Year Mark

OH GOSH WHAT HAPPENED?!?! I'VE BEEN OUT A YEAR ALREADY AHHHHGHGHGH ITS
GOING BY TOO FAST!!!!!!!

Hi Family and Friends,

Sorry i was a bit dramatic there but seriously! Where is the time
going? Its so crazy!!!

Monday 2-13-12
We did our studies

Went to email

Barber dan brought us dohnuts :)

Played Basketball

Cut my hair

Cut elder coles hair... again.

Showered and changed

Spanish dropped us off to do shopping

Wrote letters and did laundry

Had dinner then contacted potentials and found a new guy!!!!!! YES.
We didnt have the car. So we had to walk to our area and then walk to
find this guy, but he is super cool. Had a lesson with him. It was
super cold and rainy too...

Tuesday 2-14-12
Let me just get this out of the way, when i say "contacted people"
that means we have these big long lists of people who have been
contacted by missionaries in the past and they are called "potentials"
because they have "Potential" for taking the lessons, so those are the
people we see when i say we "contacted people"

So all morning we Contacted people.

Then we ate lunch at Jack in the box.

Then we contacted lots of other people.

Then we had a way good Lesson with Kameron! Kid is on fire! He is
ready to be Tized! His baptism is supposed to be the 25th... but the
bishop wants to push it back a week because its stake temple day...
whatev... but at least its still happenin.

Then we took a picture by the Atascadero sign, and as we were doing it
we couldnt really get a good picture.... but a guy was walking up and
elder Marquez was like, hey lets ask this guy if he'll take our
picture, i was like nah its just too dark, so all the sudden 3 cop
cars pull up around us and they get out and start interrogating this
guy... and we were like uh... are we in trouble, they were like nah
you can go. So we left and elder marquez was like dude you saved my
life, that guy was probably a murderer and had i asked him to take our
picture he probably would have killed me haha whatever! But hey that
was fun!

Then we gave a Less active woman a blessing, went on some really
windey back rodes and it was super dark. It was cool.

I also got a super awesome package from the GUIDOS!!! IF YOU GUYS READ
THIS THANK YOU AND I HOPE YOU GET MY LETTER I SENT!

Wednesday 2-15-12
We had district meeting...

Tried seeing people on bikes... we do a lot of biking, if not more
than simi valley...

it was cold ...

We saw potentials all day

had a lesson planned for a kid named collin but he didnt who up the
the appointment.

Then we biked to A&W for dinner, elder marquez had never had it so he
really liked that. But he didnt like the ride there because it was
FREEZING and he didnt bring his jacket, because he thought it was
ugly, this guy would risk his life just so he didnt look bad,
constantly checking his hair, and appearance haha he's a goof ball.
An awesome companion but kind of down on himself. He could be really
good if he put some effort in.

Then we got ready for Exchanges with the ZL's

Thursday 2-16-12
MY YEAR MARK! YIKES!

I was with elder Casteneda, he had to conduct another District meeting
in Paso Robles so we went up there and i got to play ZL for a little
bit. That was weird...

Then we came home and got pizza for lunch. I had a lot of change left
over from going to the laundry mat washing everything i had from those
bed bugs. So we bought the pizza with that. I spent so much money on
those stinkin bed bugs...

Then we had a lesson with a guy named Rodil. It went pretty good. Guy
is a little goofy but he is cool

Then we had a lesson with a guy named Dennis, he is a former
investigator, but he wants to get his life together... Just gets
himself into trouble and has some addictions, but we are trying to
help him.

Then we saw brenda, she is a new investigator, she is super cool.
Only got to talk to her outside for a little bit.

Then ate dinner at Bishop Haselhuhn's house except he wasnt home. So
it was just his son and his wife. They are pretty funny though.

We almost hit a dog driving around... that was cool. Little sparky
ran right into the road and i thought he was road kill.. good thing my
spidey senses kicked in at the last minute.

Then we went and saw the Taylors, Rayners, and Staleys. Didnt do much
teaching though.

We saw a Collin, the kid who bailed a couple days before, and we
taught him at the door.

We also saw a kid who was a referral from BYU and he's pretty cool.
Just asked for a book of mormon to see what we believe... not really
interested.

Then we changed back into our regular companionships and we went out
into the backyard and burned a shirt for my one year mark.. Very anti
climactic haha but oh well. Still did it.

I learned a lot from elder Casteneda, and he said i was doing great,
he said "you'll make a good leader" but i dont know if i really wanna
be a leader, you have to do so much other stuff than missionary
work... egh, i'll do it if i'm called but i dont look forward to it
haha.

Friday 2-17-12
Had weekly planning, it took a long time and i pretty much did
everything. My comp has a hard time focusing but i dont mind, i mean
its hard to make plans for an area i know nothing about but hey, i
dont care!

Then my comp was making tons of noises so i was like Elder Lets play
the quiet game first one to talk loses, well he took it super literal
and didnt end up speaking until 2:40 pm... haha It was driving me
bonkers.

Then we contacted some people on bikes...

Then we had a lesson with Kameron again, he is such an awesome kid.

Then we had dinner with the Kessingers, they were way fun, they are
going to sandy soon because they have kids that live there, they
showed me a map of the area, and i could see Sego Lilly on it and
stuff, like i knew exactly where it was but our house wasnt on the
map. They said if i have anything i need to send home then they will
take it for me! haha

Saturday 2-18-12
We had Correlation at 10:15 AM at brother delbars home.

We drove to Paso Robles but took our bikes with us to save miles...
This area is a lot harder to bike than simi was, this place has hills
EVERYWHERE, my thighs are getting big... i might need some new pants
soon i cant really fit into some of them. So PARENTS *** if you go
online and see if you can find "Levi Action Slacks" size 33L 33W i
know its odd numbers but its what i need... Maybe i can fit a 34 34
maybe even a 32 34? the length on all my pants is getting shorter so i
best stay with 34L. Anyways i found a pair of these levi action
slacks at a thrift store and they are seriously my best pants, so
comfortable and so crisp and so nice. so just in case you get me
pants, those ones are BOMB.

Then we saw a lot of people, did a TON of biking.

We were able to go to Collins basketball game, it was super cool.

Then we saw more potentials, ran into a guy who was working on some
nice motorcycles in his front yard. I still want my Triumph
Bonneville, but he was working on a Honda Scrambler that looked pretty
sick as well... so i might have to do some bike shopping when i get
home.

Then we saw more people, taught a lady named Chris, taught her the
whole restoration on her doorstep. She is so cool. But she is shy to
try anything new, christian.

Then we went to the church and helped them set up for the ward social.

The social was small and was pretty fun. They gave us a whole chicken
and rolls to take home but on the way home i saw two Homeless people
and i gave it to them :) They were very grateful.

Sunday 2-19-12
Sundays really arent worth writing about its TONS of church! We have a
baptism in two weeks coming up... We ate dinner at the Gough's they
are so cool. they have THE COOLEST property line ever! They are going
to let us come over and do some service for them, i was like begging
them to let us come over and do service! I'm stoked!





But that is pretty much it! Thanks mum for the two cards and money...
they help out a TON. When you're in a car you tend to eat out more...
haha And thank you also sarah for the box of goodies and the card with
money. You guys are the best. My birthday cake is still sitting in
water... its been in there since last week... its supposed to grow
600% its size! And its EDIBLE!?!?! I will try it when it gets that big
but for now its probably only twice the size it was when i got it....
hmmmm we'll see.

Oh i also have been thinking. For a job, elder Lane used to work for a
thing called Serve Pro, and he would drive a truck out to states that
were affected by hurricanes and tornados and they would clean up after
them. That would be a sick job! So just in case i need a job when i
get home which i probably wont because i have a lot of opportunities
back here in california ;) i'll just have to remember Serve Pro just
in case!

Anyways thanks for everything! Send me letters everybody i really love
reading about how everyone is doing and i like getting pictures. I
cant believe how fast time is flying!

Love you all

Elder Crapo