Dang, just reading that last e-mail
about the 1500 race gave me chills!! My bet is that mom totally cried afterwards.
Honestly out of all the weeks that I have been receiving letters, I think that
this week has been THE BEST out of the entire time that I have been here. I can
just picture my little sister at the 150 meter mark catching up and pulling
away and the most excellent part was what dad told that happened afterwards.
How humble and meek Shaylen was to turn around right after and cheer the other
girls on and congratulate them all as they crossed the finish. When I read that
part I honestly almost cried here in the internett as I was printing out the
pages. Especially that last part just kinda surprised me and caught me off guard.
That extra act of kindness really really impacted me today Shay. Dad said that
you have always done that, but I guess me being absent from all of your races
for the last 2 years has made me forget that detail. So it was really really
nice to get a detailed story on how your race went and even the thoughts that passed
through your head as you were running. I especially loved what mom wrote,
¨thats what life is all about- to dig down deep and find strength that you
didn`t know you had.¨ I love that quote!!! because it´s soo true, it`s all or
nothing...go big or go home baby. Nothing is ever worth doing unless you are
willing to give 100% and then some. Thank you soo much Shaylen for giving me
such a great example. I love it so much because you all know that I love
sports, and when you combine those types of analogies with sports it just
really gets to me. Honestly Shay you sometimes amaze me, for me to develop the
attributes and talents that you have God has had to send me all the way to
Colombia and test and try me in the mission field, but for you it just comes
naturally and rapidly. Congratulations on having such an outstanding senior
year and good luck at State this week, I know you`ll go out and kick some
absolute butt:) I`ll be praying and cheering for you from here, LOVE YOU SHAY!
So we made it through the changes my
compy and I:) actually everyone in the district stayed the same, but I am now
no longer district leader which made me happy lol. So it looks like good ol
Elder Meren is gonna kill me, HE´S GONNA BE MY KILLER LOL. I`m pretty happy
because we get along well and have a lot of fun together. I decided that I`m
going to really try super hard this change not to be as serious, because
sometimes I think my seriousness turns into me being boring. And who wants a
boring compy NO ONE, and I definitely don`t want to be that sour fart kind of a
compy. Also remember how I told you guys that I was just getting super duper
tired the other week, well I found the solution: more excercise!!!! haha I
found out that the person that does more exercise is for the most part less
tired. We are visiting a less active member that does absolutely nothing at all
ALL day and every lesson he is always tired lol, so I kinda figured that out
and have been putting it into practice and hope to get into tip top shape with
my chocolatinas and all;) especially because I know that the day will come that
I will challenge Shay to a foot race and really don`t want her to smoke
me;)
So I have 2 pretty funny stories to
tell you guys, first I`ll start out with the district meeting last Wednesday.
So I called the hermanas to let them know that we were going to meet up in the
church at 10:30. Then they started telling me about Elder Dos Santos and how he
was supposedly leaving to go home that day. (sidenote, I knew that he wasn`t
going home because we are going home together.) So I just kind of went along
with it and they asked if we were gonna do anything for him, I said ¨well we
didn`t really have anything in mind.¨ So they told me that we needed to do
SOMETHING for him, so I went along and told them that if they bought a cake we
would buy the pop. They accepted and that’s what we did, after district meeting
we ate some really delicious cake to celebrate the fake end of Elder Dos
Santos`s mission;) Afterwards I kinda told them that I had tricked them into
buying a cake and sharing it with us. It was pretty hilarious but afterwards I
told them the next time I would buy the cake to make it even.
The other funny story has to do with
the ward talent night we had on Friday. So no one really had any ideas this
time so I had to take matters into my hands and came up with a pretty funny
idea. But it requires that I tell a little back story first. So anyways we have
a pretty sweet bishop. And in sacrament meeting sometimes we don`t really sing
the best lol. He is a good singer and is in the Stake choir, so sometimes it
seems like he is being tortured up there listening to us all sing. So on 2
occasions he has got up in the middle of the song and explained to us how to sing
and sound good and powerful. One time he even sang the whole first verse of the
hymn just to demonstrate how it was supposed to sound. So I came up with the
idea that we could start like we were in sacrament meeting and then we
continued with the opening hymn. When no one in the crowd started to sing but only
a few people I would get up and scold them all and then tell them that this
time I really had to show them how to sing. So then I would play piano and my 2
counselors would sing with me. We sang a popular christian rock song that plays
here lol. It was pretty easy to figure the notes out, and we all sang REALLY
hard and loud. Then afterwards we went back to normal sacrament meeting and us
missionaries ended up singing ´We`ll bring the world his truth really loudly.¨
So we did that, and I even put the keyboard on the guitar setting so it sounded
even cooler. Haha my counselors who were Elder Dos Santos and his companion
stood up and made the whole crowd clap and everything while we were singing. I
thought it was a pretty original idea;) The next Sunday in Sacrament meeting
every one was joking around about it and telling me that I did a good imitation
of our beloved bishop lol. He even thought it was funny and in sacrament meeting,
told me to come take his spot on the stand. So I think that this bishop is
never going to forget Elder Crook and how he kinda made fun of him in the
talent show;)
Well It`s time to go I just want to
let all of you guys know how much I love you and how much love I feel from your
letters and prayers and especially how much love I feel from God and Jesus. I
can feel it every day and I feel so blessed so happy and so privileged:) LOVE
YOU ALL!!!!!! ÉCHALE GANAS ESTA SEMANA!!!!
-Elder Crook
p.s Sorry I have so many fotos to
send you, but I ran out of time, hopefully next week you`ll get a ton:)
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