Posts for Elder_Crump
Chapter 14: Rebooting again
2009 September 21
NOTE: The other update that just showed up is last weeks... it perished in a log file explosion. I just resent it without putting a note on it or anything. So, once again, transfers is upon us. And this time, I'm staying. Elder Crump is done, so he's going back to Kentucky. Pretty crazy... My new companion has been out for a transfer... so he got to Vegas 6 weeks ago. I'll be his 2nd trainer. Not entirely expected, but should be fine. I've been working on getting some work going so that it isn't too depressing for the first ...
Splat.
2009 September 21
There's not a whole lot that I feel I can write right now. Not the best of weeks by far, although at least we had a lesson... that's about all of the positive news. The weather sounds like it's going to keep getting better, which should make things a little easier. We hear it might stay in the double digits all week! Yay! We continue to be reminded of the importance of proper record-keeping. It makes things a whole lot easier, especially when you're trying to figure out who to ask for information. Oh, we also discovered a "short cut", ...
Cooling off?
2009 September 08
I have to say that this comes on a Tuesday mainly because it couldn't come on a Monday. Labor Day is always a little wierd for us. There really hasn't been much excitement this week. We had splits with our DL this week (Elder Ortiz -- he's from Maryland), and Zone Conference (on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively). Splits was fun... I got a really funny picture of what the north part of our area looks like. It's actually just northwest of Durango and Moccasin (in case you'd like to know where all that is... Beyond that, we didn't teach much ...
Aaagh... Burning...
2009 August 31
This has been what can only described as a very hot week. It's been exceedingly hot. I'm actually pretty happy that it finally decided to cool off a little this week, and that at the end of the week, we can look forward to highs in the double digits, instead of the triple digits. It's actually kind of exciting. Work wise, things are starting to pick up. I can't recall the last time that I was really happy to get 4 lessons in a week, but this time around it's true. We're in contact with a lot more people now, ...
You know it's been hot when...
2009 August 24
... it drops to the 90s with a big jump in humidity and you're thankful for it. Yes, it has been very hot. It doesn't feel like there's been much going on since my last email, probably because it's only been 5 days. It's not really exciting right now. We've made a lot of visits, but aren't getting a whole lot of traction right now, mainly due to the fact that we don't really have anything set up, and that school starts today here in Vegas. It's been an excercise in frustration trying to get anything going so that we're ...
Wow, I forgot how hot it was
2009 August 19
Ok, so this is a couple of days late because it's that once-every-12-weeks-temple-trip day. Which was nice, as usual. Another transfer begun. So Tuesday evening was the beginning of a week-long adventure. We went up to Reno to pick up Elder Lyle's greenie (Elder Spencer), and to drop me off to head down south. As the bus was ridiculously late, we waited a bit (we went to Deseret Book while we were there because I hadn't been since before the Elder Bednar meeting back in May). To my surprise, Elder Crump (my new companion) showed up there. It was a ...
Chapter 13: Another long road
2009 August 10
Elder Larsen to Elkhorn Springs with Elder Crump on a bike. Covering: Silverstone. Yep, here we go again. I'm going back to Tule Springs Zone (that's where my last area was, too) on bike. This time it's a little different, as I'm with somebody who's been out a long time (he goes home in 6 weeks... so I'll be going on to companion #11 pretty soon afterwards). It's still North Vegas, and it's August, so it'll be warm (forecast for the early part of this week is 103-105 for the high, with lows in the 80s. Yay. The other odd ...