Hey President!
This week has been pretty great, as far as really everything goes. My study this week was either focused on what we had aimed to teach our investgiators, (I don't think one lesson went as planned) or I was reading our Heritagae from the Missionary Library. I really like that book just because it helps me to know more about what the early saints had to go through. I have known a lot I would say abou the history of the church but it's always cool to learn more and see where we came from really. Also it was super cool to see my last name in a church endorsed book!! Woohoo Rudger Clawson haha
The investigator I will talk about this week I think I may have talked about last week but I'm not totally sure. He's an older guy and really has a lot of interest in the church. He is fluent in English so he actually helps us teach english. He really likes everything about the church, in fact its the man you met last week at church. He really enjoys it, and everything feels right to him, the only problem is that he has a lot of ties to the church he is attending right now. His wife is a 전도사 for that church in fact, so it may be very difficult, but we're really trying to help him out, he's a super great guy.
Training is still coming along pretty awesome. I'm learning in many ways all the time. One miracle I think I saw this week was just when we were contacting yesterday. There was a man I started speaking to and he spoke English, but it was easier for me to converse with him in Korean than in English. I wouldn't say that is the miracle so much as the evidence to an ongoing miracle. Korean is so tough, but some how it keeps coming. Elder Hunter helps so much all the time, and does his best to keep me motivated. He's a great guy, but more importantly a great missionary.
Have agreat week president!
-Elder Clawson
Hey rest of the world!
How have you all been? Great? thats great, me too. I talk to
myself but I guess thats my problem, anyways, yeah Korea, about that
thing! This week has been pretty fun! We went to another meat buffet
on monday, and I still cannot eat as much as Koreans, but thats okay,
they can eat all they want. It actually got to the point to where I had
eaten so much meat, that everything I put in my mouth tasted like
meat. With culture you kinda have to eat more than is humanly possible,
so needless to say I struggled a little bit. I don't think I've eaten
that much in a single meal in soooooooo long. Probably not since some
crazy conditioning time in water polo. It's almost unpleasant how much
you have to eat.
Oh, I just remembered, I think I'll do a christmas list right now!
If you don't want this in the email thats fine, I have no preference.
Mac and Cheese (not easy mac), the boxed kind
Ecco shoes. Theyre european, one of my pairs of shoes are dying, I need another kind of. My Euro shoe size is 43
Kinda long fleece scarf (they only have knit ones here, and I can't rock knitten scarfs)
So I'm going to keep referring back to that as things come to mind
because I can't just bust out a perfect list immediately after being
asked, I'm not that awesome. Thanks so much for the pictures by the
way! They're perfect! I think if you come across pictures you don't
think I have and send them than that would be perfect too. Koreans
always love more pictures!
That's so scary that Lindsay gets married in like no time at all!
It's just straight nuts! Slash kinda cool I guess, Tony's a pretty cool
guy, he knows that though. Lindsay better be excited by now! I feel
like she wouldn't get too stressed about the wedding and everything, I
don't know for sure but shes not that kind of person generally. However
with marriage all bets are off I guess.
Side note, I wonder how many people start their emails home with
"Well, another great week in (insert mission field here)". I noticed I
didn't but that's always the first thing I think of when I begin to
write a letter. That'd be a fun stat to here.
So I kind of want to talk about one of my investigators. He's the
guy I talked about in my email to president. He's such an awesome guy.
He's like 70, and has a jacked up leg from from crashing on a bike, not
sure what the nature of the injury is, but nonetheless has an injured
leg. He used to be a math professor at Northeastern Illinois University
and is super smart. He speaks English obviously and just wants to
always learn and teach people. There's this other investigator that he
became friends with and he is teaching her English and she is teaching
him Japanese. He also wants to teach me and my companion how to play
chess super well and then how to this other game called badu. They're
both pretty fun and he thinks I suck at chess which is probably true,
but that's not that big of a deal. He was actually at the baptismal
service last week. We invited him to come to church and he said that he
would maybe only come to church for like 2 hours, and ended up staying
for 5! It was so cool. Really I think he genuinely meant it when he
said that he would only be there for 2 hours, but when he felt the
spirit and heard what was being said, he couldnt leave. It took him
seriously like half an hour after everything was all over to leave. He
did not want to leave the church! It was soooooooooo cool. We met with
him tuesday night and asked him what he though about church. He said
that he really enjoyed it and loved it all, but he has a whole bunch of
ties to another church. His wife is a proselyter for another church
(they're kinda crazy in Korea, we're really calm compared to them), and
he met her through a friend that is a pastor for that church. I feel so
bad because there truly are a lot of relationships that he could lose
if he were to join the church, but I know its the right decision for
him. He is seriously the nicest person I've met in Korea and just wants
to help people. He wants me to tech him guitar and there was another
missionary he wanted to learn piano from, but she's going home so I will
probably actually teach him that too. He's so awesome, I think he's my
favorite investigator right now.
Oh yeah, I don't think that I said this in my last email, I think
it happened after that day in the week. I had a dream apparently that
resulted in me sitting up and yelling at my companion in Korean. He was
a little upset, but now I dream in Korean I guess. If Peter gets to be
able to read this, now you have a whole new dimension of scary to deal
with if you spend a night in the same room as me again haha. Also if
you do read this, please right me bud, I want to hear from you!
Sorry there's no Korean time this week, I have to go for lack of
money to pay for computer usage, I love you all and stay safe! I also
pray for you in the mornings too!
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