almost 6 months

hey family

first off i want to thank all of you. i have gotten 3 packages so i hope thats it. 2 from the clements family and one from a store. i sent you guys a package and the projected date said it will arrive today. so hopefully you get it. its just got a letter and the tape i recorded like 3 weeks ago. and some other cool stuff that you seem to collect on the miss.

so the weather here is good and bad. so we haven't gotten but 1 inch of snow this winter. its basicly like september in utah. just some rain and some cold. some mornings its fricken freezing! but it seems to warm up a little. i check the weather in utah on a phone service called tell me. you guys seem to have it alot tougher than i do. its cold when we track. but other than that its pretty fine. one night we were just walking down the street to some ladys house. it was so cold! i swear its the coldest i have ever been. like when we go duck hunting and my boots get water in them. it was kind of like that. because it was misting. like i only have seen it in oklahoma. but it doesnt really seem like its raining but when you touch your clothes there soak-en. its crazy beans. it's the worst weather. because your not even expecting it.

well heres a little about my companion elder young. hes from lapoint Ut? yea i have never heard of it either.  he's a down home country boy through and through. he lived on a ranch. his favorite thing to do is hunt. he has camo PJ's and Elk print sheets. he said y'all before he came to oklahoma. and he has a thick Utah accent. weird to think about but its true. elder soto has a hard time under standing him. he is very obedient. like down to the T on everything. witch is good. but bad at the same time. because he is constantly looking at the white hand book (the rule book) to make sure what were doing is ok. like he thinks some of the ties i have are unapproved. its kind of hard. because you know i dontlike people telling me what to do, especially if i know im suppose to do them.  Idk "we can work it out", just like the beatles song say's. im so used to listening to music in the car and around the house. but elder young doesnt like music. he cant think when he's listen to a song. so like even at like dinner he doesnt want music because he cant think and chew at the same time? i dont know. what can you do? nothing!  just learn to love him the way he is!

but he's a really good missionary. i teach alot more with him, than with elder curtis. because were on the same level and elder curtis was way above me you know. we had a super sick spiritual lesson on friday. we had dinner with thegodfree family. they just moved in so i didnt know them until that night. they fed us Cafe RIo. it was the best Cafe rio i have had in 5 months. they also fed us MAGARIDAS! (dont worry they were virgin) but they invited their non member friends over. and we taught them about when jesus when he came to the america's in 3 nephi chapter 11. everyone was crying their eyes out. The spirit was so stong you could almost see it.

you know when you have the spirit with you and you get that spiritual high. man ive never gotten so high in my life! its like one of those spiritually/ physically draining lessons. like you litteraly go out of ther feeling like you ran a mile. but so good. they will probably get baptized in 6 months.

o speaking of margaritas. did you know i have broken the word of wisdom 3 times on my mission? not on purpose of course. but the first time it was in mustang and some guy gave us wine. but didnt tell us untill after ward. and the second time a member fed  us sweet tea during dinner. and when they asked us for more we said yes. and then they bought out the container and it was like strawberry sweet tea on the side. the third time was this week. so we had lunch with a member. and he took us to this new authentic Italian restaurant. it was so good. and the member knew the owner. he said we could get what ever we wanted. and then after that he bought us dessert. so the waiter told us what the dessert's were. and i just picked one that sounded good. they brought this cake thing out and it had chocolate and caramel. and some cool cake on the bottom. so i started eating it and i thought it smelled familar. so i kept eating because it was really good. after lunch we had a prayer with the member and during the prayer i remembered what was so familiar about that cake. it was soaked in coffee! because it was bitter and sweet. but man o man this whole word of wisdomis killing me, satan likes to trick the missionaries.

we are continuing to do alot of missionary work just tracking and visiting less actives. the Christmas season is hard. because alot of people think we dont believe in Christmas. (thats  Jehovah witnesses) and they dont want to talk to us because familys over and stuff like that. some guy yelled at us and asked us if Jesus would knock on his door and bother him. i said "probably". it was funny. he just slammed the door.

so Christmas is coming up and we are just looking for people to have us over. because were not allowed to do work on Christmas the day before or the day after. so were just thinking of things to do. the mcbrides have us for dinner. but they decided to go less active so hopfully they will still feed us even though they dont come to church.

o so yesterday we went to a less actives house to bring them some cookies. and the wife is outside and she's just hacking away at a tree in her front yard. with a electric chain saw. so because elder young knows how to do tree work. he helped her cut it down. man that guys a monkey. he just scaled up the tree with a chain saw in his hands. and just started cutting lims off. the wife was like yelling at him and telling him to be carefull. you know just like any mother would. but it was a good thing we came over because the tree was  going to fall on her house if she would have continued to cut it like whe was.

well that basicly it for my week. i loved your guys letters. those hooligans in your class better behave or there going to have a very strongly worded letter on there door step in three days. lauren your letter made people think im crazy. because i just burst out laughing on three different parts. idk. this is your best letter yet lauren. courtney. your the bomb i was just kidding. i know your busy. but thanks for writing me.

love you guys so much and i will talk to you on christmas.

i wont be able to skype. unless some pretends to be deaf. that way i have to "sign to you"

but that wont be an option. i will call your cell and you can call me back or somthing. idk how it really works out. i think it will be after church but IDK.

love you so much

ELder Clements.