1st week in Texas

hi everybody
this week has been a trip! im down in texas thats freeking crazy
beans. its like the biggest area i have been in. there are three sets
of missionaries in one ward and there are also one more set five min
away. our district has eight people in it. and we have a big van to
drive around. we call it the plig rig. the area im in is call witchita
central. its the most geto of the four areas. and i didnt know this
but its spanish speaking!!! so my comp is really a english speaking
missionary but he spoke spanish before the miss so president sent him
down here. its kind of crazy teaching lessons and only hearing about
half of what there saying. i can bear my testimony in spanish now and
say Joseph Smiths first vision. its crazy i pray for the gift of
tongues.
so elder dalia is form Virginia. he is a big kid and man he will tell
you all about it as well. he plays football and he says he has a
scholarship for byu. hes a good guy and an ok missionary. he has only
been out for about nine months so he still has a lot of growing room.
he is obsessed with my uke he want me to teach him everything i know.
and he want to learn it now. but he is not really willing to slow down
and practice. so i have taught him like six songs and guess how many
he can remember to play? any ways he is black just in case you couldn't
tell. but he says he is white because he was adopted. he has 18
brothers and sisters. but his parents are loaded. he tells me all about
his cars and his house. he is really cocky. but i still like him.
the other elder in our apartment are elder swell, and elder beams.
they are both green elder beams has been out four months and swell
only one month. there both good guys. beams wants to fight elder
dalia like everyday. and swell is kind of laid back and nerdy. we all
ride bikes so its cool. sometimes we ride with each other.
the area is good i guess. they havent had a baptism in six months so
well change that.  the ward is huge! there are over 1000 less actives
and about 400-500 members in one ward. i guess thats why there are six
missionarys in one area.
were teaching this guy named brother diaz and he is less active but he
is coming back to church. and he has a non member girl friend that
were trying to teach. so we went in to teach him on friday and his
girl friend usually just sits back and doesnt listen. but we invited
her to join us. and she sat down at the table and started listening.
we taught her about prophets and about the book of Mormon. and we were
teaching in the bible and then we turned our quads over to the book of
Mormon. and she like looked at her bible as if there was something
missing. it was legit she was tearing up a little bit when we
testified the truthful ness of the book of Mormon. so hopeful we can
get her in the water this transfer.
the members here are really cool to the missionary's and i guess they
get  a ton of  baptisms here at least in the past. we get fed about 5
times a week so its a whole lot better than my last area. the family
that we ate at last night was the carpenders. they have a son on a
mission in new Mexico or something. so their like we always like it
when members send us pictures of our son. there a really cool family
and the boy just bought a uke like a month ago. so he want me to teach
him how to play it. the 17 year olds name is kile and is such a cool
kid. he goes out with the missionary's all the time. and he takes us on
splits and gives us rides. He's really funny and he is all about sharing
the gospel with his friends. i guess he baptized like six people in
his school already. so he went out with us last night and we saw this
less active family. it was a really good lesson and invited the
daughters to the stake dance so it was like the perfect member to go
out with us. (lauren he is cute and super ripped he pole volts ill try
to get a pic)
but yea life is great. i hope elder platt is doing good in chickasaw.
i kind of feel bad because i wrote in his journal like three
paragraphs and drew him a picture, but he wrote like six pages and
told me that i was his favorite companion. hes a good kid, he just
needs to step it up a little.
well i love you all so much just keep up the good work! your the cats
pajamas and the bees knees. keep the ward in line while im away. and
you should be getting a letter soon.
love you tons
your favorite missionary ELder Clements