February 17th Letter

The amazing Wilsher family. they'll actually be in CA when i get home! Jayme, the awesome lady we were teaching

And of course the Morrisons. My life is empty without them, haha

The Vances, i spent a large part of Christmas with them

The Funks, they were great

The Calgary South zone, for the last time. :(

Jerma(sp?) the lady who works at the best dollar store ever. She LOVED us, and knew me by name

This is Elder Clarke, and yes, he has 416 ties. His goal was to never wear a tie twice. WOW.

Hooray for last valentines day in the field! woot woot! Some girl in church gave a prayer and asked that it be a good one even for the single people. it was pretty funny. Things are way different up here. The ward is TINY!!! WOW! Its totally different. I can't remember if i told you or not but my companion is Elder Clawson and he's been out for a year tomorrow. Yay! He's quiet but a lot of fun. We live with Franny, a Spanish guy who I've heard about pretty much since the beginning of my mission. A bunch of my best friends in the mish have lived with him. Elders Pehrson, Jensen, and Larsen to name a few. We live up by the airport, in Far north Calgary. (oh, could you remove the apartment address from the blog. That's from October.) Franny's a fun guy and he treats us well. On Saturday we went to the baptism of Hans Escher, a guy from Germany. He's building his own boat for kicks and we went on it and it was SO cool! (ps, the boat is in dry dock, like, with no water to be seen around it, minus all the snow of course. AGH snow.) we had an awesome week up until last night. We were almost convinced that spring was here. And then 5 inches of snow fell last night and continues to fall now. Classic canada. we'll see the end of winter sometime. This winter was actually a lot better than the last one. Haha look at me talking about it like its over. Sigh. I've learned I'm definitely a people person because it was really hard to leave the south. I literally miss the Morrison's like crazy. And they are only two of a bunch of people that are my favorite people ever. hopefully i can find some more people like that. This'll probably be my last area, aka the area I'll go home from. And of course it would be right by the airport. Talk about torture, haha. No worries, I'm focused. But it doesn't mean that i don't still love planes. We're working really hard for our goal of 100 baptisms in March. We just need to get some investigators so that we're a part of it. This zone is on fire with it. It just goes to show that when you do what you're told, good things happen. Now we just need to get our ward on board. Its a REALLY small ward, there's about 100 people on the ward list, and half of them are less-active and stuff. So Sunday was weird. They aren't the most excited about missionary work but I'm here to make a difference so I'm going to do that. There's a pre-mish kid we go out with a lot who is way cool, Henry. he plays the guitar like a madman and he's really funny. Oh, and apparently yesterday was McDonald's customer appreciation day so you could buy a big mac and get another on for a penny. I did it, and i didn't feel too appreciated. It was gross. haha, I'll stick with in n out. Or A&W. That's something up here that they don't have a lot of back home. Its good stuff. Apparently, Bro. Banks, the high priest group leader back in Fish Creek park ward named the Teen burger. What a lucky man i am to have known him and know that part of history. :D AGHHHHHHHHHHH i want in n out. That is stop #1 when i get home. In n Out. We have interviews with President Archibald tomorrow so I'll get my endorsement for BYU then. Well, life is good up here in the Confederation Park ward. I love you all a lot and pray for you. Life is good! Elder Crippen