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

No Pics :(

OK, so good to hear about your day. Sorry I don't have too much time today, but I love you tons.

Today elder Marshall and I went exploring through a Forrest and it was really cool. It reminded me of the forbidden Forrest in harry potter.

We have someone with a baptismal date, but other than that nothing too exciting happened. Everyone here is neat, they're all like 60 years old and up and it's Germany.

We haven't done any service work this past week unfortunately.

Have about 30 or 40 active members in our Ward.

We don't have Sisters in our district, but Sister Pitech and Sister Miller are in my zone.

I am keeping a journal. I had to start writing smaller because I need more room or else I'm going to have to get a new one in about a transfer or two.

I have had two interviews with President Kosak. He has a really nice camera and is pretty funny, especially when he translates from German to English wrong, haha, but he is super cool and I'm pretty sure he can see inside my soul.

I'll write an experience later, but I love you lots. Sorry for no pictures, these computers are weird

Elder Crotts

My 1st living area

My 1st Apartment

Elder Marshall

Loving Germany

This week has been Pretty interesting. We had Phal Conference, stake conference, so we were in Dresden for that, but it was a two day thing, so we stayed the night in Chemnitz with the Zone leaders.

They are awesome! one of them is from southern Germany.

There is no getting used to the toilets, because they are toilets. A toilet is a toilet, but yes, I'm getting use to the toilets.

Tell Brother Kimball that I'm sorry to hear he's in the hospital and that he is in my prayers and that I love him and appreciate everything he has done for me over the years. Tell Rachel that I say welcome home.

Tell Kolton, Ben and Jory that they are all awesome and that I love them and proud of them.

Tell Flinders I say hi.

Glad the fridge is still running.

Icabob is awesome, but we are not sure where he went. Shawn is dead because he got too close to our bedroom, and we actually have a new spider, Shelab. She is currently in the bathroom. She Looks like icabob, so sometimes I think we get them mixed up.

We went to a ward members house and ate food two times and neither of them were really planned, they just kind of called us up and was like "come eat our food" and we were like "ok". It was good, but a lot of food and was kind of hard to finish.

Everyone here is nice to an extent, but the members are amazing and yeah the first Sunday was a fast Sunday and they had me introduce myself. Then I got to bless the sacrament two weeks ago, that was crazy. We have done some service work with ward members, for ward members, but that is about it. We haven't done too much for Pdays yet, but we have been trying to go to some caves that are around here somewhere, but they are closed on Monday, so, oh well. Tell MeLea I say hi and the Jelly Belly Blue Jelly Beans are gone haha.

love ya

Elder Crotts

1st Email from Germany

Tell Kelli congrats on the woofing

The phone card didn't work in Amsterdam.

Hope you had fun at the dentist Mom.

My ward is great, almost all of the members are closely related except a few converts.

We get fed every Sunday, this last Sunday was good because I didn't have to eat red cabbage. That stuff is not a good flavor.

A few investigators. We have one with a baptismal date, his name is Luke, obviously, I'll put his real name in a letter home when I find time. We also have a new investigator and he is a very nice guy. We have a car in our area and guess what? I'm driving...

yeah... Elder Marshall, my companion, doesn't have his German license yet, and I can use my American license for 6 months, so yeah.

The flight to Amsterdam was terrible I didn't sleep, but I talked to a young man about the humanitarian work the church does, because he was going to Africa to do some.

Funny thing? well, I almost hit a cat and last night we found a spider in our apartment and I named it Shawn and then this morning we found one above my bed, a daddy long legs, so we named it icabob (ik-ah-bob). that was kind of funny.

It's really spread out and as far as our apartment see for yourself in the pictures. I like it.

All the toilets are weird here. They are all different, like completely.

Anyway, love ya tons

Elder Crotts

This just in "HE LANDED IN GERMANY"

Elder Marsall, Elder Crotts and President Kosak and his wife.