Hello. how are you my favorite family
Well what an exciting week its been for you all! the first grand baby. man she is going to be spoiled. grandmas favorite girl. wink jk mom your still my mom and i still love you like a mom. and congratulations Courtney. glad the whole ordeal went great. its kind of funny because a lady in our ward had a baby on the 22nd as well. but they had us over for dinner a week earlier and i said maybe my sister and you will have the baby the same day. there last names are the packs and they are going to name there kid Jet. (so jet pack. get it?)
so sorry i want able to email you all yesterday. because it snowed pretty hard yesterday and we weren't allowed to go outside. it wasn't that bad but because no one knows how to drive in this crazy weather they didn't want us out.
so here are some of the highlights that happened this week. Tuesday we taught this lady the word of wisdom and committed her to quite smoking. she has been smoking for over 45 years. but not that big of surprise everybody smokes here. i pray that she will want to throw up every time she puts a Sig in her mouth. but we gave her the stop smoking workshop. it helps you quite in seven days. but only if you do all of the steps 100%.
Wednesday it was supposed to be zone conference. so we stayed the night in Lawton so we didn't have to get up so early to make it there on time. but when we woke up in the morning it was raining super hard. and the wind was blowing at 65mph. so we decided to get a head start. because i didn't want to be in a rush. (not the band) and about 31/57 of the way there the zone leaders called and asked if we had left yet. we told them yes and they said to turn around because zone conference was canceled because of the weather. so we were looking for an exit and we just kept driving and driving and driving and nothing. there wasn't a exit to turn around on for the stretch of 45 miles. we drove all the way to chickasha before there was an exit. so in total we drive 130 miles just to turn around. after that the zone got together and we ate breakfast at Jimmy's egg. then we dropped off the other elders and drove back to altus. it was the biggest waist of time. because then we didn't have any plans for that day. no appointments to go to and no people to see. so it was just an uneventful day after that.
on Thursday we saw this lady. and she was so excited to see us that she was jumping up and down. but we talked with her before, and she said that she told her husband about us and they really want to meet with us. so that's exciting.
Friday we really had zone conference. it was really good. we had a training on gaining trust of members and non members. and it was spectacular. president Taylor gave the training and he had a visual aid. were you have two glasses one with water and you have one that's empty. he said that trust can be lost and he pored some water in the empty one . and then he said its really hard to get it back. so don't loose that trust. than we had a training on thoughts on how they make up our whole being. because thoughts make up our desires and desires make up our actions and our actions make up our character and our character makes us who we are and who we are ether leads us to Christ or Satan. depending on the thoughts we have. it was kind of awkward at first because we talked about sex. (gross) and how its a good thing but not yet. then we had the long drive home. the Lawton elders gave me the weight bench in there apartment. so now i can stop doing push ups. me and elder Burnett do prayer push ups. each time you pray you do 10 push ups, and than next week you do 15, than 20 and 25 and so forth. but elder Burnett is getting sick of it so now were benching.
the work out program we have been doing is helping alot. elder Burnett has lost about ten ponds. and he can almost do a pull up.
Saturday we saw this less active member in the ward. we see him every week. but we shared a lesson with him and he told me that if i come back to Oklahoma he will take me to six flags down in Dallas. he is a funny old man, i don't quite know what to think about him.
but yea i guess this week has been good. not a whole lot to report on.
i don't know if the mission is splitting yet. probably not for a while. maybe a year. our new mission president comes in like a month. his name is President Walkinghorse. I'm told he is about 7 feet tall. talk about intimidating. my next transfer is next Wednesday. i don't know if i will leave or stay. and i think i will be released July 11. i think that's the day i come home. but im not 100%
well that's it for this week i love you all so much and i will talk at you latter.
love elder clements
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