha then we had Scones, and cinamon rolls... pretty much everything you can make out of bread! We wished we would have had that for thanksgiving dinner. Which reminds me, i was looking through this book at thanksgiving, and they have all the missionaries sign it, and i stumble accross a guy who lives in... riverton? Named J. Scott Crapo. And i signed my name right below his... it actually looked a lot like scotts bad handwriting.... Interesting though right?
Then we picked up our bikes and the guy gave us a ride back home and we came in and that was it.
Saturday 11-26-11
We did some service tracting which is a load better than regular tracting, EVERYONE WAS NICE, they were like man we really admire what you do, come back anytime! Usually when we tract one street we will get about 6 slams on average, when we did service tracting we only got 1! Think i found a better method for us missionaries!
We went to a service project at a crazy ladies house who was old and hoppped up on druggs. Her house looked like the yard hadnt been taken care of for 10 years or longer, you couldnt get to the back yard because there were beehives along the side of the house they guard it, so we had to climb the roof to get to the back yard... have you ever seen the jungle book? i wish i had had my camera! THE WORSTE BACKYARD EVER!!! Seriously felt like i was in the amazon. The neighbors came out and were excited we were over there because they had never seen anyone clean that yard before so we got a couple potentials from talking to them! YES! SCORE!
The Gloves that kyle sent me finally came... not like i needed them anyways, even though i REALLY wanted to use them! haha So thanks Kyle a TON, maybe next year they will let us play and i can dominate then!
Then we did a ton of tracting and contacting and ate dinner wtih a really small humble family that lived in a tiny guest house... it was really nice. My companion was having a bad day for some reason, dont ask me why... he never tells me ANYTHING. So he was pretty much offending everyone he spoke to becuase he had a glare on his face and his attitude was just.... not good, he would NOT talk. It was driving me crazy, normally i would bring him in so that he doesnt ruin our relationship with the members but i wouldnt because i knew we needed to keep working hard. so we did.
Sunday 11-27-11
We just had a basic day at church... I got a package from the Magness family! It was the Korean Jerky that is my favorite! YES Thank you so much!!!! Plus the peanuts too! You can send me any of that stuff any time you want!
My comp was offending TONS of people at church too because he was still being a negative nancy. I had our district leader come over to talk to him because i was sick of him making people angry.... so not much else happened... Hes got a meeting set up with our president soon to see if he even wants to be a missionary... he's got major problems. Hopefully things get better!
Well i'd better dash off! Thanks for the emails again! I love you all! I'll talk to you next week! And i cant wait to call on christmas!
LOVE EDLER CRAPO!!!!
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