Hello hello hello!

 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:07:55 -0800
Subject: Hello hello hello!
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
 
 Howdy Family and Friends,
 
 Another week down, its so weird that I've been out a year. I feel
 like I'm starting over except this time i know how to do everything ha
 ha. Here's how my week went!
 
 Monday 2-21-12
 I don't remember what happened... it was p-day ha ha
 
 Tuesday 2-22-12
 We are running really short on miles in the car and we still had to
 take a trip to Santa Maria later in the week for Zone Conference so we
 decided to ride our bikes from Atascadero to Paso Robles, look it up
 on map quest... its quite the ride. Took about an hour and a half,
 but on top of that we worked up there, did a bunch of bike riding up
 there trying to see people. We also ate lunch at McDonald's and i was
 watching a Homeless guy outside sitting on the street asking for
 money, and i felt really bad for him and i had a gift card so i
 decided to just buy him a lunch. It was sweet, he was really
 appreciative. There were actually two Homeless guys, begging for
 money, they were just on opposite sides of the street. So i treated
 them to lunch. Big Mac and fries and lemonade on me. They were
 really really grateful.
 
 Then we left to ride back home. We had to be at an appointment at
 5:00 so we left at 3:30 to be there on time... gosh! So we took a
 different way back, if you look on map quest and see the road called
 Creston that goes WAY East i think? We too that home... And it was
 about 23 miles... took about 2 and half hours... It was a great ride
 and lots of good things to see, too bad i didn't take many pictures
 because i was too tired, i didn't want to have to stop, plus we BARELY
 made our next appointment, we will NOT be going that way ever again.
 ha ha.
 
 Then we had a lesson with the kid we are teaching that is getting
 ready to be baptized, but the person he wants to have baptize him
 isn't coming to California until April. So his baptism date has been
 pushed back all the way till April 21st! Crazy!
 
 But then we went to dinner at the Mortorffs home. Their daughter just
 returned home from a mission in France. She's such a sister
 missionary ha ha. But they are pretty cool.
 
 Then we stopped in town and made a ton of calls to try and make
 appointments over the phone, and we decided to go see a guy we ran
 into later in the week. He let us in and introduced us to his wife,
 they are so awesome. He is a Hispanic guy who loves to pray and isn't
 very religious. And i can totally see him getting baptized. His name
 is David and his wifes name is Leticia, we left them with a book of
 Mormon and we hope they will read.
 
 Wednesday 2-22-12
 We stayed in pretty late writing up lists of people to go see.
 Updating the area book and what not. I hate staying in longer than i
 need to but if we don't plan right then our day is bad, especially
 since we have to track miles and stuff... so.
 
 Then we went contacting people pretty much all day.
 
 We had dinner with the Osman family.
 
 Then some appointments canceled at night.... but we had correlation
 with our ward mission leader brother Mattice in the Atascadero 1st
 ward.
 
 Thursday 2-23-12
 We went to brother Micklesons house, he's an old guy who is awesome,
 kind of a farmer/gardener guy. Good hard worker. He had us come over
 an prune his palm trees and then he wanted to take us out to lunch.
 He grabbed us some cowboy hats and we went to his favorite diner and
 had all you can eat tacos. It was a lot of fun. He said he would get
 us some of our very own cowboy hats so we don't look so foreign.
 
 Then we came in and did our weekly planning.
 
 We ate dinner
 
 Contacted peeps
 
 had a lesson with a recent convert named Meghan at a members house and
 it went really well.
 
 We traveled a lot of miles that day going to and from Templeton to
 Paso Robles and stuff. I Think we drove 63 miles... we are on a 40
 mile budget per day. But we still had plenty of miles to get to Santa
 maria and back with extra. But Elder Damuni had a slight conniption
 over us going over but i let him know it was no biggy ha ha.
 
 Friday 2-24-12
 We went to Zone Conference, it was a way nice drive and a pretty good
 meeting. I got to see a lot of missionaries I've served around. its
 so good to see some of them. They just installed these things into
 our cars called Tiwi, and basically it monitors your car. If you
 don't buckle up, or if you speed, or if you drive aggressively a voice
 comes on and tells you to fix it and then docks you points and then
 the president gets a report and can take your driving privileges away
 for not driving right. We all got cards and when you get into the
 card you have to swipe it past the "Tiwi" box and it logs you in. I
 don't like it because i try to keep up with traffic out here and its
 telling me to drive like a granny.... not fun.
 
 We were supposed to have presidents interviews after Conference but he
 canceled it because of time.
 
 But they told us that L. Tom Parry is coming to the mission next week!
 I'm stoked, but yet again we have to save like 300 miles to get to
 Ventura and back.
 
 Then I drove us all home and it was pretty foggy, it was sweet!
 
 Then we went to an appointment with a member but our appointment
 wasn't home... :(
 
 Then we tried to contact a Less active guy and he turned down the
 opportunity for us to come in and share a spiritual thought... super
 nice guy, just really against the church i guess? He's a return
 missionary too which i don't get..."thus we see how quick the children
 of men forget their god" ha ha thats all i can think of when i meet
 those kind of people.
 
 Then we got pizza for dinner and went to bed.
 
 Saturday 2-25-12
 We taught a woman on her door steps. The whole restoration, she was
 super nice and pretty interested, she wanted to cook us breakfast ha
 ha. Her name is Jenny! our new investigator :)
 
 Then we tried contacting more people.
 
 Then we ate lunch.
 
 Then we went and did service, we moved a recent convert in to their apartment.
 
 When we got home Elder Seumanu and Elder Damuni came in and they
 were... quiet.. so i went to go see what was up and i guess they got
 in a fight? Some guy almost hit them with his car and then got out of
 his car and elder Seaumanu started fighting him. He ended up with a
 deep cut on his face... I was gonna clean it out but i was like...
 uh... you should probably get stitches... Not good! But seumanu can
 handle it. He's a big Samoan dude!
 
 Then we contacting people and picked up another investigator named
 Theresa! She's cool.. The lesson was a little awkward because there
 were so many distractions.
 
 Then we went and talked to some really cool people and some really not
 so cool people.
 
 We ate dinner at A&W.
 
 Then we went out on the back roads in Atascadero to find members. It
 was SUPER Dark and out in the middle of nowhere. Ha ha you guys
 should send me a Go Pro (Camera i can attach to my helmet) you would
 be shocked by the roads we ride on! ITS CRAZY! i have put so many
 miles on my bike. And i was talking to a guy that thinks i could get
 probably a couple thousand dollars out of selling my bike. They say
 that the old Trek Carbon frames that i have a worth a TON. So the guy
 said to sell it as soon as possible if it doesn't mean much to me
 because i will trash it and it will probably mean a TON to someone
 else. Then i could get a brand new bike and make out with a couple
 extra thousand ha ha... everyone who sees my bike says its SUPER RARE.
 So maybe when i get home I'll put it up on eBay and buy my motorcycle
 with the money (if my bike doesn't get stolen by then).
 
 
 Anyways i think thats it! Thanks so much for everything! I got a few
 letters this week which was sweet! Continue to do so and i will
 continue to love you ha ha!
 
 
 LOVE
 
 Elder SuperSam Crapo