Hey Griswalds!!!
Dang, everyone is headed to Disneyland without me?! What a shame!!:) Haha I love you all! If you drive to Disneyland you will be about, oh 100 yards from some of our investigators. I can see, hear, and smell the freeway from the Critchlows' home. Also I see advertisements for the PBR and I think Conn said he was coming down to it? Maybe I am wrong, but I hear it is at the South Point Casino and that is seriously like 2 miles from where we live. So that has been fun to tell people my family is all really close these next couple of weeks and I won't even see you! But hey, it's all good. We are really enjoying it here and having a good time.
Yesterday Elder Cunningham and I spoke in church and that was way fun. It is amazing how much more comfortable I am speaking here then I was at home. I talked about member missionaries and how with the rising number of missionaries the members really need to step it up. Dad you would have been proud- I talked about cows the whole time! I promise it tied into what I tried to teach. And hopefully it will make people think about sharing the gospel when the occasion arises. I know you all are doing great with the Book of Mormon marking system. We are doing awesome and seeing some serious blessings from it! But you don't need to underline each verse, just circle the number that it says. That way they know which verses to read. We have given away over 30 of them in the last 3 or four weeks. It has been going crazy!! I don't want to say that the work is booming, because that would be a lie. But it is definitely picking up, I guess you could say.
We had interviews this last week and things look really good for the next transfer. I love President Black and Sister Black. Surprisingly, he reminds me of Dad a ton. Super inspired man! He talked to me about a few opportunities that might be coming my way and they sounded a little scary, but definitely some real room to grow!!! We will see what transfers end up bringing! But he did pretty much tell me that I will be staying in the same area, which I figured I would. That makes me happy because I am beginning to really love the people. The members here are becoming like family-especially the Mitchell family. They are working toward the temple. We meet with them every Sunday and that is way way fun! Oh and Mom, before I forget I need you to send me my cacky shorts- the ones that I would normally golf in? Do you know what I am talking about? Ask Weston and Coy if you have any questions. I need them because next P-day Brother Mitchell is going to take us Golfing!!!! Heck yeah! We are pretty pumped! We just hope that he can get work off. They are way awesome and I hope that they can make it to the temple while I am here so that I can make it over there with them to see that take place! The Finau's are also awesome, but they are going to Utah this next week to go see family and Brother Finau will do his Dialysis there for a few days. I can't believe how happy he is! He has been on dialysis for 11 years and you would never even guess it! He is so awesome!
Thanks so much for the coat mom. I love you! It really is starting to cool off here, I know that compared to home it is hotter than heck but you have to remember I am getting acclimatized! I am starting to get really cold when it is like 67 outside. It is bad! It is crazy that Elder Cunningham is going to be going home this next week, but I guess that has to happen to us all. It might be kind of tough to get a new companion because we have grown so close together. But it will be cool to see that part of the mission when he goes home and when I make the next step to having the new companion. As Halloween is coming around the corner the wards are planning the big parties and our mission has a party also, so that is going to be dang fun! And we already have a place to go for Thanksgiving and Christmas! The members are like calling dibs on us! It is awesome! But I think the Mitchels' are going to win the battle for Christmas because they said they wanted us to come and see James' collection of Jordan shoes. He gets like ten pairs every year! Cool, cool people!
We have had some real struggles with one of our investigators these past couple weeks and it is beginning to scare me. We have pushed back her baptism date twice. As of right now, she is going to be baptized on Saturday at 6:30. Elder Cunningham is such a great teacher he totally dominated all her concerns. It was really fun. The crazy thing about all of this is I am beginning to feel the Spirit in a completely different way. In such a way that I haven't ever felt it before. It is nuts! But so fun to be able to be here and do as the Lord wants. He really has His hands in EVERYTHING and I am nothing - like it says in the scriptures, we are the dust. We are nothing, but yet He can use us for so much good and it is great to experience that each and everyday.
This is for all the little boys... I got to go on exchanges this last week and I think they will be excited to know it was with a BYU football wide reciever! And no, Foster, he wasn't on the roster last year because he red shirted. But he did get to dress down for the Bowl game. He is super cool and his name is Elder Jones. He is a total stud and speaks Spanish. Super fun guy to be around. We weren't able to do too many cool things, but we did come in contact with some people and gave a Book of Mormon away! I hope you are all reading from the Book of Mormon each and every day. There is so much about that Book that I love and it really does change lives. As you can all hopefully tell it has completely changed me. I am finding that I need to lose myself in the work more, and think less about what is going on at home. It is dang tough with Elder Cunningham leaving in a week, but it is possible and I really do love being here. I can't imagine what it would be like to go home. It is like you get lost in another reality while you are here. But it is way fun to be able to just devote all your time and talents to the Lord! I hope all the girls are thinking about missions now that the age is changed!!! I know all the missionaries want RM girls now. That is like the new word on the street!
I won't really know when Elder Cunningham's Homecoming is so you'll have to get in contact with his mom. You all have his number right? He is super awesome. I hope you can go. You have to meet him. I am going to write President Black now and then go play some Basketball with the District! Oh, and we are going to go to Deseret Book, so if I see something cool, or that might be useful I am probably going to get it.
I love you all so much. I did get my voting stuff and I have already voted and will be sending it back today. I am not really sure what I should be voting for on the propositions so I made an uneducated decision haha. I love you all and keep me posted on how things go in California! Have fun down there I love you all!
Love,
Elder Crapo
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