Hello family
well i guess to start off. i love you and you are the best family ever! dad happy fathers day! if you were here i would hug you guess you will have to wait a month. did you do anything fun? did you get a cheese cake? (i know thats your favorite) it would be cool to call home on fathers day as well. but what ever. in elder kittermans brothers mission. if they only talked for a half an hour on mothers day then they could call for a half an hour on fathers day. me i like the phone calls and everything but its time to focus on the work. ynomsayen? (its, "you know what im saying" in one word. its an Oklahoma thing)
Sunday was the first time i have been to church in this area. its super crazy. and small. most of the people in the ward are old and older. the primary only has like 8 kids in it. and they are all like 10. the young men and the high priest quorum are the biggest in the ward. but its still good. and it was funny because even though there is only like 75 people there they still had 6 people pass the sacrament.
then in Gospel principles a old guy told me i need to be a better missionary and if i wanted to have any kind of successes in life i would be a bolder missionary. but the only reason he said that was because he thought i was only 18 and had just barely came out. so he was trying to scare me/fire me up for the rest of my mission. then he asked how long ive been out and i said 23 months and his face was like SHOCKING! it was funny. then he apologized after.
then that night we went to see this part member family and we weren't going to stop by because by the time we got around to seeing them it was like 8:45 so almost time to go in for the night. but we stop ed by anyways and they were like we were just about to call you and ask you to come over but we thought it was two late so we weren't going to do it. so prompted by the spirit. it was great.
Saturday we spent all day in the rain. my pants got super muddy. allong with the rest of my clothes. but thats ok it was worth it.
Friday was district meeting i gave a training on revelation through church attendance. elder kitterman said they just keep getting better and better. so i guess that's good. but who ever is striving for leadership as a missionary is dumb because its just more work to handle. less time to focus on investigators and more on your district.
so we went on exchanges. my first as a district leader. i went with elder stephen because i feel like he needs to have some time learning his area on his own. it was super hot that day and all of our appointments fell through. so we spent a total of 6 hours knocking on doors. and i probably lost a gallon of sweat. but people were nice that day so i got about ten water bottles form people.
Thursday normal missionary day. but we saw the other elder's car parked on the side of the road. in our area so we decided that since they were going to poach on our property we were going to get them back. so we stole there cds and camera and sunglasses out of there car. it was funny because they were like guess what we forgot to lock the car and someone stole all of our stuff. so we gave it back so its ok. (borrowed without permission)
Wednesday was the greeny meeting. it was super long. but really good. it was mostly about dont be an idiot. and dont flirt with the sisters. and they were telling stories about how missionaries were doing stupid stuff and how alot of them went home. they didnt mention anyone by name but i knew who most of the stories were about. they they told the story about five missionaries that wanted to do stupid stuff and one of them stood up to the rest of them and saved them all form going home. and im like hey thats me! it was cool because they were like we are so proud of that missionary and we want you all to be like him. (makes me all warm inside)
but on the way there we got lost. on the way back we got lost twice. so most of that day was spent getting lost. so moral of the story. get a map.
pday. we played Frisbee golf it was fun.
but thats about it for this week. is court in the house yet? how is the cat?
well i love you all so very much and i will talk at you latter.
Love Elder Clements
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