Monday, August 22, 2016

August 22, 2016 Greetings from the Land of Duck Dynasty

Hey Everyone!
Things are going good for me now in West Monroe Louisiana.  I am technically the West Monroe South Elders and Elder Stones (MTC Companion) and Elder Yardley are the West Monroe North Elders and so this should be a fun transfer with them here.  My companion is Elder Cox.  He is from Apple Valley California and he has been on his mission for only 3 months so I am doing what we technically call follow up training.  He's a pretty funny yet kind and I look forward to getting to know him.    
This week has been a lot of traveling and that is not always fun.  I got to Gulfport at 630 in the morning on Tuesday drove all day to Monroe and that was a long day.  I was so tired.  We unpacked and Elder Cox kept saying howthis area is struggling a bit and how we need to get teaching as much as we can so we went tracting there the first day and got 4 lessons in an hour and it was super funny to see Elder Cox's reaction to teaching that much that fast.  We then had district meeting Wednesday and it was a different feel being in a district with no sisters now.  
We worked really hard this week and we got quite a bit of teaching done.  More than this area has seen in a long time mainly because me and Elder Cox worked our tails off and tracted good areas.  It seems like that is the trend with my areas lately haha.  
If the first thing you thought of when you heard West Monroe is Duck Dynasty than it is your lucky day.  I went and visited there store and took some pictures and there is so much memorabilia with guys and huge beards.  From what I hear, all of the people live up in the North Area but Elder Cox has met and has a signed picture of Mountain man which is pretty funny.
The ward here is kind of small and it is a way different feel than being in church on the West Coast or even in Ocean Springs but I will get used to it.  It has rained a whole lot lately and Baton Rouge is flooded but since it is out of our mission we are not helping out with the flood efforts unfortunately.  
We are in a car share and so we only get the car every other week and my bike is bugging me so I am trying to build as big of a teaching pool close to us as I can that way I wont use it as much.  

But that's about it for me this week.  Hope to hear from you soon and that you all have a great week.  Love y'all
Elder Crouch

Hey Mom and Dad,
Looks like y'all had a great week and that Ava's birthday was a success for only being in Las Vegas for a few weeks.  I am sure she was happy to have Hadley there and other friends and some new ones too.  And it is pretty crazy that you have been in Vegas for now your fourth week.  Time goes quick when you are staying busy.  And that does sound like some chill callings for you and mom.  Should work out well for the two of ya.  
Things are going good for me now in West Monroe Louisiana.  I am technically the West Monroe South Elders and Elder Stones (MTC Companion) (and yes he did get a diet coke for dinner) and Elder Yardley are the West Monroe North Elders and so this should be a fun transfer with them here.  My companion is Elder Cox.  He is from Apple Valley California and he has been on his mission for only 3 months so I am doing what we technically call follow up training.  He's a pretty funny yet kind of weird kid . We are kind of polar opposites so it should be interesting but he is breaking out of his shell a bit.  
I know this will upset you a little bit too but the computer here at the library is not reading my card either and so it is not wanting to let me upload pictures so I will have to try and be creative in how I do that.  
This week has been a lot of traveling and that is not always fun.  I got to Gulfport at 630 in the morning on Tuesday drove all day to Monroe and that was a long day.  I was so tired.  We unpacked and Elder Cox kept saying how "this area we bike a lot to get lessons and even then we only get like 5 or 6 lessons a week" and I was like well first of all, my bike is starting to fall apart on me and secondly, we have a neighborhood right next to our apartment and so we went tracting there the first day and got 4 lessons in an hour and it was super funny to see Elder Cox's reaction to teaching that much that fast.  We then had district meeting Wednesday and it was a different feel.  They did not really accomplish much in the meeting which kind of bugged me but I stayed quiet and let Elder Busaker, the new District Leader here who goes home in 6 weeks do his thing.  We worked really hard this week and we got quite a bit of teaching done.  More than this area has seen in a long time mainly because it has had some lazy missionaries in it before me and Elder Cox got here.  It seems like that is the trend with my areas lately haha.  
The girls will like this if the first thing they thought of West Monroe is Duck Dynasty.  I went and visited there store and took some pictures and there is so much memorabilia and so if they want like a five dollar tee shirt or something funny let me know haha. Inside the store there is this big like 12 foot face with a beard on the wall.  It cracks me up. From what I hear, all of the people in the show live up in the North Area but Elder Cox has met and has a signed picture of Mountain man which is pretty funny.
The ward here is kind of small and it is a way different feel than being in church on the West Coast or even in Ocean Springs but I will get used to it.  It has rained a whole lot lately and Baton Rouge is flooded but since it is out of our mission we are not helping out with the flood efforts unfortunately.  
We are in a car share and so we only get the car every other week and my bike is bugging me so I am trying to build as big of a teaching pool close to us as I can that way I wont use it as much as Elder Cox is used too.  
On Saturday a member of the Elders Quorum invited us to a football game he hosts every Saturday with Less Actives a few actives and some non members and it is way competitive and way fun to play.  It was flag and they had me play QB and so that was way fun too to do something different and still reach out to some of the people who need a friend in the gospel or who could be introduced to it.  
But that's about it for me this week.  Hope to hear from you soon and that you have a great week.  Love ya!
Elder Crouch







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