Hello Hello. family.
i say family because if your reading my letters that means were family. So life is great. the mission is awesome best two years FOR my life. im loving every minute of it. its funny because a typical question people ask is How long have you been out? and when i say 18 months there like wow your almost done then. it makes me sad because this part of my life is coming to a close. you only get this chance once to have this experience and my experience is almost done. makes me sad and i tell people don't remind me. another cool thing is that you can tell which missionary's are out here for them and for there investigators and which ones are out here for there parents. or just because they were expected to. i hope you can tell the difference in me.
well this week has been great. (every week is great you just have to look at it that way.) so we will start on monday. we had zone pday. it was great. we went bowling. most people showed up late so i got to play three games and most people only played two. so by the last one i was nice and practiced up. i found out that my old area isnt doing so well. its what i feared. that the missionaries that are covering it dont have that much time to cover two areas at a time. so ours just gets pushed to the side. :( and the area wont get missionarys for at least another transfer. two of the people that i taught are getting baptized. so thats good. but back to bowling. at the very end most of the people left so i had to cover two people on two different lanes. and i decided to bowl left hand on one lane and right on the other. and i turns out that i bowled left better than right. left i got 138 and right i got 125. then after bowling we had a specialized training with the whole zone. it was definitely the most interactive training that i have been two. we had a scavenger hunt and a surviver like challenges. like one was we were led blind through and obstetrical coarse and another was we had to transport water form one container to another using only straws and our mouths. it was gross three people threw up. then they related all of the challenges to missionary work. it was cool.
we went over to a familys house for dinner and they made us this traditional Russian meal. because there son is going on a mission to Russia in march. it was good a lot better than i expected. and we played a song for them. O that reminds me there is a rumor going around that president taylor is going to ban ukes on the mission.because its just become a mission tradion to play the uke. as soon as a missionary comes into the mission they want a uke. and so its getting out of control. im hoping its just a rumor. and if it is true i hope that he will say for all the missionarys that have had it less than a year send them home. just wishful thinking. if push comes to shove then i guess i will send it home.
this week we did a double exchange. on thursday the zone leader came down to altus with me and shumway went up to lawton. but the funny thing is that elder shumway is the name of the zone leader that came down with me. so there is two in our zone. but we went to dinner with this family in the ward and it turns out they are related to each other. like second cousins or something. so thats fun. then the next day i went on exchanges with elder Garcia. he came down to altus with me as well. it was fun he is a good guy. and i met him when he first came out. most of that day we ended up driving to this little town called Hobart. so total in those two day i ended up in the car about 7 hours. because its an hour drive to Lawton and me made it 5 times. then we drove to Hobart witch is 30 min away. by the end of the week i was sick of being in the car. o one funny thing happened we forgot to put gas in the car and we got about half way to Lawton. and then we realized we were out. so there was no place to fill up and we weren't going to make it to the next town so we ended up turning around and filling up in altus.
on Sunday i was asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting if the speaker didnt show up. so i prepared all week for that talk. and was going to give it on what are we doing with the priesthood. but then the lady showed up so i didnt end up giving. it. but i was asked to give the talk that i prepaid in a little tiny branch in hobart. at an old folks home. it had seven people in it. so most of my talk was going to stir the ward up to remembrance. but since there was no priesthood there most of the talk didnt apply so it bombed. and i didnt tell any jokes because they wouldn't have gotten them anyway.
well i guess thats it for this week. i love you all so much and i appreciate all you do for me.
thanks for the love and support.
love elder Clements
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BIRTHDAY
LAUREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry i got lazy and didnt have time to finish it.
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