January 13th Letter

Thanks for the cool story, i liked it a lot. It's so fun teaching the gospel and building people up. I'm really scared for when i come home and don't do that full time. I hear that's what most missionaries have a hard time with once they return home, is just not feeling effective or doing anything. I think that's going to be a big struggle for me. But whatev. Props to Collin for getting into Idaho! He'll probably be classmates with a bunch of people from my current ward because there's a bunch of them going down there.
Also big props to Maddie for getting the machines done! That's a miracle. Now i feel better about not doing them, now Maddie got the fun! Thanks for all the pictures as well, those were awesome to see. And mom, when you made that list of all the exemplary women in my life you forgot the most important one! YOU! You are number one!
It's been a pretty great week. I got to go teach Jayme on Sunday and we talked about baptism. I think it'll happen eventually but she's a little concerned about her husband's reaction. He's a cool guy though, we got to meet him. At FHE the other night a guy brought two of his friends to come play basketball and they came to us asking what our church was all about. SO we took them around the building and talked about modern-day prophets and stuff. It was sweet. they mentioned that they'd probably be at more church activities so we'll be able to teach them there! And we got permission to go to the Elder's Quorum's Winter camp this weekend. We won't be staying the night but we'll go up the next morning and hang out with our investigators that will be there, so we're REALLY excited for that. It should involve some crazy outdoors MAN stuff. It'll be a blast. Lana, the Jewish girl will be coming back this week so we're pumped for her to get back and to see how she's doing and get back to teaching her again.
We've had some pretty warm weather this week. Its been hanging around 9 Celsius which is about 45 Fahrenheit. That is AMAZING. Talk about take off the suit coats! its burning hot! But life is really good and I'm really happy. Love you all!
Elder Crippen