Subject: Wow the transfer is over....
Hello family and friends!
I cant believe the transfer is aleady over!?!?! Where did the time go! By the end of this transfer... actually the VERY last day of this transfer i will be calling home! I've been out for 9 MONTHS now.... GREAT ODINS RAVEN thats a long time! Anyways, they are begining to be Nazis to us on the computers! So i better make it quick! Good news though, i will be staying in Simi Valley another transfer with elder bullard. The only person in the District leaving is Elder Coles (Spanish Elder) and then Elder Graff wil be training another Green Machine! Also ELDER HAYNIE is coming in to replace one of the ZL's!!! YESSSSS! Remember Elder Haynie in Tehachapi!? it'll be like the good ol' days! YES!!! Ok! onto my week!
Monday 11-7-11
It was P-day, as usual!
We did our laundry and all our Shtuff...
Then Spanish took us shopping, then to email. I've decided that since they are cracking down on us on email i'd better hand write other responses. So if you send me an email i will print it and read it later and then WRITE you a letter, so make sure i have your Mailing address so that you know i actually care about you because i will write you...
Then we went to the Reagan Library, its what Simi is known for i guess? It was SUPER SWEET! We went with the Dungan family, they took heap loads of pictures of us! So i will send some through email... and i will also send them home, they are on a cd! BOO YA! We had a way good time there though.
Then we got dropped off at a Potentials house, we thought they were going to be a cool family, but they stood us up, so i called them, and they said they had forgotten our appointment, then went on to tell us that they are believers and their whole motivation in having us over is to prove to us that if we are going to waste 2 years of our lives, we better be doing it for the truth. So their plans are to tell us how we are wrong, how the book of mormon is false and how we dont need it to have the full gospel. I still set up another appointment because i'm getting good at bashing and this will be a good place to practice. I dont like bashing... its not good... But since we have no investigators in that ward i'm gonna take what i can get!
Then we ate at quite an awkward families home... But it was ok i guess?
Then we ran over to the Guidos house where they had invited a Less Active and we had family night with them and played games... it was grand. The Guidos are my favorite!
Then we went back home and switched companions for a ZL Exchange.
Tuesday 11-8-11
I was with Elder Whitmer all day.
We went to a less active ladies house and elder Whitmer was almost about to die on the bike, he's been softened by a car. But it was ok, pretty funny.
Then we went tracting, no luck :(
Then we ate lunch at the Habit! My favorite Burger Joint here. Elder Whitmer had never had it so i had to introduce him.
Then we went and started that roofing project i spoke about last week! YES it was so much fun, i cant believe i remember how to roof a house, so now i know that when i get home i can roof my own dang house! Basically all we did was lay out all the tar paper. We didnt start on the shingles just yet.
Then we came home and showered and changed, we were pretty tired, that roofing took it outta us!
Then we stopped by a few places... No one really was home.
Dinner was brought to our house.
Then we went on splits with the ward mission leader and ward missionaries... it was pretty... boring.
Then we switched companions back again. And got ice cream with elder Searcy and Elder Goudy. Its dollar scoop tuesdays i guess and they always want to go... so i couldnt let them down this time.
Our ward mission leader got a little excited i think with this last baptism... he's very baptism hungry, which is a good thing, but a little overbearing. he wants to go out with us EVERY NIGHT! haha he's crazy.
Wednesday 11-9-11
We had District meeting, and since it is week 6 district meeting we like to do something fun. So we had Preach my gospel jeopardy on the stage with lights, microphones and everything. It was way funny.
Then we went to taco bell for lunch... for some reason it never gets old.
We went to service and found that all the tar paper we put on the back of the house got ripped into a million peices from the wind... so we had to re-do it... not a fun process.
Then we had dinner with the Helds which we had to hurry and eat because we had that appointment with the basher people. So we ate and ran, and we got to the basher peoples house and they only had an hour and it went actually REALLY good, they asked lots of questions, we cleared up a lot of concerns, and they are the coolest people ever, it wasnt like an arguement it was more like a transfer of information and clarifying misconceptions.... So it went really well. We wrote down some questions we didnt feel we could answer and left them with the challenge to read the book of mormon and to pray about it and the promise that if they did that then god would tell thim its true... they were kind of shocked about that... they gave us some Anti literature and to read isaiah because i guess some of the things we believe dont match up to what it says in Isaiah....
So i was really happy after that. and we rode back home on our bikes.
Thursday 11-10-11
Droopped off my box of mail at the magness's because they are going to Utah and she sees mom anyways so she took all the letters i have ever recieved!
Then we went to the church and printed off some papers that would help one of our investigators know how to pray... she is kind of struggling and this paper is just a "consider the following when you pray..." paper. So i hope it helps.
Then we went home and made blintzes for most of the district! YUM
Then we tracted... and then had a lesson with our 17 year old investigator, we watched the restoration and spoke about the for the strength of youth pamphlet. She really liked it.
Then we went to Brothe Penrods house and he loaded us with ammo for the next time we go to the bashers house, he's really good at bashing and he basically showed us how to prove them wrong with their own literature... i still dont like bashing but hey! Like i said i'm gonna take what i can get! haha
Then we went to the Guidos and ate dinner with them and brought Anne our Recent Convert with us, it was crazy and she wasnt used to it, but it was a grand old time!
Friday 11-11-11
We had weekly planning and conducted a District Inventory. Which i always get to narorate because i guess i have a good voice....? I have it all on video.
Then we went and got some sandwhiches, the whole district, at togos... it was alright... We ate outside and its been pretty cold and rainy all week.
Then Elder Goudy and Elder Searcy came with us to do service at the roofing project! It was great, i love doing it!
Then we had dinner with the Bickmores and they took us to Souplantation. aka Sweet tomatoes. It was a grand old time as well.
Stopped by the guidos after dinner and picked up some leftovers that they didnt want anymore...
Saturday 11-12-11
It was supposed to be rainy but we prayed that it wouldnt rain much so that we could go do service because we had no idea what we were going to do.... so we basically did roofing from 10 - dinner! It was crazy, but we got A LOT done. We ate lunch with our service, it was way good. Their kids call me Elder Cronk because i do a good Cronk impression and they call my companion Elder Cowboy, because he's got the southern accent so they think he's a cowboy. The spanish elders were with us the whole time too because they didnt have anything to do either.
Then we ate dinner with a family in the other ward... it was ok i guess? And then we had to do an Emergency Toilet paper run! Baha! So elder Goudy and Searcy picked us up and we made a stop at Target.
Sunday 11-13-11
Same old church BUT WITH A TWIST! Our investigator who we've been trying to get to come to church forever, finally came! it was great! She brought her sister toooooo! She's only 17 so we hooked her up with Thereasa Guido and they hit it off pretty well! And they exchanged numbers and had a way good time! So i think we are making some progress there!
Then we had dinner with the guidos and it was a great time!
That is it though! Thanks for the emails and letters that you are planning on putting in the mail box, i know you have them written and stamped just sitting there, so just take it to the mailbox please :) haha Alright well i love you all and miss you all!
Love
Elder Crapo!!!!!!
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