Me and Clawson helping a family with dinner. he cut the lettuce and i SPUN it 
THis is clawson, Carly (a girl who was baptized last year, she's way cool and made me a bday cake AND got me a pinata), me and Henry, the sweet kid who always comes out with us
we DESTROYED the pinata
The guy we lives with is from Chile, hence the sombrero
This is the Ice Cream cake that Caly made for my birthday. the crust was oreos mixed with melted reese's peanut butter cups, and broken up oreos, with ice cream and reeses pieces on top. SO hefty!
Clawson, Henry, Me, Caly, and her friend BeckyHEyyyyyyYYY!!! It was a great week. Before i start, Happy birthday to Carrie and Katie!!! Lots of amazing experiences. I don't know where to start. Maybe with Bednar, that'll be good. Elder Jensen from the Presidency of the Seventy was there as well. So cool! It was an amazing meeting and so spirit packed. I think the greatest thing i learned from him was how to teach better. Our purpose is to teach doctrine and invite people to act. And the best thing i learned is that i don't need to hear a general authority to speak in order to learn something. He wanted us the learn from the Spirit that which we needed to know. It was SO cool. Afterwards, we all got to go up and shake his hand and stuff. At first i was bummed because it looked so impersonal, they would shake his hand and move on. But when it came to be my turn I shook his hand and connected eyes with him. All i could see in his eyes was pure love for all of us, and me personally. It was SO cool. I think if i could share anything about that meeting that would be it. I didn't really learn anything groundbreaking, but i know that the leaders of the church have an immense love for all of us, and that love comes through their devotion to Jesus Christ. The drive ending up being pretty sweet because we didn't drive down, we got all the missionaries in the city on two charter buses! It was awesome and the seats were way comfy. And it was fun to be able to kick it with a bunch of buddies. SO fun. Oh, and i was in the ward talent show. I played the piano part for a song the Henry played on guitar and sang. It was exciting. The birthday was a good one as well. We had lunch with carly, went to the office and got mail and my CAKE! yum. ANd then went to a stake meeting and then went to caly's house for a great dinner and lesson. It was definitely a lot better than last birthday, haha. no car accident. Another amazing experience happened Thursday night. We had a sports night where people from the ward played kickball. And a girl we're close with, Carly, the girl who had the pinata for me, hit her head sliding into home. She's an athletic girl so we weren't really worried too much about her. She left early to take a friend home and we could tell that she was a little different and hurting. On the way home i was feeling really heavy in my chest and felt a lot of concern for her and had a strong feeling that we needed to go and visit her. I told this to Clawson and he felt the same way. SO we drove to her house and called her a few times, but she didn't answer so that had us worried. As we pulled up to her house she finally called back and we told her what was up and she told us she was feeling fine and stuff. Clawson said he felt like we should give her a blessing and i agreed. We went and talked to her on her front porch a bit and she kept telling us she was fine and whatev. We finally got out that she had a bit of a headache and was dizzy and she had 2 concussions last summer. We told her all about how strongly we felt the Spirit tell us to come see her and we asked it she would like a blessing. She had never had one before, minus her patriarchal blessing. So we explained a little bit, i anointed and clawson sealed. It was amazing and the Spirit was there for sure. During the blessing a thought came to me about calling upon the ministering angels because she was also scared about staying home with none of her roommates home, its something that bothers her a lot and she can't sleep some nights when they're gone. And right after i thought that ELder clawson said it in the blessing. I've never heard anyone do it before except for dad and me. SO it was awesome. Afterwards we shared our testimonies of priesthood blessings and the promise of angels. The next morning we talked to her and she said she had no trouble falling asleep and had no headache whatsoever. SUCH A GREAT NIGHT! I love you all and miss you!
Elder Crippen
p.s.- jayni, i mailed you a letter on monday! no worries!
Elder Crippen
p.s.- jayni, i mailed you a letter on monday! no worries!
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