That
is so cool that Miranda got her mission to Tampa Florida! And I am
super excited about that because it's super funny and weird, but there
is a definite relation ship with people in Michigan and people in
Arizona and Florida. So I can guarantee that she is going to meet some
Ganders down there in the winter time. There is so many Snow birds (old
and young) that escape the cold to go to the heat. So I don't know she
may or may not meet some one I have met we'll see.
It's
kinda cool/ weird there has been a lot of cotton wool flying off the
trees. It's like it's snowing but its warm out! But there is piles of it
in many places on the side of the road. It's not near as much as the
snow but it looks a little like it.
To start
out all I can say about this week, is that it was a week.....('sigh').
But forrealzies though this week wasn't the best at the start of it.
We were dropped by like 3 of our investigators one of which was
progressing towards their baptismal date... (my companion now uses
forrealzies regularly in his vocabulary =p, I have only used it like 2
or 3 times too. ). Yah the start of the week was pretty sad for us.
One
thing that Happened was we showed up to A's house (the less active I
door knocked into) and he ran out side his house to see who we are and
he came up to us super sad and pitiful. We went inside and found out
that his girlfriend took his paycheck and ran away. There was a lot of
problems that happened because of that. He had been alone for 4 days not
knowing any one in Michigan but her and her family and they were all
out of his life now. He was no longer able to pay the bills, he would
only had like 100 dollars to pay a 900 dollar rent and all of his income
for the whole month was gone... he started smoking anything
and everything to get his mind away. We showed up let him talk to us and
tell us everything, turned off the tv that was showing not uplifting
shows and was encouraging that behavior. Wrote him a list of Gospel
movies to watch on Netflix. And got Bishop to talk to him. We had a
lesson we had to go to and we were not comfortable to let him be alone
to much more so we promised him we would come back.
That was not a fun situation
at all! We came back to talk to him and see what he thought about the
joseph smith video and gave him a priesthood blessing. We talked to him
yesterday he is in Phoenix Arizona now on his way to California to
live with his addict sister.... He sold all that he could and left.
Personally I wouldn't have done that from listening to his side of the
story. But after that happened I felt that he was being pointed back to
the right path that he needed to be on so what ever it will work out.
Also
This week I woke up in the morning to see a big red bump on my left
hand. I had no clue what it was, but it looked super gross! We went on
tradeoffs and I showed it to my district leader and he told me that it
was a spider bite. For like the rest of the week at random times I have
been trying to see if my spider powers and web slinging ability has
developed yet. So far nothing yet has developed from it I'll tell you
next week if I do develop them till then I will keep trying to web up my
companion and climb on the ceiling. =p
I now have a calculator watch tan, I feel like Andrew Chapple, he always had a watch tan!
Man
this week has been pretty sad though! I was driving on some dirt road
out in the forest going to a dinner appointment and some cars were on
their way toward me, I thought nothing of it of course. I then see a big chunk of black top broken and on the road (not a unusual sight because
the weather here destroys the streets) and I kept going and I was going
to move my wheels a little so it didn't bump up and hurt the bottom on
the car. kept going the cars got closer. AND CLOSER! And I realized
like 6 feet away from the chunk of black top that it was a TURTLE!!!
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! ...................................=(
the cars were so close to me I couldn't move to straddle Mr. Turtle, it
was really sad, we are afraid to look under the car =(. Man you never
even get to see to many wild turtles out side. My first road kill.
So
you know those cookies you sent me in the mail I was about to throw
them away and my companion guilted me into not doing it even though they
were solid and destroyed. We have been eating cookies like cereal since
then though! It's great!
I've gotten to pick a
lot of locks recently, all of which are bike locks and I don't even
need tools for but I have gotten to pick like 3 in the past weeks.
Speaking of bikes...
We don't have bikes in
our area and we had no way to get up to south Lansing in time for a
appointment that we had so we called around and no ride... But we got
some one to let us use our bikes. My companion didn't have a helmet but I
did and I took it with me because my Mommy taught me to and it's
important even if you are experienced. I am so glad I did ha ha! Oh man
it was bad. I got on the bike and started riding to the appointment. I
squeeze the brakes and nothing happened... "that was weird" try it again
nothing. I then try my front brakes and that slowed it but would not
stop the bike at all. That bike ride got real! I was crossing the street
and some lady pulled up to go onto the main road and I zoom by
uncontrollably cringing and she honks at me even though I had the right
of way. Kept going "ok I need to slow down before a street intersects" I
keep going trying to make it to the appointment on my bike that the
gears are broke too apparently. We come up to a Hungry Howies and it is
clear so I start crossing the road and then a crazy lady WHO IS ON HER
PHONE(!) turns to go in without signaling and I jerk my handle bars
to avert the car as it wizzed by me before she hits the brakes. I hit
the curb end up on top of a grass hill and was still clutching my
brake. No harm was done to either so we kept going after doing the fist
of rage at her (fist of raaaagee..... =p remember that?). We kept
going. I was super skeptical about everything after that on that
freaking bike, SO much that I ended up being beaten by a tree branch in
the face because I was looking for cars, the Helmet was number 1! I have
a strong testimony of those things! I let my companion know many times
how good my Mommy and Dad did at teaching me to use a helmet after that.
Whelp I'm off to go play some Volley ball, Jesus Ball and board games with the Zone.
Bye I love you have a good day!
Don't get shot!
Have a better week than me! =p
Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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