I am going to be all over the Korean social networking webspace...

I love when his letters are happy and exciting =) If you happen to find his picture on the Korean webspace, please post it on the Facebook & tag him!!! 


Hey President!
Man, two weeks in a row that I have had the opportunity to see you and Sister Christensen at church, not to mention that we get to see each other next week too!
This week for study, I've been going through Alma, and since I started kind of late on the reading of it, I've been reading just to read, not to mark the scriptures or anything, and it's way cool to read it that way! I've never really read it in this regard before and I feel like I'm understanding the stories a whole lot better as a result. One thing I have noticed is that it's interesting that some verses in scripture can be very small, but have incredibly wide meaning and repercussions. The one that comes to mind is the statement about the stripling warriors and how they learned everything from their mothers. It's only like 8 lines of scripture, but it means a lot. I think it's kind of cool the influence that something that small can have.
The investigator I'd like to talk about is the same I've talked about before. Last night we met, and she was all excited to meet. This became really apparent when I asked her one questiong, "what does faith mean to you," and she responded in a 45 minute discourse about a whole slew of different things. This also brings me to the miracle that I would like to talk about this week.
In that whole discourse of what seemed to my understanding as very random, she was basically preaching to the member we had. By the end, I was pretty frustrated, and I know that Elder Lee was too, but this member was so awesome. He just calmly and level-headedly addressed any and all of the things she addressed. She had been kinda trying to rip into us, and this brother just kept calm, and did a way better job as a teacher than I could have. It truly is a blessing to be able to teach with members.
I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday and Sunday this week!
-Elder Clawson

Hey there everybody!!!
Are my subject lines fun or obnoxious, feedback on this matter would be appreciated.  I try and have fun with it and draw your interest but I'm not sure how well I do.  If you have any ideas about how to improve this, wait for it...  You can totally contact me via email now because church policy changed and now I can email whomever I please.  Well pretty much whomever I please, as long as they fall under the category of friends, church leaders, or recent converts.  I'm pretty sure that covers just about everyone, so if you have a desire to email me DO IT!!!!  Or you can write letters too, that's still cool.  Seriously this is not a joke about the email thing, it's legit a change in church policy so GET AT ME!!!!
Anyways this week, and the explanation for the subject line.  I guess I'll just share the experience.  So the other day we were going to take out some of the trash, and we got in the elevator and started to go down.  We started down, and the elevator stopped on the floor below us.  A few people got on.  We went down a floor or two more and this other kid gets on.  Kind of a bigger kid wearing this big jacket.  He immediately proceeds to stand right in front of me at a maximum of 18 inches away, pulls out his pink archaic cell phone, and snaps a picture of me.  He looks at the picture, presses a couple buttons, and then what do you think he does next?  He takes another picture of me.  What do you know, now I'm popular on Korean social networking sites probably.  again, GET AT ME!!!  Also, no words were exchanged between the two of us in this entire interaction.  On a scale of 1 to Barney Stinson not wearing a suit how awkward is that?
Other news from this week that's kinda fun, we picked up this investigator who wants me to play electric guitar with him!  We have whats called a 30/30 program where we do 30 minutes of help with something usually like English, but if he wants to play guitar, that fits the bill too, and then 30 minutes of gospel time.  His Mom is a super devout Catholic it would seem so it'd be cool to teach her too.  I don't know, there's always a lot of cool potential to be found it seems.
Another thing that reminds me of, this week in our English class we talked about dinosaurs!  It was so fun for me!  Those of you who have spent time around me know about my random knowledge of subjects that aren't particularly applicable to anything, not to mention dinosaurs!  It was so fun for me because everybody was talking about things, and all these dinosaurs and it was like I was a child sitting at home watching Jurassic Park again.  As a result of that, for the past 4 or 5 days, virtually everything has reminded me of Jurassic Park.  I think I could pretty much watch that movie in my head if I just sat there and thought for about two hours hahaha.
This wednesday we have another mission conference thing, and we get to hear from another area 70 I think.  I'm pretty sure he's from the 2nd quorum of the 70 and he's in the General Conference listing of general authorities.  I believe his name is Elder Aoyagi, and he's an area 70 in Japan.  I'm not sure exactly what's it's supposed to be about, but I'm excited nonetheless.
Other big note, happy birthday in two days Mom!!!! I'll teach you how to say happy birthday in Korean!
생일  죽하합니다  (saeng-il  chug-ha-ham-ni-da)
Woohoo!  Happy birthday Mom!!!!!!!  I hope you spend it extra well for me!
Well I'm running out of time so I have to go.  No super awesome closing thoughts, except for with regard to that lessons referenced in my email to president, that it's wayyyyy better to just stay calm, and approach things as nicely as you can in the presence of things that bother you, or could present troubles.  Kinda another one of those grin and bear it sort of things!
You guys are awesome!  I love you!
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