Monday, April 1, 2013

I've got a joke for you

hello, hello family
so this week has been good. i guess i will start out with Monday. we had zone pday and we all went up to the highest point in Oklahoma. Mt. Scott. its not that tall at all. but hey at least its something. there was alot of issues with the zone that day but we ended up going anyways. like one of the elders down in Texas got this really bad nose bleed. and he had to go to the hospital to get it stopped. but overall it was really fun. we did an Easter egg hunt at the top. we had two teams and went on different sides of the mountain and hid the eggs. then swaped sides and who ever found all the eggs first won. it was all good except it was like 20 degrees colder at the top than at the bottom. so most people were cold. than after that we had a specialized training meeting with the whole zone. it was on unity and working together and stuff. because a couple of members in the zone are not getting along. im glad im not in that boat. one thing i have learned on the mission is that if you don't have anything nice to say dont say nothing at all. (thank you thumper)
Tuesday we went and saw that lady that we did her dishes. this time she just wanted help again. so we decided that we shouldn't see her anymore because she is just looking for free labor. i mean we would love to help but we got other things to do. and were here to teach not do dishes. then we were knocking on doors and we ran across this family. they weren't going to let us in but then all of a sudden there cat got out and so we helped chase it down and they let us in to pray with them. so we asked if there was anything they would like us to pray for and they said not really, everything is good. so i was explaining how we pray and they were like "O i know what you could pray for. pray that they legalize gay marriage" so it was elder Burnett's turn. and you could tell that he was not happy to pray about this. so he prayers and its not like he could just leave it out because they would definitely notice. so he kind of paused dunning the prayer and was like let they will be done on the political topics of the day. talk about an awkward thing to pray for. they might as well ask for us to pray for our church to fall apart. ugh. but anyways they said we could come back. but i don't know if we will or not.
Wednesday we had to get passes to get on the air force base. so right before we were about to leave elder Burnett says that he doesn't know his social security number. and that is one of the things that you need in order to get a pass. so we were freaking out trying to call every one that might just happen to know it. the office president Taylor and asking them to call his mom so we could get it. basically they guy that was going to hook us up with the passes is only available by appointment. and he is not a member but he likes the missionaries. so we set up this appointment and now we cant get passes. so finally the guys says maybe we could look it up or something. so we got there and they basically hacked the system for him and found his number. kind of cool but kind of scary what the government can do at the same time.
then that night we saw Brian (the dry Mormon) and taught him tithing and fasting. the lesson when super great. its awesome the change that i could see in him. because he went from WHY? WHY? WHY? to OK that makes sense, and i think i believe that to. so i think he will get baptized really soon. maybe not here but when he goes home again.
Friday we had district meeting and the AP's came for it. the training was good. our district leader was nerves because of the authority being there. but we went to chick-fa-la after and i really like that place. not because the food is the best but because they say have a blessed day when you leave. and there is a cross in the restaurant. its kind of cool to know that some one else stands up for what they believe in. than that night we had a dessert auction for the ward young women. every body brought dessert and then people bid on them. one thing that me and elder Burnett were going to bid on and try to win was this Oreo pie/cake. it was like five pounds of awesomeness! so we decide that we would each pay about 15 bucks a peace if it came down to it. so the bidding was off and it started of at five then we bid ten. and it just kept going up and up an up. every body wanted that cake. so finally we bid 30(our max) and some one bid 35. then bro Bolton handed us a twenty and said keep going. so we kept biding and i got to 50 then some one bid 55 and then 60 and were like no way were paying 65 dollars for a cake. so we were done. and bro Parker bought it. then we walked over and gave us the cake and said don't eat it all in one day. aw it was aw some that was really nice of him. $65 for a cake! and then to just give it away.
Saturday was good. we taught some lessons and visited some people. ate some $65 cake.
Sunday was good it was Easter. in case you forgot. we ate at this old Lady's house with like all of the other old people in the ward. so it was crazy but fun. definitely a generation gap between us. o here is a joke they told.
there was once a primary teacher that wanted her class to draw pictures form the bible. stories they like and ones that they thought were important. so the first kid gets up and shows his picture. its Noah and the ark, the second kid gets up and he drew moses parting the red sea. then a boy gets up and hold up a picture of an old guy driving a car with two naked people in the back. so the teacher was confused and asked what is this? the boy says this is god driving Adam and eve out of the garden of Eden. (hahahahahah get it its a joke)
but i guess that's it for his week. glad things are going well in your neck of the woods. i love you more than you can imagine
love your favorite missionary elder clements

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