listen to the spirit

hello hello hello and welcome to the wonderful world of elder Clements.
this weeks starts out with a young missionary that helped move in a
YSA (young single adult) on his preparation day. so this lady called
us up and wanted us to help her out from 1 to 6. so we decided out of
the kindness of our hearts to help her move instead of playing games
and stuff. then this old couple in the ward invited us over for pizza.
but they forgot to tell us that they were the FHE coordinator. so we
showed up and there were like six girls there. and one guy (that's an
investigator) so when we showed up they were like yea! guys. and were
like gross, girls. so we ate and the girls were trying to flirt it up
but we shut them down. (touchdown missionaries) then we played them a
song on the uke like we normally do and got out of there.
so a couple of cool things happened this week. and a couple of funny
things. so elder dalia is super obsessed with being "the best" so he
put $200 worth of stuff on his bike. and they weren't even performance
stuff they are just to look cool. like fancy copper wiring and casing
and different colored stuff. because he wants the best looking bike in
the mission. (there is not that much competition trust me) so he
ordered all of this stuff and told his parents that his bike was
broken. so they payed for it. and then on Thursday he was going around
this corner and he decided to drift and his back bike tire exploded
and he crashed hard core. his rim bend in half and his tire is messed
up and he bend his frame. so we went to the bike shop and and they
said its going to be about another $300 to fix it. so i told him
that's what he gets for lying to his parents and telling him his bike
was broken.
so a couple of nights ago this lady that's like fully active in the
ward decided to call us up and tell us that she doesn't want to come
to church any more because she fells like the ward doesn't like her
and that she wished she had a better relationship with the people in
the ward. so i talked to her and asked her what church is for. and she
said to help us be better. and i told her its to take the sacrament
that renews our baptismal covenant. and to be able to be forgiven of
our sins. and that coming to church wasn't an option its a commandment
of god. and said so what if you don't get along with the people in the
ward that inst what church is about its about growing closer to our
heavenly father. i told her that i have dealt with less active people
all my mission, and 79% of them said that they were offended and that
they felt like they didn't belong. but once you let the lord out of
your life that's when all hell breaks lose. and it just gets harder
and harder to come back to church and you procrastinate the day of
your repentance until finally you lose your testimony of this work.
needless to say she showed up to church that Sunday.
on Wednesday we got a call from a guy that needed help fixing his
house. he lives in Dallas but his mother is renting out this house and
it needs some fixing up. so me and elder dalia, Jones, and beams when
to help out. we got there and the house was trashed. we spent like six
hours helping out. i did a lot of cabinetry work. fixing these
cupboards. and elder dalia did the yard work elder Jones did the
carpet and elder beams helped paint walls and fix the doors. lets just
say he got free labor and he got what he paid for. i mean of course we
try ed our best but there was some spots were he probably should have
hired some professionals. but his mom was so impressed with our free
labor and our willingness to help that she is taking the missionary
lessons. so that's great!
so last night we were biking to one of our appointments and this guys
comes up to talk to us. he is this stinky homeless guys right. and he
want us to go with him to see his friend. we cant understand half of
the things he is saying so we asked if we could say a prayer for him.
just a little side note here. some people in like to hold hands while
they pray.
so we start saying a prayer and he is holding mine and elder Dalias
hand. and i don't have that good of grip on him because i didn't
really want to touch his hands. but in the middle of the prayer he
just starts squeezing as hard as he can on my hand. so im trying to
ether get out of his grip or get a better hold on his hand because he
is breaking my fingers. so we get done with the prayer and he was like
walk with me to my friends house we asked were his friend lives and he
says on ninth street. so that's like a half an hour walk and its all
ready 8 pm. so there is really know way we can get over there on time.
and he was like just follow me and started heading down his dark ally.
i get this prompting to not go down there with him so we told him we
couldn't. and he gets mad! like yelling at us and telling us that were
not really missionary. and that the lord wants us to go with him. so
we just book it out of there. who knows what could of happened. elder
Dalia says that in Guatemalan that a tactic that robbers use, is ask
the missionary's to help them out and follow them and then a bunch of
there friend beat them up and take there stuff.
so that's some stuff that happened this week. transfers is in two
weeks and i think im staying and elder dalia is going some were else.
i got your package and it was the best! thanks so much for sending me
great stuff. the movie was amazing the light one. and i really really
really wanted that 17 miracles  CD. so that was just what i needed.
well i love you so much and i will talk at you ladder.
Love Elder Clements