Transfer Calls, Big Changes

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:38:52 -0700
 Subject: Transfer Calls, Big Changes
 From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net

 Hello Everyone!
 
 I got quite a few emails this week! It was the best! With the promise
 that i will be getting mail this week which is also the best! And it
 seems that there has been a lot of good news going around in most of
 the emails! So its good to hear that. Things are really starting to
 pick up here too. The ward members took a really long time to warm up
 to us and now we have gotten our transfer calls and are making some
 changes to our area! But they are REALLY good changes. So, i guess
 i'll tell you about the transfer doctrine. So Elder Damuni has been
 here about.... 9 months. His time has come. But he got a call from
 the AP's last night to tell him that he is going to be training. Then
 this morning the ZL's called and told us that he is being transfered
 back to Simi Valley, i think the same ward he used to cover (i think?)
 and he'll be training. So he'll be white wash training. Tough stuff!
 I think he might be a little upset about it but we havent seen him
 all day... He's been out with his ward mission leader. And then my
 news was that i was Staying! YES! Which is what i wanted because this
 past week we've established some really good connections with Members
 AND we set an investigator with a baptismal date! His name is Gary,
 he is STOKED to be baptized! He is going to be baptized May 12th! So
 i'm really happy i am staying. And my new companion is Elder Wood. If
 you look on my blog he is the one in the pictures who is pushing my
 nose... and i am pushing up my glasses.
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 He's a cool kid, i served around him in Simi Valley! He's quiet. But
 i like him a lot. So then Elder Marquez got his transfer doctrine,
 they told him that he would be White Washing Atascadero 2nd ward!
 BAHA! and he is getting elder Lifungula. When i was in tehachapi
 elder lifungula was born in bakersfield and was in my district. If
 you've seen any of my pictures in the past he's the REALLY black
 elder. haha he's from the Congo! He's awesome. So me and elder
 marquez are still together in a sence... just not as companions. And
 also! Elder Hernandez who i stinkin love! Is coming to be the new
 spanish elder! Its going to be a great transfer!
 
 Now lets see how much of my week i can get typed!
 
 Monday 4-23-12
 We did our studies and laundry.
 
 Elder Damuni asked if he could put some whites in my laundry since i'm
 so good at keeping my whites white, he wanted to see if it would help
 his.. So i let him. I learned two things through sharing a load of
 laundry. Dont share gum, and dont share loads of laundry. Because he
 left the stick of gum that i gave him in his pocket and it turned some
 of my clothes pink! So I washed them a lot more to get it out. They
 are ok now. Only some pink dots in some places.
 
 Then we went to church and did emails
 
 Hung out at the apartment and cleaned...
 
 Ate Lunch
 
 We have a lot of cats, wild cats, wandering around our apartment, so
 we set up some bait and opened our windows and shot them with rubber
 bands... we were really bored and really low on miles haha...
 
 Then we went to develop pictures and look around at thrift stores. My
 companion bought a tuxedo... what for? I dont know? But he felt very
 inclined to do so.
 
 Then we went to dinner with the Leavitt family. They are super cool.
 Brother Leavitt is a dentist. Their kids are genious' and are
 insanely smart and cute!
 
 Then we did some shopping and as we were looking around i saw some
 posters for The avengers... Question... Is the guy who played captain
 america playing the captain america in the Avengers? Because in all
 the posters he looked different.
 
 Then i saw the box for Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol! And on the
 back it shows a picture of them getting out of a really nice car... MY
 DREAM CAR!!! THAT I THOGUHT NOBODY KNEW ABOUT!!!! THE BMW VISION
 EFFICIENT DYNAMICS!!!! Gosh! That must be an amazing movie because of
 that one thing!
 
 Then we roamed around ross for a little bit. Of course i cant buy
 anything because i'm broke, but my companion wanted to look around. I
 found some SICK Adidas high top shoes, Elder Marquez wanted to buy
 them for me but i told him no. He kept bugging me to take us back so
 he could buy them haha but i wouldnt let him.
 
 Tuesday 4-24-12
 We went to brother Micklesons. He's bought a new gun. A sub machine
 gun that looks just like his AR-15 except without a stock. Its SICK!
 I'll take some pictures with his guns next time i'm there. The gun
 had a red dot scope on it and he wasnt sure how to use it so i showed
 him how. Then we did some pruning and he gave me a pretty sweet
 hat... its the second one he's given me. It says "the rocky mountain
 elk foundation" on it. And he says its a really special hat.
 
 Then we waited for Damuni to get home but he took too long so we left
 and contacted some members. Found a guy named whos wife is a member
 but not active... she served a mission too... but he was pretty cool.
 He is budhist and was telling us weird stuff about how jesus was
 budhist and stuff.... Yeah he's slightly confused but a really nice
 guy none the less.
 
 Then we went to the church and taught Kameron our Recent Convert!
 
 And then we had dinner with the Krugers. And i just realized that
 brother Krugers' first name is Fredrick.... Put the two together i
 think you'll see what i saw. Anyways i love that family! They are
 super cool.
 
 Then we went to David and Laticia's home for an appointment... but
 they cancelled at the door. The wife was feeling sick.
 
 So we went to the Church and Played a little basketball.
 
 Wednesday 4-25-12
 We went to district meeting and it was kind of... boring but it was good! haha
 
 Then a couple in Elder Damuni's ward wanted to take us out for sushi,
 and a lot of sushi! There is a new place that opened up called "CRAZY
 SUSHI FEVER" and we went there and ate a ton of way good Sashimi and
 Sushi! It was DA BOMB! It made me miss Suehiro!
 
 Then we went to Brother Gouffs place and we helped him split some more
 wood. Which was great!
 
 Then we got changed and went to a referrals house, but he was not
 there. Then we went to ward correllation and that was good!
 
 Thursday 4-26-12
 Early in the morning we helped brother Mattice set up for his sons
 wedding reception. I had some REALLY bad allergies! and then we went
 to brother Kenny Gouffs house. (brother Gouffs brother) So earlier in
 the week we saw Brother Rod Gouff and we saw Brother Kenny Gouff...
 ANYWAYS. both of them are pretty much my favorite guys ever. Kenny
 has had a really good/hard life. He always looks really sad but peps
 up whenever you talk to him. One of the most humblest men i've ever
 talked to. A really hard worker and a stud when he was younger. He
 was captain of the football team when he was a junior. And was a
 smoke jumper for the forrest service. And right now is retired but
 sells a product he invented that helps kill gophers. He is the
 president of his company. He's an amazing artist and cartoonist! The
 dude is a stud all around! He's had a rought life because he's
 divorced and his family means a lot to him. So we went to his house
 and helped him with weeding, and making a trench and laying pipe. He
 asked if we could stay for dinner so we did. He thanked us so much
 and would like us to stop by occasionally because he gets lonely. He's
 so dang funny though! He was talking about the dinner he made! he was
 like "i hope it tastes good! you never know how old it is when you
 find it on the road" hahaha or he told us a joke that said "a man had
 a friend over for dinner and gave him some dishes and he said sorry
 your dishes are dirty, their as clean as cold water could get them.
 well after dinner the friend said well let me give you a hand cleaning
 the dishes and the man said, just set em down cold water is probably
 around here somewhere" bahaha! and then he told us a personal story by
 saying "yeah my cold water died just last week, i really miss that
 dog, he was 15 years old and loved him so much.... so how'd he taste?"
 hahaha! The guy is so quick with his little one liners its so great! I
 hope to be like that when i'm older.
 
 Anyways we went home and got changed and went to correllation for our next ward.
 
 Friday 4-27-12
 We did our weekly planning in the morning. And then we went all over
 town and tried to contact as many people we could because we had done
 a lot of service and not a lot of missionary work haha. So we
 contacted a lot of people.
 
 At 5 we had a lesson with a little girl and her mom. The girl is 7
 but getting close to baptism age and the bishop asked us to teach
 her... so we are. It was ok, the little girl is kind of crazy... but
 hopefully she'll settle the more we meet.
 
 Then we contacted some more people in templeton area, we had dinner
 with the Hockman family who are pretty awesome. They are a young
 family and the dad is a CHP. They have 3 small kids and their kids
 have the coolest names ever. Their sons name is Mason and their
 daughters names are Honey and Royal. I thought that was pretty
 coooooooolio.
 
 After we ate we went to Gary's house and we had a lesson on the Gospel
 Of Jesus Christ. He is really excited about the Gospel and Set him
 with a date to be baptized May 12th COMING UP QUICK!!!! Looks like
 i can tell you all about it on mothers day!
 
 I also called our mission doctor to see if i could get something for
 my allergies and he prescribed me some nasal spray stuff. So i got
 that and it helps my nose... thats about it. Which is good though
 because thats the worste part. So i still need to take my zyrtec too
 otherwise my eyes get really itchy. I think he gave me Flonase? It
 smells like i'm squirting liquid flowers up my nose... its strange.
 but works... i think?
 
 Saturday 4-28-12
 We went to Atascadero Lake Park for the mormon helping hands and did a
 whole bunch of service there. Raking, painting, digging... etc. It
 was good.
 
 Then we went to our apartment and ate some lunch. it was good.
 
 Then we went to 2 different members houses to pick up weed wackers and
 took them to a house in Atascadero 2nd ward who need weed wacking
 badly. So we did their whole front yard. they still need a ton more.
 
 Then we Got changed and dropped elder Damuni off at Barber Dan's place
 and then we went to dinner. It was a wedding reception up at a fancy
 members house. The Moores. They are super cool. We hung around
 there and it was sweet. They fed us dinner and we helped them clean
 up and we left and returned the weed wackers we borrowed.
 
 Sunday 4-29-12
 We went to 8 hours of church again. We didnt have a teacher so we
 found brother nichols walking the halls and he was like "what
 bishopric authority should i excersize today?" and i was like "you can
 come raid the fridge with me" and he was like "GREAT IDEA" so we went
 and ate some ice cream in the Kitchen. It was sweet. Then we went to
 dinner. The Weavers. They are super awesome. They invited Gary and
 his mom over to their house for dinner. We taught them a lesson
 there! It was great! We stayed a long time too talking about pretty
 much everything. Their old family stories and stuff. It was a lot of
 fun.
 
 
 
 
 WELL thats pretty much it! I hope you enjoy this extremely long email!
 I hope to hear back from you all! I miss you guys tons and hope you
 are all doing well! If you have any questions about anything i do out
 here let me know... i dont know if i'm missing anything out...
 
 OH! I better answer this question since mom always askes the "hows the
 weather" question. The weather is warming up! Its usually always
 cloudy here or its in the high 80's or low 90's! The weather is SO
 NICE! This place is growing on me!
 
 
 
 
 I love and miss you all!
 
 ELDER SAMUEL CRAPO!