October 22nd Letter

hey, how much is the fee? no, i wasn't made aware. Stupid Canada. ugh. uhh, which box? i got the one with the jacket in it. is another one coming? cooooooool! mmmmmmm crab cooker, i miss thee. How'd the BEFY go? Did you talk about me? Things are going great with Tyler, he took us out to eat and we talked about him going on a mission. He'd be so great. And Pres Priday and his wife came and put on a missionary fireside, and Tyler spoke at it! He bore his testimony and told his conversion story. He Talked about me and how nervous i was in my very first teaching appt. Shaky voice yada yada yada. haha it was awesome though. I got to see elder page and that was cool. But the first thing he asked about was if i brought a CD of his. I wanted to punch him. NICE TO SEE YOU TOO PUNK! haha it was an awesome fireside. He's got a lot of friends. His home teaching companion is his best friend of a couple years, he's well friendshipped, no worries. SO whats going down in papa's loft? anything exciting? SO Brian got called to stake president! wow. I don't know if I'll serve in the south or not because of the family ties. I'd love to serve there, but i don't know. Pres is in charge. Maybe lethbridge, but i don't know if I'll serve in the cardston area. Which is really sad because i want to go to the temple! But I LOVE it here in brentwood. We have awesome RMs that come out with us, fun activities, good investigators. its great here. I got a letter from Irene, its great to hear from that family, i miss the Miles a bunch, give them my best please! Joey's gonna be a po-po? sweet! Liz broke up with him? weird. bailey married? REALLY weird. Tell anthony to write meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee please!!!!
I want to hear from him! Thats really sad about mark. I'll keep him in my prayers. What kind of nurse is garrett shooting for? tell him to write me as well! That poem was way cool, thanks for that. Yeah, so many times i wish that you guys could be watching me. It'd be great for you guys to see what you've made me into. I've really been searching for those experiences where you're just inspired to go somewhere, and i got one! We were trying by a potential, and he wasn't there, and i was just looking around, and saw the 1500 apt building and just felt to go tract there. And we taught a girl there and gave her a Book of Mormon. It was so neat. Its cool to see how different promptings can be. And we had a real neat experience with Natalie. We have really been pushing for her to pray. She has a hard time with it, but its amazing what the Spirit can do. We taught her the Plan of Salvation and you could tell she was feeling the spirit and we've seen a change in her countenance each time we go over and teach her. We originally were teaching her for her understanding but the Spirit has been witnessing to her, I KNOW IT! She told us that she prayed once, and it was for us. Pondering on that, we put it together that the same night she prayed for us we taught 5 people in 8 doors, and got 3 new investigators. She was quite freaked out, and the member that was with us just said, "God answers prayers." It was amazing! The Spirit does the real converting. SO guess what, tomorrow = me being out 3 months. CRAZY! We're going to play capture the flag again today. I'm excited for that. I thought of a funny scripture to send to people when they don't write me: Alma 62:1. I'm Moroni and they're Pahoran. :)
I'm pretty restless at the moment and don't really know what to write. Just know that i love ALL of you, and am doing well.
Elder Crippen
P.S.-In a talk Elder Ballard told me how to get my calling and election made sure! Ready? Live righteously! woohooo! hahah simple, yet so hard!