2nd week in Oklahoma

hi every body 

how are things? well i kind of know from your letters but really i want to party with you! well some cool things that have happend this week is right after i emailed you i went and played vollyball with the other elders and sisters in our zone. and i loved it! its my new favorite sport. i was just rocking everyons socks. not to be cocky or anything but i cant wait to play today. things with my companin are just a roller coaster ride. there up there down and then there spiritual and then there totaly crazy! like for example we kind of got in a argument and he just got super pissed of. and he punched a hole in the wall. i was saying that we are lazzy missionarys and that we could be working so much harder. and he just got all deffencive and then went into the bathroom. and i herd a loud bang and his fist went through the wall. so i dont really know what to do about that. o and dad that was friday morning. so thanks for the prayers. but other than that its been good. he is a good trainer and he knows his stuff. but he just wont let me teach. every time i try to talk he just cuts me off. so i dont know if he doesnt trust me or he just thinks he is just a better teacher. well we are teaching several diffrent people. the malatka family. they are less active/ part member family. but he just came up to us on the street and started apologizing for not coming to church. and said he would like to be taught. so we came over to his house. and taught about the importance of church. and then commited them to come. so they showed up on sunday. and really liked it. then latter last night we went to talk to them and i commited jake there son to be baptized on september 10! so in the first 2 weeks i already have a baptizum. witch is pretty FRICKEN SICK! then we are teaching this 18 year old boy named nick. he is kind of a troubled child he learns very slow. but he keeps inviting us over. so thats good. we are just reading from the Bof M. about 2 chapters a day with him. he has a baptisum date but he has to commit to come to church 3 times first. then we are kind of teaching kind of bible bashing with this babtist minister. we fist knocked on the door though tracting and he invited us in. and he didnt know we were mormon so he was listing to us untill we brought out the book of morman. and he is like whoa dont bring out that devil worshiper book! O just so you know he is indian. not native american but like from india. he is willing to learn but as long as we dont talk about the bof m. which is what were supost to teach him but he just keeps yelling at us every time we talk about it. so i dont know if we will go back. then we are teaching this girl named whitney. she wants to come to church but her boyfriend is anti mormon. so as long as we just split them up that every thing is going to be ok. most of our time is spent tracting from door to door. o and yes my bike is fixed we found a pump. the ward mission leader (Brother Greenland) found a pump and some extra inner tubes. trackting is kind of fun because you never know who your going to meet. but its so hot that you lose a 3 pounds of sweat every day. which is good because. people feed us all the time it mostly pizza so im kind of getting sick of it. but thats ok i use to work at a pizza place. i really miss pizza factory. and the people that work there. and this is going to sound wired but i miss the pizza smell in my clothes. thats great that your setting up larana with the missionarys. i hope that she kind find the importance of the gospel in her life. i miss costa vida there is no costa or cafe rio here :( so thats depressing but there is other good food here like swadlys and braums. there BBQ places. a really big dessert here is birthday cake ice cream. and it really does tast like birthday cake with icing on it. courtney you would love it!i wish i could send you some. the ward here needs unity. nobody really likes eachother. so i dont know what to do about that. mabey a tornado need to go though the ward and people work together to clean it up. o the weather here is so unpodictable. its sunny in the morning and then all the sudden it hailing and the wind is blowing at like 60 MPH. the hail here gets super big like as big as a golf ball. on a regular basis. and when its really bad they get like a big a base balls! some cars have like hundreds of dents in them from the hail. speaking of cars there is more yellow cars in this state than i have ever seen. its like yellow one (slug) yellow one (Slug) like every 5 seconds. so we just stop playing. 

Lauren your teachers are all great i dont reconize some of them but most of them are going to be just swell. armstrong was one of my favorite teachers. and herrick is a pretty good teacher as well. a little boring but good. high school can be what ever you make it. so make the most of it. take hard classes. take fun classes. talk to every one. make lots and lots of friends but dont forget who your true friends are. if you ever are freeling down just pray the lord knows you and what your going through. he will be able to confort you and guild you in the right direction. and dont talk to boys untill your 16. they are going to be all over you like crazy. try to dull yourself down just for untill your 16. because every one here is like who is that when they see your picture. so i had to take your picture down because all the missionarys were allways oogling you.

thanks Knight family for the letter. i really like it. and thanks for allways supporting me. the picture that alli drew is amazing. you should take alot of art classes in high school. and thanks for the advice aarron and angie.

thanks Nana and Papa for the letter . and the money. thats too bad about cathy. have a nice vacation and im sure your dinner is going to be great.

Courtney and Zack thanks for writing me i love you guys so much. have a good move. i hope you enjoy your new house. you guys deserve it!

well i got to go but know that i love you and love this gosple so much! this is going to be the best experence i have ever had.

LOVE your son, brother, grandson, friend, and favorit missionary. Elder Payton Clements

Just a side note……On Friday between 9 and 11 Beau had a feeling that he should pray for Payton and so he did and it sounds like Payton needed it :)  for some of you who don't know Payton also can have a temper so ……..sounds like prayer works ……..