Somebody was throwing up two days ago!

I, Lindsay, Sister of Scott, accept full responsibility for not updating this blog last week. I have no excuse. I have been reprimanded and chastised, but just think of how much Scott you get to experience today!!!


Hey President!

It was great to see you at stake conference this week! It seems like we just seem to be running into each other all over the place! This week has been pretty great. I feel like I always say that, but retrospectively there's always something to make the week seem cool it seems.
As for study, I've been continuing to read through Alma and Preach my Gospel as requested. I had never really read through Alma as intensively as this. I feel like as a missionary when you study things, the true message just seems to pop out at you. I obviously knew the missionary stories about Ammon and his brethren, but I didn't realize how similar and applicable they can be to our lives as missionaries. Missionary work is basically the same regardless of the setting it would seem. If we focus on the right things that's the way it should be.
Yesterday we met with that lady who approached us last week with a desire to meet with us. She had been pretty open, but seemed to have no desire to keep commitments, kinda just wanted to see what we believe and didn't understand our intentions. Last night we met and we totally cleared everything up. She really has good intentions, but we were unsure of the direction that the lessons were headed in. Now we are a lot more certain about how to approach things in the future.


Thanks for everything President. See you again on Sunday!

-Elder Clawson

PSYCHE!

Haha, it wasn't me!  I fooled you sooo good!  You thought I got sick!  But really, someone in our house was throwing up two days ago.  It was kinda funny, he came running into the house at like 9 and was already half way undressed than ran into the bathroom.  This was our zone leader by the way, and he goes home in about 18 days.  Great time to get sick don't you think? 
Quick one word answer news, no we do not do daylight savings time in Korea, yes I wear my retainer and I always brush my teeth.
So this week has been not a long one, but a lot of stuff was going on.  First off we had stake conference this weekend, and it was pretty great.  They had Eleven speakers including President Christensen and his wife.  The stake president, the 2nd counseler, president Christensen and his wife had about 30 minutes for all of them to talk.  It's really begun to bother me when people go over their allotted time.  I can only imagine how irritating it can be for the people speaking.
Pretty much everyone spoke on member missionary work actually.  It was interesting because in missionary coordination meeting, we tried to talk about it and boy did that blow up in our faces.  One of the zone leaders (we share the area with them) tried to talk about it, and he kinda struggles with korean, and it blew up super hard in his face.  I felt so bad for him.  He's still technically in his first area, and he's two transfers my senior, and his ward mission leader kinda ripped into him.  It was hard to sit through.  People, it's hard for missionaries to try and bring up member missionary work and be polite about it.  Just do it and then we don't have to worry about upsetting situations like that and ruining relationships and the reputations of missionaries.  Please just make it easer for us =D
What the heck?!?! Lindsay you got a relief society haircut already?!!!?!?!  You're way too young to get you're hair cut short like that!  I speak for all men when I say that long hair is better.  Granted, a pretty solid balance of member males in the world have had the sam hair cut their whole life, so this argument is kinda silly but hey!  Rants are fun from time to time!!!!
This week we were given a couple investigators from the zone leaders since we're in the same area, and I've only met one of them (my companion went on splits to meet the other) and they both seem pretty cool!  It's kinda hard because one of them literally talked for 35 minutes straight about what he's thought about with respect to religion and God, but never said what he believes.  Weirdest experience ever.  I don't think I have ever been in that onesided of a conversation in my life.  That seemed to be a trend actually this week.  In two of our lessons, I think I said a total of like 8 words each lesson.  I simply did not have room to talk!  In one of them, the member we were teaching with apologized to me after though so it was okay.  Also, he explained a bunch of stuff I never could have so it made it really nice in that regard.
Yesterday when we were on the subway from somewhere we met this guy and he was really cool.  The guy lived in Canada for 10 years and he speaks perfect English, and is a boss at fighting.  He showed us this video of him doing jiujitsu and he toar that stuff up!  He won in legitimately like 15 seconds.  Crazy.  He was super cool and doesn't like rice!  He's korean by the way.  Anyways he was a cool dude to meet!
I'm kind of in a bit of a hurry today, so I will leave you with my closing remarks.  Sorry for the lack of Korean time today, but I'm low on time, and that takes a while to think of. 
Anyways, my last thought is kind of something that I've learned a lot recently.  My companion said that when he was little, if he got hurt he used to just start laughing because it would make it better.  I've kinda adapted that to life as a whole.  If life gives you a hard time, if you run into a tough situation, just grin and bear it, and before you know it, you'll actually be smiling because you're happy.  It's hard to do, and takes practice but with time, it's a skill to be proud of.  You can almost trick yourself into being happy.  I have found it works so often when you need it!

I love you all!  If you take time to read this, I love you!  Don't be deceived, it's true!  I love you!

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