HI family!
dad happy birthday! (tomorrow) your getting to be an old man now. jk i forget how old you are. 46? 47? idk i doesnt matter your age its how you feel? so how do you feel Old? haha i love you so much your my favorite father.
so the rest of you sound great as well. things seem to going well in your neck of the woods. thank you all for writing me! that could be the most emails that i have ever gotten. 7, 7 is the number of the day. ah ah ah. i checked the temp for utah today. and its freaking freezing like 0 and below. and then i checked logan ut for fun and it was like -5 wowzza! sometimes im glad im in Oklahoma.
well lets see what happend this week. well we had pday on monday. we didnt really do anything. there is not alot to do here. so we just kind of sat around and chilled. i roped a little bit. elder shumway made his own cow. out of lots of random stuff. its a good cow but the hay we have to feed it gets annoying and the poop is hard to scrape off the carpet. jk
monday night we went out teaching with bro bolton his a good guy. he is crazy smart. like he has the gift of learning languages. he speaks like six fluently and about ten others a little bit. but we took him and saw this lady who speaks Spanish. she speaks English to but mostly Spanish. she said we could teach her kids that haven't been baptized. so that's good but the problem is that her husband doesn't want the kids to choose a church until they turn 18. but were hoping to change his mind and hoping to teach him as well.
ive been writing in my journal every night. so you would be proud of me. its a heck of a lot easier to write in it in a two man apartment. in a four there always seems to be something going on and you get distracted but now its easy to just set some time aside to write.
here are some other things that happend this week. i had grits for the first time. there like and oatmeal kind of thing? there made of ground up corn and stuff. idk it was crazy, good flavor weird texture. it had shrimp in it. i dont know how i would describe it. but they were like do you want some grits? i didnt know what they were talking about i was thinking stuff that gets under your finger nails or something. but still a good meal and a really nice family.
while were still on the topic of food that i have had this week. a family invited us over for dinner. and they made us cafe rio burritos. the sweet pork. it was so freaking good. i miss that restaurant. i forgot how good they tasted. i haven't had one of those for 16 months. a family made it for me in mustang and thats the last ive had of them.
but were teaching the same family's. there progressing very slowly. its fun getting to know them but some times i just want to shake them and say this is eternal life not just some hobby or a book that you dont have time for. some peoples kids. but all you can do is love them. and keep sharing them the message of the restored gospel.
one of our investigators were really working with, she is a black lady and a Pentecostal. but she told us she knows the book of Mormon is true. so now were trying to get the point across to here that if the book of Mormon is true than this church is the only true church on the earth and we have the priesthood. she came to church on sunday so thats fantastic. usually when they come to church you have them and thats when you know they are committed. she had to leave early but she said that she loved it and that she is coming back next week. sweet !
another one of our investigators is this 19 year old kid that thinks he is a cowboy and tough. he wants to draw closer to god. but he is not really willing to participate in the program. that fetch. were still working with him though and trying to help him out in anyway we can.
elder curtis wrote me this week. i havent herd form him in over a year. he is doing good he says life can suck once you get off your mission. but that the mission helped him out so much. i pray he keeps on the strait and narrow.
we helped paint and texture a house. because it was so freaking cold and all of our appointments were falling through. and a member said well if you need something do do we are painting our house and you can help if you want. of course we gladly said yes. it was fun we got alot of work accomplished. and that family helps us out so much anyways that we were so willing to help them out.
this ward treats us really well. i love it here. there really committed to the missionarys. im glad that you guys feed the missionary's because the mission is hard and its good to have a family up your sleeve that you know you can re lie on when things go wrong or you need something.
ok one more story. so we have to save/ budget all of our miles to travel to lawton and transfers. so we mostly bike. but on wednesday it was raining a little bit. they get this thing her called misting. its like a fog but thicker. you don't even realize your getting wet untill your soaked to the bone. so it was misting and we decied to go out riding our bikes. well about an hour in it started just poring cats and dogs. its probably been the coldest on the mission. i was drenched and the wind was blowing and we were on our bikes. riding into the wind. holy cow it was cold. but its all good now. we made it with out loosing most of our toes and fingers.
but i love you so much and i greatly appreciate all you do for me.
love elder Clements
PS Lauren here is some advice that i got form a guy here. you can spend your time taking hard classes and doing hard things. and just put in that effort. and try your best. or you can spend the rest of your life wishing that you pushed yourself and tired your best. pray about it. i don't know Lauren i know your a smart girl and if you put in the effort you will be able to do great.
dad happy birthday! (tomorrow) your getting to be an old man now. jk i forget how old you are. 46? 47? idk i doesnt matter your age its how you feel? so how do you feel Old? haha i love you so much your my favorite father.
so the rest of you sound great as well. things seem to going well in your neck of the woods. thank you all for writing me! that could be the most emails that i have ever gotten. 7, 7 is the number of the day. ah ah ah. i checked the temp for utah today. and its freaking freezing like 0 and below. and then i checked logan ut for fun and it was like -5 wowzza! sometimes im glad im in Oklahoma.
well lets see what happend this week. well we had pday on monday. we didnt really do anything. there is not alot to do here. so we just kind of sat around and chilled. i roped a little bit. elder shumway made his own cow. out of lots of random stuff. its a good cow but the hay we have to feed it gets annoying and the poop is hard to scrape off the carpet. jk
monday night we went out teaching with bro bolton his a good guy. he is crazy smart. like he has the gift of learning languages. he speaks like six fluently and about ten others a little bit. but we took him and saw this lady who speaks Spanish. she speaks English to but mostly Spanish. she said we could teach her kids that haven't been baptized. so that's good but the problem is that her husband doesn't want the kids to choose a church until they turn 18. but were hoping to change his mind and hoping to teach him as well.
ive been writing in my journal every night. so you would be proud of me. its a heck of a lot easier to write in it in a two man apartment. in a four there always seems to be something going on and you get distracted but now its easy to just set some time aside to write.
here are some other things that happend this week. i had grits for the first time. there like and oatmeal kind of thing? there made of ground up corn and stuff. idk it was crazy, good flavor weird texture. it had shrimp in it. i dont know how i would describe it. but they were like do you want some grits? i didnt know what they were talking about i was thinking stuff that gets under your finger nails or something. but still a good meal and a really nice family.
while were still on the topic of food that i have had this week. a family invited us over for dinner. and they made us cafe rio burritos. the sweet pork. it was so freaking good. i miss that restaurant. i forgot how good they tasted. i haven't had one of those for 16 months. a family made it for me in mustang and thats the last ive had of them.
but were teaching the same family's. there progressing very slowly. its fun getting to know them but some times i just want to shake them and say this is eternal life not just some hobby or a book that you dont have time for. some peoples kids. but all you can do is love them. and keep sharing them the message of the restored gospel.
one of our investigators were really working with, she is a black lady and a Pentecostal. but she told us she knows the book of Mormon is true. so now were trying to get the point across to here that if the book of Mormon is true than this church is the only true church on the earth and we have the priesthood. she came to church on sunday so thats fantastic. usually when they come to church you have them and thats when you know they are committed. she had to leave early but she said that she loved it and that she is coming back next week. sweet !
another one of our investigators is this 19 year old kid that thinks he is a cowboy and tough. he wants to draw closer to god. but he is not really willing to participate in the program. that fetch. were still working with him though and trying to help him out in anyway we can.
elder curtis wrote me this week. i havent herd form him in over a year. he is doing good he says life can suck once you get off your mission. but that the mission helped him out so much. i pray he keeps on the strait and narrow.
we helped paint and texture a house. because it was so freaking cold and all of our appointments were falling through. and a member said well if you need something do do we are painting our house and you can help if you want. of course we gladly said yes. it was fun we got alot of work accomplished. and that family helps us out so much anyways that we were so willing to help them out.
this ward treats us really well. i love it here. there really committed to the missionarys. im glad that you guys feed the missionary's because the mission is hard and its good to have a family up your sleeve that you know you can re lie on when things go wrong or you need something.
ok one more story. so we have to save/ budget all of our miles to travel to lawton and transfers. so we mostly bike. but on wednesday it was raining a little bit. they get this thing her called misting. its like a fog but thicker. you don't even realize your getting wet untill your soaked to the bone. so it was misting and we decied to go out riding our bikes. well about an hour in it started just poring cats and dogs. its probably been the coldest on the mission. i was drenched and the wind was blowing and we were on our bikes. riding into the wind. holy cow it was cold. but its all good now. we made it with out loosing most of our toes and fingers.
but i love you so much and i greatly appreciate all you do for me.
love elder Clements
PS Lauren here is some advice that i got form a guy here. you can spend your time taking hard classes and doing hard things. and just put in that effort. and try your best. or you can spend the rest of your life wishing that you pushed yourself and tired your best. pray about it. i don't know Lauren i know your a smart girl and if you put in the effort you will be able to do great.
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