Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Check this out!!
Hey I just wanted everyone to know that Kristina started a new blog for the Dave Crosby family. Mark put it on under 'links' so you can go straight to theirs from our blog. You can comment without an 'invite' because you are already a blogger.I just read it and it was so fun to read about their lives. This blog stuff is just great!
Reeds letter
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006
Hey family! Well another week has flown by yet again. From the letters
it sounds like the receptions and all that went well and that the
backyard looked good. I looked at the pictures that Bret sent me and Bret
and Becki look sooo happy. It sounds like the past few weeks have been
pretty hectic for everyone and I´m sure mom and dad will be glad when
things calm down and get back to normal. So Kari has already given her
farewell talk I heard. Wow, I guess I didnt reallize it was so close. She
only has about 8 days left now. Wow. I remember what it felt like that
last week, just the anticipation and the wondering what it will be like.
You´ll love it Kari.
Well this past week was great. I got a haircut Wednesday and I´ll
just say that I´m glad that I only have to get one haircut here at the
CTM. It was free though so I can´t complain about anything. The guy
just missed a few spot a little bit but its ok. He was a cool guy, just
happy and whistling while he cut everyones hair but he only does about
three cuts and you´re on your way out the door. Then Friday i went
Proselyting again which was soo much better than the first time. Elder Demke
and I handed out 14 cards I believe in about 2 hours. It was a good
experience to be able to talk to the people, even though I didn´t
understand everything, I understood more than last time. We just made a goal to
talk to everyone and to be bold. It was so good. i feel really good
about a lot of the cards we passed out but about three of them stand out.
I can´t go into any detail because we don´t have time to but the three
I feel good about we had pretty good conversations with them. i just
wish I could know if the people actually call or not. It just makes you
wonder.
Other than that there isn´t too much to tell. I´ve been learning
so much and just love every day. Our Brazilian roommates are awesome. I
look forward to talking to them every night. Last night Elder Demke and
I gave a medium Portuguese lesson plan and it was the first time I was
able to give one without reading my paper or looking at it a lot. We
gave it to a couple of Brazilian missionaries so they could understand it
and it was just a great experience. I know I won´t be able to speak as
well as I want as fast as I want but I can´t wait until I can say what
is on my mind.
I love all of you and I think about you all every day. Thanks for
the letters and the support. Remember to read your scriptures every day
and pray morning an night. Pray for the gift of Charity because if you
don´t have Charity, you are nothing. (If you haven´t read 1 Corinthians
13 lately I would suggest reading it)
Love
Elder Crosby
Hey family! Well another week has flown by yet again. From the letters
it sounds like the receptions and all that went well and that the
backyard looked good. I looked at the pictures that Bret sent me and Bret
and Becki look sooo happy. It sounds like the past few weeks have been
pretty hectic for everyone and I´m sure mom and dad will be glad when
things calm down and get back to normal. So Kari has already given her
farewell talk I heard. Wow, I guess I didnt reallize it was so close. She
only has about 8 days left now. Wow. I remember what it felt like that
last week, just the anticipation and the wondering what it will be like.
You´ll love it Kari.
Well this past week was great. I got a haircut Wednesday and I´ll
just say that I´m glad that I only have to get one haircut here at the
CTM. It was free though so I can´t complain about anything. The guy
just missed a few spot a little bit but its ok. He was a cool guy, just
happy and whistling while he cut everyones hair but he only does about
three cuts and you´re on your way out the door. Then Friday i went
Proselyting again which was soo much better than the first time. Elder Demke
and I handed out 14 cards I believe in about 2 hours. It was a good
experience to be able to talk to the people, even though I didn´t
understand everything, I understood more than last time. We just made a goal to
talk to everyone and to be bold. It was so good. i feel really good
about a lot of the cards we passed out but about three of them stand out.
I can´t go into any detail because we don´t have time to but the three
I feel good about we had pretty good conversations with them. i just
wish I could know if the people actually call or not. It just makes you
wonder.
Other than that there isn´t too much to tell. I´ve been learning
so much and just love every day. Our Brazilian roommates are awesome. I
look forward to talking to them every night. Last night Elder Demke and
I gave a medium Portuguese lesson plan and it was the first time I was
able to give one without reading my paper or looking at it a lot. We
gave it to a couple of Brazilian missionaries so they could understand it
and it was just a great experience. I know I won´t be able to speak as
well as I want as fast as I want but I can´t wait until I can say what
is on my mind.
I love all of you and I think about you all every day. Thanks for
the letters and the support. Remember to read your scriptures every day
and pray morning an night. Pray for the gift of Charity because if you
don´t have Charity, you are nothing. (If you haven´t read 1 Corinthians
13 lately I would suggest reading it)
Love
Elder Crosby
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Reeds weekly letter
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:14:59 +0000
Well hello again my wonderful family. There is officially one more
Crosby this week than last week. Congratulations Bret and Becki. I wish I
could have been there but from what I hear from Mom and Dad it went
great. Sounds like you all got to see a lot of Family and friends and had a
grand time. This week has just been amazing, one of the best weeks yet
(I only have like 3 others to compare it to but it was still really
good). Last Tuesday was just a great day in itself. As I said we went to
the Temple in Campinas. That night we had an amazing devotional. Elder
Amato, an area authority spoke to us. After the Tuesday night
devotionals we always get to go with our district and discuss what we learned for
about an hour. These are some of my favorite times. With 14 people in
our district there are always a lot of good insights and the spirit is
always so strong. I learn so much from my district but mainly from my
district leader. He is an amazing guy. On Thursday I got my first letters
so that made me real happy. Becki wrote on some ribbon that they were
using for their wedding and that was pretty cool. Then on Saturday we
had the privelage to hear from one of the twelve apostles, Elder Russel
M. Nelson. It was just amazing. It was lke a general conference meeting.
We had Elder Arnold, an Area Authority, and his wife spoke, Elder
Robert C Oaks who is in the presidency of the seventy and his wife spoke,
and then Elder Nelson spoke. They were all such good talks and I learned
so much. Elder Oaks talked about keeping a good journal, the exact same
thing that Dad has been telling me to do. Before that I had been
writing almost every day but Ever since that day I have been writing every
single night and I am going to try to for my whole mission. Elder Nelson
spoke to us about how the Lord uses Patterns and we need to figure out
these patterns. One that he spoke on was "The Lord uses the unlikely to
accomplish the 'Impossible'." There are so many cases of this. One for
example is the birth of Jesus Christ. Who did the Lord choose to give
birth to Jesus? A virgin. Everyone know that a virgin can not have a
son, but the Lord provided a way. It was an awesome experience to be in
the same room with an apostle. You can just feel his spirit. The Arnolds
that spoke get to travel around with Elder Nelson. They have been able
to travel with two other Apostles and they say that being able to
travel and be around these men give you a sense of what it would be like to
be around the Savior. These are amazing men. Elder Nelson is the one
that dedicated the Brazil MTC so he has a special place for here.
As far as Portuguese I am learning a lot. This last Thursday We got 2
Brazilian room mates. They don´t speak any English so we have to
communicate with them in Portuguese or charades. Its a pretty funny site every
night to see us trying to communicate because for the most part it is
charades. Their names are Elder Fonseca and Elder Carneiro. They are
great guys and just always happy. All the Brazilians here are so happy and
willing to help you with anything. In just 4 days I have learned a lot
from them because they always correct my Portuguese and teach me a lot.
I also met a guy from Joao Pessoa, Elder Oriente. He is a cool guy and
we talk, or at least attempt to talk, about Joao Pessoa and the food
and jsut everything. I´ve learned that the people in Joao Pessoa talk
with a totally different accent then what I am used to. They talk really
fast too so It might be a little difficult to adjust and understand
them. He says the people In Joao Pessoa are so humble and they all want to
feed you. he says the food there is some of the best in Brazil and that
I might gain weight while I am there because everybody wants to feed
you. He said Joao Pessoa is one of the highest baptizing missions because
the people are prepared to hear the gospel there. Talking to him makes
me excited to be able to go to the Mission and get out of the CTM.
This week we get to go preselyting once again. I am excited to see how
much I have learned and see if i can talk with more people andbe more
bold. Life is good and I am always learning so much and growing so much.
I get to feast every day upon the word of God and it is so exciting. I
learn so much. I hope every one is doing great. I love you all.
Elder Crosby
Well hello again my wonderful family. There is officially one more
Crosby this week than last week. Congratulations Bret and Becki. I wish I
could have been there but from what I hear from Mom and Dad it went
great. Sounds like you all got to see a lot of Family and friends and had a
grand time. This week has just been amazing, one of the best weeks yet
(I only have like 3 others to compare it to but it was still really
good). Last Tuesday was just a great day in itself. As I said we went to
the Temple in Campinas. That night we had an amazing devotional. Elder
Amato, an area authority spoke to us. After the Tuesday night
devotionals we always get to go with our district and discuss what we learned for
about an hour. These are some of my favorite times. With 14 people in
our district there are always a lot of good insights and the spirit is
always so strong. I learn so much from my district but mainly from my
district leader. He is an amazing guy. On Thursday I got my first letters
so that made me real happy. Becki wrote on some ribbon that they were
using for their wedding and that was pretty cool. Then on Saturday we
had the privelage to hear from one of the twelve apostles, Elder Russel
M. Nelson. It was just amazing. It was lke a general conference meeting.
We had Elder Arnold, an Area Authority, and his wife spoke, Elder
Robert C Oaks who is in the presidency of the seventy and his wife spoke,
and then Elder Nelson spoke. They were all such good talks and I learned
so much. Elder Oaks talked about keeping a good journal, the exact same
thing that Dad has been telling me to do. Before that I had been
writing almost every day but Ever since that day I have been writing every
single night and I am going to try to for my whole mission. Elder Nelson
spoke to us about how the Lord uses Patterns and we need to figure out
these patterns. One that he spoke on was "The Lord uses the unlikely to
accomplish the 'Impossible'." There are so many cases of this. One for
example is the birth of Jesus Christ. Who did the Lord choose to give
birth to Jesus? A virgin. Everyone know that a virgin can not have a
son, but the Lord provided a way. It was an awesome experience to be in
the same room with an apostle. You can just feel his spirit. The Arnolds
that spoke get to travel around with Elder Nelson. They have been able
to travel with two other Apostles and they say that being able to
travel and be around these men give you a sense of what it would be like to
be around the Savior. These are amazing men. Elder Nelson is the one
that dedicated the Brazil MTC so he has a special place for here.
As far as Portuguese I am learning a lot. This last Thursday We got 2
Brazilian room mates. They don´t speak any English so we have to
communicate with them in Portuguese or charades. Its a pretty funny site every
night to see us trying to communicate because for the most part it is
charades. Their names are Elder Fonseca and Elder Carneiro. They are
great guys and just always happy. All the Brazilians here are so happy and
willing to help you with anything. In just 4 days I have learned a lot
from them because they always correct my Portuguese and teach me a lot.
I also met a guy from Joao Pessoa, Elder Oriente. He is a cool guy and
we talk, or at least attempt to talk, about Joao Pessoa and the food
and jsut everything. I´ve learned that the people in Joao Pessoa talk
with a totally different accent then what I am used to. They talk really
fast too so It might be a little difficult to adjust and understand
them. He says the people In Joao Pessoa are so humble and they all want to
feed you. he says the food there is some of the best in Brazil and that
I might gain weight while I am there because everybody wants to feed
you. He said Joao Pessoa is one of the highest baptizing missions because
the people are prepared to hear the gospel there. Talking to him makes
me excited to be able to go to the Mission and get out of the CTM.
This week we get to go preselyting once again. I am excited to see how
much I have learned and see if i can talk with more people andbe more
bold. Life is good and I am always learning so much and growing so much.
I get to feast every day upon the word of God and it is so exciting. I
learn so much. I hope every one is doing great. I love you all.
Elder Crosby
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Reeds weekly letter
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006
Well another week has gone by and I don´t know where it went. I´ll
start out by answering some of mom´s questions. I don´t know what time zone
I am in but I just know that we are 4 hours ahead of arizona. as far as
letters go I haven´t got any because I think they are all going to my
Mission Address and not here to the MTC. I didñ´t know that I had to
give you the MTC address. So if anyone has wrote to me and doesn´t get a
letter for another month and a half or so, that´s why. It´s almost too
late to do anything about it now so just keep sending them to the same
place and in a month I´ll be able to get back to you. As far as the
package, I just got a note today that it got here but I haven´t gone to pic
it up yet. That´s where we are going right after this though. I´ll try
to send anouther picture with my companion in it but we go to a new
computer place now because it´s cheaper and I don´t know if they have the
card reader device that hooks up to the computer and we aren´t allowed
to take our cameras outside of the CTM. As far as the blog, I´m able to
read it if I have time. Sometimes I just glance over it. It looks like
Mark is starting to Run some races and stuff and what´s this I hear
about me being an uncle .... again? That´s awesome Maark and Holly.
Congratulations.
I´m still loving it here although it gets hotter every day. As i told
you all last week, Last Friday we got to go out on the streets and try
to pass out some pass-along cards. So here´s how it went down. We left
at about 12:45 and drove to the middile of town called Santa Maria (I
think its like a suburb type thing of Sao Paulo). They dropped us off
for almost 2 hours and gave us all pass-along cards. Elder Demke and I
had prepared a little intro thing in portuguese, "We are Representatives
of Jesus Christ. We have a very important message for you..." we would
then tell them about God and Joseph Smith and about the restoration in
our best Portuguese (which isn´t very good) all in less than 3 minutes.
The people here are very nice and I can tell that most people listened
just be be nice. We ended up passing out 6 pass-along cards. Not bad
for our first time. i have to admit I was pretty scared though. It´s hard
to just go up to people and tell them your beleifs. One thing that they
have been telling us is to be bold and say what you believe. That´s one
thing that I can work on. It was an awesome experience and I learned so
much from just a couple of hours.
I got to go to the templo de Campinas today. Its just an awesome
temple. It sits up on this hill and you can look out and see all of Sao
Paulo from behind the temple. I love being able to go to the temple.
Well my 4 roomates got shipped of to their missions today so we are
getting 4 new roommates. From what I know, 2 guys in our district are
changing rooms and then I think we are going to get 2 Brasileiros. We
have a definate advantage here that I wouldn´t get in the MTC in provo of
being able to hear Portuguese wherever you go. It´s awesome. the
Brasileiro missionarios are so nice and just awesome. I love going up and
trying to talk with them in my broken Portuguese and my greengo accent.
The 2 guys that are moving in that are in our district are cool guys. I
don´t know if I told you but one of the missionaries that just left
rolled his ankle a couple of weeks ago playing basketball and then just
yesturday one of the guys that is moving into our room had to get 4
stitches above his eye from running into the wall trying to save a ball. Its
like church ball all over again. I don´t play real hard and I don´t get
very competitive because it´s not worth the risk. i´ll have plenty of
time for that later.
Thank you for your prayers and your support. I love you all and I
miss you tons. Congratulations Mark and Holly again and the family
website is just awesome. I love being able to just glance at it every week
and see what everyone is up to. It sounds like Mom and Dad are putting a
lot of work into the backyard trying to get ready for Bret and Becki´s
reception. Ué (whoa), the next time I write Bret and Becki are going to
be married. Thats crazy but its awesome. congratulations. I hope
everything goes smoothly. I wish I could be there. If you two just would have
decided to tie the knot a month earlier I could have been there but
it´s ok. I know us Crosby´s. It takes us so long to make up our mind. I
know that´s how I am. heck i have to get up a half hour before everyone
just so I have time to pick out which tie I´m going to wear. Well I
better run, I hope everyone is doing fantastic. I love you all.
Elder Crosby
ps - Have you been sending my letters to chad? I thnk he would
appreciate some mail and I think it would be better to send him my letters
instead of just telling him about how I´m doing. I don´t have much time
after going to the temple on P-day to write letters so I´m sorry but I
can´t really write leters to anyone right now. maybe when I´m out in the
mission field I´ll be able to write mor personalized letters.
Well another week has gone by and I don´t know where it went. I´ll
start out by answering some of mom´s questions. I don´t know what time zone
I am in but I just know that we are 4 hours ahead of arizona. as far as
letters go I haven´t got any because I think they are all going to my
Mission Address and not here to the MTC. I didñ´t know that I had to
give you the MTC address. So if anyone has wrote to me and doesn´t get a
letter for another month and a half or so, that´s why. It´s almost too
late to do anything about it now so just keep sending them to the same
place and in a month I´ll be able to get back to you. As far as the
package, I just got a note today that it got here but I haven´t gone to pic
it up yet. That´s where we are going right after this though. I´ll try
to send anouther picture with my companion in it but we go to a new
computer place now because it´s cheaper and I don´t know if they have the
card reader device that hooks up to the computer and we aren´t allowed
to take our cameras outside of the CTM. As far as the blog, I´m able to
read it if I have time. Sometimes I just glance over it. It looks like
Mark is starting to Run some races and stuff and what´s this I hear
about me being an uncle .... again? That´s awesome Maark and Holly.
Congratulations.
I´m still loving it here although it gets hotter every day. As i told
you all last week, Last Friday we got to go out on the streets and try
to pass out some pass-along cards. So here´s how it went down. We left
at about 12:45 and drove to the middile of town called Santa Maria (I
think its like a suburb type thing of Sao Paulo). They dropped us off
for almost 2 hours and gave us all pass-along cards. Elder Demke and I
had prepared a little intro thing in portuguese, "We are Representatives
of Jesus Christ. We have a very important message for you..." we would
then tell them about God and Joseph Smith and about the restoration in
our best Portuguese (which isn´t very good) all in less than 3 minutes.
The people here are very nice and I can tell that most people listened
just be be nice. We ended up passing out 6 pass-along cards. Not bad
for our first time. i have to admit I was pretty scared though. It´s hard
to just go up to people and tell them your beleifs. One thing that they
have been telling us is to be bold and say what you believe. That´s one
thing that I can work on. It was an awesome experience and I learned so
much from just a couple of hours.
I got to go to the templo de Campinas today. Its just an awesome
temple. It sits up on this hill and you can look out and see all of Sao
Paulo from behind the temple. I love being able to go to the temple.
Well my 4 roomates got shipped of to their missions today so we are
getting 4 new roommates. From what I know, 2 guys in our district are
changing rooms and then I think we are going to get 2 Brasileiros. We
have a definate advantage here that I wouldn´t get in the MTC in provo of
being able to hear Portuguese wherever you go. It´s awesome. the
Brasileiro missionarios are so nice and just awesome. I love going up and
trying to talk with them in my broken Portuguese and my greengo accent.
The 2 guys that are moving in that are in our district are cool guys. I
don´t know if I told you but one of the missionaries that just left
rolled his ankle a couple of weeks ago playing basketball and then just
yesturday one of the guys that is moving into our room had to get 4
stitches above his eye from running into the wall trying to save a ball. Its
like church ball all over again. I don´t play real hard and I don´t get
very competitive because it´s not worth the risk. i´ll have plenty of
time for that later.
Thank you for your prayers and your support. I love you all and I
miss you tons. Congratulations Mark and Holly again and the family
website is just awesome. I love being able to just glance at it every week
and see what everyone is up to. It sounds like Mom and Dad are putting a
lot of work into the backyard trying to get ready for Bret and Becki´s
reception. Ué (whoa), the next time I write Bret and Becki are going to
be married. Thats crazy but its awesome. congratulations. I hope
everything goes smoothly. I wish I could be there. If you two just would have
decided to tie the knot a month earlier I could have been there but
it´s ok. I know us Crosby´s. It takes us so long to make up our mind. I
know that´s how I am. heck i have to get up a half hour before everyone
just so I have time to pick out which tie I´m going to wear. Well I
better run, I hope everyone is doing fantastic. I love you all.
Elder Crosby
ps - Have you been sending my letters to chad? I thnk he would
appreciate some mail and I think it would be better to send him my letters
instead of just telling him about how I´m doing. I don´t have much time
after going to the temple on P-day to write letters so I´m sorry but I
can´t really write leters to anyone right now. maybe when I´m out in the
mission field I´ll be able to write mor personalized letters.
EFY update and stuff...
Wow, I haven't been on here forever! I'm sure you all have missed hearing all about my exciting life... sorry to have kept you in the dark for so long! EFY was absolutely wonderful! I had too many great experiences to even tell you about and I met so many good friends and also had a blast! It was such great mission prep for me too since the nightly devotionals were straight out of Preach My Gospel, so that was cool. I'm sad it's over, but time to move on to bigger and better things! Here a picture of me with my co-counselors Megan, Chance, and Jonathan in action! I liked the shirts a lot better this year than last year... just thought I'd throw that in!
One fun thing that happened to me took place the last Friday night dance of EFY (just this last Friday). I had been at the dance for about 20 minutes and was with my kids out dancing when 4 of my boys came and tapped me on the shoulder and gave me a bag of those Amazing Fruit gummy things and said "this is from your secret admirer because he thinks you are amazing". They wouldn't tell me anything else; no hints whatsoever. So I thought that was cute and just kept on dancing. Every 20 minutes the rest of the night I got a treat with a message from my secret admirer from random boys. This is what they were (Soo cute!): Almond Joys "because I bring him joy everytime he sees me", Hot Tamales "because he thinks I'm hot", Bit-o-Honey "because I am a sweet, beautiful daughter of God", Sweettarts "because I am a sweet heart". None of the kids would tell me any hints and so I was like freaking out all night, but I did have a hunch. I had a crush on a counselor named Chance the past few weeks and so I was hoping it was him (we have been partners twice this summer and had been out on one date), but I really didn't know. I looked for him all over the dance and I had my kids out looking for him, but he was no where in sight. I had to go on duty at 9:10 and it was 9:05 and he was still MIA. A slow song came on and it happened to be a "counselor dance". I was standing next to my co, Shayne, and so he asked me to dance. I wanted to dance with Chance, but of course I still said yes to Shayne. About half way through the song Shayne brought up my secret admirer and so the thought crossed my mind that it may be him, so I asked him. He just laughed and then swirled me. Okay this part was pretty much straight out of a movie... All the sudden he swirled me and I was now dancing with Chance!! It was so cute and unexpected! Chance and I danced for a bit and then he turned around and my boys had taped a sign on his back that said "PS- I am your secret admirer" It was so cute! He asked me out for Saturday night, which was SO much fun. We have hung out every night since... Anyways, sorry that was long but I just thought it was so cute and it made me so happy! Hopefully you all will get to meet Chance this weekend! He's great! (He's the blond one in the top picture)
One fun thing that happened to me took place the last Friday night dance of EFY (just this last Friday). I had been at the dance for about 20 minutes and was with my kids out dancing when 4 of my boys came and tapped me on the shoulder and gave me a bag of those Amazing Fruit gummy things and said "this is from your secret admirer because he thinks you are amazing". They wouldn't tell me anything else; no hints whatsoever. So I thought that was cute and just kept on dancing. Every 20 minutes the rest of the night I got a treat with a message from my secret admirer from random boys. This is what they were (Soo cute!): Almond Joys "because I bring him joy everytime he sees me", Hot Tamales "because he thinks I'm hot", Bit-o-Honey "because I am a sweet, beautiful daughter of God", Sweettarts "because I am a sweet heart". None of the kids would tell me any hints and so I was like freaking out all night, but I did have a hunch. I had a crush on a counselor named Chance the past few weeks and so I was hoping it was him (we have been partners twice this summer and had been out on one date), but I really didn't know. I looked for him all over the dance and I had my kids out looking for him, but he was no where in sight. I had to go on duty at 9:10 and it was 9:05 and he was still MIA. A slow song came on and it happened to be a "counselor dance". I was standing next to my co, Shayne, and so he asked me to dance. I wanted to dance with Chance, but of course I still said yes to Shayne. About half way through the song Shayne brought up my secret admirer and so the thought crossed my mind that it may be him, so I asked him. He just laughed and then swirled me. Okay this part was pretty much straight out of a movie... All the sudden he swirled me and I was now dancing with Chance!! It was so cute and unexpected! Chance and I danced for a bit and then he turned around and my boys had taped a sign on his back that said "PS- I am your secret admirer" It was so cute! He asked me out for Saturday night, which was SO much fun. We have hung out every night since... Anyways, sorry that was long but I just thought it was so cute and it made me so happy! Hopefully you all will get to meet Chance this weekend! He's great! (He's the blond one in the top picture)
Monday, August 14, 2006
We're pregnant!
So here's our little baby, Baby Crosby #2, Kaemon's little playmate...all 3.61 cm of it. The top photo has 2 little crosses in the comma shaped dark uterus. The cross to the left is the top of the skull and the one more down and to the right is the sacrum. The bottom picture you can see the heart, which is the white spec beating at 160 beats per minute. Good job Lisa, you were the closest to guessing right.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
We're going to play a game...
...and everyone has to participate. There's a prize for whoever can guess the significance of this number. It has nothing to do with what it's written on or with, just the number. Make your guesses before Wednesday.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Reed's 2nd week in Brazil
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006
Well another week has gone by and there still isn´t too much more to
tell you. It´kinda the same ol´thing every day but I´m not complaining. I
love it here. ive been learning so much. I actually got complimented
last week on my portuguese by a brazilian. He was amazed that I had only
been at the CTM for a little over 2 weeks. That was a big confidence
booster but I still can´t really communicate with brazilians. I just have
a few questions I know and thats about it. I´m learning more every day.
On Sexta-feira (friday) we get to go out proselyting for 3 and a half
hours out in the town of São Paulo. They will take us to a park or some
place like that and drop us off and let us go talk to people for a few
hours. They give us pass-along cards to hand out and stuff like that.
I´m pretty nervous for that because I don´t know enough Portuguese to
have a real conversation yet. I can teach a short lesson in prtuguese and
by Friday I should be able to say give the first medium lesson in
Portuguese. So on Friday keep me in your prayers that maybe I´ll be able to
touch somebody´s life or somethin like that.
Well I forgot to tell you about the weather here. It´s winter here
so it´s not bad at all. Last week I actually was a little bit cold.
there were rain showers for a couple of days and it cooled way down. Now
the rain is gone so it has warmed up a little. As far as the humidity, I
can´t really feel any difference from Arizna, maybe a little bit more
humid. In the CTM you can´t really tell though. I feel spoiled. We get
a/c and hot showers and good food. Sometimes I forget that I´m in a
different country until I look out the window. i don´t know if you know
this but São paulo is the 3rd largest city in the world. I lok out the
window and there are endless buildings. Well, I miss you all and I hope
you all have a greatweek. I love you.
Love Elder Crosby
Well another week has gone by and there still isn´t too much more to
tell you. It´kinda the same ol´thing every day but I´m not complaining. I
love it here. ive been learning so much. I actually got complimented
last week on my portuguese by a brazilian. He was amazed that I had only
been at the CTM for a little over 2 weeks. That was a big confidence
booster but I still can´t really communicate with brazilians. I just have
a few questions I know and thats about it. I´m learning more every day.
On Sexta-feira (friday) we get to go out proselyting for 3 and a half
hours out in the town of São Paulo. They will take us to a park or some
place like that and drop us off and let us go talk to people for a few
hours. They give us pass-along cards to hand out and stuff like that.
I´m pretty nervous for that because I don´t know enough Portuguese to
have a real conversation yet. I can teach a short lesson in prtuguese and
by Friday I should be able to say give the first medium lesson in
Portuguese. So on Friday keep me in your prayers that maybe I´ll be able to
touch somebody´s life or somethin like that.
Well I forgot to tell you about the weather here. It´s winter here
so it´s not bad at all. Last week I actually was a little bit cold.
there were rain showers for a couple of days and it cooled way down. Now
the rain is gone so it has warmed up a little. As far as the humidity, I
can´t really feel any difference from Arizna, maybe a little bit more
humid. In the CTM you can´t really tell though. I feel spoiled. We get
a/c and hot showers and good food. Sometimes I forget that I´m in a
different country until I look out the window. i don´t know if you know
this but São paulo is the 3rd largest city in the world. I lok out the
window and there are endless buildings. Well, I miss you all and I hope
you all have a greatweek. I love you.
Love Elder Crosby
Sunday, August 06, 2006
It's fun to run...
...when they give you trophies when you're done. So 5k's are pretty fun. It's 3.1 miles and my latest time was 18:48, which is 6:04 min/mile. I figure it's a good way to have a healthy heart and the events are fun participating in. I;m gonna run in another one on Saturday.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Hi from Brazil
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006
Oi Familia,
Well its been another week here in Brazil and it just flew by. Today
we got to go to the São Paulo temple and it was just awesome. It was so
nice to be able to just go there and forget about that I had to learn
Portugues and just feel the spirit. They say that we will be able to go
five times before we leave so Im looking forward to that. It was nice
to get some emails and hear from everyone. As I said, our district has
14 people in it and there is only one other guy and me that haven´t
revieved any mail yet. Its funny, some people had some here when they got
here. Their family sent it like 2 weeks before they left. Anyways, I
just want to say that although emails are nice, I would still like to get
a letter every once in a while.
Ok, so I thought I would tell you about my schedule every day. I get up
and eat and have to be in the classroom by 7:30, where we all have
personal study then companionship study until 9:00. Monday, Wednesday and
Firday we then go to the gym for about na hour. Its a nice break from
the classroom. After gym we have MDST, or Misisonary Directed Study Time
where we can study whatever we want. Thursday and Saturday we have MDST
for about 3 ½ hours. Its really nice and I actually look forward to it
each day. There just aren´t enough hours in a day to study enough. I
have all the lessons to prepare, language to learn and scriptures to
read, sometimes it seems overwhelming but I just gotta take it a step at a
time and not try to eat the whole steak in one bite. We prepared a
short lesson in Portuguese yesturday and practiced that for a while. Its
amazing how much I already know and yet I know practically nothing. They
teach us so fast that its hard to remember everything. I´m so glad that
I got to come to the CTM here in Brazil. Its so nice to be able to be
among the Brazilian people. There are many Brazilian Elders here in the
CTM that I try to talk to as much as possible. They still have to talk
way slow but I can understand them somewhat every once in a while.
After lunch is when class starts and we have two four hour classes, with
dinner as they hour break in between classes. It´s a lot of sitting but
we have so much to learn that sometimes it seems like its not enough.
P-days are really nice though, especially being able to get out and walk
around.
Nothing too exciting happened here at the CTM just a lot of learning
and stuff. We had some really good devotionals and stuff this week. At
Sunday night devotional we get to sing the Brazilian national anthem.
It´s crazy. I´m going to record it so all of you can hear it. Anyways,
everyone likes my ties. I get a lot of compliments on them and one of my
roomates liked them so much he bought some off ebay he told me. Haha.
Well I better go, I love you all.
Love Elder Crosby.
Oi Familia,
Well its been another week here in Brazil and it just flew by. Today
we got to go to the São Paulo temple and it was just awesome. It was so
nice to be able to just go there and forget about that I had to learn
Portugues and just feel the spirit. They say that we will be able to go
five times before we leave so Im looking forward to that. It was nice
to get some emails and hear from everyone. As I said, our district has
14 people in it and there is only one other guy and me that haven´t
revieved any mail yet. Its funny, some people had some here when they got
here. Their family sent it like 2 weeks before they left. Anyways, I
just want to say that although emails are nice, I would still like to get
a letter every once in a while.
Ok, so I thought I would tell you about my schedule every day. I get up
and eat and have to be in the classroom by 7:30, where we all have
personal study then companionship study until 9:00. Monday, Wednesday and
Firday we then go to the gym for about na hour. Its a nice break from
the classroom. After gym we have MDST, or Misisonary Directed Study Time
where we can study whatever we want. Thursday and Saturday we have MDST
for about 3 ½ hours. Its really nice and I actually look forward to it
each day. There just aren´t enough hours in a day to study enough. I
have all the lessons to prepare, language to learn and scriptures to
read, sometimes it seems overwhelming but I just gotta take it a step at a
time and not try to eat the whole steak in one bite. We prepared a
short lesson in Portuguese yesturday and practiced that for a while. Its
amazing how much I already know and yet I know practically nothing. They
teach us so fast that its hard to remember everything. I´m so glad that
I got to come to the CTM here in Brazil. Its so nice to be able to be
among the Brazilian people. There are many Brazilian Elders here in the
CTM that I try to talk to as much as possible. They still have to talk
way slow but I can understand them somewhat every once in a while.
After lunch is when class starts and we have two four hour classes, with
dinner as they hour break in between classes. It´s a lot of sitting but
we have so much to learn that sometimes it seems like its not enough.
P-days are really nice though, especially being able to get out and walk
around.
Nothing too exciting happened here at the CTM just a lot of learning
and stuff. We had some really good devotionals and stuff this week. At
Sunday night devotional we get to sing the Brazilian national anthem.
It´s crazy. I´m going to record it so all of you can hear it. Anyways,
everyone likes my ties. I get a lot of compliments on them and one of my
roomates liked them so much he bought some off ebay he told me. Haha.
Well I better go, I love you all.
Love Elder Crosby.
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