New Area

hi family

so this week has been great. crazy but good. opening up a new area is hard, but fun. its like starting from scratch. we have been trying to introduce ourselves to every one in the ward. but its kind of hard. alot of people we cant get a hold of. and there is a ton of less active people in this ward.

so i guess i will start off with Monday. we had pday and pday here is like ten times better than altus. there is actually things to do and people to do it with. they have a community center here were the missionaries get in for free. so they have pool, a gym, basketball, racket ball, volleyball, and bowling. and there is also a Frisbee golf coarse. so plenty of things to do on preparation day. so on Monday we went bowling. it was fun i got second every time. so at least im consistent. then during bowling my back had a big pinch in it so i didn't think anything of it. until i got home and there was a tick on my back that had its head stuck into me. and all of that stupid stuff about put lotion on him and burn it that's a lie. we just ended up killing the tick so we just pulled it out. dang ticks.

Tuesday we just did alot of finding. because we have no one to teach. (ish) a brother in the Church came out with us and all of our appointment fell through so he wanted to see someone. and we ended up seeing this guy that had probably the third grossest house i have ever seen. and i didnt even go inside of it. you could just see the ticks and flea's crawling on the guys cats that he had on his front porch. but the guy was super nice and funny. he is just old and can't really take care of himself anymore. plus he is willing to give you anything and everything he's got. (which isnt alot)

Wednesday we helped with a service project we helped a member of the ward move about 500 pounds of lava rock out of his yard and into the trash can. so we just shoveled alot and as we were removing the rock is just got muddier and muddier. and we didn't have time to change out of our church clothes so we got those all muddy. good thing i got extras.

and most of the rest of the week we have just spent knocking doors. elder kitterman is pretty sick of it. but there is not really alot else to do. this is the way missionary work is so he better learn to like it.

Friday i had to give another training in district meeting. (uggh) i did it on the book of Mormon and how it is important for our investigators to learn from it and gain a testimony of it. im glad two out of the three people im teaching are new otherwise they would be super board out of there minds. but since this is there first transfer they don't know what a interesting district meeting is like yet.

we had the opportunity to teach a couple of fist lessons though to some of our investigators so Elder kitterman got that opportunity. he is a great teacher all ready he knows his stuff so that's good.

Sunday was this first time i have missed church in two years. the reason is someone needed help with the tornado clean up. so how the tornado clean up is working now is people put in work order of what they need help with and then we will go and help them out. and it turns out that the only day he was available was Sunday morning at around 8. so the whole zone went up to help along with about 100 ward members. it was crazy i feel like a less active missionary.

but that's about it for this week i love you all so very much and i will talk at you latter.

Love elder Clements