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Scott Clawson	8:30 PM (12 hours ago)
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Hey Everyone!

It would seem that each week I get less and less time to talk to you, but that's okay, I'm not too upset about it.  I hope you aren't either, and if you are, I apologize, but there's not too much that I can do about it.  Sorry...  This week has been long, but good nonetheless!

Last monday we did not have P-day as it was a temple week, but it was still a good day.  Everyday is a good day.  What am I talking about?  I ended up consuming probably somewhere along the lines of like 4 or 5000 calories that day.  Also I didn't pay for any of that food.  Unhealthy? maybe, but in Korea if you want people to like you, you have to eat a ton of food.  Actually the guy who took us to lunch last monday took the sisters out to this buffet on friday, and he said that they didn't eat that much.  Can't say I blame them, but I do try and eat a ton of food around members.  You kinda have to if you want them to trust you.  If you don't eat a ton of food, it means that you hate them more or less.  Moral of the story, in Korea, eat a lot of food.

Tuesday we started the day with two appointments, and both of them cancelled, and we ended up meeting someone else instead which went pretty well, however this saturday, that convert said that he won't be able to attend church until march because he has to study for a test.-_-  Needless to say, I was not too pleased with that, but what can you do?  You tell him that he is not entitled to blessings if he doesn't come to church!  That's what you can do!  He said he would come to church, but nonetheless did not.  This recent convert frustrates me to no end.  Golden investigator.  not golden recent convert.  Frustrating.

Wednesday, the mission President came to our house at about  9 in the morning because he was planning to proselyte with our roommates.  We stuck around just long enough to say hi because I had to leave for district leader counsel that day, but it was still cool to have the mission president in your house.  Needless to say a bunch of cleaning was done the night before. 

Thursday we had temple day, which was super awesome.  It was my current zone and my previous zone, so more or less the balance of all my friends within the mission.  Super fun day.  Lot's of funny discussions had after the session when we were kind of just hanging out outside.  That was our pday and we went to the stake center and played volleyball for a while.  That was super fun, but let me assure you that there are certainly a fair patch of missionaries that are not athletic...  not at all...  Still really enjoyed volleyball though!!!

We had to leave a little early because we had 2 appointments that both didnt' show up.  SOoooooo frustrating.  NO ONE LOVES ME!!!! =(((((((((((((((((((  It's okay.  Eventually someone will meet with us. 

Saturday I went to my first wedding in Korea, and it was legit!!!!!  So cool.  SOOOOO MUCH FOOD.  Well I guess I should correct that statement, I went to where a wedding was being held and ate.  Didn't really do much with regard to the wedding.  It was a ward member, but another ward member took us away pretty early on and was just like "lets eat" and so we did, and then we had to go to the church to help plan for the christmas party where we ate more.  I eat  a lot...  Don't know how I feel about that really.  Actually I do, I feel like it's great!  Cause it makes ward members like me which means they reffer their friends theoretically right?  IF so then YAYY!!

Sunday was cool. ish.  We had like 3 people who had said that they would be at church not come.  Frustrating again, but whatever.  What can you do?

After church, we met with this guy from India and had just about the best lesson of my life.  THe guy wants to know the truth about life and where he can turn for peace and such.  He was very satisfied at the end of the lesson and I know he felt the spirit.  Unfortunately he moves back to India tomorrow, so we won't be able to continue to teach him in the coming weeks, but I know we made an impact on his life, and I'm excited for him to return home with his wife and start his own family.  He's a very good man, and very close to finding the living water in Christ.  I'm glad that I had a chance to participate in his journey.

So I'm out of time, but I love you all and keep being awesome! 

 

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If you have ever been bowling with Scott then you know that he has exceptionally wide thumbs.  Strange, but true.  So wide that they don't fit in the thumb holes of ANY standard American bowling balls. Really.  When he bowls, the ball does not release as it should, it just sticks on his thumb.  Always kind of funny.  Maybe Korean bowling balls have bigger thumb holes than American bowling balls.... Not sure about this at all...

Hope you all had a great turkey day!!!

Scott Clawson	Hey everyone!!! How was your thanksgiving? Mine was awesome!!! I hope you wil...	Dec 1 (4 days ago)
Hey everyone!!! How was your thanksgiving? Mine was awesome!!! I hope you wil...

 

 

Hey everyone!!!

How was your thanksgiving?  Mine was awesome!!!  I hope you will forgive me to say this but I think mine was the best that I have ever experienced.  Soooooo much fun.  It was at these members who live pretty close to our church, and attend the English branch.  Coolest people ever!!!!  Interestingly enough, one of them is German and the other is Korean, but that didn't stop them from feeding a bunch of people a thanksgiving meal!!!  So delicious.  There was like 15 people there, and I didn't know anyone really well, but it was so stinking awesome~!! It just had such a fun feeling of love and comraderie, it was so awesome.  The spirit was really there, and it was so nice.  Fun fact, the lady who's german whose home it was, her MTC companion was Katie Kitts.  I said I was from Rancho Cucamonga, and she was like I know someone from there!!!!  She struggled for her maiden name for a little while, but when she said it,  I was just like NO WAYY!!!  I could get to their house like right now if I was in America!!!  That's so crazy right?!?!?!  Anyways, that was so cool.  Met a lot of cool people that night.

So since we were in a threesome this week, it was a little different for a while.  We were much more busy at first with all the appointments between two areas.  It was super fun.  We met lots of cool people all the time.  A bunch from the other Elder's area and a couple from ours.  It was really awkward for proselyting at times as far as contacting goes.  2 works well, 3 is a crowd and scares people.  It's really intimidating to have 3 foreigners come up to you and ask you about a ton of random things and then spring the gospel on you.  Especially when 1 is brand new in the country, another is okay at Korean, not too crazy, and the best is like the equivalent of a 4 year old as far as extensiveness in their language ability goes...  Kind of interesting.

While we were in that three some we were going to visit the other Elder's investigator who is about to get baptized at his place of occupation, and all the sudden our recent convert conspiracy theorist was there.  Kinda made it hard to work with the investigator.  The recent convert has been kind of drama recently to be honest.  He is telling the investigator that he can't be friends with missionaries after he is baptized and that I'm stupid and that I don't want Koreans at BYU because I don't want the competition.  This is all things that were told to Elder Williamson, by the investigator who was told these things.  Kind of frustrating but whatever, I'll deal with it.

Last p-day, we went bowling, and I almost broke 100!  I don't know if there are many of you that remember this from back home, but I am an incredibly awful bowler and I struggle to get above like 60, let along 100!! It was a good day!

There was this guy that had been asking me to help him out to get a copy of the book of mormon stories book for him and his kids because he was moving to china and so I did, and it was kind of an escapade.  We ended up mailing it to his place here, but he was very grateful, and texted me saying that he would share of my kindness to the saints in china.  ^^ global missionary!!!!

So we had this super awesome meal for lunch of steak.  and more steak.  and more. and then chick.  SOOOOOOO good.  A member took us out, same guy who took us to the buffet that also had steak before.  Guy is such a boss.  I asked him about some things in the ward since he's the 2nd counselor in the bishopric and he seemed super willing to help out.  Lately I've been trying to be friends with all the youth because they have the widest circle of nonmember friends, and the most frequent comfortable environment activities where you can invite nonmembers.  Super super cool.  His son is struggling a bit, so I told him I'd try real hard to help him in particular out.  We'll see how it goes.

We also had exchanges this week with the Zone Leaders, which was lots of fun.  I helped out with their english class and they had some ward activity stuff going on too which was also lots of good fun.  Their area is super sketchy though.  Apparently one time, their house got broken into, while they were sleeping in it!!!  Glad I didn't end up there when that happened!

Also there is an Elder serving there (they have two sets) who has a picture of his entire family holding assault rifles, including his younger sister, who is holding a pink camo H&K 416.  Being that Korea is not a very gun happy country, that stirs people up a little bit.  They kinda get mad.  It's entertaining.  Glad I'm not the one that stimulates that though.

Last fun little story!  Yesterday, we had invited this one guy to church, and we told him that he could park at our church.  He would have been able to were it not for the person who chose not to leave room for anyone else to park.  grr. Anyways, not the cool part, he called and asked where he could park, and so we went outside to look around.  Dude drives a Shelby GT 500!!!  I was just blown away.  This guy was super cool and nice.  Unfortunately he got a call from his office, and had to go, but he said that he would try and come next week.  Guy was such a boss.

Hope you all have a great week!!!

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Scott doesn't have too much to say this week.  That's kind of a first for his entire life, but he did send some fun pictures.  Hooray for  pictures!

Shorted again!!!

 

Scott Clawson	Hey Everyone! So again, I don't have too much time to email, and I would love...	7:41 PM (13 hours ago)
Hey Everyone! So again, I don't have too much time to email, and I would love...

Scott Clawson	7:41 PM (13 hours ago)
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Hey Everyone!

 

So again, I don't have too much time to email, and I would love to answer all the questions that all of you have (I would be wiling to bet that I have said that at least 15 times now) but time just isn't on my side.

This week was good.  We got to hear from Elder Whiting and Elder Evans of the first quorum of the seventy and it was super solid.  They reminded me of how important member missionary work is and how I'm still a member!!!  Hopefully you guys all remembr too!

So yeah, really really don't have any time today like about to finish up in like the next two minutes but this week was good.  Met these russian guys who were pretty nice.  Attended the English district confernce and sang there with President Morrise's brother.  Both super awesome guys by the way.  Also Nice to hear a program in English, but really strange/awkward.  Keep feeling God's love.  There is not anything that can keep it from us!  Romans 8: 38-39 does a good job!

 

Love you bye!

 

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No Scott you DONT EVER answer questions when we ask them - Fact.   There is a lot about what you are doing over there that we just don't know...  For now we have to be satisfied with your Book of Mormon speak.  Funny little man!

I'm really hungry...

 

Scott Clawson	And so another week begins here in the land of the morning calm! And it came ...	7:42 PM (13 hours ago)
And so another week begins here in the land of the morning calm! And it came ...

 

Scott Clawson	7:42 PM (13 hours ago)

 

And so another week begins here in the land of the morning calm!

And it came to pass on the 9th day of the 11th month that Elder Clawson once again embarked in the service of the Lord, holding the duty of bringing a new missionary into the fold of servitude towards the Korean people.  Upon this the day which the Lord hath called Elder Clawson, there was another, even Elder Thorup who hath made his decent from the great flying bird to embark in such a servitude.

And it came to pass that as the Lord hath seen fit for these to embark in the work of spreading the gospel forth in the land called Gangnam.  As called by the lord they will seek from the children of israel those who have been prepared to receive the spirit of the Lord, and follow the example of those that have heretofore served, and to follow the Spirit in all their dealings.  Herein lie the dealings thereof.  Plus the balance of the week with Elder Hale.

I was gonna keep going in the book of mormon speak, but I got bored and were somewhat running out of time.  So yeah.  THis week was cool.  On monday, it was our last Pday with Elders Brewer and Hale, and it was fun.  We went to these batting cages and in so doing made friends with the owner of them.  Dude was cool and gave us a couple rounds for free.  The Elders who serve there are going to try and pick him up as an investigator.  After that we went to the national cemetary which was kinda cool.  We were talking about how confusing it would be to try and get out of their after the resurrection.  There's so many graves it's crazy.  Cool place to see though.  Lots of cool things like monuments and big tombs and such.  Also it was free!  We also met these cool people from Europe on the way there too.  If every Italian is like this guy Mateo that I met, I'm moving to Italy, guy was super funny cool and outgoing.  also spoke English by the way.

We spent a lot of last week meeting with our recent converts because they all really like Elder Hale and wanted to kind of get some last words from him.  It worked out pretty well, and he picked up this crazy rubiks cube that's a dodecahedron, and is crazy hard.  I figured out how to get pretty far in it, but now I don't have a toy anymore... oh well, more productive missionary work now I guess.  JOkes it's always productive!

Wednesday we had a zone training which was pretty cool.  We talked about bringing people closer to the gospel through revelation.  It was a pretty good training.  They always are.  Also we got to talk beforehand about various things that need to go on amongst the districts.  Oh yeah, I'm district leader again.  Did I say that?  I can't remember but yeah, that's a thing again.  Excited for that. 

Friday when we were putting some things that one of the new sisters here in Gangnam sent so that she wouldn't have to carry it along with her new missionary's stuff to the house, and when we were leaving, the pin from the top hinge of the door comes off and all the sudden, the door almost comes and hits me in the face.  Scariest thing ever.  we fixed it up right away cause the landlord was out of town, he may still be but I don't know, and then went our way.  I'm not too sure how well that's gonna work for the sisters, and I hope that it doesn't become a problem. 

Sorry, I'm not super focused on my email this week and don't really feel like typing more.  If you have questions let me know!  Email me! or don't.  Either way, you probably won't get the answer to the question you ask.  I'm bad at doing that...  Anyways have a great week!

 

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So, Julie Tolman chastised me because she had not seen any new letters from Scott on his blog for a couple of weeks.  She is paying attention!!!!  Here are two weeks worth.  He is enjoying his time in Gangnam and we are happy for him.  And the pictures look fuzzy, I don't know why. =(


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Scott Clawson < clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>	Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM
To: Nancy Clawson <neclawson@gmail.com>
Hey President!! This week has been really good.  Really busy, but really good all the same.  Our investigator did indeed get baptized and he seems to be getting in line with things.  I am worried that he may become offended at something someone says at some point in the future because regrettable he is  a very presumptuous person.  He was talking to Elder Hale about his shoes (adidas) at church yesterday and Elder Hale mentioned wearing nice clothes to church, just to keep reverence.  About 3 hours later, the guy thought Elder Hale compared his shoes to Nazis...  He should be fine though, Just kind of a fun fact, but we will work with him on it. We're doing great over here, as I had mentioned in interviews, the only thing lacking in Elder Hale's preparation was Korean, and he's getting better and better every day.  Thanks again so much for this oportunity to serve the people in 강남, it's an awesome area, and I love it more and more everyday. I'll make more of a concerted effort to keep my emails short, especially with the increase in missionaries.  I'm excited for what the future brings!! Elder Clawson     Hey everyone that lives not in Korea!  Well potentially not living in Korea.  I think Murphy still reads this and he is in Korea.  Hey Murphy!  shout out!  I haven't eaten any 닭갈비 since I moved here.  I miss it.  Untangent, yeah!  So how's everyone doing!?!?  I hope all is still good.  모든 것 잘 되세요?  I hope so!  This week has been pretty solid for us! Like I said last week, last monday was not our pday after all, but it was a solid day nonetheless.  We got around to a whole bunch of different places, and talked to lots of people!  Always super fun!  We walked by this place where this guy we've talked to before works and talked to him again.  Last time we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read it.  We asked him about it, and he seemed like either he didn't actually read it and was just telling us that he did read it, or he has very little interest in religion.  Nice guy though.  Can't say I was too stoked that he didn't express too much interest in the Book of Mormon though.  We'll walk by again at some points in the future, and hopefully he can acquire some interest. That night we taught our investigator with our ward mission leader.  The investigator later told  us that he didn't really like it too much because he doesn't know the ward mission leader, but I think it was necessary because, if we hadn't done that there was legitimately no way that he would have focused enough for us to teach him effectively.  He has this problem where he is obsessed with talking about Germany, WWII, cars, America and what's wrong with it.  All sorts of stuff.  Also he's afraid of large corporations.  A lot.  Good person though!  You don't have to be normal to be a member of the church.  Well we are indeed a peculiar people.  teehee. Oh, important news!  Our good buddy Elder Brewer, the one who was injured, is now almost in tip top shape!  He had sprained both of his ankles, and couldn't walk or really do much of anything, but now, he can get almost anywhere, and is back on top of his area!  Woohoo for Elder Brewer!  And all of us really because now we can both more effectively focus on our areas! Tuesday was cool, we met with a couple of our recent converts.  We ended up getting dinner with one, and then just meeting with the other.  The first, I was initially having trouble liking him, because he corrects my Korean all the time, which bugs a ton.  I learned Korean in Seoul, and he's from this other place called 졸라도 I think.  it's basically the equivalent of having someone from Scotland, come to LA and tell you your English is wrong.  provided it's your second language.  Anyways, I like him now!  Or at least am trying to more and more every day!!! The second guy, he is kind of struggling.  There was no one that really fellowshipped him very well.  Not for lack of effort mind you!  He had a couple people try to, but he kind of pushed them away, and is now just kind of attached to the missionaries.  He's getting better though!  Whenever we meet with him, we just kind of let him talk it out and he basically ends up figuring out his own problems every single time.  I guess it's just the situation and people to talk to that he needs or something. Wednesday was pretty awesome.  We went to a 돈까스 buffet for lunch.  돈까스 is deep fried pork in this really good sauce.  It's good when it's not all you can eat, but add that to it and it's basically the best meal ever!  So awesome, and it was pretty cheap too.  I don't know if I told you this or not, but buffets are a big thing here in Korea.  All different kinds of them. District meeting was good.  I'm getting better at being just a member of the district instead of being the district leader.  It's kind of an awkward switch, but I think it's good.  Our district leader is a way better leader than I ever was!  Guy is super fun too.  Also we have poetry slam jam every week before district meeting.  Still somewhat unsure about that though.  I'm not the poetic type as I'm sure you are aware, but there's always fun to be had right? Thursday we had temple day which was legit!  We went to the temple which is always fun. Temple days are always super awesome.  It was also pday, so we went and had lunch at costco which a member paid for.  There were ten missionaries there, and this member, not even from our stake, offers to pay for us.  He bought us like 5 pizzas.  Guy was so awesome.  The beginning of a series of miracles of food this week! After lunch we went to a bath house which was fun.  I didn't always like bath houses, but it was very relaxing this time.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  After which, we went to this underground market to try and find some stuff for some people in the realm of clothes, more particularly winter clothes.  Apparently I'm the authority on these things now...  Don't know how that happened.  People keep asking me what's good and stuff.  I just go by the "if you can endure blistering coldness better as a result of this clothing item and it's cheap then buy it" mindset sometimes.  Mostly I just go by the "I already endured one winter, what's one more?" mindset nowadays. That night we met our investigator and prepared him for the baptismal interview, or rather confirmed with him that he is prepared.  Dude was so ready.  All the things that would normally be difficult for an investigator, he brought up on his own will and pointed out that they were bad like drinking and smoking and doing things that don't help you focus on Christ on the sabbath.  Guy was so golden! Friday was also good.  We had a meal with a member at this restaurant called VIPS, which is a steak and buffet restaurant.  Guy spent so much stinking money on us, but I guess that's what happens here...  Anyways, I don't remember if I've said this before, but in Korea, if you don't eat a ton of food, it's kind of disrespectful.  If you eat a ton of food on the other hand, it's good for making relationships.  I was dead set on having a good relationship with this guy though!  The baseline for satisfying people who buy you food is like 5 plates, and I think I had 8 or 9.  Not bragging.  That was uncomfortable, but it was worth it.  The guy likes us now!  So much so that the same night, when we were at the church for our investigators interview, he heard that we were going to go get food before the interview, and told us not to and ordered pizza.  Guys a boss!  Our investigator passed the interview and was ready more or less for baptism! The next day was his baptism and it all went super well!  After that and English class, the investigator/new member tweener person took us out to another buffet!  That's 3 in one week!  How crazy is that?  It wasn't as good as VIPS unfortunately though.  Still good though! Sunday was awesome.  Our investigator was confirmed and is now a member of the church!  He's probably the person I have played the most active role in preparing to be baptized since I got to Korea!  So awesome the guy was so ready.  I just hope the members show him the love that he needs! This week was super busy like I said, but it has been so awesome.  I'm super tired today as a result of all the business, but I wouldn't have it any other way!  I know that this is 100% where I'm supposed to be right now.  Keep being awesome and do your best wherever you are.  Whatever you do.  Whomever you are.  That's all the Lord asks of us!   클라슨 장로

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Scott Clawson < clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>	Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 9:30 PM
To: Nancy Clawson <neclawson@gmail.com>
Hey President! It's been a good week this week. We have a baptism coming up this weekend, and he seems like he'll be ready. My only concern is how aware of the situation he is. He knows he has a baptism, and he knows he's taking the name of the Lord upon him for the rest of his life and eternity, but I still feel like there's something he's missing. He's got a great heart though, and should be good to go for Saturday if you would like to come. That investigator actually gets distracted really easy and thursday we had a lesson and we barely got through any of it because all he wanted to talk about was Germany and how they're good because they make good cars and so on and so forth. It was kind of a dead lesson, but he's still doing okay with reading the Book of Mormon. He likes the story and wants to know of it's truthfulness. That being said I was still frustrated with that lesson BUT!~ The next day we had an awesome lesson with an investigator that I had speculated wasn't really going anywhere and was just kind of using us to teach her son English. Sometimes I guess you just have to truck on the through the frustration to get the awesome blessing. Oh wait, that's pretty much everytime if I'm not mistaken. Good experience though. It was so great to talk to you on Thursday! Teaching one of our investigators how to read the Book of Mormon the way you suggested is the reason he's reading! Thanks so much for that advice! All pointers are most certainly welcome! Elder Clawson     Hello Everybody! This week has been good!  Kind of long but a good week nonetheless!  Very busy too!  It's always good to be busy as a missionary.  For the earlier part of the week we had to switch off shifts staying at home with our injured compadre who wasn't quite able to make his way out of the house.  That left us with pretty much twice as many appointments as usual.  I'm certainly not complaining, I love appointments!  They're the best!  Made it lots of fun, but also made it so we had to spend even more money on travel than we normally do.  That being said, I'm a little lacking in the money department, but I'll survive there are certainly worse reasons to be out of money. I'm actually pretty bummed that the dodgers are out of the running for the world series now, and it's not cause I'm a baseball fan!   Do you want to know why?  It is because of Number 99!  Not sure if you folks know, but 99 is named Ryu Hyun Jin or Hyun Jin Ryu for those of you who say Korean names backwards.  Anyways, yes he's Korean, and Koreans love their Korean professional athletes that are abroad.  It was a super easy conversation starter.  I could more or less go up to any guy and start asking about the Dodgers.  Being that I'm from where the Dodgers are kinda based (Koreans don't know Southern Californian geography, I just say I'm from LA) I hit it off with people all the time.  Now I've got to wipe that conversation starter off the list until like April... District meeting was pretty cool this week.  I was the dinosaur of the district.  I am by far the oldest in mission age in our district.  How far?  The next person is the same age in the mission as Elder Mumford, whom I trained almost 6 months ago.  No big deal or anything, just skin and bones with my cane over here.  Probable just gonna blow away with the wind some day soon.  Fun fact, my district leader has decided to start doing the slam poetry jam before district meetings.  We (non inclusive of me) will be sharing poems every week before district meeting.  Not sure how I feel about this, I will give you future updates in the coming weeks.  Thursday was pretty legit, we had president interviews which are always just awesome.  It was at this church that was the most wheel chair accessible because our friend Elder Brewer was still wheel chair bound.  At said church, there was a violin there.  Let me tell you folks, violin is not the easiest instrument.  I have got a long ways to go before I've got it down, but I did figure out Yankee Doodle.  Get at me Lindsay Sterling!!  The interview was pretty great too.  President says that I'll be training again in not too long.  I've come to the conclusion that this was a well needed rest for a moment BUT!  I'm stoked to train people again!  Also it was Nate's birthday!  Happy birthday again brudda. We were also on exchanges starting thursday and that was pretty fun.  The Elder I was with is Elder Nixon and he's my district leaders companion.  Guy is super hilarious and is down to be a missionary.  We had a good time and he helped teach our investigator who is going to get baptized on Saturday!!!  Provided he is prepared and knows why he is being baptized.  He's a good guy and I know he'll be fine.  He just keeps talking about BYU way too much recently and it's really starting to bug me.  Our plan tonight is to tell him that if he wants to be baptized he really needs to focus more and not worry about BYU or any of that stuff.  It's true.  He really does.  Also we'll have our ward mission leader there tonight which should help keep our investigators ramblings on a leash a little bit. friday, Lindsay's birthday!  Heyy der happy birthday 누나!  That was a really good day.  We had weekly planning after finishing our exchange.  That went as good as it goes.  Weekly planning does get kind of tiring but it's necessary, so we try and do a good job.  Afterwards we went and met with the inviestigator who I thought was just kind of using us to teach her son English, but it went really well!!!  She even invited her nephew over to study English and he prayed at the end of our lesson.  Super cool.  This is legit only like the second family I've taught on my mission.  Saturday was kind of long, but it went well.  We didn't have to pay for any meals that day!!  That's what's up!  That and both the meals we were provided were by super awesome people.  Lunch was from this guy who is really nice and very mild mannered.  Not super interested in our church, but has a very solid belief in God, and I swear if he just knew about our church would practically jump in the font, but he's happy where he's at and said he doesn't have interest in learning really.  Hopefully we can get him some desire to learn.  Dinner was with these two English class members who are super funny.  They make me laugh all the time, and happen to take us to get really tasty food.  They tried calling me by my first name and I just didn't respond.  It just didn't click to me that they were saying my name for a solid like 7 or 8 times of them saying my name.  Funny stuff. Church was good.  I wanted to talk to more members and stuff but our investigator was tailing me like Michael Weston on the people who burned him so it was a little difficult too.  Slightly concerned me about the intentions of my investigator and oir ward with fellowshipping.  We'll work on it in the coming weeks.  Well I'm out of time and have to go proselyte because today is not Pday!  Thursday is!  We're going to the temple!  Yayyyyyy excited!   Love you all and keep on keeping on!  Everyday can be better than the last!   클라슨 장로

We are sad for the injured one, but the good news is - it isn't Scott. =) 

 

Crutches can't stop us from hurting ourselves! Well one person at least...

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Scott Clawson	9:17 PM (12 hours ago)
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Hey President!

Super excited for interviews this week. I'm particularly grateful right now for that input you gave me last night about helping investigators read the Book of Mormon. I really do believe that is something that I have stood in need of dearly with regards to helping out investigators. I am still very excited to help out and work here in Gangnam area. The sisters will be very well received but I've decided it may be better not to bring it up to the ward. I'll just let them know when we can say for sure.
I'm beginning to see the similarities between your story as sunday school president and how I'm doing over here right now. Elder Hale is just a work horse, and has his mind set on getting things done. I'm really glad I get to learn from him and hope that I can help him so he is prepared to train or whatever the need may be in the not too distant future.

I hope all is going well for you! The offer still stands, if you stand in need of something, just let me know! I'd love to help in whatever way I can!

Elder Clawson

 

 

Hey Everybody!!!!

How are you all doing? Great?  I certainly hope so.  I bet you might be expecting me to talk a whole bunch about General Conference and how stinking awesome it was and stuff huh?  I would love to do that, but we only saw like two sessions and they were in Korean.  You people that spoke other languages on your mission may be shaking your head, but ask pretty much anyone and they'll tell you that it's stinking hard to understand church stuff in Korean.  I plan on watching it in English at some point in the coming weeks.  From what I gather it was pretty good though!  Lot's of really cool sounding things in Korean.  I couldn't tell you what they are, but I know they're there! hahaha

This week had some fun experiences.  Monday we met with our awesome investigator who is just the nicest man in the history of the world.  Well so long as you're not lady gaga, he's the nicest person in the world.  Pretty strange, I mean just about every time we meet he brings up lady gaga and how she's evil and worships satan.  I refuse to hate on anyone at this point, but I would say he's got his heart in the right place.  He keeps all our commitments with regard to commandments but seems to struggle with reading a little more.  Not cause he can't read, I just think that he doesn't understand the importance.  Oh yeah, he brought up Macguyver in that lesson too.  I likened Macguyver to Nephi.  Don't question it, it's just what you gotta do with this guy.

Tuesday was interesting...  So we were going to try and just get to know the entirety of our area because there are some areas that my companion said he had never visited before and we get a referral from our district leader.  He says to call the guy that day.  So we did.  We ended up meeting that guy later that night.  One of the first things he says to me is "buy me some delicious meal."  The guy is like 65 and has food in his teeth still.  Just so you know, it's super anti Korean culture for someone younger than you to pay for your food.  It didn't really phase me too much, but I knew that he wanted money and wasn't super gospel interested.  We didn't really have time to have dinner with him either, and we had already eaten.  He basically just tried to friend us up and then all the sudden asks me for $50.  Now, I would have thought about it, had he given me valuable enough reason, and we were allowed to, and I had money to give, but it didn't really feel right.  So I told him about the church welfare program a little bit!  He said he'd come to general conference.  He didn't.  I feel kinda bad about that experience, but if I had given him that much money, I wouldn't have food for the rest of the week.  I don't know.  I don't like being asked for money though.

Wednesday was fun.  We were going to go look for this welfare center to try and find service but everything was closed because it was a national holiday.  Translated, it pretty much means the holiday for the Korean Alphabet.  They have weird holidays here in Korea.  Then again, valentine's and st patrick's aren't particularly normal really.  I guess I'm not one to throw stones. 

Our district leader was over on exchanges so we did some finding together.  The guy is super fun.  Our zone and district over here are super fun.  Loving it super hard over here in Seoul South Stake of the Seoul South mission.

Fun story of the week, one of our roommates Elder Brewer, is a great guy.  Works hard and is loving missionary work a ton.  Wednesday when they were going to go on exchanges, he saw this guy and decided he needed to talk to him, but he kinda shrugged it off cause he said he needed to go to the bathroom.  When he came back outside, the guy was there, and he was walking into the subway station.  Elder Brewer tries to go and talk to him, and misses like a 3 inch step, and sprains his ankle.  He spent the rest of the day on crutches, and was kinda demoralized about it.  The next day after Zone training, he was taken to an acupuncture therapist cause Koreans are really into that stuff.  On his way back down into the subway station, he started taking off down the stairs on one foot, just hopping down.  His companion told him to take it a little easy, and use the crutches, which Elder Brewer also shrugged off.  Lo and behold, he sprains his other ankle.  Now we've got an Elder Brewer with two sprained ankles.  Not a fun situation for him to say the least, but I will say that it will make for an incredible story for his children.  He is however very house ridden for the most part.  We got him a wheel chair but he doesn't like it very much.  Hopefully he heals up quick so that he can be back out on the streets as soon as possible!!!

Zone training was cool.  We talked about some really cool things and set some goals for ourselves that are pretty awesome.  I'm excited to see them come to fruition over the next little while.  Also the story of secretariot the race horse is insnae!!!!!!!  I never knew about that!  Stuff is crazy.  anyways...

The day of zone training we met with that awesome investigator again, and he's still doing super awesome.  Still eaten up the gospel but having trouble reading every week.  We keep on reading with him for the beginning of our lessons, but he really needs to just read for himself.

Friday was my shift to stay home with the cripple for the evening and weekly planning so I spent a lot of time in the house just calling people and stuff.  Got a couple appointments for the next week so it was pretty cool.

The reason we did not get to go watch conference on Saturday was because we were house shopping in our area for the balance of the day!  It was pretty cool, the mission actually ended up buying a new apartment for there to be sisters that come into our ward at some point in the future.  It's not within my liberty to say when, because I am just a mere peon in the work, and I'm not running the show.  I'll let you know what happens when it happens.

Conference yesterday was all in Korean and our investigator made it out to it as well as some friends of some of the members!  Super awesome.  I'm excited to hear what the people said in English!  We also got to meet some really cool people that night  Pretty fun experience.

I'm loving it so hard out here!  Super awesome.

By the way  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SIBLINGS THIS WEEK!  If you know them say happy birthday and stuff.  If you don't, do it anyways. 

Stay awesome, and keep on keeping on!

 

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