Tuesday, April 23, 2013

And you thought Korea was dangerous...


Hey President!!
Wow, what a week! So many miracles to be spoken of this week. It really was incredible! This week felt so unreal! I spent a lot of my study this week preparing for District meeting and investigators. In preparing for district meeting, and preparing my training, I came to train on a principle, that I certainly was far from the best about actually. It has really helped our 전도 in the past few days, and has helped the blessings flow. I used to spend a long time waiting for an in to the gospel while BRTing, but it occurred to me that people will recognize us regardless of our BRT skills. It helped so much! It was an awesome experience.
Elder Mumford continues to excel as a missionary. His Korean in particular is taking bounds right now I feel like, as well as his teaching skills. I anticipate it won't be long before he's in the situation that I am in right now as a trainer. Such an awesome missionary, and is truly a blessing to work with.
Over the week, we had invited 5 people to attend sacrament meeting, but unfortunately only one of them could make it yesterday. The one who did is just a super awesome guy. He wants to be a really good person, and acts upon that desire. He is just the kind of person where you feel like the church is perfect for him to help meet his desires to be a good person.
The miracle that I would like to outline this week is the fact that we found 4 new investigators, after realizing, that there were investigators who were not progressing, and they needed to be dropped. It was incredible because we went from one or two investigators with okay potential, to 6 solid investigators, in a span of about 4 days.
Thanks for everything president! My mom told me that she sent you some pictures. I hope you enjoy them!
-Elder Clawson
Hey Everyone!!!!!
So many fun experiences this week!  None like last time where I accidently lead my companion outside of the mission boundaries, but still a good week nonetheless.  I don't know if I will have the same typical sass and silliness that accompanies my normal letters, but hey thats okay.
So this week was super awesome!  I feel like as a district leader I'm somewhat obliged to report on my district, so here we go.  Well first off there are 4 companionships in my district and it's super awesome!  One of them is sisters, another is kinda way far away from everyone else, and then there's us and the zone leaders.  The sisters had been having a hard time finding investigators, so the zone leaders and I decided that we needed to make an effort to help them to find some.  Apparently it worked because they got 6 referrals from various sources including other missionaries, and picked up 2 new investigators, and 2 new baptismal dates!  I was so happy for them when I found that out!  Legitimately one of the cool experiences to have seen as a zone leader.  We do a bunch of combined finding activities, and we've been trying to focus them in the sisters area.  Apparently it's working out!!  Soooo cool!!!!!
This week was actually an awesome week for the whole district.  We found a total of like 10 investigators!  it was so awesome to see as a leader and get to show to the zone leaders.  When things are going well in your district, it is so nice to be a district leader!  I like seeing my own investigators progress too, but as their leader, it's almost like seeing my investigators progress so who cares haha.
So this week has been kind of scary in that we rand out of copies of the Book of Mormon on like tuesday.  We have nothing to work with!!!  We're down to our last copy for both us and the zone leaders!  It's crazy!!!!  It was funny though, we would just find copies laying around the church and I swear  every single one that we found was a huge miracle!!  That happened, and then last night, we ran out of contact cards too!  We have nothing to work with!!!  It makes it really hard to get people to remember us as much as when we actually have stuff to give them.  Regardless, we're supposed to get BoMs in the next couple days or so, and then contact cards soon after.  We are in desperate need!!!!
Oh yeah, Kevin Beck!!! Congrats on being married!!!!  I have a few pictures, but it looks like it was an awesome experience!  Unfortunately, my companion thinks that you are not marrying into his family, so that's a loss, but nonetheless, congratulations!  I heard there were cut outs of Tyler, which is obviously the way to go!  Maybe me and Tyler could have a little hang out sesh in cardboard form.  That'd be pretty rad hahaha.
When we were contacting this week, there was this man that I met on a bus, and I'm pretty sure that he kinda wanted to talk to me because when he saw me standing he pulled out his bible.  Anyways, in the conversation, I found out that he's a theology student, and therein knows the bible really well (or the book of Revelations, I swear that's the only thing they study in this country), and was actually a little bit more well versed in his thoughts with regard to the Book of Mormon.  It was interesting because we were on exchanges, and I finished the conversation and such, and it ended in a good place, but then my companion for the moment thought he needed to kinda add insight, and then the guy said something that stumped him, and kinda killed the feeling it was left with.  I guess that could have been my fault because the opportunity was there maybe because I forgot to say something that was necessary, or missed a prompting, but nonetheless, it was disappointing.  Super cool guy though!
That same day though, we met another guy on the bus.  There's this quote in PMG that says "Those who are prepared will recognize you as servants of the Lord".  Prophecy came true that day!!!!!  So awesome, this guy immediately just was super receptive to us, and wanted to meet.  He was busy then so we set an appointment for the next day.  When we met him, he brought a friend of his who was a theology student, and she was super nice too!  They were both awesome and super receptive to our message!  Unfortunately, as a result of the prior mentioned issue of insufficient quantities of copis of the Book of Mormon, we only had one copy.  We gave it to the young man, but hopefully we can share one with her when we meet in the future.  Also he bought us food!  That's always nice.
Well, I seem to be running out of time, so I will finish this up real quick!  It's really been incredible to see all these things come together so fast!  Just keep working hard even through trials (my neck was super painful last week, but it's all good now!!!) and you'll see the blessings come!  Summer is approaching fast, and I'm not too excited for what that brings with regards to weather, but it's a new season, with new opportunities!
Also, sorry to end on a sad note, but I did hear about the terrorist attacks, but I didn't know they were in Boston until just now.  That trule is a frightening experience, but the stories from the other missionaries are so incredible.  The Lord will protect us if we need protecting!
I love you all and stay safe!!!
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