so whats up family
so this week has been crazy! so on Tuesday me and elder young went and saw a bunch of people in the ward to say good bye. its sad that i had to leave such a great area. Wednesday was transfers. i packed the morning of. which is kind of procrastination but i dont care. any way we went to transfers and it was soo cold. the wind is always blowing here. so that's a bummer. transfers are getting better. at the first of your mission transfers are not very fun. because you don't know any body. but the longer you have been out the more missionary's you know. so you can talk to people and stuff. but like 10 min after i got there. and met elder olinger we had to leave. because we bummed a ride off a member so we didnt have to use miles. the first thing members ask you is were are you from? and after i say Utah there like "O your one of those Utah Mormons". its really starting to piss me off. there just jealous that they don't live in the "Promise land" (wink)
so anyways the member had to go so we had to go with him. Their the Mcallchecks. (dont know if thats the right spelling) and he seems like a pretty cool fellow. he has six kids and a short temper. its all ways kind of awkward when people yell at there kids in front of you. so he drops us off at the apartment. and the first thing i think is wow this is Ghetto. the apartment complex is like run down, busted windows, broken down cars in the parking lot. its crazy. any ways the apartment itself is not bad except is smells like weed/ smoke. because of the neighbors. its funny because it has the uglyest couch i have ever seen. like puke orange with crazy green inlays. i will have to take a picture.
so elder olinger. he has been out for about 18 months. he is kind of tall. and a little bigger. but who isn't? hes very quiet. like awkward quiet. i dont really know what to say to him. he is very one syllable anwser kind of guy. (hi how are you, good?) he is from Illinois. and his family is converts. if i were to describe him in one word it would be Chill. just laid back and doesnt really care to much about anything.
his last comp had really bad migraines. and so for the past 3 transfers they did nothing together. so basically this area is super dead. we have one investigator. and two less active that we see. other than that theres nothing to do but track. so that what we have been doing for the past 4 days. i have never knocked on so many doors in my life than i have in the past few days. like on thursday we tracked for at least 6 hours. i really have to push him to do things though. he doesnt really want to work. but once you get him started he is ok. i had an interview with president Taylor and thats basically what he told me that this would happen. he told me to stay strong and keep obedient because it will be easy to slack off. so ive been working super hard to be my best. because there is no one there to keep me in line but myself.
he says he want to make this a better transfer so were trying our best to make it that way. im still in a car area so thats good. and im glad to because were right in the heart of the city. like down town Oklahoma city. there is some parts of our area that we aren't allowed to go in because of gangs and stuff. but we have the Lord protecting us. so thats awesome.
when your tracking you run into alot of interesting people. like crazy mixed up people. and really short people. we ran into a drug house and a blood member. so that was kind of cool. we all ready found like 20 investigators. so thats good. we ran out of book of Mormons because we have given so many way. so thats good hope fully we can turn a couple of those into baptisms.
so life back home sounds good and crazy. i had forgot that matt got his mission call. so hopefully he does good. that's cool that his is going to canda. it will be freezing up there. (elder Carl who is Canadian. who i used to live with. lost his finger because he cut it when he was gutting an elk. and when he got his hand out his finger instantly froze off and turned black because of the blood froze.)
k would be surprised at the level of less actives that are recent converts.
well any ways i have written a letter that i will send out today. so there will be more detail in there and stuff. and there is 42 pictures in there. so hopefully you enjoy them.
love you all so much your the best!
LOve Elder CLemEnts
Ps.i love you
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