October 8th Letter

Parents!
Looks like you guys had a great time! Thanks so much for the pictures. I really enjoyed the ones of David. Such a monster!!! Tel him to keep his head up when he hits and to thrust the hips. It gives you more power. But most of all, You have got to WANT IT. Does he only play defense or does he play offense as well? SO things went great with the family? That's good! details? How did my mission help? Conference was soooooo gooooooooodddd. oh man i loved it. During the Saturday morning session i literally felt like jumping for joy. I can't describe how happy it made me feel to be receiving all that counsel. Personally, I loved the talk Richard G Scott gave in priesthood about women. I was sad because i couldn't hug mom like he told me to. sigh. Winter quarters is so cool. I would like to go through all those sites sometime. Wicked is soooooooooooooooooooooooo good. The song For Good gets me close to tears when i think of all the family and friends who have made me who i am. OOOOooo Christmas package. I'm supposed to tell you to send it not by fedex or ups, and to write 'gift' on it or something. so yeah. :) I got your package today but i don't actually get it yet cuz its in the zone leaders car but thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!! Yup, Elizabeth is so gone. haha i knew it. WE always said bailey and liz would go first. Could you send me some church CDs? Just put songs you know I'd like on there. Some specifics I'd like are: All of Me- Jon Schmidt, For good-Wicked, a more excellant way cd, the greatest gift cd, Come thou fount- david crouden, and stuff you know I'd like. I'd be so grateful to get those! yerah that's so exciting about the temples! Rome will look so cool!
INDEPENDENCE! yahhh!!! that sweet! We got a couple yee haaas from members during conference when they announced Calgary. reverence please? Seriously, it felt so weird not going to dinner with the boys after priesthood. so weird. But the whole zone went to dairy queen so that was cool. President Stephens called you? Sweet! He's not the branch president, he's the second counselor in the stake presidency. He's like dad! He owns the largest dry cleaning company in Calgary so that's cool. free dry cleaning! yay! It was so crazy. yesterday as we were going in for lunch we saw this huge gray cloud coming over us. a few minutes after getting inside it gets super windy and loud and it started hailing and stuff. crazy!!!I took a couple videos. Should i send the whole memory card home or a cd of everything? I'll probably send the card. so yeah, I love you guys so much and i miss you More everyday. But I'm really having a great time and am loving being a missionary! Have a good week!
Elder Crippen
we're going to play capture the flag in a park! I get to use mt 'elder bourne' skills! yay!