Subject: 11 Transfers Down. 6 To Go.
From: samuel.crapo@myldsmail.net
Hello Everybody,
What a crazy week i have had. And today we got transfer calls. And it looks like I'm only going to have 4 areas in my mission! Which is sweet because it seems like most missionaries see about 6 or 7 areas by the time they are done! BUT I GOT LUCKY. So I'm staying in Atascadero! Which i am happy about. I like it here. Its taken me a lot longer to warm up to this ward than any other wards i have been in. But the area is sweet and there is always some fun service to do. Actually our whole Zone pretty much stayed the Same the only change is that Elder Marquez is getting sent up to Paso Robles ward. So he will still be in my Zone! And Elder Jarvies is taking his spot and will be Companions with Elder Lifungula. I love elder Jarvies he's such a good guy. Great Missionary. I'm stoke that he will be living with us. I still think its crazy that i was in Tehachapi for 6 months, Simi for 6 months and now Atascadero for 6 Months. I feel like i haven't really been here that long though.... But here is how my week has gone!
Monday 6-4-12
We had our P-day. My companion doesn't like how we are always on the go on P-day. So i had to slow it down. And it stunk! I'm never doing that again. Usually i like to get things done! EVERYTHING done! And leave room to do fun things like sports! But he likes to stay in and write letters... take naps.... PLEASE! ha ha but i did for him because you have to show that you "love" your companion.
Then we had plans to eat dinner with the Weavers. One of my favorite families. But, the mom was gone so brother weaver took me and wood to dinner out to a Spanish place and it was pretty good.
Tuesday 6-5-12
In the morning we went to brother Micklesons house with the other elders. We pruned a REALLY tall palm tree and for some reason he loves me the most and trusts me to go up the ladder. And it was WAY up there. But we got the job done and it was fun. He gave us money to go out for lunch which he's not supposed to do... but doesn't let us have our way. So we went and got... In'n'out?
We went out tracting afterwards... That was fun. I think 2 doors opened out of a whole street.
We then went and taught Kameron. Our last visit with him.
Right after we taught Kameron we got a call from the other elders saying that we needed to pick them up because elder Marquez had a crash on his bike and broke his wrist. So we picked them up. I got about a zillion RPM and Speeding violations from the Tiwi box in the car but i had to rush him to urgent care, which is supposed to stay open till 6:30 but was closed at 6:15. So we went to the ER across the street. We were in there for a really long time. Missed our dinner appointment and our two other appointments. But we found out that Elder Marquez broke his arm in 3 places and dislocated his wrist. Poor guy. he was in a lot of pain. But our room was the best. All the nurses loved us because Lifungula and Marquez and i were cracking jokes and having a good old time. Me and Lifungula were laughing so hard when Marquez had to get a shot in his butt! BA HA! After all that fun stuff the doctor came in and wrapped up his arm, told him the news, took some pictures and told him he'd have to come back for surgery.
We got Marquez in the car (he was still in his little hospital gown) and we went and picked up our dinner. The family packed it up for us and made tons for all of us! IT WAS BOMB! and then we went to Walgreen's to get elder Marquez's drugs.
We came home. Ate dinner and went to bed.
Wednesday 6-6-12
We went to the Johnson's in the morning to pick up all that left over food. Wednesday ritual.
We went to district meeting which was pretty good.
We came back home and got changed quick to go do service. We met brother Burgard who is a non member and hooked him up with brother Gouff to help him split some wood. So we went to brother Gouff's house and he took us to Brother Burgards and brother Burgard took us to the site where the wood was at and he has A LOT of wood! It is a gigantic tree! But Brother Gouff and Brother Burgard were both very excited. Brother Burgard because he was going to actually get all that wood cut, and brother Gouff because he was going to get a ton of wood out of this deal. He estimated that there were about 20 cords of wood. (a cord = a stack of wood 4X4X8) So that's a lot of wood!
Meanwhile Marquez was at the hospital getting his arm worked on. They were there from 12pm to 8pm... Long time.
After that, Barry came back into town! ha ha he took us out for sushi and it was SOOOOOOO goooooooood! We went to a place called Kai Lana. And all the sushi is about $9.50 for ever roll and it was SUPER GOOD! I love Barry! He's the coolest.
Then we came back home and talked to elder Marquez. He has plates and pins in his arm..
We didn't get much sleep that night. I had a lot on my mind and elder Marquez was having some extreme pain in his arm. So i stayed up with him till the AM's getting him ice and making sure he was alright.
Thursday 6-7-12
The other elders were supposed to go to district meeting but they didn't go. The Zone Leaders stopped by. We went out and picked up some things for elder Marquez and then we went out to contact a few people.
We had an appointment with Gary and it went really well. Getting ready for his baptism on Saturday.
We had dinner at the Cohen's house and that was pretty good.
Friday 6-8-12
We did our weekly planning at home. Stopped at Subway to eat lunch. Got a big old screw in our tire! It was making a thudding sound everywhere we went. We called the Car dude and he told us to go to Wayne's tires in Paso Robles. So we hopped on the free way hoping the screw would hang in there. But it came off and we got a flat. So elder Lifungula and i jumped out and put the spare on. Went to Wayne's got it fixed and then we went to Santa Margarita where brother Phillips picked us up. He took us to his couple hundred acre property, threw us in the truck and hitch the trailer and went to his fields and picked up all the hay! IT WAS GREAT! I haven't done that in forever! It was great. And then we'd take the loads to the barn and stack it. It is such exhausting work! But it felt so good. We ate at their house and by the time it was time to leave it was 8 pm. Took us about 30 minutes to get home and the day was Done!
Saturday 6-9-12
We didn't have a dinner so i called that lady who packed us food the other night and she said she would make dinner for all 4 elders. We went to the church at 10 AM to make sure the font was being filled and things were being prepared. And the lady met us there with TONS OF FOOD. Strogonoff which was more like Curry... it was good though. We found out that the bishop wasn't going to be there, they spelled Gary's last name wrong in the program and the bishop decided the night before that he should wait A WEEK to be confirmed in church (the following Sunday was stake conference) The baptism was great though. Gary's Nephew baptized him and it was great!
After his baptism the other elders got gift cards to in n out and so we went there for lunch!
We got home and changed for member sports. We were going to play capture the flag. We got there and waited 30 minutes and only 2 young women showed up... A lot going on i guess? Maybe next week. So we cancelled.
We got changed AGAIN and went to Gary's house because they were having a family get together and a BBQ. So they invited us. Since they are Thai they made some Curry. It was so good but so spicy! I still have heartburn from it!
We took Cathy Merrill's garbage out.
And that was it
Sunday 6-10-12
We had stake conference. It was good. There was a guy who was a president or assistant or something to the temple and he gave a SUPER deep talk on the temple but he did a way good job. Made me want to go to the temple EVERYDAY.
We came home and pretty much our whole district ate lunch at our apartment to eat all that Curry strogonoff stuff that lady made for us. We still have tons left over. It was soooooo gooooood.
We then went to contact some people and met this one guy who is less active. Last time i met him he was a real jerk to me but this time he was OK. I just spoke to him like a human and he opened up and we got to talking about football and he is coaching the Bantams in Templeton. He ordered a whole bunch of new helmets for the team and showed us the one he got for his kid. It looked AMAZING. Had i had a helmet like that, i would have loved football. My head would have never hurt that thing was like the best of the best.
Then we went to dinner with the Platts and their parents President Kunz and his wife. They are way cool. Way fun to be around and really missionary minded.
Then we came home and played with my camera and made some cool pictures in the dark... Drawing pictures with the flash light ya know?
Anyways that was pretty much it! It was an ok week. We had a lot of appointments fall out because of injury but it was ok. No biggy! Anyways i hope you are all doing good! I was surprised! I had about 4 emails this week! It was great! If you ever get a chance please drop me a line. I'd love to hear from you all! I'm doing good! I love you all and miss you all!
Love,
Elder Samuel Crapo
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