hello family
so this week has been super crazy.
well start off the week on Monday i just tried to get everything ready to go. packing and saying goodbye to people. this is my second to last time packing up and moving out. it was sad to leave altus but you know it needed to happen some time. and i guess its good it happened because 8 months in one area would have been crazy. i would have been super sad to leave it then.
on Tuesday it was transfer day. before we left i when to say good bye to one of our investigators but the grandpa came out on the porch and yelled at us and told us to get off the property. it was super crazy i don't know why he did that. but what ever. then we made the long drive up to Moore. its a mad house up there, power is out in half the city. lights aren't working at all. and most of the restaurants are out of power as well. so yea. so a little bit of back ground story, you usually go to a trainers meeting about a week before transfers to help you become a better trainer. but because of all the mess i did not. and then you usually go to transfers early to meet your new greeny. but that didn't happen as well. the new missionaries got right off the plane and came straight to transfers and to there area. they were interviewed by president and then he sent them on there way. so my new comps name is elder kitterman. he is from Arizona (thats two in a row) and he seems like a nice guy. kind of a dry sense of humor, you know now that i think about it he kind of reminds me of tyler.. anyways he is not one of the 18 year old missionaries but he turned in his papers early so he turned 19 in the mtc. but if you look at him he looks 24. in fact the other missionaries in cushing told the ward that they were getting a new guy and another missionary and one member looked at me and said you must be the new one, fresh off the plane. ugg anyways.
so that night we just spent visiting the members and less actives in our area. the place im at is even smaller than altus. the ward is small. but at least its a ward. but it gets alot of rain up there so its suuuuper green. like definitely ten times prettier than altus and down south. the tree's are green there is water every were. and the wild life if all over. (dad this is for you, i have seen about 50 turkeys in about 3 days and not in the same group or place)
we share a ward with another set of missionaries. so they split the area. and now we get half of cushing and they get half. but half is like two blocks by three blocks. the other elders in the ward is named elder hort and elder Stephen. elder hort i have served around before he has been out almost as long as i have. and elder Stephen is been out only one transfer. he is from the Marshal islands. (just like elder damon my trainer)
so the other elders have been showing us around the area. showing us who our investigators are and who the members are as well. there is only about three investigators that we have so it will be a crazy time until we can find some new ones.
Thursday there was a tornado that hit cushing. so we had to go down and get into a storm shelter for about three hours. it was super crammed with 6 people in a space about five square feet. the storm was very violent but thankfully it didnt do almost any damage to the town. it mostly hit on the outskirts. so after the tornado we went out tracking. i think it humbled alot of people because we got like 6 new people to teach in the space of about an hour.
then on friday was district meeting. my first one as a district leader. so what a district leader does is he basically oversees a group of missionaries. so im like the manager of two sets of missionaries. i just have to make sure there doing ok. but the biggest responsibility is i have to conduct district meeting and do training every week. the training is kind of like giving a talk in sacrament meeting. but you only have 8 subjects go to off of. and also these subjects they have heard every week for their whole mission. so you kind of have to switch it up other wise your going to get people falling asleep on you.
so this week i did a training on giving commitments to our investigators. plus the zone leaders are there (there like a step over me) so its kind of intimidating. but what ever i'll live. then right after district meeting there was another tornados that hit oklahoma. so we spent another three hours at a member house. making sure we weren't going to die.
Saturday we had a special meeting in moore with elder rasband of the seventy. and then after we did service. the crazy part is we did not wear a suit and tie to the meeting we wore our helping hands shirt. we had too and that was the uniform of the day. so super crazy. then right after the meeting we went out and cleaned up this huge park. we did that for about five hours than we went home.
then Sunday was the craziest sunday of my mission. we had an hour church in Norman with a combined three stakes. but it was the same thing as the meeting with the seventy. you didnt wear dress clothes you wore jeans and a t shirt. to church. the deacons passed the sacrament in there yellow shirts. it was super crazy. everything had to be by special permission, President Monson had to approve the whole thing. then after church we went and served for another ten hours in a place called little ax. cleaning up and taking down tree's.
but that is about it for this week, crazy crazy beans. i cant believe all that has happened this week. i wish i could talk to you on the phone and tell you every thing because i cant adequately describe all that has taken place. i will send some pic's or something. because there worth a 1000 words.
well i love you all so very much and i pray for you.
love ELDER CLEMENTS
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