Alright, well I actually don't have a ton of time to write this because I had to sit here for half an hour without a computer because they were all taken up, so don't be offended but I'm not going to be able to comment back on all the things you sent me, but I did read everything and looked at all the pictures!
You guys are awesome. I did get the package and I love the shirts, shoes, trail mix, and pepper spray. No promises on not using it on the Elders though.. I wore the blue shirt to church and got a bunch of compliments on it, so nice choice mom! It's actually been randomly cold and rainy the last couple days so I haven't gotten the chance to wear all of the shoes and the other shorts, but I'm sure it'll warm up soon. Oh and thanks for praying for me to be able to get my Visa- I love it here but I would definitely love to get over to Argentina and start doing the work that I need to do over there. Tell your uncle David thanks so much for the letter and I had no idea how many people I'm related to served in Argentina- that's pretty amazing.
So we did have a lot of fun bowling as you can tell by the pictures. Well, most of us did. H. Hales got really frustrated when she wasn't doing very well, but Costa Vida obviously made up for it. It was kind of a frustrating week for us though because 6 out of our 7 lessons cancelled, and the one that we did get wasn't really a lesson because we seriously could not get a word in with this girl named Dulce. She's really cool and sweet but she LOVES to talk and it was impossible for us to control the lesson, but we'll try again next time. We're pretty used to cancelled appointments by now though so we're fine, and we know that everything happens for a reason and Heavenly Father's in charge. We have several lessons already set up for this next week (one's with the Toledos, who we finally got a hold of!) so hopefully we'll be more successful this round.
As far as the fishing activity we had with the Rama (branch), we didn't actually get to fish.. We were supposed to meet in the morning and the sister missionaries were going to cook everyone pancakes before we headed out to a lake in Syracuse, but it was pouring all morning and so we had to cancel. I had spent 12 bucks on a one-day only fishing license, so that kind of stunk, but Presidente decided just to change the activity around a little bit instead of cancelling the whole thing. We ended up still cooking breakfast for everyone in the church building and then after they ate we played a bunch of games of Voleyball. It was a lot of fun and surprisingly a lot of people showed up, including some non-members and less active families, so I'd say it was a pretty successful activity.
Exchanges yesterday/the day before were super fun! I got to hang out with Hermana Faasavalu, who's originally from Hawaii but she lived in Gilbert (she knows the Aiono fam.) for a little while and then went and played basketball for ASU! She's the coolest and we got along really well because she's so chill and funny. As I expected, though, we got a little lost... In fact, we actually lost the only maps we had a few minutes after we left the house..... so yeah, H. Faasavalu pretty much got a tour of Roy because we spent most of the day wandering around trying to find addresses and trying to stay within our area so we wouldn't be poaching. We were supposed to have two lessons, too, but both cancelled. Our only success was teaching a bit about the Resto. to a hispanic family that's here on vacation from Cali., and then we found an inactive Mexican lady who was friendly and is going to try and come to our branch with one of her friends this Sunday, which was cool. On paper it sounds like a pretty terrible day but we had a lot of fun together so it really wasn't bad, and Herm. Marin was there with Herm. Conrad and Marin is actually Faasavalu's "mom" so they were crazy together and the four of us had a blast during lunch and during the hour that we have to relax after planning/right before bed. Oh yeah, and she also jammed on my uke a little bit and she's amazing at it and wanted to steal it from me.
That's about it as far as this week goes. We only have ONE WEEK left until transfers! At first I thought that they'd just leave H. Hales and I together until we get our Visas, but after talking to some other sisters I'm pretty sure they're planning on moving the visa-waiters around.. so once again I have no clue what's going to happen or where I'll be in a week! Crazy stuff. I'm glad you guys are alright and hopefully the heat isn't too deadly down there yet. Good luck with everything! I love you all.
<3,
Hermana Crawford
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| Some of the Elders in our zone, bowling |
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| The 6 roomies bowling last P-Day |
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| The score for my 2nd game of bowling...140!!! (the first game I only got 68) |
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| Hermana Faasavalu and I during exchanges yesterday |
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| Hermana Conrad and Marin (who I did exchanges with last time) |
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| A pic of us after our unsuccessful hike a couple weeks ago |
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| Crazy Sis. Burton with the cutout of her son (it's actually Mitt Romney's body with her son's face glued onto it) |
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| An old one of me when we were tracting one day- we wanted to get a picture where we looked like we were somewhere cool rather than in the suburbs of Utah |
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