HOT... HOT... HOT!

Thanks for writing. I have a lot of things to talk about so here we go.

I would like a tschüss book, book other people write in when I or they leave the area/go home. I was thinking it would be cool to get one of those Tardis journals for a tschüss book, but only if you are will to buy one. If you do, you could probably have it shipped straight here and if you do, I would need it kind of soon because Elder Marshal might be leaving this next transfer. If not, I could try and find something cool over here. I am now writing in my journal every day. turns out it says to in the white hand book. fyi I have been since I got to Germany. 

So the other day we were cleaning and we found some bubbles which was fun because they are Hello Kitty bubbles.

I also gave myself a hair cut and it looks funny, but that ok, cause everyone's hair looks funny over here. With my hair cut, one of our investigators thinks I look like Tin Tin from the adventures of Tin Tin. His name is Gerd.

I have also eaten eggs twice since I've been here. Once they were in a salad pasta thing and I had to pic them out, but I know I ate a few pieces and then also egg white that were mixed in with potatoes into a ball shape and then boiled. Both times I felt a little sick after eating but nothing serious.

The other day, Thursday. We had a zone conference meeting in Leipzig which is about 2 and a half hours away by train. Seemed further though. Any way, it was super, super hot and humid. I think it got up to about 45°c (113 *F) maybe just 40 (104 *F) but it was humid and we were all in a little room with about 90 or 80 people in it, including Elder Youngblood and Sister Pitech and Sister Miller. I have seen Sister Pitech a lot lately. She made me a planner with a cover that I will be using next transfer. Think I sent you a picture.

                                                        

Olaf Ebisch, the member who's house we skyped from, went on splits with a missionary during the street display and the following Monday said that the ward needs to do more work in getting the missionaries referrals, because door to door and street contacting aren't getting them anywhere. Which is totally true, so that is super exciting that someone in the ward has figured that out and will hopefully be helping us with the rest of the ward in getting referrals. WOO!! 

Friday, I think, was also a hot day and we went into town and got some ice cream and we saw a boy, about 8 or 9, riding his bike in his underwear in town. It was weird, but apparently Germans don't like to wear clothes when it's hot. 

Our car is in the shop as of today. President said we need to start switching off with the Annaberg Elders so that they can use the car as well. Not sure how we are going to travel since we don't have a bus pass thing and our area is pretty spread out. Maybe bikes, which means helmet hair, and muscular thighs. 

I have been going through so many tissues, its nuts. I got four bloody noses last week. All within two days. one on the train to Leipzig. I sneezed and it started bleeding. 

Oh yeah, two weeks ago I did the family home evening lesson along with Sister Ebisch at the Ebisch's house, it was fun.

Thank you for keeping up the blog. 

I think that is it.  

well, I got to go

Tschüss (Bye)

Love 

Elder Crotts

Elder Marshall

Street Contacting...

Thank you so much for the update with everyone. I'm sorry you got sick. I'm sick too. I got it from Elder Dzierzon cause we tausched on Wednesday, but it's all good. I got to see Sister Pitech this past week twice. Once on tausch and then on Saturday for the street display. It went really well. The kids in our ward are boss. At the street display we sang and then did some street contacting. The missionaries did splits with ward members. I hit the streets with Adrian Ebisch, the boy at the house that we skyped from. He is super cool and is going to be a great missionary. He said he loves street contacting, which is good. The president did a fireside after the street display, then we ate. It was cool, but since I was sick, it was a little bit... I can't think of a word for it. The Annaberg Elders ended up staying the night at our apartment because they missed their bus, so that was fun. We have a new elder in Annaberg. His name is Elder Josh Bruce Savage. I sent a picture of him eating his first Düner. Go find him on facebook and tag him in it. He is super cool. Took three years of German in school, so he was fast tracked. He has only been on his mission for like 3 weeks if that, haha but he's cool.

Yes, we were lip sinking but I didn't know the words, so I kept messing up, but yeah. haha

Tell dad Happy Fathers Day for me and that I love him. Sorry that I totally forgot about it. haha my bad. I went shopping today and bought a new flash drive 16g, so that I have more room for pics from home, music and pics off my camera. fyi I'm taking a picture of my face every morning and every night, but yeah. Feel free to send me pictures cause I will save them all. Also, do you have a better one with kelli's dress. One where you can see her face. Tell kelli I think she should totally have a pineapple farm. That would be boss. 

I haven't had a chance to buy sheets yet. They provide sheets, but they aren't that soft and there is no place in schwarzenberg to buy sheets that are good, so I don't know. I'll have to wait. Glad you got a hair cut Mom. Send me a picture, so I can see it. I sent you a couple of pictures of my beautiful face, just so you can show people how handsome your son is.

The Morning Picture :)

Also, the giant hotdog picture is what we ate for lunch today.

I started a coin collection, the ones on the right in the picture are American coins.

Thank you so much for the montage things. I really appreciate it. I sent Kelli a letter, but I'm not sure when it will get there. I put a priority sticker on it hoping it would get there faster. Could you give me Uncle Lindon's address, so that I can continue writing him. I love you tons. Give Kolton a big hug for me. It won't be weird, cause he has hugged many people's Moms. I'm gonna go email him, Jory, Emy and Ben now, but I love you tons and I hope that you are doing well and get better soon. You better be doing scripture study. 

love you 

Elder Kyle Crotts

The Mines!!!

I didn't know the song in the video, so I didn't know what to do, ha-ha. They insisted that I get in the video any way. Sarah never emailed me, but someone else did, so I know she is going somewhere in California which is super cool. I hope she gets to use some Spanish, even though it is an English speaking mission. We went through mines, and they were creepy, ha-ha, but cool.  Also, we found this giant... thing. I have no idea what they call it, but it was huge. The reason for it, is when the miners came out of the mines, they wanted some pretty to look at with light. so they made those for the miners. This one is obviously new, but it's still really big, so thought you would enjoy that. We spent two nights in Annaberg with Elder Mitchell (He's from Washington state) on Thursday and then Friday night as well, because his companion Elder Roberts, the other missionary in the picture with me, had a meeting in Berlin, so that was really fun. Elder Mitchell is a super funny guy. Elder Roberts is from Utah, but he is cool to, kind of reminds me of Jared Tuckett.

We didn't get any floods in Schwarzenberg and we haven't had to help with any clean up. 

As far as a funny story... while we were in Annarberg, a man answered the door in a thong. That's more disturbing than funny though. but yeah. We had an investigator at sacrament meeting yesterday. Here are some more pics of our adventures in the mines. Not quite sure how they turned out, because my screen is so small. Oh and thank Kelli for sending me a letter, that was really nice and I will reply as soon as I get time. This next weekend the President is coming down here and we are having a Street Display and it's gonna be awesome. we are also having about 20 missionaries from the surrounding areas to come, including Sister Pitech. I hope the President gets some pics, because I will be too busy teaching the Gosple, totally spelt that wrong. We are going to have some missionaries sing and some go out and bring people to the display. and then some go out door to door and tell people about it and basically do a lot of finding. Then around 2 pm we are all going to our church and eating food. Then at 4 the President is doing a fires side and then they are watching really old church movies in German. oh yeah and I finally ate at McDonalds and guess what? it's exactly the same... nothing is different except for the ketchup packet is bigger. that's it. so yeah a little bit of a downer. It's good to hear that Ben's farewell was good. I'm so proud of him. Tell Emily I say hi and I hope they made those sandwiches. It will makes sense to her. Also, here is a picture of my face in pday clothes. The one with my blanket in it was taken in the Annaberg apartment. I was on Tausch with Elder Roberts. The other is just me looking really, really ridiculously good. I might by a new flash drive because I'm moving pictures and videos over to the flash drive that I have from my camera. ok, well Tschüss.

Singing

                              I didn't know the song in the video, so I didn't know what to do, ha-ha

Rain, Rain and more Rain

It has been raining for the past week basically. We had one warm sunny day, but other than that it's been raining. It's also been flooding in some Areas. The Zwickau Elders and Sisters have been evacuated. Apparently it's the worst flooding in 60 years, but we should be fine. My first Transfer call day thing is coming up here soon, this Saturday, but I don't think I'll be transferred though. The persons baptism is on 28 June, but not sure if that will happen. I am writing you are letter that has a bunch of info on it about the investigators, but I'm not finished with it yet. I wrote you another letter that you should be getting today. We are finally going to be going through a mine today, so I'm pretty excited about that. It should be fun. Thank you for telling me about Lindon. Tell him I love him. Thanks for the Picture of Kelli in the Dress, it's beautiful. Tell brother Williams I say hi. I'll try and send you actually letters more often. I don't know if you have been sending me any letters, but I haven't gotten anything for a month. Other than Emily's graduation announcement, but I still love you guys. I hope you have a fantastic week.

I'm still having trouble with the language and I'm eating so much food. I ate some more rot kohl (Red Cabbage) yesterday and that was a little nappy. I had to take a power nap in the car while Elder Marshall did Language study. I felt better after though. We also went door to door yesterday in the rain for 2 hours. It wasn't so bad, but no one wanted to listen to us. I think we need to work more with the ward in finding people, because tracting and d2d isn't working very well at the moment, but we will keep at it and see what happens. We fasted twice last week, so that was fun. My weight is going up and down like a yoyo. I found some Curly Wurly things while shopping, so I decided to get some. I am enjoying it here. Elder Marshall makes everything fun. We don't get a baptism every week like some missions, but we have the best ward ever. No joke. This ward is amazing. The Ebisch family is the best. We are going there tonight for family home evening and they told us to bring investigators. That is where we skyped from. I'm sad to know that I will have to eventually leave this area. It's amazing. Anyway, I have been writing in my Journal every day, but I will have to translate it later, because it's hard to read, ha-ha. Our car is kind of dying and will hopefully be in the shop this week. Unfortunately we can't get a new car, which would be awesome, but the Mission has too many Missionaries coming in to pay for a new car as well. Apparently a couple months ago they were thinking about getting all BMWs for the Mission cars, but then they didn't because they thought we would look to full of ourselves and what not. posh. but yeah.

Love Elder Crotts