8th week

hello boys and girls!

so whats up? things are going well this week. my new area is spectacular! i love the new apartment im in and the other two elders I'm serving with. we play with this miniature basket ball hoop in our living room every night. it gets competitive and intense. like yesterday we broke the light and the clock. but that's the first time we broke something. so we got a brand new Chevy silverado 2011! because our other car got sold. its so nice like leather seats, bluetooth, reverse cam, all kinds of good stuff. its fun to drive and we are livin large. but dont worry it wont go to my head. i bought a watch with some extra money that i had but i used it on my card because i didnt have enough. people give us money all the time for food and stuff. well elder Curtis is from Logan ut so not to far from home. he is a twin but his twin isnt serving a mission. and he has a big family. because everyone in his family has a twin. like 3 set of twins. (crazy) we are getting along just fine. he makes fun of my lips but i don't mind because all the girls are going to want them when i get back. wink. but compared to my last comp he is an angle. speaking of angels every one has an angle on there front door step its crazy. i dint know what the deal is but its like every other house has the exact same statue. (i wonder if they had a sale) we are doing allot of tracking and stuff. but mostly tracking. you meet allot of crazy people and allot of door slams but what ever thats there problem. this one lady was like im sorry but im not interested. and i said im sorry your missing the best message your ever going to here. and she stopped and let us in. it was cool some times it pays off to be forward. we still get fed every night witch is good. the ward is so nice here. unlike my last ward they care about people. theres always seems to be a fellowshiping activity in the ward. and like every one brings a nonmember friend to church with them.

conference is coming up so im excited for that. we will watch it in the stake center with all the rest of the stake. it will be a cool change compared to at home in the pj's. there will be a big social afterwards. with lunch and stuff. there ordering a huge sub sandwich. like 30 feet long or something. i got your package and nanas package. thank you so much the day goes a whole lot smother when you get a letter. the hat the nana and papa sent me is crazy, but its so crazy its cool. just like me. nana also sent me some cookies and i left them on the counter while i went on exchanges and they were gone by the time i got back. witch is good and bad. good because i didnt get fat form all the cookies and bad because i didnt get fat form all the cookies. we cant afford treats with our mission money so its nice to gett some stuff every once in a wile. o this was awesome. so i ran out of cereal for breakfast and i was like what am i going to eat. and i was like kind of depressed and i was like maybe a member will give us a pizza for dinner and i will just eat some for breakfast. but then i got your package and it had oatmeal in it. its a miracle! its a Miracle! at night elder soto is teaching me Spanish. witch is cool. im learning but its hard because i dont have that much time to practice it. i yea so my flash drive. that sucks. i didn't erase my pictures thank goodness. but that still is no beano. i bought another one as soon as i sent the one to you so i dont need one. but thanks any way.

lauren i love you girl. that's funny about the sponge bob thing. i miss that yellow headed fool. and i dont know what to say about your friend. just be friends with her and just encourage her to not be dating. slip a strength for youth in her back pack or something. but she is probably set in her ways. don't try to mess with breaking them up or anything. just try to make friends with her bf and your friendship will go alot smoother. o it was funny so when i got the pic's of you and the family. i just saw half of you in one of your pictures. and i was like HOLY SMOKES that girl is fine. but then i realized it was just you. and was like dang it. i thought mom send a picture of an admirer or something. but just so you know lauren your beautifull.

thanks courtney and zak for writing me i really like to know whats going on in your life. i dont have that much time to talk but i love you all so much your the best family i missionary could ask for!

LOVe you favorite missionary.

Elder Payton Clements.

P.S. i live only one block from the mission home so we get the mail there so you can keep writing me from that address.

7th week -now in MOORE

what up?

so things are going swell nothing to complain about but some times i still do. so moore is great lots of people and places to go. there is three wards here. so there is two set of missionaries. me and ELDER Curtis. and the zone leaders. elder Forsyth and elder Soto. there is only 3 four man apartments in this mission. and i have been in two in my first two transfers. elder curtis is cool just really "chill" so he is like a duck every thing just rolls off. hes not very talkative but nether am i so its ok. yes he is attractive lauren. but he knows it to. he has like this photo album of girls that he "Slayed" (made out with) he is up to 46! some day i want to be like that wink! jkjk he is spiritual when he needs to be but most of the time not. elder curtis has been out 22 months so he is going home next transfer. the zone leaders are cool elder forsyth is like 6,4 and skinny. hes really funny and crazy he kind of reminds me of tyler bucannan. but if tyler would have matured a little.(no offence tyler if you reading this) he has been out 23 months so he gose home this trancfer. i have been on exchanges with him befor so i kind of know him already. hes cool i like him. elder soto is from mexico but he doesnt look mexican. he is whither than i am.  he is really spiritual and uplifting.

im in the nicest appartment in the mission its so big! we have a washer and dryer in there and a living room and a huge kitchen! it has a dinning table which is my favorite part.because i hate eating on a couch. no i dont cook for every one just for myself. i want to though some times i miss it. everything is made for two or more people. so its hard to shop and eat good for yourself. i eat allot of chicken. like nuggets and patties. and PB&J. we get fed every night here which is good. unlike mustang which is once a week. the ward is cool. lots of unity. its kind of like the ward back home just not as many people. the bishop is really missionary oriented so its like one of his prioritys. people are always willing to come out with us  so we get alot of member present lessons. which is our mission goal to get 2 a week.

we dont have a big teaching pool so its just allot of tracking and finding 5 by faith. we have a car so at least i dont have to bike like every day. there is this missionary program called 6 to sexy. its were the last 6 months of you mission you loose lots of weight and work out every day. you allso diet and drink protein shakes. so the other three missionaries are on that program so i just have to go along with it. its good and bad. we wake up early and run every night. and there is this thing called prayer push ups. were you do 20-60 push ups after each prayer you say. and you pray like 10 times a day so buy night your like dying. i have lost all my mtc weight and then some. you can see my six pack (Sweet!) and im working on doing the human flag. which is were you basicly hold yourself horizontal for a few seconds. look it up on google or something. its pretty intence.

during tracking we ran into this jewish guy and he was interested but he was craz. we gave him a book of mormon and he gave us a jewish bible. its huge! its like 4000 pages long and most of it is in hebrew. but well keep it as a souvenir. hows dakota i havent heard form him in a while? i miss that kid. there is a guy in the ward named bryan but he kind of looks like dakota. so its just kind of funny. things are going well i havent spent a whole ton of time doing any thing so i cant really give you an accurate  description of everything. but hopefully this will suffice.

LOve you favorite missionary in the whole world

ELDER clements.

P.S.

416 SW 79th street Suite 210 OKC, OK 73139 (this is the address that im living at) and did you get my letter?

6th week

fist off thank you all so much for caring about me i miss you guys. alot! i cry almost every night but i can handel it. wait hold up i can handel it. thanks mom and dad for being such good parents. i couldnt ask for better. thanks for rasing me right and always looking out for me. i love you guys with all my heart. i miss they way your always giving advice mom. and thanks dad for teaching me the importance of hard work. thanks for wanting to spend time with me. and thanks for allways picking up the phone when i call. i know i wasnt the perfect son but you know you love me any ways. thanks lauren and courtney for being such spectacular sisters. i love you bolth so much thanks for writing me i dont know what i would do with out you two. thanks zack for treating my sister with respect and love. i hope to be a great husband like you some day. your my insperation. im got trancfer calls last night im going to a town called More. its suppost to be the best place in the mission. i dont remeber my comps name but i heard he is to legit to quit. and that he is a great missionary. i was reading in Gordan B. Hinklys book "Standing for something" and i now know why i was with elder damon. when he lifed up that chair and he had that look in his eyes. i was scared to death i felt so alone and so scared. i couldn't even breath. and now i hate elder damon and i fear him. evern though its been a week every time he stands up i flinch. and you know that i have an anger problem. and i need to work on that. and i have a tendency to yell and over react. but that fear i felt that night i never ever! Ever! want my wife to feel like that. because it literally tore our relation ship apart. we barley speak any more. we dont daily plan and we dont do comp study. and i dont want that to happen ever again. if i would react just one time with that around any one it would instantly kill our friendship. if thats the only thing i take away from this companion ship it will be enough.

so every thing back home sounds good. i really wish you guys could come and visit. or at least i could talk to you every once in a while. that sucks there is another oil spill. our endearment is going to pot. you can see it in the world all around us. i cant wait for the savior to come and set things strait. i never realized how sheltered i really was in Utah. We have our own little bubble. and there is a do not cross sign on it. but here in the OKC every thing is coming at you full force. like we went to a fair on Saturday because some of our investigators invited us. and that place was just so terrible. i could feel satan breathing down my neck. we only stayed for like an hour but it was the longest hour of my life.

Thanks courtney for those questions i just bearly wrote them down on my arm because i dont have paper. i will always try to be asking those questions to myself and for my companions. thanks for praying for me. i could really feel them this week. i love this gospel so much i love how we have the truth in our lives.if nothing else seems to make sence the church does. i am reading and praying constantly. ive never been so emerged in the gospel before. every thing seems to be applying to me and the work im doing. there is people out there searching for this truth that we are bringing door to door. and we just need to seek those people out. not just as missionarys but as Latter Day Saints. people see this terrible world and socity that we live in. and their not happy with it. we need to find those people and introduce them to the gospel of Jesus Christ. this gospel is for every one. but they just dont know it yet. i want to continue to serve with all my heart, migh,t mind and strenght. so that people all around can here the truth that we are willing to share.

 We had a Baptizm on saturday. it was good, short and sweet just like it should be. very spiritual. the dad baptised his boy. which is amazing because he was far off the path wen we fist started teaching him. and on saturday he had the opertunity of a life time to share that speacial day with his son. i hope i can have a baptisum once a trancfer. that is my new goal. start off right and finish it that way baby! too much rock for one hand!

well know that i still love you guys. i wrote a letter that im sending in the mail today. so you should be getting that some time this week. i will wright you another letter as soon as im in my new appartment. so i can give you the address.

LO, LO, LO, LOVE Elder Payton Clements.

5th week in Oklahoma

This week has been a little hard for Elder Payton.  I would just ask you keep him in your prayers
and I know this next week will be better. :)  He will be transferred on Tuesday, so were excited to
see where that will be.

5th week

 A trampoline taken by the wind

 MTC

 MTC

 Storms a coming

Payton gave himself a hair cut , good thing his hair grows fast haha