Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:21:13 -0700
Subject: Back to the Long Long Long Long Long Emails
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
Hello Family & Friends
So its has been a week already since last Monday... its crazy! Time
flies so fast... This week was a really good week! For the most part!
And i actually wrote in my journal to tell you all about it so let me
get started!
Monday 4-16-12
It was p-day!
We went and did our emails and we then went home and had lunch... Same
old mac n cheese! But it was good! No complaints. Then we went back
to the church and had a little zone activity. We played Basketball
and Volleyball. I played Volleyball for most of the time because I'm
stinkin sick of basketball. But At the very end i played a little
B-ball and Elder Damuni taught me how to dunk... its actually pretty
easy. But then i dunked and split my middle finer on the rim! Took a
big ol' chunk of skin of my finger. It was bleedin' all over. But
its much better now. Our zone Consists of... 13 Elders. 4 in Paso.
2 for Spanish. 3 in Atascadero. and 4 in San Louis Obispo. So it was
pretty cool.
Then we went shopping. and we sat in the apartment for a while. When
you're in a three man you cant always do all the things you want. So
we stayed in and cleaned and just hung out for a while.
Then we went to dinner at Brother and Sister Budrow's. They are
pretty cool. They are in the Templeton ward. He is the guy that is a
CHP and used to be a fire fighter and kind of convinced me to be one
too... who knows what i will be? Anyways we just ate Loaded Nachos
outside in the backyard. It was pretty good. I also got attacked by
their puppy... he's a big puppy and he's being trained to be a police
dog. It lost its mind and just went crazy on me. Started biting my
leg and tie and stuff ha ha.
Then we were supposed to go to the Miller's home but they canceled our
appointment. So instead we went to contact a referral who wasn't home
and then we went to Atascadero 2nd ward area and contacted some people
there. We met a really cool guy, Brother Carpenter who had just
bought a pair of Vibrum Toe Shoes. And he pulled up the website of
all the different styles and stuff. I want some SO BAD! They are
sweet!
Tuesday 4-17-12
We did service for brother Mickelson. We pruned some more palm trees
and some other trees in his orchard. Then we went to the Budrow's
house because sister Budrow needed some help planting a ton of flowers
in her yard. So we went to help her with that. Took a little longer
than we wanted to. And Elder Damuni was upset because he thought it
was a waste of time and he had a pretty bad attitude about it all. He
wouldn't help with the service and he didn't eat the lunch she
offered. Anyways we came back home and got changed and stuff and when
we were getting ready to go out Elder Damuni blew up at me... I told
you in a previous letter that the kid is a hot head and just was
yelling, and accusing, and blaming, and judging.... but i don't argue,
i don't fight... But he got over it and kind of apologized. Whole
bunch of flippin' drama.... i don't put up with that... its so dumb...
So then we went to Kameron's baptismal interview. He did good and we
stayed at the church and our dinner appointment came and brought us
In'n'out. And we ate it with them at the church.
Well then we went to go see our next appointment and they weren't home!
And then we went to play basketball at the church but we didn't play
much because Damuni was supposed to go on an exchange with the Zone
Leaders that night. So we dropped him off at the Spanish elders
apartment. And the Zone leaders picked him up that night. So me and
Elder Marquez got to work on our own in our area the next day without
the third party.
Wednesday 4-18-12
We woke up and i realized the ties i dry cleaned, i didn't get all of
them back. So we went back and picked the rest of them up. thank
goodness they were still both there.
Then we drove to district meeting and it was... boring... but OK! We
decided to stay around in San Louis Obispo to eat lunch. And we found
"The Habit" Famous burger place that i love and i hadn't had it in a
while so we stopped and ate there, it was a pretty busy street and
kids all over! Since Cal Poly University is there, there were tons of
people everywhere.... I've never seen so many ghost busters on my
mission! But the food was soooooo gooooooood. Then we went home.
We went to Templeton and visited some people. One guy we are visiting
with might be ready for baptism here pretty soon! His name is Gary.
He is the Son of a member.
Then we drove to dinner and we ate with the Kruger's. They are one of
my favorite families out here! They are awesome. They have a
tradition of playing Board games during dinner and so its almost like
being home. They have a Less Active daughter who is always there too
whenever we are there and so its good to be able to fellowship them
and encourage her to get back to church.
Then we waited for Damuni at our apartment because he said he would be
home soon and we needed to be there so he wasn't left there alone. He
was a little off on his timing though because we waited a stinkin'
hour!
But then he showed up and we did our planning for the next day.
Thursday 4-19-12
We got a ride from brother Schiber in the morning to go to his house
and do some service. He needed some weeds pulled and some 4 foot tall
weeds mowed. And so thats what we did.
Then he dropped us off at home. We changed and made lunch. Bacon and
Egg Sandwiches/ burritos are the BEST!
Then we got our baptismal programs all together and saw some people in
Atascadero 2nd ward.
We dropped elder Damuni off at his ward mission leaders house and then
we went to the Schiber's for dinner. Where i found out that Sister
Schiber's son is the VP for the L3 Communications in Santa Carlos? i
think? And he specializes in the Predator. I was like, my dad MUST
know him... so I'll have to ask dad! The guys name is Michael
McCallister.
Oh... earlier in the afternoon elder Marquez got an easter package
from his sister and she hooked both of us up! She gave us both a ton
of candy and gave each of us sweet yellow ties which we are both
wearing at the moment.
Then we went to the basketball playoffs for the wards because 90% of
the guys that show up to those games are not members so its good to be
there and talk and play with them... Well when we first got there
Elder Damuni's team had just won their first game and there were 2
other teams playing for the final playoff. And whoever won that game
was going to play elder Damuni's team. Well the team that won was the
team that was like 100% non members, and they are all really good.
Elder Damuni's team began to play them and Elder Damuni got kicked off
the court in the first half for runnin' his mouth... he's good at
that. And then his team lost by 10 points...
But cool thing was, was i was sitting next to a kid who's family lives
in Tehachapi, his parents were in my ward. He was going to Cal Poly.
So that was cool.
Friday 4-20-12
We went to the church to help set up for a stake potluck and then we
did our weekly planning.
We had lunch with Sister Mortorff and her Daughter at the Cowgirl Cafe
again. It was super duper good.
Then we got home and i had a package from mom waiting for me. Inside
were some Awesome pants which fit perfectly so thanks mum! And also so
granola bars and a card with money... thank you very very much!
Then we dropped Damuni off at his mission leaders house again and we
went and ran some errands and saw some people.... not a whole lot of
people home but we got to just talk with a few people at the door.
We went to the stake potluck and it was fun but it was for old people.
I sat at a table with a guy named "Barber Dan" (Dan Phillups) if you
serve in Atascadero you cant not know barber Dan, he gives us donuts
on p days and he's hilarious! we just sat around at the party cracking
jokes. Then we helped clean up the potluck.
We drove to pick up our programs for the baptisms the next day and
then we went to a disabled womans home (Cathy) and helped her fix a
fan because it was a hot night.
Saturday 4-21-12
We woke up early and got suited up. We went to the church and started
cleaning it because they were low on people to help them.
We went to Paso Robles and helped the other elders fill up their font
and get ready for their baptism. The water heater wasn't working so
we microwaved bowls of water and boiled big pots of water to warm up
the font. That was funny. The lady who was baptized was well over 80
and the water was really shallow so it was hard to get her all the way
down in but Elder Peacock did a great job.
Then at their baptism we sang Love at Home with the Ukulele. And
everyone loved it even though we sounded awful.
Then we went to our church and started doing the same thing. Our
water heater had been broken for a really long time too so we had pots
of water boiling as well. But our water heater kicked in so it was
good.
We had two baptisms! One in Atascadero 1st ward and one in Atascadero
2nd ward. Kameron's brother/uncle baptized him and elder Damuni
baptized a girl named Savannah.
After the baptism we took elder Damuni to his mission leaders house
again. Then we went to dinner with a really cool Less active couple
for the first time. They are super cool.
After dinner when we were leaving sister Moore called and told us she
had a left over cake that we could have. So we went over to pick it
up and the cake was HUGE. It was a 7 lbs cake! It was crazy and then
they gave us a tub of ice cream and then a gallon of carrots. So that
was super nice of them :) I love the Moore's.
Then we went to get Damuni and ended up staying at his ward mission
leaders house and watched a video with them.
Sunday 4-22-12
We had 8 hours of church.
Kameron asked me to Confirm him so i did.
We set up a lot of appointments.
And had dinner with Bishop Haselhuhn's family.
Well thats pretty much it. Sorry it has taken so long to get you a
nice SUPER DUPER LONG email again. I hope you like it! I'll try and
send some pictures! Hopefully they can get posted on my blog soon. I
think it needs a little updating ;) I love and miss you guys tons! I
will see you in 9.5 months! :/
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