HI family
so before i got here i was listening to a Baptist singing group called sweet fellowship. its funny the songs that they sing. there all about getting saved and how much they love Jesus. there good songs but they just have the wrong doctrine.
so anyway this week has been super good. we are teaching so many different people. our week fills up so quickly. like people have to fight for us to come out with them or to see them. were teaching this less active/excommunicated guy. and he is so hardhearted. he doesn't believe in God anymore. so its hard to teach him. because your like will you pray? and he's like to who? so i don't know what we will do with that crazy fellow.
on Monday we ate at 5 guys burgers and fries. it was the best! because they give us our food for free. (don't worry we wont take advantage of the situation) its good to eat out and get fat sometimes. because normally we cant afford it. but yea p-day is sometimes the best. elder hanson (an assistant to the president) says that p-day is better than Christmas because its never more than 6 days away. elder young hates P-day for some reason. he wants to get out and work. and he doesn't like to change into his "normal" clothes. he want to go to the gym with this pros's on. its just funny. because i love to dress up (you know me) but i like to be comfortable as well. and because its the only day we can do it. idon't know maybe its a good thing. but i say take advantage of your day to prepare for the rest of the week.
OK so this was on of the coolest stories of my mission (so far) so we were going to see this family. but when we knocked on the door, we could here them talking. they all got quiet and pretended like they weren't there. so we just said whatever. but we needed something to do for the rest of that night. so because we were in the same area as another less active family. we decided to go see them. but we didn't know what to teach them.( just a note me and elder curtiswent over every week and tired to teach them and tired to get them to participate in the lessons. but there just like we like the missionary's but we dont like the lessons.) so i had a prompting to just open up my scriptures. it was a brand new Book of Mormon. so it didn't have any marking in it, and had never been opened before. so we said a prayer and asked god for inspiration on what we should teach this family. we asked what they needed most in there life at this very moment. and we open up the book and happened to turn to Alma 34:2 (look it up) and it said along the lines of you should not be ignorant to the things we have been teaching you. and you know about Christ and were taught abundantly before your dissension among us. so were like what the! this is crazy they will yell at us and tell us to get out of there house. if we shared the scripture with them. we were like just kidding heavenly father can you give us something more easy to teach? but i was like we have to share it with them because we asked and the lord provided. so who would we be if we got inspiration and didn't use it?
so we went in there and read over the whole chapter with them. and they were responding so well. it was super crazy! they read (witch they never do) and they realized that they were making a mistake of not coming to church. so they said they would be there on Sunday. it was so awesome! the spirit was so strong (you could cut it with a knife) so that was kind of cool
on Friday we had district meeting. like we do every Friday. and i had to give a lesson on how to have the companionship of the holy ghost with you at all times. it was difficult but i learned alot from my studies of the Holy Ghost. i read some interesting thing from the book Lifes Lessons Learned. about how we can receive revelation and how we should listen to it. and to always have your heart open to the prompting's it gives. and im like hey i just had an experience with that like 2 days ago! it was a good lesson if i do say so myself.
after that i went on exchanges with elder jacobs. it was good but it was bad at the same time. because elder jacobs is like 350 and 5'11" so he is going on this very strict diet. of nothing but these smoothies and this super nasty looking drink that supposed to "clean you out" so they didn't have any food in their house. so i basically starved that whole day. but its good because he lost like 20 pounds in a week. and if he keeps it up he can loose 100 pounds in 10 weeks! so i basically fasted for too days in a row. once on fast Sunday and then on Saturday.
so when i went to the gym this morning i lost 7 pounds! (ive been looking for it every were but somebody must of stole it)
OK so i don't really know what to do about this. and i was wondering if you knew anything about this. a GIRL named Ashley wrote me a letter. not a big deal right? WRONG! this letter i get it and first off the envelope is pink, with drawings on it. like a plane that says 19 months left. and a picture of this girl+a guy= Eternity!!!! and it says you and me below it. so im like what the heck this must be a joke. i open it up and its a two page letter from a girl claiming to be Ashley? and said she always thought there was something special about me and wanted to get in contact and see if i felt the same way about her?! she said she grew up in our stake. and that she moved about 2 years ago. to midway. do you guys happen to know any idea who this girl could be? im flabbergasted? i have know idea who this could be and why she would be writing me this letter. (i mean most people cant help themselves around me but really :P ) jk so ma beyyou could give me some advice. Would a women really do this? is she just trying to be mysterious? idk.
on Sunday it was so great we had 12 less active family's come to church and 2 investigators! thats like 50 people that came to church because we have been teaching them. like people that havent been to church in like 20 years came yesterday. and we had the crazy guy come and he really liked it. by the end of the program he was singing the hymns. and reading in priesthood! o it felt so good to have that many people show up. it really build confidence in the ward when people like that show up.
o i forgot on Saturday we had dinner with some less actives. that want to come back to church. and they had snakes all over there house! like big ones. he has 5 snakes just crawling around the house and around there necks and stuff. igot to hold a 8 foot long bowaconstricter. and he was wrapped so tightly around my arm that it was cutting off my blood supply. i made a joke about a snake tourniquet.
any way so life sounds good back home. ill pray for you to have a baby Courtney. and Lauren you so funny in your letters. its funny they way your growing up and saying like, like, like alot. so yea i had to buy some stuff last month because i ran out of mission funds a little early. but that ok im doing good at not buying everything i see. there have been a couple of time when i was going to buy $150 cow boy boots. but i didnt.
dad im glad the duck hunt is going so well. that cool that your going goose hunting. there are so many geese here its sick! they wake me up every morning flying over. like once there had to be 5000 geese flying over us when we were running in the morning.
mom tell those boys to shape up or ship out. give the good kids candy like Dan Davis does. idk pray about it.
LOve you all So much i will write you a letter and send some pictures.
your favorite missionary (as always)
Elder Clements
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