Transfers are coming up ...

Sounds like lots is happening on your end. I'll see what I can do about the Pictures of me. Thank you for the pictures. I won't be asking anything from you for a while because I know you have a lot to plan for and a lot to pay for, so don't worry about me, I'm totally fine.

 Tell Dad to start figuring out how to Google Hangout because that is what I will be using to video chat with you for Christmas because I don't know where Landon and Tiff will be and I will want to talk to them to. With Google Hangout you can chat with multiple people at once. Really cool. Hope I remember all the log-in info. ha-ha, but yeah.

 We have 5 youth in our ward total, so you think your youth is small. ha-ha. 

Met with one of our investigators and he seemed happier than he has been and has committed to reading 3 Nephi 11-30.

Started eating abend brot more often. 

We had a good district meeting this last week. In our district meetings we have a competition between all the 3 areas. Every area brings chocolate and whoever gets the most points walks with it all. It's all centered around finding and we won last week. we got 4 point. that was fun.

We ate hot dogs at family home evening at the Church. 

We helped Björn move in a bit of his stuff into the apartment above us. Did I tell you about Björn, he is in the picture of Elder Marshall and I. Björn standing on rocks and holding up seven fingers. haha seben.

We tausched with hohenstein, so I took over the area for a day. That was fun, but scary. 

Haven't been feeling the best health wise this week. That's not fun

I need a space bag, should I just buy one here?

There was a baby blessing in English in church yesterday. That was fun. We also had our meetings in the American order with sacrament first. That was strange. Lothar Ebisch just turned 80 years old, so they celebrated that. 

Also, heard an awesome story from the Howards how they totally accidentally ate the second most poisonous plant in the world and barely got sick. 

I love it out here. It's not really that difficult getting rejected by people.

well, that's all for now. Have a great week and enjoy planning for the wedding and what not. 

Love,

Elder Crotts

P.S. I don't know if you know but Kolton is in Cali now.

Ooops... The Car

Landon is engaged... that's so weird, but I think I approve. ha-ha. Tiff sent me a picture of the ring on her finger and all it said was "WOAH!! the wood in the background looks weird. It's all green" ha-ha I wonder how she'll react to it. Make sure you get a card board cut out of me for the reception. 

Sister Pitech seems to be doing really well. It's nice that I have gotten to see her so much. 

 

                           

Monday I cut my hair, it's a lot shorter now.

Tuesday we tausched with Annaberg Elders and Elder Mitchell and I were in schwarzenberg. We got lost for 40 or 50 minutes trying to get to Sosa. Then on the way back from Sosa I scratched the side mirror on a cement pole, then later that day I hit the side mirror of another car with the same side mirror I hit on the pole. I called President and Elder Beesley (finance guy), and got in contact with the Lady who owned the car. she ended up having to call the cops. We called a member to come help us and he got there first and within like 30 seconds had fixed her mirror. Her auto guy came and tested it, it worked everyone was happy and then.... the popo came. They were so scary looking. I'm pretty sure they eat whole chickens for breakfast, just to get to the eggs. It was like scary, but our member talked to them and they left no problem. I had to fill out two damage reports. The only damage to our car was a little rubber smudge and a scratch from the cement pole. 

Wednesday we had a service project in Annaberg after our district meeting. I got to wear my jeans. I miss jeans.

Thursday we tausched with the Zone Leaders. Elder Ashby and I were in Schwarzenberg. That night our car had problems and was slipping gears. It was not a good week for the car. 

Friday Elder Ashby and I road bikes and found two new contacts and made two new appointment for this week. Woo!! He is pretty cool. He only has 6 months left and is from American Fork.

Saturday we helped a member move. She has 8 cats, enough said. I got to wear my jeans again. I miss jeans... and normal clothes. I also prepared my talk. it took a bit longer than I thought it was going to take, but it worked out.

Sunday we watched a Joseph Smith clip in Sunday School. Then I gave my talk in Sacrament. It was 20 minutes long, but was supposed to be 10. It was all over the place like my talks usually are. then we ate at the Wetzel's house. It was so good. 

I burnt a cake yesterday in the microwave. 

My knees have been bugging me lately. Like they are actually starting to hurt, they used to just feel funny, but now i'ts slowly turning more into pain. so yeah. Pray it's nothing serious. 

Well, that's all I have to say this week. Hope everything is good back home. How is the bathroom? How is the TV? How are my movies? ha-ha, jk. I know my movies are ok. 

Well I love you tons and thank you for all the support you are giving me. Eat healthy and exercise, it's fun I promise. Tell misty I say hello and give her a kiss for me. Tell everyone I say hi. Doesn't matter who it is. 

Love you

Love,

Elder Crotts

So much fun!!!

It's so much fun out here. Last week was pretty slow, but I did tausch to Hohenstein with Elder Bendixen, that was fun. Had a walk in and invited the people to be baptized. They said no, but it was loads of fun and then were really nice and kept complimenting us on how awesome it is that we dedicate 2 years of our lives helping people. Then they were amazed how much German I have learnt in such a short time. Ich bin der hammer (might have spelled something wrong in there). Tell Oma and Opa I say hi and that I love them and give them a hug and kiss for me. Yeah Sarah!

Saw the video and pictures of the Dinosaur outing. The video was choppy and sorry no videos from me today because this computer is no good. ha-ha.  

I am doing good. I have still been looking for a good present for dad. Have no idea what to get him, so tell him sorry. I will be sending a box home hopefully by the end of next month. ha-ha, that's forever away. I am waiting for egg cartons. 

Investigators are great. We have two appointments set up this week. One with an eternal investigator who will baptize. Its happening, even though she doesn't know it yet. 

The rabbit was quite delicious, but I don't want to eat it again. 

We had a zone training meeting and I saw Sister Pitech again. That was fun. I wrote you a message in the air, sorry they are kind of crap, I just started. More on the way. It's been warm here too and we haven't had a car, so we have been using bikes. It's been crazy, but we have our car back now, so that's good.

I realized, I don't know America. During our English class we had a map of America and we had to draw a route for a trip and I didn't know where any states or cities were. It was ridiculous, ha-ha. 

I made a nappy potato soup. Didn't taste very good at all, but this weeks menu looks so much better. 

oh, I ate at KFC after the zone training meeting and I sent you a pic of the receipt. It was so good, better than Americas. 

We have 3 jars of peanut butter in our cupboard and one claims to be American style... its not. 

Need more family pics and better pics of Tiff and Landon. 

oh yeah! I'm giving a talk next Sunday... in German. Wish me luck. 

Hope you and Dad have a good week. Go party or something and eat healthy. 

I love you tons. I will try to get a video next week, but no promises. 

Well, I got to go, love you muchly

Love,

Elder Crotts

P.S. I miss hamburgers so bad

My week was pretty good :)

My week was pretty good. We have a new investigator who is our age. well, she is 23 but that's close enough. We had Americans at church again yesterday. Well, at least one. He is cool. His name is Lex Howard. fun... hmm. We ate at McDonald's on Wednesday and got a free cup, that was kind of fun. ha-ha. We eat with a member every Sunday, but usually that's it. yeah, they are slowly getting better.

We haven't done too many really fun exciting things except for Monday, we went to an investigators house for lunch and we ate Rabit. but I was finished by the time they told me what it was or else I wouldn't have eaten it, or at least had a lot of trouble eating it. 

I told dad about a cake that I think Kelli should try and make. The cake part is more like those small round cake things, almost like sponge cake, that we used to put ice cream and strawberries on. ha-ha... I just realized I told dad about a cake that Kelli can't eat, cause it has strawberries on it. ha-ha tell her to make it any way.  

So for FHE on Wednesday, we get together at the church, eat food and read Scriptures with the members that don't have anyone to do it with. For the past couple of weeks, Sister Ebisch, who lives two floors above us and is not married, (the sister of Brother Ebisch who's house we skyped from on mothers day), has been making the food. She is really nice. 

Saw Sister Pitech on Wednesday last week and will again this Wednesday as well. She seems to be doing really well. How is Brother Dixon. the elder who came home for knee surgery. I emailed him, but haven't heard back yet. At least I think I emailed him. 

Got three new untersucher  (investigators) over the past couple weeks. They are all really cool people. 

So our oldest untersucher, is 84 years old and our youngest I think is now 23. Who we just found recently in a restaurant. 

We have been tausching the car a lot with the Annaberg elders, so we have been walking and riding bikes. It's kind of been slowly killing me. I really wish I wouldn't have just sat around the house for 2 years. I am not fit at all. 

So some exciting news. President Seidl, the branch president, who is also over all of the apartments in the mission, has decided that he wants to renovate our kitchen and make it new. WOO HOO!!. I have already picked out some colors that I think would be great in the apartment, because they are positive and happy and would make it a great environment to come home to, after a long day of people saying no. 

oh and some people like us but most of the people just think we are annoying ha-ha.  

I have also been trying to find pictures for our apartment to make it more homey, but unfortunately the büro (Office) has like no pictures available to them. 

Elder Marshall's Birthday was on July 17th and he just hit his one year mark.

well, I got to go. We got to catch a bus. Going to get the car back from Annaberg. 

Love,

Elder Crotts

P.S. How's Misty. Can you send me some of those pictures that you put on the Montages. That way I can have big versions so that Bruno, the 84 year old, can see them.