Hey family!!!
Dang, it is good to hear from you!! This past week has been crazy fast with things to do and super busy for Elder Crapo!! I have so much I could tell you about and I can't even believe that Christmas is going to be here soon!! As for Brett, I am so glad he is ok. I almost pulled out our phone and called home when I saw heart attack!! Don't be doing crap like that anymore! And Grandpa, hopefully you are getting better and having a better week now. Things here are going well and Thanksgiving was a good/weird time to be a missionary. Thankfully Bishop Crowder is the best guy in the world and he fed us really well. We will also be calling home from there on Christmas:) I want to Skype so I can see the whole fam and stuff. That would be awesome! I am pretty sure that we have right around an hour to talk during that time so that will be fun!
Well, as for the week of a missionary it has been a tough and a good week. I won't lie. I have been having a lot of different struggles this transfer that hadn't ever come up when Elder Cunningham was here. I am learning a ton from all of this. Crazy how the Lord is constantly shaping and molding us as missionaries. Sometimes it isn't all that fun, but I am learning how to handle things and situations that I haven't ever been presented with before my mission. We have been really having a struggle with all the work in the area and I have really been praying hard on how I can change that. For months the Southern Highlands ward progress record has just been the front page and then the Somerset would hit the back. Well, we went and had breakfast on Saturday with Bishop Nelson and I just asked for as many people as he knew that we could go and visit and share a Christmas message with and he gave us several names! So even though we aren't having a ton of luck with new investigators or baptisms we are doing a ton of less active work! Then the other day we got two mormon.org refferrals on the phone and I was so happy I could almost cry! It is really hard to go to district meeting and everyone else in the zone has like 2 or 3 or even 4 people set for baptism in the next month and then we have zero. It makes me feel like I am doing a crappy job. We work really hard and we see tons of people- just no fruits as of right now:/ But I thank my Father in Heaven every single day for the less active work that we have and have done! The Mitchells just met with the Bishop on Sunday so they are working toward the temple:) And the our other family comes to church every week!! So they are doing awesome...But unfortunately their dad told them they couldn't get baptized. He just has a chip on his shoulder about something that happened in the church a while ago. But one day the kids will be baptized and they will be strong members of the church!:)
Now with the mormon.org referrals we got- we went and we contacted them last night and they are two high school kids. They are super interested! Their brother is currently attending BYU-Idaho and so we have a tie already! And their dad who wasn't too interested was still really cool to us and they will be feeding us tomorrow night! We are going to have to be eating twice which is never good on the diet... but, i guess, what do you do?! Haha
Now for the Turkey bowl, That was so fun! We all dominated! We played our first game and we tied. So whoever then scored the most touchdowns in the next game was the winner. We played another zone- the Red Rock zone and Totally dominated them 12 to 2! We felt pretty bad because we had to slaughter them in order to make it to the Championship game. Red Rock zone is where Jimmy Mai was from and I baptized him, so I think Elder Wrathall, my buddy from Michigan probably wanted to kill me doing that to him. No he is way cool and it was a ton of fun. But then in the championship game things got a little heated. We were kicking and dominating with Elder Jones, and some other Elder on the other team who thought he was pretty cool just like laid him out. We still scored. But in order for the AP's to avoid a brawl they just had us replay the play and we ended up losing by one touchdown. I guess I would say that we really won but Tule Springs thinks they won... Anywho, haha it was a really good week!
Now that I have told you about how slow the work has been the church has come out with a new website called mormon.org/christmas. If you all haven't gone on and checked it out, please do!! Go on for FHE and watch the videos! It is such a good thing that we can all share with our friends. We have been trying to get into every member in both our wards home and share this with them and then commit them to post the E cards to Facebook so hopefully their non member friends will see it and go check the website out and then request us to come by:) The non members can even request us to bring them a free Bible! So everyone- will you get on mormon.org/christmas and post those ecards to your Facebook? (This is where you say, yes Braxton. We will.) Then I say I promise that if you will do that you will have a spiritual experience of your own and our Heavenly Father will bless you and your friends because of your efforts:) Really, though, please go on and do that for the Lord! He is giving us such good resources and we need to be using them to hasten the work! This week is going to be awesome! We are so booked and the Lord is going to really bless the members of the church through everyone's service. Oh, and if you could post those to my little Facebook thing you all set up that would be awesome as well!!
As for Christmas cards I am going to go and do that today. But I need some addresses like Matt's moms and Austin's moms. So if you could send those that would be awesome! I am so thankful for all of you and all that you do for me! I love you guys so much! And let me know if you don't want to Skype. Sister Crowder said we could do it at their house, so just let me know! I hope everyone has a good week and Brett- Don't be doing crap like that anymore! I love you all and Foster, I don't know when your basketball tryouts are, but go kick some butt!!! Oh and Tell Mr. Jake Angell that I am still alive and I do still get mail and that it is legal to write a brother. But tell him I said hi as well and to kick trash at the new job!! I will talk to you all on Monday..... but until then!
Ofa Atu!!
Elder Crapo
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