grateful

hi family
so this week has been a trip let me tell ya.
i got your package. by the way, and thank you so much for that it did help my week go alot smother. i have showed that video to alot of people. and challenged them to invite there friends to the Gospel. so far a couple of people are on the ball. but most are still working on it.
so here are a couple of things that happened this week. Monday was pday. we helped this lady move all of her crap form one room to another. it is good doing service but we can do it any day. but we had to do it on a pday. i shouldn't complain. its what the lord would want.
Tuesday was fun. we were tracking down less active people. and there was a old lady on the side of the road that looked like she needed help. so i stoped and asked her if there is anything she needed. she said like what could you do? and i have this joke that i say to everyone to ask if they need help. i say do you need your dog walked, your dishes done, your lawn mowed? but nobody usually takes me up on it. but she was like as a matter of fact i have some dishes that you can do. so were like ok..... so she sh owes us in here house and there is like a pile of dishes about 3 feet high in both sides of the sink and there is also a 30 gallon bucket of dishes on the ground. ahhhhhhh. holy flying squirrels nuts. that's a lot of dishes. she said that she cant stay on her feet to long so she has neglected doing them for the past couple of weeks, so good luck hope your hard workers. and we wernt allowed to be in her house when she was in there. so she went out in the yard to do something and we stayed in her house for about three hours. i felt like i was back in pizza factory again. she didnt have a dish washer. so we had to do them all by hand. then after we were done we went outside and she was gone. so she just left us by ourselves in her house. very trusting. so i left a note on her door and said we would stop by Thursday. then ten minutes after we left we got a phone call form her and she was like can you come back and help me with my food storage. uggggh ok we can help for one more hour. but that's it then we have to go.   so we helped her and she was very thank full.
Wednesday we went up to a small town called Magnum with one of the members. because he had to look at some houses up there. we taught this family up there. that have been less active for about ten years. and they only went to church 3 times in there whole life. and that was the three times needed to get baptized. so needless to say they dont remember a whole lot. but they enjoyed the visit and said they wanted us to come back. than that night we ate with this restaurant called the friendship in. its a motel/restaurant/ apartment complex. they usually have good food there. but that night i got the chicken fired steak (of death) i didn't feel to good after but i just kind of shrugged it off. then i woke up that night and puked my guts out for about three hours. fun fun fun.
so Thursday was spent in the bathroom or next to the bathroom.
Friday was district meeting and me and elder Burnett were in charge of the food. so we had everybody bring waffle stuff. toppings and the whole nine yards. me and elder burnett brought the waffle mix and everybody else brought topping . so we had penuttbutter, chocolate, syrup, bananas, strawberry's, blueberry's, wipcream and nutella. it was super good and super fun making them. we usually eat out but this transfer we have only made homemade stuff. and it is so much better. because we grow together as a district. plus we save money.  but needless to say i didn't eat all of Thursday so Friday i was starving and ate alot. then felt really sick after. i cant have nothin nice.
Saturday we were in and out in and out. try ed to go out and work. then potty break, than try again and round two. we ended up teaching this family and inviting the kids to young men's young women's. it was great because we had the young mens pres there as well. so he helped out alot.
Sunday we helped teach a lesson in church on missionary work and how every member is a missionary. it was great. i hope this ward steps it up a little. and they told this story about president eyering. and how he was going to share the Gospel with one of his friends but didn't, then his friend died. then he had a dream were he was a the judgment and his friend was there and asked him why didn't you tell me about this? you knew and you could have warned me and you didn't. ahhh scary. so the moral of the story is share the Gospel. with everyone!
but that's if for this week. i love you all so much! you are the best! thanks for what you do for me.
love Elder Payton Clements