so family hows it coming along. the whole life thing? this set of letters that you guys send me is super fantastic. just keep up the good work on those writing skills. i forgot to tell you how grateful i am that you all write me every week. because most elders only get one letter a week form there mom or dad. and then there siblings never write them. so thank you all so much your the bomb diggity.
o and courtney before i forget its off of harry potter 5.
so im in the processes of writing you all letters. everyone that i can think of. the young men, young women, nana and papa, grandma and grandpa, the pizza factory, just any one that i think would miss me. (wink) so be expecting a letter soon. and just so you know soon in missionary terms will be like 3 weeks. wink, so because of this darn daylight savings time we cant track after dark and it gets dark around like 6 so we have to do lots of visiting people in the ward. and less/in actives. we visit about 12-15 a week and we just invite them to church and teach them a lesson. its fun getting to know people in the ward but its still frustrating because most people are set in there ways already. so because of our extra ordinary efforts. we had 9 less active familys at church on sunday(thats fricken sick) because we have a ward roster of about 600 people and only about 200 come to church. so if we got about 30 people come to church on sunday. thats like 20% increase. if we can just keep them coming and get even more to come. we could get this work going so hard. plus half the less actives are part member and if we can start teaching/ baptizing thouse partmember familys we could get baptisms like every week. elder Perry told us that we could be as successfull as south america if we work with the members and less actives.
and if that happens we could get the OKC mission split in half and it would become two missions. then we could get even more missionarys out here and our example would make other missions change and we could get the church membership up 57%!
but this is just wish full thinking. its kind of like the butter fly effect almost. So that wont happen for a while. but until then we will work our hardest to make that happen. there is a lot of cool people in oklahoma. but they call us (me and elder curtis) Utah mormons. so i dont really understand what that means yet but really there just jealous because they dont live in the mountain of the lord. wink. look up 2 nephi chapter 12 verse 2 and if you read down the page is spells out UTAH. its pretty cool.
so we went to a flea market and set up a both that gave away book of mormons. and pamplets we got alot of referrals from that but none in our area so that sucks. so lots of people want to here the Gospel but just not here in moore.
so on monday we played football. just two hand touch. it was so much fun it started to rain and it turned into a mud football match. we all got dirty but like best pday ever. we just whent home and got all showed up then had dinner with the sorrel family. its this single lady with like 12 kids. but all the kids are so sweet. there so funny and all under the age of 15. i dont know how she does it. but she manages to fed her kids and us. i took over the uke and played for the family. it went so good that we bring it to all of our appointments. and sing for everybody. people laugh and say thats the best missionary message we have ever got. so a bunch of the missionary's are going to get to gether and play for a talent show in December. it will be fun.
this mission is what i am supposed to do i really cant see myself doing any thing else right now. so elder forsyth went home about 3 weeks ago and he called on Thursday. and basically said that life sucks off the mission. he was so excited to go home but now he wishes he was back in the mission. he said its kind of like the RM he cant find a job, his girl that was writing him his hole mission has a boy friend. his parents are deaf so they only use sign language. and because he didnt use it all his mission. he cant even talk to his parents. and his singles ward has like 5 singles in it. so he just called up and just said that his life was better on his mission. and now he is lonley. we told him to just keep up the good work and just remember if you hit rock bottom all you can go is up.
so hows the rest of the family doing? how is Nana and papa did papa get his "demon cranes" done i would really like to see the picture of them. they sound really cool. but everything that papa make is very creative and cool. how is Nana's car? i was just asking because thats what most of our mission drives. that little chevy. its funny i like to drive them but i don't know if i would ever buy one. how is the whole family in st George? is dana still moved out and is the rest of the family doing well? i had a dream about the family down there and i woke up crying. that's the worst part about the mission is all the stupid dreams that you have. like i always dream that i see you guys but then i wake up and your freaking 1200 miles away. just realize that i love you guys so much and care about you deeply. but this is only 2 years of my life so i can hadel it.
i love Jesus Christ and his infant atonement for all of us on this earth. i know that god knows each of us and cares so much for us. i know that the book of mormon is additional scripture that god has given us to teach us. and to be able to expand on his Gospel. i know that Joseph smith was a prophet of the lord and translated the book of mormon. and help restore the church that Christ set up on the earth. and this is the only true church on this earth. and i am part of this great work of spreading the gospel to people that need it in there life. every time i feel the spirit of the Holy Ghost i want to share the Gospel so much more.
i love you guys i will write you soon and i will send the tape to you. i recorded a couple of songs and how my weeks going. so hope you guys have a great week.
love you with all my heart
Elder Clements
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