First Week of the New Transfer

Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:23:11 -0700
 Subject: First Week of the New Transfer
 From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net

 Hello family and friends! How are you? It'd be good to hear from all
 of you! haha Anyways! Here's my week really quick...
 
 
 Monday 4-30-12
 You pretty much know everything that happened on monday... Transfer
 calls and stuff. Not a whole bunch else happened! So... moving on!
 
 Tuesday 5-1-12
 Elder Damuni left the apartment with his ward mission leader early in
 the morning. So i started throwing EVERYTHING away. For some reason
 he didnt like to throw stuff away and just reaked havoc on the
 apartment and tossed about 2 garbage cans FULL of junk. Not to
 mention another garbage can full of expired nasty food. It was great
 to de-clutter our apartment.
 
 Then we went to District Meeting. We got Kenny Gouff to take us. I
 love that guy. He loves the outdoors and loves fishing. he says he's
 never been ice fishing before so i invited him and he said he would
 actually really like that. So i'm super stoked, sittin on the ice
 with the bros and dad and joe and muscles AND bro gouff.. Who could
 ask for anything more? He is such a stud. I'm sure you guys would
 think he's as cool as i do.
 
 Then i got Elder Wood. And while we were at transfer meeting we
 watched the dying missionaries bear their testimonies... It was sad
 because i had to watch Elder Graff go home :( i'm gonna hang with him
 when i get home. He is so awesome. He's the guy that made up
 "Ghostbusters" with me. And let me tell ya, that phrase is going
 through the mission like WILDFIRE. Its so cool. I should have
 copyrighted it ;)
 
 Then we came home and brother Gouff got us Carls Jr. And he was
 cracking me up all the way home! He's so funny.
 
 We came home and got settled in a little bit and did a little bit of shopping.
 
 We went to dinner at the Delbars (Ward mission leaders home).
 
 Wednesday 5-2-12
 I dropped a package off at the post office which i was told made it to
 its destination.
 
 Then we went to district meeting. We have a small district. Only 6 of
 us... but its ok. They are all pretty cool.
 
 Then we went to costco after District meeting because they have one in
 San Louis Obispo. And Barry (from Simi) gave me a gift card there and
 so i used some of it to buy a whole bunch of maple bacon!!! MMMMmmmmm.
 I'm hooked on Bacon egg burritos!
 
 Then we came home and made bacon egg burritos!
 
 We went and taught Gary. He's doing really good and his prayers are
 doing a lot better. He asked me to baptize him and since Elder
 Marquez is still in the area he asked him to Confirm him!
 
 Then we saw Brother Stokes (LA) and he hurt his shoulder. Tore
 tendons in his shoulder i guess digging post holes. So i told him we
 would come over and dig the rest for him and that i would bring him
 my horse liniment.
 
 We saw Sally (Referral) and she was just about to leave the house. We
 set up an appointment though for the next day.
 
 We then talked to Kevin (potential) and invited him to the McCauley's
 Skeet Shoot. They do a skeet shoot at their house every year on Cinco
 De Mayo. And they have a big dinner too. We invited him to come and
 he seemed really stoked to go but he didnt show up :(
 
 Then we had Dinner with the Krugers. They invited Kenny Gouff over
 which was sweet. We sat around and played Yahtzee for a little bit.
 
 Brother Mattice (Ward mission leader of Atascadero 1st ward) was sick
 with Pnuemonia and so we cancelled our ward correllation.
 
 Thursday 5-3-12
 We went to the Schibers in the morning and did a lot of weed wacking.
 They fed us lunch and then spoke to us... A LOT. So we had to dash
 out of there because we were supposed to be at Sally's house. So we
 got to Sally's and she wasnt there :(
 
 So we were supposed to go to the Gouff's but we didnt get a call back from them!
 
 So we went to dinner at the Vance's house and Sister Vance Made us
 Zuccini Bread again! AH! I LOVE IT!
 
 Then we went to david and laticia's (Investigators) they werent home
 for a set appointment :(
 
 Then we visited the Murrays (LA) and shared a message. Found out that
 he might need some service so we told him we'd be over in the morning
 to help him.
 
 Friday 5-4-12
 We went to Brother Murrays house in the morning and helped him with
 his backyard. He lives on a really steap hill and has a hard time
 doing any work or getting anything up or down from the yard. So he
 had plans to build a deck in back there so we were knocking out
 concriet and started taking it down the hill in a wheel barrow
 attached to a rope so we could take it down the hill slowly. The hill
 he lives on actually used to be a dump and you can walk around and
 find Bottles on the hill that are from the early 1900's. Its sweet.
 He's got a way cool collection. He also told us a funny story about
 how he was taking a load of stuff down the hill and above him is the
 deck that wraps around the house probably... 10 feet above where he
 was. Well his son was up there who is about 3 or 4 was like "i'm
 gonna pee on you" and he didnt think much of it because why would his
 son do that? But all the sudden he was getting wet hahaha! That kid
 got in BIG trouble.
 
 Then we went to lunch with Sister Mortorff and she took us to the
 Cowgirl Cafe again. I love that place. Its pretty tasty!
 
 Then we had a lesson with Gary. He's a little nervous about the
 Baptismal interview because he thinks its gonna be a test haha. I
 think he'll do great.
 
 Then we did service for brother Stokes digging those post holes. He's
 a pretty cool guy, who loves fishing. He has some pretty good
 stories. He wants us over for dinner which is a big improvement
 because i guess his wife is the reason they dont go to church and she
 usually avoids us but we got to talk to her a little bit and warmed up
 to her just a bit. So that was good. I also left him with my horse
 liniment, i hope it helps him. It sure did help me.
 
 Then we went to brother Gouff's house (rod gouff) and did a whole
 bunch of weed wacking for him. Since he's got 7 acres. and they fed
 us dinner. Ordered up some pizza for us. Poor brother gouffs eye was
 almost swelled shut because he was removing a bees nest from a tree
 and they started stinging him and one got him in the eye.
 
 Saturday 5-5-12
 In the morning we had a lesson with a 7 year old girl at the Mortons
 home. We taught her the Plan of Salvation... It was ok. The little
 girl has a hard time Concentrating on what we are saying but the
 people there helped a lot.
 
 Then we went to go visit a bunch of people around atascadero because
 we hadnt done a whole lot there! And we couldnt really connect with
 anyone! It was pretty rough! We met one potential guy and spoke to
 him outside his house and elder Wood totally killed any opposition he
 had.. Every question answered with the restored gospel. Elder wood
 was killin it! He's a way good missionary.
 
 Well then we came home and did our weekly planning and ate lunch. We
 didnt do planning on friday so we did it saturday instead. And after
 that we went to the Skeet Shoot and since we're not allowed to shoot
 the guns i decided i'd launch the clay pigeons for them. We got some
 good pictures. It was a high priest group activity and elders
 activity and it was funny because one of the high priest walks out on
 the range with a shotgun in one hand and a walker in the other. I was
 dying laughing. We also had John Miller (investigator) show up and
 that guy is a stinkin dead eye! He was hitting everything. And my arm
 was dying because i launched about 2.5 boxes worth of clay pigeons!
 It was way fun. Then there was a dinner in their backyard and they
 have such a stinking sweet view out their back yard. It was sick!
 And then after that we went to our other wards party, but they were
 just cleaning up and we ended up getting a ton of left overs... gosh
 it was sweet!
 
 Sunday 5-6-12
 We went to church from 10:30am-4pm
 
 We went to a retirement home after that to give a lady a blessing.
 
 Then we had dinner with the Nichols family. They are lots of fun.
 After dinner we went outside and played with tenniss balls and raquets
 and i launched a ball way high and one of their kids, David, was going
 to hit it but got right under it and got smacked in the mouth. Ah
 man, i just watched him drop haha i felt so bad. But he was ok and
 really wanted to keep playing. And then after that we dropped some
 stuff off at brother Stokes house and then came in!
 
 
 So its been a pretty good week everybody. this week should hopefully
 be pretty good as well! I look forward every week to emails so the
 more that are in here the happier i am! So write me :D I love you
 guys tons and miss you all tons! Hope you are all doing well!
 
 Elder Samuel Crapo